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TONY CRAZE |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Tony Craze: 'A voice of honest compassion and insight into the areas where dreams turn into anger, despair and ferocious frustration . . .' (Bloomsbury Theatre Guide). Has worked as theatre writer since winning the inaugural Verity Bargate Award. As artistic director of the Soho Theatre Company, he instituted the first theatre based writer training programmes. As Theatre Writing Associate to Arts Council England, he initiated numerous programmes to provoke writers to new theatre. Has worked extensively as dramaturg, and taught theatre writing across open access courses, professional programmes and on line programmes. He is author of Write a Theatre Script in 25 Days (& 10 hours)
Plays by Tony Craze
Angelus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Oct 1987 | |||||
Company: | Soho Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #8171 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Dealer, sinner and society victim Mick seeks redemption through Ruth, an ambiguous psychopathic liar and Madonna like creature, seen as embodiment of all Mick's aspirations to a new life in the USA. Only Mama trips him up and ties him down . . . | |||||
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At Home with the Cripps | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Town Hall Arts Centre, Hemel Hempstead | 23 Nov 2002 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Resource | |||||
| 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 | #138011 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | devised by Tony Craze (based upon the original by Anna Wallbank/Jeff Banks/Rob Lee/Paula Thompson and Sonia Cakebread) | |||||
Synopsis: | A fast moving, entertaining drama where four disabled adults show life as it really is - warts and all. Combining great storytelling and stunning physical theatre, At Home with the Cripps reveals the private lives, loves and ambitions of real disabled people. They laugh, they cry, they smoke, they drink, they do good things and bad things . . . it's just an ordinary day with the Cripps. It''s time to put disability reality on the agenda in this challenging new play. | |||||
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Burning Maps | ||
| 1st Produced: | Union Chapel, london | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Outside Edge Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #8179 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | To be played promenade | |||||
Synopsis: | Recovering addict, Wu Rong, sets off across China, on an anti drugs march, and in search of missing daughter, Kang. Travelling across different time continuums, and continents, Kang, however, leads Wu off course - through stories of death and addiction in contemporary Kabul, in Baghdad and in London, and in 19th century Humen, China, where 'the biggest drug bust in history' takes place, with the burning of 1.5 kilos of opium. Kang would explore the very roots of addiction but when mother and daughter finally join, will Wu still insist on delivering her anti drugs petition - or will Kang have moved her beyond old political paradigms of prohibition/legalisation - perhaps beyond spatial/temporal maps altogether? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Closing the Wound | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sunday night public reading, Chelsea Theatre, World's End Place, Kings Road, London, SW10 0DR >>> | 26 Apr 1997 | ||||
Company: | Chelsea Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #138012 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Closing the Wound, was retitled, Eating the English; it's evolution is documented in Write a Theatre Script in 25 Days (& 10 hours) | |||||
Synopsis: | Frank and Hannah, brother and sister, seek a lost inheritance and journey to a distant aunt to demand their due. They are joined by Frank's former girlfriend, Julie. While Hannah states her wish to reclaim the past and her inheritance, Frank is making the journey only to be finally shot of the past altogether. Julie says she's just along for the ride . . . But old Aunt Anne is giving nothing away to anyone - not the inheritance nor the truth of Frank and Hannah's father - until Frank reveals he's known the truth for years - and walks out; Anne crumbles in shame. Julie would show compassion (and grasp a little of this upper class inheritance) - except Hannah finally sets fire to the house and the whole of their history. | |||||
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Confrontations | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||||
Company: | Croydon Warehouse 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 | #8172 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Different social class couples fight their separate but entangled ways through relationship wars - one employing fists, the other psychology as a weapon. 'I've got the best wife in the country!' 'No wonder you're happy - I have to live with mine.' | |||||
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Flying Ashes | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 Feb 1991 | |||||
Company: | Exchange Productions | |||||
| 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 | #8173 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | based on Letters of Love by Julia Voznesenskaya | |||||
Synopsis: | A picture of life as it is lived by women who manage to survive the daily round of discomfort and brutality with their imaginations and emotions in tact - from letters smuggled out of Soviet gulags by women prisoners. | |||||
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Fragmenting Red | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 May 1998 | |||||
Company: | Red Room Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #8174 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Part of 'Seeing Red' - a festival of dissent | |||||
Synopsis: | One year on from New Labour's '97 victory, 30 years on from 1968, and a prospective MP, and former Communist Party member, waits for the call to Government . . . only to have his whole life challenged by his best student | |||||
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Going West | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Apr 1988 | |||||
Company: | Soho Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #8175 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Going West has since been published in novel form under the title Holli and Bill Go Traveling - the movie | |||||
Synopsis: | Bill and Harriet travel across America in search of a very un-American dream . . . an unlikely pair, hooking up to cast an old man's ashes in the Western sunset - Harriet tries to get rid of them a little ahead of schedule. And Bill knows if the ashes aint quite dead, then Harriet's going to be the required sacrifice . . . | |||||
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Hit, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | UK Tour | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Outside Edge Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #58325 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Danny awaits a contact and the cash to leave the country; his former partner Sadie wants to escape everything - not least her current abusive partner . . . neither looks likely to wind up anywhere in this exploration into the cycles of addiction and domestic abuse. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kaleidoscope | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||||
Company: | Orange Tree Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #8176 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Early lunch time draft of 'Confrontations' - see above. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Living With Your Enemies | ||
| 1st Produced: | 26 Sep 1985 | |||||
Company: | Soho Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #8177 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Relates a mother's lost opportunities, sacrificed in bringing up her children, back to her post war youth, and the promises offered in the glimmerings of a Welfare State. | |||||
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Love You Take, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Tigers Head Lee Green, London | 1981 | ||||
Company: | Plays & Pints Theatre Club | |||||
| 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 | #8178 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Semi professional Greenwich Festival production | |||||
Synopsis: | Looking for the common bond between the Society for Krishna Consciousness, Bhagwan Shree, Rajneesh, therapy, punks and a Catholic Monastery | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Megabodies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - - - | ||||
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 | #58326 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Megabodies! sees supreme intellectual and cultural commentator, Levin, in contest with champion bodybuilder, Frankie, each muscling up to the other, for a showdown over female bodybuilder Karla - and she thought she was in the business for emancipatory reasons . . . | |||||
Further Reference: | Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia.>>>, | |||||
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Passion | ||
| 1st Produced: | 25 Mar 2002 | |||||
Company: | Chelsea Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #8180 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A rare story of love from a Palestinian refugee camp, between a young woman, and an older Western journalist, Opposite worlds, two perspectives, a generation apart. Passion rooted in love set against the passion of different politics. Can Bill re-ignite political passion and cross the divide - or will Hanna's passion for a new Jerusalem see her sacrifice their love. Explores the injustice which breeds desperate violence. | |||||
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Shona | ||
| 1st Produced: | 24 Oct 1983 | |||||
Company: | Soho Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8181 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | joint winner of Verity Bargate Award 1982 | |||||
Synopsis: | A terse and painful blast against modern psychiatric practice, and society's inadequate response to different thinking, told through the story and ultimate lobotomisation of a young girl. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol III (1983) Page 0929; Theatre Record Vol VIII (1988) Page 1657 | |||||
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Squint | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Sep 2003 | |||||
Company: | Chelsea Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #8182 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Cultural commentator Hugh seeks if not redemption, at least respite from the booze; partner and blood body artist, Courtney isn't letting him go, but if the resulting last binge ends in Hugh's death, then who's this walking out the refectory next morning . . . Sister Greta may believe it's all to do with faith - Courtney's still only interested in ecstasy - even St Theresa's . . . | |||||
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Wake for Miss Montreal, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Feb 2000 | |||||
Company: | Chelsea Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #8183 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Chronicles the lives of four unlikely friends - a hedonist queen, a bickering gay couple, fighting old age as much as each other, and an upstanding young woman turned promiscuous - all finding comfort, following Miss Montreal's death, in the remembrance of things past, pleasurable and profane . . . | |||||
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