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TONY BENGE (1943 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Tony Benge has been writing plays on and off for over 20 years. In the past he has been lucky enough to have plays commissioned by the Library Theatre Manchester, Contact Youth Theatre, Salford Metropolitan Borough, Radio 4 Drama, Oldham Coliseum, Lifeline Manchester plus 4 short audio plays for Manchester Open Learning, His latest monologue The Miracle Worker was toured with 3 other pieces by the Salisbury based Bootleg Theatre. Tony is also a trained drama therapist. He now lives in Dorset.
Plays by Tony Benge
Doing the life | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sep 1988 | |||||
Company: | The Library Theatre Manchester | |||||
| 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 | #132631 | |||
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Genre: | one act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Play based on an imagined impromptu life drawing session arranged by students LS Lowry, James Fitton and the fictional Dora Whittaker following a real life dispute between the Bishop of Manchester and Manchester School of Art when Fitton was banned by the bishop from attending the art school's life drawing classes because he was deemed too young and in moral danger. | |||||
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Just enough rope | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sep 1987 | |||||
Company: | The Library Theatre Manchester | |||||
| 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 | #132632 | |||
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Genre: | One act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Play based on the trial of 2 police officers for an alleged racist assault on a black teenager. | |||||
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Miracle Worker, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Radcliffe cricket Club, Burry | 13 Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | Bootleg 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 | #132104 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of 15 Minutes of Fame, a programme of 4 short plays | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Pile Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nov 1989 | |||||
Company: | Contact Youth 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 | #132633 | |||
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Genre: | Youth theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | several | Female | several | ||
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Synopsis: | A motorway pile up in thick fog. Those drivers and passengers involved begin to imagine that avenging rural forces in the hills above the motorway - resentful of the city dwellers intrusion - are also to blame for the incident. | |||||
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Squaring The Circle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Various venues in Salford | Jul 1989 | ||||
Company: | Salford Community Theatre funded by Salford MBC | |||||
| 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 | #133992 | |||
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Genre: | Community Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 12 | ||
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Notes: | Music by David Price. | |||||
Synopsis: | A community play based on research into the Kersal Moor Chartist Demonstrations of the 1830s. | |||||
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Tracy and the Troyboy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nov 1991 | |||||
Company: | Oldham Coliseum 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 | #133993 | |||
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Genre: | Young people's musical drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | Cast was a mix of professional adult actors and members of Oldham Youth Theatre. Script by Tony Benge & Sue Ashby. Music by Akindayo Akinbode. | |||||
Synopsis: | Newspaper delivery girl Tracy wins a national competition date with Photo-strip Magazine heartthrob Troy, where she discovers he's as shallow as his 2-dimensional magazine images. | |||||
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