Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of succès de scandale.
An early succes de scandale was A Modern Nativity Play, written in 1962 and permitted a brief stage run in Poznan in 1965 before being taken off.
2014, Kevin Windle, Ireneusz Iredynski: Selected One-Act Plays for Radio, →ISBN, page 32 more examples
Some of the major controversies of the 1990s and beyond have been sparked off by, and coalesced around, arguments about or between writers, their aesthetic and political views, as well as the succes de scandale of individual works.
2007, Stuart Taberner, Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic, →ISBN, page 21Weill's first collaboration as composer with Bertolt Brecht was on the singspiel (or “songspiel,” as he called it) Mahagonny (1927), which was a succes de scandale at the Baden—Baden (Germany) Festival in 1927.
2009, Amy McKenna, The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time, →ISBN, page 174
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