The Best of Dorothy Parker
The Best of Dorothy Parker is a stage presentation based on the life and work of Dorothy Parker(1893-1967)[1]
Contents
The original text
The title and - probably the text - appear to have been derived from the volume The Best of Dorothy Parker, a collection of Dorothy Parker's poems, stories and sketches published originally published by Methuen & Co. in 1952.[2]
A new edition by The Folio Society published in 1995 (First Impression No.830)[3] and again in 2022, the latter illustrated by Helen Smithson and introduced by Mervyn Horder.[4]
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1967: Performed by the CAPAB English Company as a tribute in the year of her death. The text possibly compiled and dramatised by the director and company.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker
https://books.google.co.za/books?id=DO8EAQAAIAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions
https://www.hcbooksonline.com/product/best-dorothy-parker-folio-society-1995/
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/the-best-of-dorothy-parker.html
Biography of Peter Curtis submitted to ESAT by Craig Curtis in September 2023.
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