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RICHARD CONLON (1965 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Richard Conlon has been writing since his own experience of youth theatre. His work is often either for young casts and audiences, or for the amateur stage. After working for arts organizations and theatre companies, he has been freelance since 2003. He runs workshops on writing and directing with students, teachers and amateur actors. He works across the UK from his home in Dorset.
Plays by Richard Conlon
Face: The Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | Central Studion,Basingstoke, Hants | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93221 | |||
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Genre: | Youth/School Theatre, drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 29 speaking parts in total | |||||
Notes: | Face: The Play has been written to be suitable to a whole class or a sizeable youth theatre. There are a good number of decent male parts in this play, but many of the parts are actually gender-neutral. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play is based on Benjamin Zephaniah's popular novel for young people. Martin is a popular boy, a rough diamond, a jack the lad. His life changes through a single mistake and his world is turned upside down by facial injury. The play tracks the lead up to, and fallout from the critical event. Though designed for teenaged casts, there are complex dramatic conventions in this play, including the central character being split into three elements. | |||||
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Hench | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93223 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Many available | |||||
Notes: | This play is available to small (6) professional companies, but I think it will appeal more to amateur theatre groups. With this in mind I have developed two versions: one has six speaking parts, 3M, 2F and 1 which is flexible. The second version has these same six main parts but is more 'peopled' with much smaller parts. | |||||
Synopsis: | Dave is an English & Drama teacher who unwittingly gets caught up in being a henchman on the facility of a criminal mastermind. Drawing heavily on the Bond/spy-movie franchises, the play gives a voice to those characters who never usually speak, those who only 'hench'. Needless to say, Dave's English & Drama training help to save the day and he even gets the girl after turning off the deadly sonic frequency modulator and thwarting the evil Malaxis empire. A two act play with six main characters and scope for many more in a second version. | |||||
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Hope Springs | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
Company: | IMPACT Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | www.heinemann.co.uk/hopesprings, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7628 | |||
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Genre: | Youth theatre Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | many, for teenagers | |||||
Notes: | Two versions of this text exist, one designed for youth theatre casts (contact author) and one for Key Stage 3 classromms & drama studios (see weblink above). Designed for senior youth theatre groups and school groups, the piece can be performed by groups of 15 - 50 of any gender | |||||
Synopsis: | set in the near future in a privately run correctional facility for young people, a crisis has occurred. during the course of the play we find out what has happened to spark a revolution and how the young people have delivered a form of retribution | |||||
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On Air | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
Company: | IMPACT Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7629 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Youth theatre Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A piece designed to fit contemporary youth theatre groups. | |||||
Synopsis: | A local youth theatre groups is about to perform a live play on local radio. the only problem is that not all the cast arte there but they can't back out now. as the play is aired the company sort out all there personal problems in the background | |||||
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Paving Paradise | ||
| 1st Produced: | Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93222 | |||
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Genre: | Youth/School Theatre, drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | flexible | |||||
Notes: | This play can accommodate a cast of between 15-50+ because of its flexible structure. It is also (I think) totally gender-neutral. A single sex cast could tackle this play with ease. | |||||
Synopsis: | This play was developed with young people from Lyme Regis. It tries to articulate complex notions of our relationship with the natural world with equal measures of drama, charm and humour. Paving Paradise is made up of three distinct strands: The sombre musings of a local aged oak tree, A group of 6 students who have to prepare an environmental project in one week, The new myths which the students invent to try to explore the theme. All three strands come together at the close of the piece after the least likely student has what can only be called a metaphysical epiphany with the tree, which is taken, by the others, as just another invented myth. By the close of the play the story has spread and the final scene sees the students facing national press, believers and sceptics. In what I think is a bold move, the final lines of the piece are delivered not as characters, but as the young participants themselves, speaking directly to their audience. | |||||
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Pay Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
Company: | New Perspectives | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7630 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Theatre In education Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This two -hander deals with issues of deliberate fire setting in teenagers | |||||
Synopsis: | Dave, at the age of 17 is asked to account for his past crimes by the person who was his victin four years before | |||||
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This Other Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northants, UK | 2002 | ||||
Company: | New Perspectives | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7631 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Theatre In education Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This two hander was commissioned to look at issues of teenage pregnancy in teenagers | |||||
Synopsis: | the play focusses on a nice young girl and her relationship with her brother, mother, father and local young men. it closes at the point where she realises she is pregnant, leaving hanging in the air the question "What happens next?" | |||||
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Whispers In The Graveyard | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93224 | |||
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Genre: | Youth/school theatre, drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Some parts within the play are gender neutral and the structure of the play means many parts can be accommodated. | |||||
Synopsis: | 'Whispers..'is an adaptation of the popular Theresa Breslin novel. Designed for teen casts, the play nevertheless has complex conventions within it. At the local graveyard, which is Solomon's refuge, a tree has been removed and an ancient evil has been released. Battling both this evil and his own challenges at school and home, the story sees Solomon face his fears in many ways. | |||||
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