The Devil's Advocate (play)

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| writer = Dore Schary

| based_on = {{based on|The Devil's Advocate|Morris West}}

| director = Dore Schary

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The Devil's Advocate is a 1961 American play by Dore Schary adapted from the novel of the same name by Morris West. It ran for 116 performances on Broadway.

Schary signed a contract to adapt it in 1959. Film rights were sold to Warner Bros.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44557161 |title=WORTH REPORTING |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=27 |issue=18 |location=Australia, Australia |date=7 October 1959 |accessdate=15 December 2023 |page=31 |via=National Library of Australia}}

"Schary retained the fundamental lines of the story and the theological arguments were presented intact," said West. "I made suggestions here and there. He took some and rejected others."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55184830 |title=On Broadway, he yearns for Australia |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=28 |issue=45 |location=Australia, Australia |date=12 April 1961 |accessdate=15 December 2023 |page=65 |via=National Library of Australia}}

West later said "The play folded, of course, but that is a long and difficult story about casting and direction which I'm simply not going into. It’s past history.”{{Citation

| title=MORRIS WEST AT HOME Black Coffee, White Rum

| journal=The Bulletin

| year=1880

| issn=0007-4039

| series=John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)

| volume = 83 |number=4282

| location=Sydney, N.S.W

| publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-701126857

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| access-date=15 December 2023

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The play was nominated for several Tony Awards.[https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1961/category/any/show/any/ 1961 Tony Awards]