y separately published work icon The Gazebo : A Play In Two Acts single work   drama   humour   crime   - Two acts
Note: From a story by Myra and Alec Coppel.
Issue Details: First known date: 1958... 1958 The Gazebo : A Play In Two Acts
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon The Gazebo George Wells , ( dir. George Marshall ) United States of America (USA) : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Avon Productions , 1959 6396519 1959 single work film/TV crime humour

A television script-writer, believing that he has murdered the man who is blackmailing him over nude photographs of his wife, buries the body under the gazebo, but still has to deal with the other three members of the man's gang.

form y separately published work icon Der Aussichtsturm Erni Friedmann (translator), ( dir. Wilm ten Haaf ) Germany : Radio Bremen , 1964 6397007 1964 single work film/TV humour crime

An adaptation of Alec Coppel's play The Gazebo for West German television broadcaster Radio Bremen.

form y separately published work icon The Gazebo Jo the Busy Body; Jo Claude Magnier , ( dir. Jean Girault ) France : Trianon Productions , 1971 6397642 1971 single work film/TV crime humour

The first film made from Claude Magnier's French adaptation of Alec Coppel's play The Gazebo: Magnier's script was filmed again in 1995 as Une Femme dans les Bras, Un Cadavre sur le Dos.

form y separately published work icon Une Femme dans les Bras, Un Cadavre sur le Dos Claude Magnier , ( dir. Daniel Colas ) France : 1995 6397211 1995 single work film/TV crime humour

The second production of Claude Magnier's French adaptation of Alec Coppel's play The Gazebo, which had been previously filmed in 1971 as The Gazebo/Jo the Busy Body.

Production Details

  • First produced at the Lyceum Theatre, New York City by the Playwrights Co., 12 December 1958.

    Premiered in London at the Savoy Theatre on 29 March 1960, produced by Anthony Sharp.

    London cast members included Ian Carmichael (Elliott Nash), Michael Goodliffe (Harlow Edison), Moira Lister (Nell Nash), Edith Macarthur (Mrs Chandler), J. Grant Anderson (Mr Thorpe), Philip Latham (The Dook), Robert Robinson (Louie), John Harvey (Ryan), and Michael Ellison (Druker).

    Source:

    'The Arts. Murder as a Joke', The Times, 30 March 1960, p.15.

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