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Benefactors

  • Michael Frayn
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573016431

"One of the subtlest plays Broadway has seen in years, by one of the most extraordinary writers of the English speaking theater."

Newsweek

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
This long-running hit starred Sam Waterston on Broadway as an urban architect whose attempts to improve humanity by the environments he creates, only leads to chaos when the high-rise boom goes bust and two close friends are caught in the cross-hairs.

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"One of the subtlest plays Broadway has seen in years, by one of the most extraordinary writers of the English speaking theater."

 Newsweek

"A high point of the theater season."

 Wall Street Journal

Premiere Production: Benefactors was first presented by Michael Codron at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, on 4 April 1984. It was directed by Michael Blakemore.
  • Casting: 2M, 2F

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    This long-running hit starred Sam Waterston on Broadway as an urban architect whose attempts to improve humanity by the environments he creates, only leads to chaos when the high-rise boom goes bust and two close friends are caught in the cross-hairs.

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