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DAVID POWNALL |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Johnson and Alcock |
David Pownall was born in Liverpool and he is a graduate of Keele University. He was dramatist in residence with the Century and Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster and co-founder of Paines Plough Theatre Company with John Adams. His internationally-performed plays include Music to Murder By, An Audience Called Edouard, Beef, Livingstone an Sechele and Master Class. Her most recent new play was Getting the Picture at The Lyric, Belfast. Theatre awards include the John Whiting Prize for Beef, the New York Theatre Yearbook, the LS Directors' Award for Livingstone and Sechele, and many others. He has published ten novels and a collection of short stories.
Plays by David Pownall
All The World Should Be Taxed | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||||
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 | #28422 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A political rendering of the Nativity story | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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As We Lie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nkana-Kitwe Arts Society, Zambia | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nkana-Kitwe, Zambia, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28423 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Audience Called Edouard, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28424 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A Manet painting provides the stylised setting for a Marxist discussion | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Barricade | ||
| 1st Produced: | on tour | 1978 | ||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 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 | #28425 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Spanish anarchists attempt the political education of an Englishman on a cycling holiday | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beauty And The Beast | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
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 | #28426 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Stephen Boxer | |||||
Synopsis: | beauty falls for beast etc | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beef | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1981One Act | 1981 | ||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Best Radio Plays of 1981", Methuen, London, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28427 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | winner of the John Whiting Award | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black Star | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays Two, Oberon Books, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28428 | |||
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Genre: | Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 actors | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | the story of a black American actor, Ira Aldridge, touring Shakespeare in Poland in middle of 19th century | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Buck Ruxton | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28429 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Buck Ruxton is an imperial tragedy of 1936, a nororious double murder by a successful Indian doctor driven mad by the scandal of his Scottish wife's infidelity | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Crates On Barrels | ||
| 1st Produced: | on Lancashire tour | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays for One Person", Oberon, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28430 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Death of a Faun | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wickham Theatre, Bristol University | 1991 | ||||
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 | #28431 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Nijinsky's Requiem For Diaghilev | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dinner Dance | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leicester | 1991 | ||||
Company: | The Kosh | |||||
| 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 | #28432 | |||
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Genre: | Dance play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Machinations based around a kitchen theme. Two guppies (gay yuppies) and a builder and nurse fail to balance the demands of their work and their emotions, while a born-again Christian convinces his glitzy girl-friend of the virtues of an evening at home. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dream Of Chief Crazy Horse, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fleetwood, Lancashire | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840020755 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28433 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | written for schools | |||||
| Covers ten thousand years of Red Indian history | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Edge, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1987 | ||||
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 | #28434 | |||
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Genre: | Danceplay | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Monologue for a mother estranged from her daughter | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Elgar's Rondo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Composer Plays", Oberon, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1870259415 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28435 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Composer Plays | |||||
| captures the depths of the great composers despair as he wrestles with growing feelings of artistic failure | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Elgar's Third | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC3 | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Composer {lays", Oberon, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1870259415 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28436 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | part of Composer Plays | |||||
| composers final, losing battle to write a third symphony in the face of impending death | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gaunt | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28437 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | focus on the myth and reality of power surrounding a local legend. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Getting The Picture | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon, London, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51893 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Hermitage, Jackson's home near Nashville, Tennessee, and Carrickfergus. 1845. Former US president Andrew Jackson is nearing the end of his days. He is visited by Mathew Brady, a celebrated photographer from New York, and by a young Belfast woman who challenges him to lend his name to an insurrection of United Irishmen. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hot Hello, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||||
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 | #28438 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.9830/30 | |||||
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How Does The Cukoo Learn To Fly? | ||
| 1st Produced: | on tour | 1970 | ||||
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 | #28439 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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How To Grow A Guerrilla | ||
| 1st Produced: | Preston, Lancashire | 1971 | ||||
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 | #28440 | |||
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Genre: | Fantasy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Soldiers, gangsters and a moronic youth play in an overgrown English garden | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Human Cartoon Show, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||||
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 | #28441 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Innocent Screams | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | Apr 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840026115 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98223 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Dawn, Coronation Day 1953. The artist Francis Bacon works on his portrait of Pope Innocent X, inspired by Velazquez' masterpiece and his own deep absorption in human carnality. The chaotic studio is populated by characters possessing the power of change, who come to life in a satirical interplay of art, history, sex and politics. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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King John's Jewel | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
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 | #28442 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ladybird, Ladybird | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1976 | ||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 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 | #28443 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A war widow returns to Liverpool after 50 years in the USA to complex relationships with her grandchildren | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last Of The Wizards, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lakes Comprehensive School | 1970 | ||||
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 | #28444 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Later | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 1979 | ||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays for One Person", Oberon, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28445 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A middle aged Russian woman who died in 1921 has returned from the dead 16 years later to talk about her family and why she abandoned them | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lile Jimmy Williamson | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28446 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Capitalist millionaire linoleum manufacturer exploits Lancastrian workers at the turn of the twentieth century | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lions And Lambs | ||
| 1st Produced: | on Lancashire tour | 1973 | ||||
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 | #28447 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Livingstone And Sechele | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
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 | #28448 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The young missionary explorer has to confront his own faith after converting a local chief in South Africa | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Master Class | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1870259415 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28449 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Composer Plays | |||||
| The loyal composer Shostakovich and outsider Prokofiev are confronted by Stalin in 1948 Russia | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Motocar | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28450 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Stephen Boxer | |||||
Synopsis: | A mental hospital run by whites for blacks in pre-independence Rhodesia provides a backdrop for black experience of oppression. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Music To Murder By | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Kent, Canterbury | 1976 | ||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1870259415 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28451 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Composer Plays | |||||
| Two ghosts are conjured up by a Californian woman musicologist to demonstrate creativity and violence | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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My Father's House | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays Two, Oberon Books, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28452 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of the Chamberlain family and their extraordinary rise to power and wealth during the latter half of Victoria's reign | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nijinsky: Death Of A Faun | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28453 | |||
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Genre: | Danceplay | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set on the day of Diaghilev's death and records Nijinsky's reactions | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pride And Prejudice | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leicester | 1983 | ||||
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 | #28454 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from novel by Jane Austen | |||||
Synopsis: | Period early 19C, worldly ambitions of silly woman, tenderness of her husband and matrimonial ambition of the three pretty daughters contrast with the three suitors | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pro, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Little Theatre Club, London | 1975 | ||||
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 | #28455 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Q | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chingola Arts Society, Zambia | 1965 | ||||
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 | #78265 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Richard III, Part Two | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28456 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A board game uses George Orwell, 1984, and Richard III, 1484, to demonstrate marketing for success | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rousseau's Tale | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | Not The RSC Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays for One Person", Oberon, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28457 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Seconds At The Fight For Madrid | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bristol University Drama Department | 1978 | ||||
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 | #28458 | |||
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Genre: | Fantasy drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | People of diverse nationalities, real and imagined, discuss the Spanish Civil war | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Seven Foot High In America | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chingola Arts Society, Zambia | 1966 | ||||
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 | #78266 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Spare Tree, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nkana-Kitwe Arts Society, Zambia | 1967 | ||||
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 | #78267 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tale Of Two Town Halls, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28459 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A Tale of Two Town Halls is a political satire, a comedy cartoon on the IMF crisis in the mid-Seventies. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Three Musketeers, The | ||
| 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 | #78269 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Unfathomable Grass, The | ||
| 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 | #104423 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 55/5 | |||||
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Viewing, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays Two, Oberon Books, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28460 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 actors | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a family buy a house which is haunted by God | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Watch For The Morning | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nkana-Kitwe Arts Society, Zambia | 1968 | ||||
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 | #78268 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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