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JOHN SPURLING (1936 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Macnaughton Lord Representation (Theatrical and Literary Agents) |
See my website above, which also includes details about five of my plays, whose texts are available for reading or downloading from the website, though anyone who wishes to perform them must of course seek permission from my agent.
Plays by John Spurling
Achilles On The Beach At Troy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yorkshire | 1994 | ||||
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 | #39984 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Antigone Through the Looking Glass | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 1979 | ||||
Company: | Direct Current 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 | #33013 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Comings and goings in the green room during performance 'off stage' of Sophocles' Antigone | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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British Empire, Part One, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1980 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Marion Boyars, London, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33014 | |||
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Genre: | Epic | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 70 characters | |||||
Notes: | Parts 2 & 3 broadcast BBC Radio 3 | |||||
Synopsis: | Events in India, Africa, Tasmania, Whitehall, 1820-1858. Viewed from Palm House at kew. 9 interwoven plots, 40 scenes | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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British Empire, Part Two, 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 | #33015 | |||
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Genre: | Epic | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 70 characters | |||||
Notes: | Parts 2 & 3 broadcast BBC Radio 3 | |||||
Synopsis: | The story continued from rebellion in Jamaica to Gordon's death in Khartoum 1860-1885 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Butcher of Baghdad, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grace, London | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Cherub 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 | #33016 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Char | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | 1959 | ||||
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 | #33017 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Coming Ashore in Guadeloupe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Hall, Harrogate | 1982 | ||||
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 | #33018 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The discovery of America, from Columbus to Raleigh, as seen mostly by the Indians | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Death Of Captain Doughty | ||
| 1st Produced: | St Patrick's College, Maynoth, Ireland | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Marion Boyars, London, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33019 | |||
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Genre: | Historical T.V. Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | televised BBC 1973. Directed by Bob Taylor | |||||
Synopsis: | drake executes his friend Doughty on their way round the world | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In the Heart of the British Museum | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscript 65, Calder and Boyars, London, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33020 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Metamorphoses of Ovid, his life and work, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Aztec Gods and British Museum attendants | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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King Arthur In Avalon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cheltenham Literary Festival | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39983 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | girls | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Seven years after RACINE AT THE GIRLS' SCHOOL, John Spurling wrote a second play for the Cheltenham Ladies' College to perform at the 50th Anniversary Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Judi Bond, the Head of the Drama Department, was again the director, Michelle Walton again created authentic costumes and this time the College's Princess Hall was itself a plus factor. Equipped with long fretted wooden galleries in Victorian Gothic style, with painted Pre-Raphaelite figures over the proscenium arch and Pre-Raphaelite stained glass windows at the back of the hall, this interior had been somewhat out of keeping with the world of Racine and Louis XIV, but it came straight out of the world of Tennyson's poems and Burne-Jones's paintings | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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MacRune's Guevara As Realised by Edward Hotel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jeannetta Cochrane, London | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscript 33, Calder and Boyars, London, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33021 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A distorted view of Che Guevara | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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McGonagall and the Murderer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pool, Edinburgh | 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 | #33022 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A man who has failed to assassinate Queen Victoria and is now confined to Broadmoor tries to win a second chance by entering the mind of the poet McGonagall | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mutiny in Paradise | ||
| 1st Produced: | HM Prison Kingston, Portsmouth | 2004 | ||||
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 | #80020 | |||
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Genre: | 45 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Bob Taylor | |||||
Synopsis: | the Bounty story | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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On a Clear Day You Can See Marlowe | ||
| 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 | #33023 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The playwright Marlowe, his life, works and death, seen mainly through fog | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Peace In Our Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||||
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 | #33024 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A descent into hell, to reanimate those who brought about the Second World War. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Racine At The Girls School | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cheltenham Literary Festival | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39982 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | John Spurling: "Since the play was intended for the Cheltenham Ladies' College, the subject that immediately suggested itself was one that had lain at the back of my mind for many years. Racine's last two plays - Esther and Athalie - were partly operatic Biblical stories written for Madame de Maintenon's new girls' school at St Cyr and performed entirely by teenage girls. Why, after his masterpiece Phedre, did he write no more plays for ten years and never again for the professional theatre? My research provided the answer, which this play incorporates." | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Robinson Crusoe Meets His Maker | ||
| 1st Produced: | HM Prison Albany, Isle of Wight | 2003 | ||||
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 | #80021 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 45 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Bob Taylor | |||||
Synopsis: | the main characters are Defoe and Crusoe | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Romance | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leeds | 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 | #33025 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music and lyrics by Charles Ross | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shades of Heathcliff | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lucky's, Sheffield | 1971 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscript 70, Calder and Boyars, London, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33026 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Themes, variations and modern echoes from 'Wuthering Heights' and the lives of the Brontes, narrated by Heathcliff. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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While Rome Burns | ||
| 1st Produced: | Marlowe, Canterbury | 1976 | ||||
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 | #33027 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | English middle class refugees of the near future perish miserably in a version of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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