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GLENN CHANDLER (1949 - ) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: MBA Literary Agents Ltd represented by Diana Tyler |
Glenn Chandler began his career in theatre before being invited to create and write a detective series for Scottish Television. The first story was called Killer, but this evolved quickly into Taggart which became the longest running television detective series in the world and won a Bafta for his special contribution to Scottish broadcasting. He has also written true-crime dramas for Yorkshire Television and a number of novels. He returned to theatre in 2008, producing his own play Boys of the Empire at the Edinburgh Festival.
Plays by Glenn Chandler
Bikers' Knoll | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 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 | #6589 | |||
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Genre: | Lunchtime play | |||||
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Synopsis: | On a summer evening, five motor cycling Shropshire teenagers meet on the barren, rocky summit of a hill near Ludlow. The atmosphere of the play is cool and ritualistic | |||||
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Boys Of The Empire | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aug 2008 | |||||
Company: | Glenn Chandler Presents | |||||
| 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 | #88641 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | Cheer as the chums of St Ethelred's defend the British way of life against an Arab pupil sent to wreak jihad on the children of the foreign office in revenge for their father's actions in occupied 1920s Iraq. Blending comic-book style with an uproarious satirical take on colonial exploitation (and classroom sexploitation), | |||||
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Clevland Street - The Musical | ||
| 1st Produced: | Above the Stag Theatre, 15 Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DD >>> | 26 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | Boys of the Empire 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 | #125945 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Book and lyrics by Glenn Chandler, Music by Matt Devereaux | |||||
| Based on the infamous true story of the Cleveland Street sex scandal. Queen Victoria is on the throne. Not far away, Post Office messenger boys are being recruited for a male brothel in north London. Among their clients are lords, politicians - and possibly even the Queen's grandson. Set to a fabulous, rollicking score, a wicked and bawdy tale of sex, lies, hypocrisy and cover-ups. | |||||
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Curse, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1979 | ||||
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 | #6590 | |||
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Genre: | Lunchtime play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The curse is paedophilia. Prisoner released after seven years for assaulting a young girl believes he is 'cured'. Temptation grows with his brother's five year old daughter | |||||
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Custard Boys, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Apr 2012 | |||||
Company: | Boys of the Empire 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 | #138923 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Adapted by Glenn Chandler from the novel by John Rae | |||||
Synopsis: | Five London schoolboys are evacuated to a Norfolk seaside village, far from Hitler's bombs. They want to fight for England but are too young to join up and too old to wait. They join the school army cadet force and learn to fire rifles, they form a gang and play at being soldiers. But it is not real war. Sixteen year old John Curlew dreams of being a Spitfire pilot. Mark Stein is Jewish and a pacifist refugee who hates the war and longs for it to end. When these two boys are thrown together and form a romantic bond, their friendship splits the group and invites fear and prejudice. But it is a challenge to a rival gang which becomes the catalyst for a sinister train of events. While men die in their thousands overseas, in a small corner of rural England a group of schoolboys embark on a final war game which will lead ultimately to tragedy. The Custard Boys was filmed in the 1960s as Reach for Glory and is a story of sexual awakening, loyalty and betrayal which was compared upon publication to Lord of the Flies. | |||||
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Moonlight Across The Heather | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 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 | #6591 | |||
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Genre: | Lunchtime play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Three hikers meet up in a lonely youth hostelling hut on the Galloway coast of Scotland. A repressed girl and her loquacious domineering father and a mysterious loner called Pitkethy. The conflict which builds up takes a sudden turn for murder | |||||
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On The Game | ||
| 1st Produced: | Little Theatre, London | 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 | #6592 | |||
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Genre: | Lunchtime play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A homeless Glasgow teenager, Dougie, drifts down to London and enters the rent boy scene. The play is set in a West End Bar | |||||
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Private, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Scotland | 1979 | ||||
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 | #6593 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Scouts In Bondage | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 17 Nov 2009 | ||||
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 | #106498 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | doubling and voices | |||||
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Synopsis: | The follow-up to last year's hit, Boys Of The Empire! We go aboard Imperial Airways with four intrepid English boy scouts who are on their way to British India for a jamboree with scouts from all over the globe (most of which is owned by us, anyway). Naturally, villainy is afoot - again. They crash land in Afghanistan, a dangerous wilderness where outlaws of the east plot against the white races and threaten the stability of the Raj. Can these strong, brave and honest boys defeat the Afghan hordes and make it a country safe to camp in - rather like England! You'll just have to wait and see in a ripping story of bare knees, young pluck and stern endeavour | |||||
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Treat, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 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 | #6594 | |||
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Genre: | Lunchtime play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A middle aged gay couple, Len and Stanley, give their annual tea party to Len's grown up son David. There is an iced cake and lots to eat, but this time David has arrived to deliberately upset the domestic harmony | |||||
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