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RICHARD CRANE (1944 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Micheline Steinberg Associates |
Picture by Emilio Coia of the Scotsman. Richard Crane began writing for the Cambridge Footlights 1966; was a founder member of the Brighton Combination and the Pool Theatre Edinburgh, where his first short plays were produced; worked as an actor at the Nottingham Playhouse, Royal Court, Traverse and National Theatres, and in films and television; wrote and directed new plays with Chris Parr at Bradford University and succeeded him as Fellow in Theatre. Here he began writing musicals, plays with music and site-specific shows - eg Mutiny on the Bounty, Tom Brown, Thunder, Crippen, The Quest; several of which played on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, won awards and toured nationally and abroad. He was succeeded as Fellow in Theatre by Faynia Williams for whom he went on to write several plays, particularly on Russian themes - Clownmaker, Satan's Ball, Vanity, Gogol. Peter Hall engaged him to be the first Resident Dramatist at the National Theatre and he wrote six plays during his year there (1974/5), including Bloody Neighbours, Venus and Superkid, Meantime and the award-winning Clownmaker which transferred to London and then New York. With Faynia Williams he founded Brighton Theatre, which became the first company to move from the Fringe to the main programme of the Edinburgh Festival, with Brothers Karamazov in 1981. This production then transferred to the West End, as did Brighton Theatre's first show Mutiny on the Bounty which became Mutiny! with music by David Essex at the Piccadilly Theatre London 1985. Russian themes continued with The Possessed, for Yuri Lyubimov, Envy with Donald Swann, and the award-winners Pushkin and Red Magic. Richard was Literary Manager at the Royal Court for Stuart Burge and Max Stafford Clark, Dramaturg at the Tron Theatre Glasgow, Writer in Residence at Birmingham Polytechnic and HM Prison Bedford, and has held Fellowships and Lectureships at Bradford, East Anglia, Leicester, Maryland (USA) and Sussex Universities. He created and was Director of the MA in Dramatic Writing at Sussex for 12 years, returning to theatre in 2008 with The Quiz starring David Bradley (UK tour and West End), I Am A Warehouse for Brighton Theatre at the Brighton Festival 2010 and Dancing With Demons, previewed at the Victoria and Albert Museum 2011. He is married to Faynia Williams, has two step-daughters, Sabra and Teohna Williams and two sons, Leo and Sam Crane.
Plays by Richard Crane
Anna and Marina | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 3 | 1991 | ||||
Company: | BBC | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87316 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Anna Massey. Director: Matthew Walters | |||||
Synopsis: | Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva met and talked for two days in Moscow 1941. What was said and not said between the strong silent one and the chatterbox, which led to a suicide days later? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Baggage And Bombshells | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
Company: | Black Swan | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8110 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Directed by Faynia Williams. Transferred Cockpit Theatre London | |||||
Synopsis: | The 1991 Gulf War. The Mother of Battles, a soldier's widow and Tank Girl: three irreconcilable views intertwine. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bleak Midwinter | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Pool, Edinburgh Festival | 1972 | ||||
Company: | Pool Theatre Edinburgh | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8111 | |||
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Genre: | Christmas play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Cast: Penny Casdagli, Paul Moriarty, Alan McClelland. Directed by John Cumming. Opening production South Hill Park Bracknell, Christmas 1973 | |||||
Synopsis: | Alternative nativity play. Mary and Joseph, pawns in celestial power struggle, turn on each other; risk losing the baby. Lucifer saves the day. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blood Stream, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8112 | |||
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Genre: | Play/drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Modern Oresteia. A brief encounter and death in the Blitz, lead to a homecoming and teenage revenge in the 50s, and a mind explosion in the 60s. . | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 12/11 | |||||
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Bloody Neighbours | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre at the ICA | 1975 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8113 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Cast: Brenda Blethyn, David Meyer. Directed by Kevin Billington. Evening Standard nomination: Best New Play | |||||
Synopsis: | Two semi-detached households. Act I: Denis and Audrey celebrate their tin wedding to mounting din from next door. Denis is driven to extreme violence. Act II: The same time-frame next door: Wilf, Spotty and Tits, eat, drink and make din, unaware that Denis is coming to kill them. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Brothers Karamazov, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh International Festival | 19 Aug 1981 | ||||
Company: | Brighton Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430920 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8115 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | From the novel by Dostoyevsky with songs by Schiller. Alan Rickman as Ivan. Bruce Alexander as Dmitry. Stephen Boxer as Alyosha. Peter Kelly as Smerdyakov. Music by Stephen Boxer. Directed and designed by Faynia Williams. 3 London Critics' Award Nominations. Productions worldwide include: National Theatre of Romania 1991; National Theatre Festival, Hungary. Best Ensemble Award 2000. Gavle, Sweden, director Peter Oscarson, 2006.City Theatre Stockholm 2011. From original translations by Faynia Williams | |||||
| Dostoyevsky's great novel seen through the eyes of the four brothers, each of whom takes on the role of the father by slipping into his bear-like coat. When the old man is found murdered, suspicion falls on each of the brothers in turn. Passionate love, pursuit of money, debate with the devil, the death of a saint, epilepsy and story-telling, lead to the chill dawn of freedom and a new view of the world. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Burke And Hare | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8116 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Faynia Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Irish immigrants supply bodies for professor of anatomy, no questions asked: murder as business in the cause of medical science; with street songs, Irish ballads, anatomy class, grand guignol. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Circus Maximus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hippodrome, Eastbourne | 2008 | ||||
Company: | New Vic Workshop & Eastbourne Theatres | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script not available | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87317 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Play in development following workshop and public reading | |||||
Synopsis: | Five convicted murderers opt to have their sentences reviewed by the mass TV audience: thumbs up for release; thumbs down for execution. The choice is yours. Or is it? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Clownmaker | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script not available | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8117 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed and designed by Faynia Williams. Winner Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1975. Transferred to New End Theatre London 1976. Off-Broadway New York 1982 | |||||
Synopsis: | An imaginative leap into the world of scandal and genius surrounding Diaghilev and Nijinsky | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crippen | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||||
Company: | University of Bradford Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8118 | |||
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Genre: | Music Hall/Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Chris Parr. Music by Milton Reame-James. First professional production Sheffield Crucible, directed by Caroline Smith. | |||||
Synopsis: | Little doctor poisons music-hall singer wife, dismembers the body, escapes across Atlantic with secretary disguised as a boy, is caught with the aid of wireless telegraphy. With comedy, monologue, suspense, music-hall songs. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 13/1 | |||||
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Dancing With Demons | ||
| 1st Produced: | Previewed Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Brighton 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 | #87318 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Chorus of 6 to 10 | |||||
Notes: | Dancing with Demons is created by writer Richard Crane and director Faynia Williams, in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, to celebrate the centenary of the Ballets Russes. | |||||
Synopsis: | As empires fell and the world erupted into World War, a revolution in art was sweeping westward across Europe, to the music of Stravinsky, the designs of Bakst, Picasso and Matisse, and the dancing of Nijinsky. But just as the old rules of art were fragmenting, so Nijinsky's mind was breaking up, following his rift with Diaghilev and his marriage to Romola de Pulszky. The play follows Nijinsky's leap to stardom and scandal, and his slow descent into the dark. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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David, King Of The Jews | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bradford Cathedral | 1973 | ||||
Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info @steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8119 | |||
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Genre: | Site-specific play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large cast with orchestra | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Chris Parr. Music by Chris Mitchell | |||||
Synopsis: | Epic allegory spanning the Testaments | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Decent Things | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Pool, Edinburgh Festival Fringe | 1972 | ||||
Company: | The Pool Edinburgh | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8120 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Pool: Cast: Richard Harbord, Juliet Cadzow. Directed by John Cumming. Bush Theare, London: Cast: Timothy Davies, Keren Wilson. Directed by Hugh Wooldridge. Southern Sound Radio: Cast: Tammy Ustinov, Anthony Head. Directed by Faynia Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Misfits Basil and Gaga, alone for the first time on their wedding night, make an absolute hash of 'what is expected of one'. Through trial and terror, they begin to get to know each other. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Envy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
Company: | Essex University Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8121 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | From the novel by Yuri Olesha. Directed by Faynia Williams. Music by Donald Swann | |||||
Synopsis: | Adapted from Olesha's 1927 shocking masterpiece. Super-sausage-maker Andrey Babichev, finds envious genius Kavalerov drunk in the gutter. Grooms him to be New Man of the Century only to find him conspiring with his renegade poet brother, Ivan Babichev. Cast out, the two poets plan the Grand Finale of Human Feelings which will bring down the Machine Age. Told in slogans, broadcasts, acrobatics, football commentary, a street mirror, satirical sonnets and torch-songs. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Eugene Onegin | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 3 | 1999 | ||||
Company: | BBC | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87319 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adapted from Pushkin for the bicentennial of his birth. Producer Richard Bannerman, director Faynia Williams. Alex Jennings as Pushkin, Sam West as Onegin. | |||||
Synopsis: | Classic story of mistimed love (see Vanity below) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Examination In Progress | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | 1973 | ||||
Company: | University of Bradford Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script not available | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8122 | |||
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Genre: | Late-night Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fool in the Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Gold Room, Eastbourne Theatres (reading) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | New Vic Workshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87320 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Read as part of the Fool on the World Stage project, International Theatre Institute, New York 2005 and Manila, Philippines, 2006. | |||||
Synopsis: | A man in a coat sits on a bench overlooking the sea. He had a political dream that ended in nightmare and has come here to shoot himself. He is interrupted by a feral ex-actor and product of the nightmare, who needs to talk to keep warm. They have a conversation, do deals and play Russian roulette through the night. The play starts at sunset and ends with the dawn. A black comedy for two actors, 75 minutes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Girl With No Arms | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Lab, London | 1968 | ||||
Company: | Brighton Combination | |||||
| 1st Published: | No script available | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87321 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Chris Parr | |||||
Synopsis: | Two girls play mad games in the park. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gogol | ||
| 1st Produced: | Marlborough Theatre, Brighton | 16 Apr 1978 | ||||
Company: | Brighton Actor's Workshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430920 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8124 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | From stories by Gogol. Many performances worldwide including. Edinburgh, Brighton, Belfast, Adelaide Festivals, Moscow, New York, Paris, tours of Poland, Sweden. Actor: Richard Crane. Director/designer: Faynia Williams. For BBC Radio: Actor: Freddie Jones. Director: Alfred Bradley. From original translations by Faynia Williams | |||||
| Electricity Board Final Demands clerk fills the void of his life with words; gets a new coat and rises to giddy heights; then plummets into the vortex of monomania and debt. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gunslinger | ||
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix, Leicester | 1976 | ||||
Company: | Leicester Arts Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8125 | |||
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Genre: | Wild-West Adventure | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | flexible to 30 | |||||
Notes: | Cast included Alan Rickman, Victoria Wood, Geoffrey Durham, Russell Henderson. Music by Joss Buckley Directed by Peter Moss | |||||
Synopsis: | Colonel Conquest hosts a Wild West Show in the No-Name Saloon with shoot-outs, lynch-mobs, outlaws, preachers, rustlers, redskins, cattle and gold. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Humbug or A Christmas Carol Backwards | ||
| 1st Produced: | South Hill Park, Bracknell | Dec 1974 | ||||
Company: | South Hill Park, Bracknell | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8126 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Milton Reame-James. Directed by John Cumming | |||||
Synopsis: | Scrooge, over-generous in a mean-spirited world, is visited by three ghosts who warn him to tighten up. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Manchester Tales | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script not available | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8128 | |||
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Genre: | Community Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Local silver bands. | |||||
Notes: | Researched by the cast, devised and written during rehearsal. Director: Caroline Smith | |||||
Synopsis: | Celebration of Manchester, past, present and future. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mean Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
Company: | English Stage Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8129 | |||
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Genre: | 40 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Cast: Margaretta Scott. Directed by Richard Crane | |||||
Synopsis: | Clerical officer and joker locked in office with time-bomb. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University Drama Group | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8130 | |||
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Genre: | Christmas Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large cast | |||||
Notes: | music Chris Mitchell | |||||
Synopsis: | Audience set sail under Bligh's stern command; weather storms and punishment; disembark at Tahiti for interval. Christian leads mutiny on return voyage. Bligh cast adrift, rows to safety. Christian and Bounty hide out on Pitcairn. Girls play midshipmen and cabin boys. Guest appearances of Johnson and Boswell, Ghost of Captain Cook, Chief Hiti-Hiti, George III. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mutiny on the Bounty (2) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton Seafront | 1980 | ||||
Company: | Brighton Theatre and Boundstone School Lancing, for Brighton Festival | |||||
| 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 | #87322 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large cast | |||||
Notes: | Cast from students of Boundstone School Lancing. Directed by Faynia Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | The above rewritten Bugsy-Malone-style for child performers. Site-specific, promenade performance, under the arches of Brighton seafront and on the Fishmarket Hard. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mutiny! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Piccadilly, London | 1985 | ||||
Company: | Panter & Friedman | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Mutiny! Concept album Phonogram 1983 | doollee no | #8131 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large cast | |||||
Notes: | Music by David Essex. Directed by Michael Bogdanov. Designed by William Dudley.Cast includes David Essex, Frank Finlay, Sinitta. Nominated Ivor Novello Award Best Musical | |||||
Synopsis: | Act I: Outward voyage: High hopes, dancing, indiscipline, a flogging, resentment, the doldrums, rough seas round Cape Horn, arrival at Tahiti. Act II: Re-embark with breadfruit saplings. Ship's routine favours plants over men. Christian 'in hell'. Mutiny. Bligh and breadfruit cast adrift; Bounty sails free. Bligh makes it home, instigates revenge. Christian and mutineers hide and revert to savagery on Pitcairn. | |||||
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Mystery Plays | ||
| 1st Produced: | Local Churches | 1974 | ||||
Company: | South Hill Park, Bracknell | |||||
| 1st Published: | No scripts exist | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8132 | |||
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Genre: | Cycle of short plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | one of a series of short mystery plays written for churches around Bracknell. no scripts exist ? - let us know !! | |||||
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Nero And The Golden House | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8133 | |||
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Genre: | Roman epic Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Robert Pettigrew. Directed by Chris Parr | |||||
Synopsis: | Three crucified 'lighting effects' looks down on the preparations for the opening of the Golden House, which they will illuminate. The actor/emperor will be the star of the show but his arrival is delayed. His mother meanwhile has plans of her own and rumbles of rebellion have reached the gates of Rome. | |||||
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Optimistic Tragedy | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 3 | 1980 | ||||
Company: | BBC | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87359 | |||
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Genre: | Radio drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large cast | |||||
Notes: | Adapted from play by Vsevolod Vishnevsky. Co-written with Faynia Williams. Cast includes Toyah Willcox. Directed by Ned Chaillet | |||||
Synopsis: | In the upheavals following the Bolshevik Revolution, anarchists have taken over a ship of the Baltic Fleet. When an old woman accuses a sailor of stealing her purse, he is summarily executed. Suddenly she finds her purse, so she must die too. In order to restore order, the Party sends a female Commissar to take control of the ship. | |||||
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Phaedra | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Hammersmith and tour | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Actors' Touring Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8135 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Marina Tsvetayeva. Adapted with Michael Glenny | |||||
Synopsis: | Phaedra's unrequited love for stepson Hippolytus and its tragic consequences | |||||
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Pied Piper, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University Great Hall | 1973 | ||||
Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8136 | |||
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Genre: | Christmas musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Chris Mitchell. Directed by Richard Crane | |||||
Synopsis: | Piper rids Hamelin of rats. Mayor and Corporation are slow to pay. Piper rids them of their children. | |||||
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Plutopia | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 4 | 1994 | ||||
Company: | BBC | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87362 | |||
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Genre: | Radio musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Donald Swann. Cast: William Rushton, Tony Robinson, Fascinating Aida, Denise Coffey, CJ Allen | |||||
Synopsis: | Perfect society on the furthest planet, founded on the love of money and the law of the jingle; visited only by the terminally depressed. When John gets there, he is lifted out of sadness into a heaven of cheerfulness until he discovers that, as a bankrupt, he is heading for the Mincer. | |||||
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Possessed, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odeon Paris | 1985 | ||||
Company: | Almeida Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8137 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Adapted from Dostoyevsky. Directed by Yuri Lyubimov. Music by Alfred Schnittke. Designed by Stefan Lazaridis. Cast includes Nigel Terry, Harriet Walter, Michael Feast, Gillian Barge, Clive Merrison | |||||
Synopsis: | Terrorist cells infiltrate small-town Russia, like devils entering swine. Under the banner of the soulless 'wise serpent' Stavrogin, the revolution implodes, in assassination and suicide. | |||||
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Pushkin | ||
| 1st Produced: | Essex University Theatre | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8138 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed & designed by Faynia Williams. Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1987 | |||||
Synopsis: | 1837. Pushkin bleeds in the snow, shot in the stomach by his nemesis, dressed in white. He takes two days to die. Crowds gather as a living monument, and his works uncannily merge with his life. Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov, The Gypsies, the Bronze Horseman, Mozart and Salieri, the Feast in the Plague Year, reflect and illuminate his triumphs and catastrophes, and his love-hate for his wife Natalya and the Tsar. | |||||
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Quest, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | St George's Hall, Bradford | 1974 | ||||
Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8139 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Music by Chris Mitchell. Directed by Chris Parr.Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1974. aka The King. Revived Winter Gardens Eastbourne 2010 | |||||
Synopsis: | Out of wordless babble, Arthur teaches the land to speak. At Camelot, knights must speak in verse. Lancelot sings. Galahad urges knights to aspire to wordless music and beyond. Only Mordred the bastard speaks in prose. Jousting, dancing, feasting, adventuring, give way to squabbles, sex scandals, the quest for the grail, the break-up of the Table and the last battle. | |||||
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Quiz, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eastbourne Theatres | 2007 | ||||
Company: | New Vic Workshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83897 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Cast: David Bradley. Directed by David Giles | |||||
Synopsis: | The ultimate performance. Henry has been touring Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor for too many years. Tonight, like Keane, Irving and Tommy Cooper, he will conk out on stage. He has already taken the tablets and had a few sherries. His stage manager has walked out; so there will be no one to prompt him. Tonight, as the Inquisitor, condemning Christ to be burnt, 'surrendering freedom for happiness, truth and despair for food and entertainment', he will give the performance of his life. | |||||
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Red Magic | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
Company: | Essex University Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8140 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Faynia Williams. Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1988 | |||||
Synopsis: | Sergei Eisenstein, artist of the Revolution, creator of theatre as circus, film as propaganda and chronicle of the brave new socialist world; misfit, comedian, exile, fugitive. The biography as montage, from Potempkin and Strike, to Que Viva Mexica, and Ivan the Terrible. | |||||
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Rolling the Stone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh Festival Fringe | 1989 | ||||
Company: | Essex University Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8141 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Actor: Richard Crane. Directed and designed by Faynia Williams. Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1989 | |||||
Synopsis: | Sisyphus, the eternal optimist, rolls the stone to the top of the hill, where it rolls back down again. Repeat ad nauseam. Stand-up, tumble-down comedy in hell, with operatic support from Medusa's little sister. | |||||
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Route of All Evil, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lauriston Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe | 1974 | ||||
Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8142 | |||
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Genre: | Late Night Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Music by Thomas Attlee. Directed by Hugh Wooldridge. aka The Bradford Revue | |||||
Synopsis: | Late-night pleasure cruise on the economic tide turns into disaster of titanic proportions. | |||||
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Sand | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pavilion Theatre, Brighton Festival | 1981 | ||||
Company: | Brighton Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8143 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Faynia Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | George Sand entertains with Frederic Chopin at the piano. | |||||
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Satan's Ball | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Chaplaincy, Edinburgh Festival Fringe | 1977 | ||||
Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430920 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8144 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov. Music by Phil Wharton. Directed and designed by Faynia Williams. Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1977. From original translations by Faynia Williams | |||||
| The devil comes to Moscow and tells the atheist Chairman of the Writers' Union that he will be beheaded by a tram. It happens immediately and is witnessed by Bezdomny, who demands the devil's arrest and is sent to a mental hospital where he meets the Master who has lost his lover Margarita and has written a book about Pontius Pilate who has to condemn to death the one man who can cure his head-ache. There are three levels to the play, Moscow, Jerusalem and Limbo. Margarita, naked and singing, ascends to the top as she flies over Moscow. Jesus is crucified against the organ pipes. Satan's Ball, when all the inmates of the mental hospital start to dance, forms the climax of the show, which ends with the full company singing Blok's The Twelve. | |||||
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Sea The Sea, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial | 1993 | ||||
Company: | BBC | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87361 | |||
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Genre: | Radio drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | From the novel by Iris Murdoch. Music by Elizabeth Parker. Cast: John Wood, Joyce Redman, Sian Phillips, T.P. McKenna, Sam Crane. Directed by Faynia Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | 4 x 60 minute episodes including a rare interview with Iris Murdoch. Charles Arrowby, actor and director, retires to a crumbling house by the sea, hoping to shake off his past. But his past pursues him and his lonely hideaway becomes a bedlam of aggrieved former friends, colleagues and lovers. His first and greatest love, Hartley, is living in the village and he reunites himself with her, with violent and catastrophic results. | |||||
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Secrets | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Edinburgh | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8145 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | For Traverse. Director Chris Parr. Cast Elaine Ives-Cameron, Charles Bolton, Chris Hancock. Revived Bush Theatre 1974, directed by John Russell Brown, with Natasha Parry and Karl Howman | |||||
Synopsis: | With Maud nothing is ever finished. Her gothic novels break off at the point of suspense. Her house is a mess of uncompleted extensions and half-painted rooms. Her marriage was left hanging by a thread many years ago. When Jack returns to attend to unfinished business, the outcome for Maud and her introverted son, is sudden and final. | |||||
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Soldier Soldier | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
Company: | Essex University Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8146 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1986. From the book by Tony Parker. Directed by Faynia Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Army life as told verbatim from interviews through the ranks with soldiers and their wives. | |||||
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Ten Years On, or The Perils of Bradford | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre in the Mill, Bradford | 1976 | ||||
Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | No script available | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8147 | |||
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Genre: | Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Inaugural production for Theatre in the Mill. Co-written with David Edgar. Music by Milton Reame-James. Directed by Faynia Williams. aka Perils of Bradford | |||||
Synopsis: | Celebrating ten years of Bradford University with guest appearances from Chancellor Harold Wilson and his dog Paddy. | |||||
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Tenant, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pool Theatre Edinburgh | 1971 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8148 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Cast: Richard Harbord, Oscar James. Directed by Phil Emanuel | |||||
Synopsis: | Denis has a room to let in his basement flat; tries to say no when a black man moves in. The more he talks and the less the 'tenant' talks, the more Denis reveals his closely- guarded insecurities, until the tables are turned. | |||||
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This Way Out | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Theatre, Cambridge and tour | 1966 | ||||
Company: | Cambridge Footlights | |||||
| 1st Published: | No script available | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87360 | |||
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Genre: | Revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Co-writer with cast. Cast: Germaine Greer, Andrew Mayer, Jane Barry, Chris Mohr, Timothy Davies, Richard Harris, Richard Crane. Directed by Richard Syms. aka Footlights Revue | |||||
Synopsis: | Sketches and songs, topical, satirical, pythonesque. | |||||
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Three Ugly Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | Group Theatre Cork | 1967 | ||||
Company: | Group Theatre Cork | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8149 | |||
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Genre: | Short play with music One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Cast: Maria Aitken, Katya Benjamin, Katy Heyland, Bob Scott, Richard Crane. Directed by Chris Parr. Transferred to Little Theatre Club, London 1967 | |||||
Synopsis: | Three strange women meet in a coffee bar. Absurdist comedy with songs. | |||||
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Thunder | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ilkley Festival | 1976 | ||||
Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8150 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Richard Crane. Edinburgh Fringe First Award. Later productions include: Thornton Parish Church; Lodz Festival Poland; Upstream Theatre London; Gate at Latchmere, London And many others, worldwide | |||||
Synopsis: | The lives of the Brontes, their childhood fantasies, poems, letters and novels, interweave to create a domestic/gothic drama. The sisters are released from the confines of Haworth Parsonage, when they become their own heroines. Charlotte is Jane Eyre; Emily is Cathy; Anne is Helen Graham. The central tragic figure is Branwell, who inspired his sisters, wrote more than all of them put together, and declined, following failure as writer and lover, into drugs, alcohol, and early death. | |||||
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Tom Brown | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University Great Hall | 1971 | ||||
Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8151 | |||
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Genre: | Christmas Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Music by Milton Reame-James. Directed by Richard Crane | |||||
Synopsis: | Rugby School 1835 panto-style with Brown and young'uns played by girls and matron by a man. Brown and East take on Flashy and the toadies, inspiring Dr Arnold to reform the education system. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Under The Stars | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich, London | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | https://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk/node/490 (1994) | ISBN/ASIN: | 0 573 01911 8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8152 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | voices | |||||
Notes: | Cast: Pam Ferris, Connie Booth, Patricia Routledge, June Whitfield. Directed by Matthew Francis. Designed by Lez Brotherston | |||||
Synopsis: | 'Waiting for Godot' in the dressing-room. Regina (Reg) is a career understudy, who has only ever covered the Dame and never gone. Stella still has hopes of overnight stardom, going on for Trixie whose health is frail. As the stars on stage, are heard raging over the tannoy, the understudies parrot the lines, and squabble in the dressing-room. When the director brings in a Known Actress to cover for Trixie, the understudies unite in an act of rebellion. But bigger storms are blowing which will affect the show's run, and the little tragedy in the dressing-room, goes unnoticed. | |||||
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Understudies | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 3 | 1992 | ||||
Company: | BBC | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87363 | |||
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Genre: | Radio play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Cast: Penelope Keith, Dorothy Tutin. Directed by Matthew Walters | |||||
Synopsis: | Understudies bicker and squabble in the dressing-room while the stars on stage rage against fate. Radio version of Under the Stars (see below). | |||||
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Vanity - a response to Eugene Onegin | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh Festival | 18 Aug 1980 | ||||
Company: | Brighton Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430920 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8153 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | story by Pushkin. From original translation and directed by Faynia Williams. Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1980. Played Gate Theatre London 1980, Young Vic Theatre 1983. | |||||
| reclaimed Pushkins Eugene Onegin as a intimate reflection on a love mistimed and shattered by social convention. | |||||
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Venus and Superkid | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Theatre and Roundhouse, London | 1975 | ||||
Company: | Unicorn Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8154 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Music by Milton Reame-James. Directed by Chris Parr | |||||
Synopsis: | The Wright family live in Willesden where life is dull. Father's aggressive instincts are on the wane. Mother studies sociology as a refuge from chores. Rick also studies and has fallen in love with fellow-student Susan Reynolds. Hughie, his twin, is a drop-out. But while others dream, the Wrights can transform into Mars, Venus, Superkid and the Freak, and project their magnified family feuds across the Daredevil Supersphere. Transgalactic rock supershow with strip-cartoon dialogue, fairground slides and show-stopping numbers. | |||||
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Vlad the Impaler | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 3 | - - - | ||||
Company: | BBC | |||||
| 1st Published: | Script enquiries: info@steinplays.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87365 | |||
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Genre: | Radio play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large cast | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Faynia Williams. Cast includes John Hurt, Victor Spinetti, Andrew Sachs, Anthony Head. adapted from The Third Stake by Marin Sorescu | |||||
Synopsis: | 1485. Sandwiched between the Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, Romania must morally re-arm or be crushed. Prince Vlad, trained in nation-building, as a child hostage in Turkey, knows ways of instilling discipline into a demoralized people. Taking lunch before two impaled enemies of the state, he debates with them the point: if it doesn't hurt, it isn't working. He erects a third stake between them, to be kept vacant for whoever in the future will be responsible for the country's fall. After invasion, resistance, pitched battle, betrayal, imprisonment, liberation, short-lived victory, crushing defeat, it is Vlad himself who must climb and self-insert the slippery pole. | |||||
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