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Production Requirements: A Costume Plot Database
Play Title: The Invention of Love

Title:  The Invention of Love
Playwright:  Tom Stoppard  Publisher:  Grove Press
Year  1997  Genre:  Drama
Period:  Other  Number of Acts/Scenes  2 Acts
Passage of time:  1859-1936

Basic Plot:  As A.E.Housman is being taken across the river Styx, he is able to look back and revisit his life.

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Cast Size As Written
  Male Actors:  5
  Male Chorus Actors:  15
Total Male Actors:  20
Number of Characters as Written
  Male Characters:  0
  Male Chorus Characters:  0
Total Male Characters:  0
Costume Numbers as Written
  Male Costumes:  0
  Male Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Male Costumes:  0
Actual Cast Size (if produced)
  Male Actors:  0
  Male Chorus Actors:  0
Total Male Actors:  0
Costume Numbers (if produced)
  Male Costumes:  0
  Male Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Male Costumes:  0

  Female Actors:  2
  Female Chorus Actors:  0
Total Female Actors:  2
 
  Female Characters:  0
  Female Chorus Characters:  0
Total Female Characters:  0
 
  Female Costumes:  0
  Female Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Female Costumes:  0

  Female Actors:  0
  Female Chorus Actors:  0
Total Female Actors:  0
 
  Female Costumes:  0
  Female Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Female Costumes:  0

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Other important notes:  Many of the character can be double-cast in the roles of the play.

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