Difference between revisions of "The Wages of Sin or Perfidious Piecework"
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Described by the Tewkesbury Arts & Drama Society website[http://www.tads.org.uk/PastProd/WOS/wagesofsin.HTM] as a "classic melodrama.. [that]..has a Chairman, a good guy, a villain, a pretty girl and everything you expect from a melodrama, including High Drama, a fight, lasciviousness, lust, temptation and horrible deaths.... after being stabbed with a pistol." | Described by the Tewkesbury Arts & Drama Society website[http://www.tads.org.uk/PastProd/WOS/wagesofsin.HTM] as a "classic melodrama.. [that]..has a Chairman, a good guy, a villain, a pretty girl and everything you expect from a melodrama, including High Drama, a fight, lasciviousness, lust, temptation and horrible deaths.... after being stabbed with a pistol." | ||
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Revision as of 06:17, 23 March 2023
The Wages of Sin or Perfidious Piecework is a [melodrama]] by Andrew Sachs (1930-2016)[1].
Also found with the shorter title The Wages of Sin.
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The original text
Described by the Tewkesbury Arts & Drama Society website[2] as a "classic melodrama.. [that]..has a Chairman, a good guy, a villain, a pretty girl and everything you expect from a melodrama, including High Drama, a fight, lasciviousness, lust, temptation and horrible deaths.... after being stabbed with a pistol."
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1978: Staged as a lunch-hour presentation at The Space (Cape Town) in 1978, directed by Nigel Stevenson with Gillian Burl, Scott Hawker, Corinne Willoughby and Guy Willoughby. The stage manager was Pam Mills.
Sources
Astbury 1979.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sachs
http://www.tads.org.uk/PastProd/WOS/wagesofsin.HTM
Not listed in plays by German-born British actor and playwright Andrew Sachs [3].
The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay, page 67, referring to the uncertainty of authorship of The Wages of Sin: [4]
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