Full Circle (Melville play)

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Full Circle (previously Dear Charles) is a play by Alan Melville adapted from "Les Enfants d'Edouard" by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and Frederick J. Jackson. It also was produced in 1944 with the title Slightly Scandalous, lasting only one week. [1]

The plot focuses on Parisian author Dolores who "decides it is time to legitimize her three grown children so she invites their three fathers to a reunion party to decide which one she ought to marry." [1]

Yvonne Arnaud and Tallulah Bankhead appeared in productions of Dear Charles in 1950s. In 2004 Joan Collins toured the UK with a revival of this play directed by Patrick Garland.

Sophie Stewart starred in a version of the play that was performed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1954 and went on to tour in Australia and New Zealand in 1955. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 Hischak, Thomas S. (2009). Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007. McFarland. p. 107. ISBN   9780786453092 . Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  2. ↑ McFarlane, Brian (2015). Double-Act: The Remarkable Lives and Careers of Googie Withers and John McCallum. Monash University Publishing. p. 86. ISBN   9781922235725 . Retrieved 15 March 2017.


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