CHRIS BOND (1945 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Chris Bond
Adventures of Finn McCool, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | children's play | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written by Chris Bond and Bernard Dunleavy | |||||
| Synopsis: | Finn McCool, toughest giant in the world has to defend his reputation for toughness aginst other giants. Not easy when you are also the smallest giant in the world. Foryunately for him, his wife Oonagh, is the brains of the outfit and is able to trick and outsmart Finns rivals. | |||||
Alice On The Underground |
| 1st Produced: | Hornchurch, Queen's | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | Chicken Shed Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Musical Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | from book by Lewis Carroll. Book and lyrics by Chris Bond & Paula Rees; music by Jo Collins and David Carey | |||||
| Synopsis: | Alice runs away from her dysfunctional family and council estate home and into the Underground. There she meets a busking White Rabbit and THE Queen of Hearts. | |||||
All The Fun Of The Fair |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with John McGrath and others | |||||
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Beggar's Opera, The |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - John Gay | |||||
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Blood Of Dracula, The |
| 1st Produced: | Coliseum, Oldham | 1997 | ||||
| Company: | Northern Broadsides | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nelson Thornes | ISDN | 1999 | |||
| Music: | 978 0748740635 | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | A shorter version of Chris Bond's play "Dracula" | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Cantril Tales, The |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Others | |||||
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Country Wife, The |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1974 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - William Wycherley | |||||
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Don Quixote Rides Again… |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | over 100 people | |||||
| Notes: | music by Jo Collins | |||||
| Synopsis: | based on the story of Don Quixote | |||||
Downright Hooligan |
| 1st Produced: | Stoke-on-Trent | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A fixture at the betting shop mainly unemployed Ian Rigby drift through life. His mother bawls at him for masturbating, her lover tells him smutty jokes. The day his grandmother dies he accidentally kills the school hamster and sticks drawing pins in its eyes. He ends up in front of the magistrate and later in frustration attacks an elderly man. | |||||
Dracula |
| 1st Produced: | Half Moon, London | 1984 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | from novel by Bram Stoker | |||||
| Synopsis: | classic story of suave vampire whose passion is sinking his teeth into the throats of beautiful young women. | |||||
El Sid |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1988 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music by Watts, lyrics by Birtles, idea Barry | |||||
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George |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Prompt One", Hutchinson, London, 1976 | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Social Comment | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Gone To Jesus |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Wordplays 2" Hutchinson, London, 1982 | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Good Soldier Scouse |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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It's A Fine Life! |
| 1st Produced: | Homchurch, Queen's | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | compilation musical with book by Chris Bond, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart | |||||
| Synopsis: | script sentimentalises the life story of its subject, Lionel Bart. Sam Marlowe, The Times | |||||
Judge Jeffreys |
| 1st Produced: | Exeter | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Mutiny |
| 1st Produced: | Stoke-on-Trent | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Mysterie Of Maria Marten, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Not So Simple Simon |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | There are two versions - one for family audiences and one for adults. This is for adults | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Roll With The Punches |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Scum: Death, Destruction And Dirty Washing |
| 1st Produced: | Monstrous Regiment, London | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Monstrous Regiment" Nick hern Books, London, 1991 | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Historical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Claire Luckham | |||||
| Synopsis: | musical celebration of the women of the Paris commune 1871 | |||||
Shem's Boat |
| 1st Produced: | Stoke-on-Trent | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Simple Simon |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | There are two versions - one for family audiences and one for adults. This is for family audiences. | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Spend, Spend, Spend |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1985 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Claire Luckham, play by Jack Rosenthal | |||||
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Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street |
| 1st Produced: | Stoke-on-Trent | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1974 | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Melodrama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | based on work by George Dibdin Pitt | |||||
| Synopsis: | Period early 19C, in this version Todd has some grounds for his nefarious activities in that his wife was raped by the Judge and he was deported on a false charge, he returns to seek revenge | |||||
Tale Of Two Cities, A |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1981 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | novel by Charles Dickens | |||||
| Synopsis: | Period 1860 as classic action is split between London and Paris | |||||
Tarzan's Last Stand |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Enoch Powell in a leopard skin. . . | |||||
Under New Management |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISDN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The bosses of the factory are all cretins. One even dresses as a schoolboy and carries a teddy bear. The workers rise up and take control | |||||