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DUET
written by Otho Eskin

directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser


Duet  will be performed at The Tabard Theatre in Chiswick, London, UK April 19th - May 11th, 2024. 

Opening Gala on Sunday, April 21st, 2024 to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Eleonora Duse’s death.


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SYNOPSIS 
When Sarah Bernhardt arrives unexpectedly at Eleonora Duse’s dressing room one rainy night in 1924, the lines are quickly drawn for a pitched battle between these two divas of the modern stage. What ensues is the culmination of forty years of rage, jealousy, betrayal and the contempt each bears for the other’s art. Finally, when it appears nothing’s been left unsaid, Bernhardt has one more thing to tell Duse –– the last thing Duse wants to hear. Critically-acclaimed, award-winning playwright Otho Eskin has written a riveting, provocative play about a battle of wits and cunning, fear and loss between two of the most brilliant theatre artists who ever lived. 
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CAST (Projected)
Cynthia Straus
(she/her) – Eleonara Duse
Sarah Berger (she/her) – Sarah Bernhardt
Nick Waring (he/him) – The Man

TEAM
Playwright: Otho Eskin (he/him)
Director: Ludovica Villar-Hauser (she/her)
Key art design: Christopher Lione (he/him)
Producer: Parity Productions in association with Authentic Voices, LLC and So & So Projects


Previous: 
We Are Here Festival 2020, London UK
Thursday April 2nd, 7:30PM
Saturday April 4th, 5PM
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

Otho Eskin's plays include Act of God, Murder As A Fine Art, Season In Hell, Julie and Duet. Duet has been produced in Washington, DC and New York and in Italy, Australia, Croatia, Slovenia, Russia, Latvia and Serbia as well as in several regional theaters in the U.S. Duet has been broadcast on Croatian National Radio and published in the Italian theater journal Prima Fila. Otho Eskin served in the United States Foreign Service in Syria, Yugoslavia, Iceland and Berlin, in what was then East Germany. He was director of the United States Department of State's Office of Ocean Law and Policy and Office of Advanced Technology; vice-chairman of the US delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea; principal US negotiator of several international agreements and US representative to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
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