Crépuscule by Toby Tullis
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| Thanks to S Marks the Spots |
Author: Toby Tullis
Publisher: Not known
Source book: To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey (Inspector Grant #4)
Crépuscule started life as a vehicle about a faun for ballet dancer Serge Ratoff called Afternoon. Much to Serge’s mortification it morphs into a play called Crépuscule about a little waiter in the Bois (presumably the Bois du Boulogne), starring a newcomer with an Austrian name and a Greek temperament... whatever that is supposed to mean. Does anyone know? (I googled it and got no satisfactory answers, so I suspect basic 1950s racism.) This causes a nasty feud between Serge and the author Toby Tullis: certainly on Serge’s part. And can we blame him?
Toby Tullis has obviously written a good many successful plays and is something of an international celebrity. The only other play we learn the title of is Supper for Three which has obviously been a great success for some years.
Also mentioned in To Love and Be Wise is a play called Walk in Darkness. We do not know the author but it starred Marta Hallard and Marguerite Merriam.
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| Thanks to Gudmar Olovson |
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