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Frank Ulrich Marcus (30 June 1928 – 5 August 1996) was a British playwright, best known for The Killing of Sister George.




Life and career


Marcus was born 30 June 1928 into a Jewish family in Breslau (then in Germany). They came to England as refugees in 1939. Until 1943, he attended Bunce Court School at Otterden, near Faversham in Kent, (a school founded by Anna Essinger, a German Jewish-Quaker who had started Landschulheim Herrlingen, a private school in southern Germany, which was relocated to England in 1933). He then spent a year at Saint Martin's School of Art.
He started as an actor and playwright with the International Theatre Group and the Unity Theatre.
In 1951, he married actress Jacqueline Sylvester, who collaborated with him on some of his plays. His plays were known for their strong parts for female actors, such as in his best known play, The Killing of Sister George, starring Beryl Reid, which was later adapted into the 1968 film of the same name.
When a theatre company in apartheid South Africa asked to put on a production of The Killing of Sister George, Marcus’s immediate instinct was to simply refuse. However, after much consideration, he decided instead that he could do more good and make more of a stance by allowing it to be seen there - under the strict proviso that the audiences would be mixed and non-segregated. Every penny this production earned was divided between Amnesty International (specifically for the freeing of South African political prisoners) and a black theatre group in Soweto.
As well as his own plays he made several translations and adaptations from his native German.
He worked as Theatre Critic for The Sunday Telegraph between 1968 and 1978. After a long struggle with Parkinson's disease, he died in London, 5 August 1996.




Works






= Original plays

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1950 Minuet For Stuffed Birds
1964 The Formation Dancers
1965 Cleo (one-act)
1964 The Killing of Sister George
1967 Studies of The Nude
1968 Mrs Mouse, Are You Within?
1969 The Window
1972 Blank Pages
1973 Keyholes
1972 Christmas Carol (one-act)
1972 Notes on a Love Affair
1975 Beauty and The Beast (for children)
1976 Portrait of The Artist
1977 Blind Date (one-act)
1978 Ballad of Wilfred II (one-act)
1978 The Merman of Orford




= Adaptations and translations

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1952 Merry-Go-Round (La Ronde) by Arthur Schnitzler
1969 The Guardsman by Ferenc Molnár
1976 Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler
1980 The Weavers by Gerhart Hauptmann
1987 From Morning To Midnight by Georg Kaiser
1991 La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler




References






External links


Frank Marcus at IMDb
Obituary from The Independent
doollee.com playwrights database
BookRags biography

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