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Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett, Joan Alison is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Script of the play Everybody Comes to Rick'sIn the summer of 1938, while on vacation from his job as English teacher at a vocational school, Burnett and his wife Frances traveled to Vienna to help Jewish relatives smuggle money out of the country occupied by the Nazis since March of that year. Later, the couple visited a small town in the south of France, where they went to a nightclub overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. A black pianist played jazz for a crowd of French, Nazis, and refugees.Burnett returned to the USA via the UK, staying a few weeks in Bournemouth. While there he started to make notes for his anti-Nazi play. In the summer of 1940, the 27-year-old teacher completed the play in six weeks with the collaboration of Joan Alison. They featured Rick, an American bar owner of the Café Americain in Casablanca, Morocco, whose European inhabitants, military personnel and refugees often frequent the café. Eventually, Rick helps an idealistic Czechoslovak resistance fighter escape with the woman Rick loves.Soon after, writer Carly Wharton and actor Martin Gabel took an option to produce the play. But there was resistance since it might seem to some that Lois (Ilsa in the movie)

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Author

Murray Burnett, Joan Alison

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction