JOHN CLIFFORD (1950 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by John Clifford
Anna Karenina |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: novel by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
Synopsis: a huge novel filletted to two and half hours. Beautifully distills the romance to the four main characters, an aatonishing insight into the double nature of the couple bond, the way it is both the arena for our most intensely private dreams and longings, and a profoundly social institution which cannot survive the trauma of parenthood, boredom, ageing and the thousand other banalities of everyday life without the rich webeb of other people's needs and expectations to sustain it. - MacMillan, Scotsman | ||||
Bazaar |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Spanish Plays, Nick Hern Books, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - David Planell | ||||
Synopsis: In an attempt to be famous for a day Hassan, the owner of a bric-a-brac shop, enlists his neighbour Anton to help make a video for a You've Been Framed style TV programme. In the process, poisoned undercurrents of racism rise to the surface. | ||||
Between Worlds |
| 1st Produced: | Union Theatre, London | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Melmoth Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eric-Emanuel Schmitt | ||||
Synopsis: The play presents a hotel lobby as an afterlife cliche, where the spirits of coma victims await an elevator to take them up to death or back down to their bodies | ||||
Bintou |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Koffi Kwahule | ||||
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Celestina |
| 1st Produced: | King's, Edinburgh | 2004 | ||
| Company: | Birmingham Rep and Teatre Romea, Barcelona | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Fernando de Rojas | ||||
Synopsis: Celestina is a delicious paella of a production. It is a show that pulsates with the rythms of Catalonia, and not just because of the band playing hip-swinging rumba in the degenerate style bar that forms the set. - Fisher, Sunday Times | ||||
Charles Dickens : The Haunted Man |
| 1st Produced: | Pitlochry Festival | 2001 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Portrayal of the great novelist and glimpses of the inner workings of that astonishing creative mind. | ||||
Crossing, The |
| 1st Produced: | Work In Progress | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Dance Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: a dance with text performance on Peat and The Memory of the Earth being created in collaboration with Claire Pençak and Tabularasa Dance Company. (Development Week April 16th-22nd, 2007) | ||||
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Dark Night's Dawning, A |
| 1st Produced: | Zenana Theatre Company | 1993 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Doctor Of Honour, The |
| 1st Produced: | St. Andrews | 1983 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca | ||||
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Dreaming |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Puppet Theatre | 1994 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Faust Parts 1 And 2 |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2006 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | extras, doubling | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Goethe. Nominated for four Scottish Critics Awards: Best play, Best production, Best Actor, and Best technical presentation | ||||
Synopsis: Tale of the bored and rebellious academic who sells his soul to the devil in return for a life of extreme human experience. | ||||
Force of Destiny, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2006 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: (Duque de Rivas) Runner up in Gate Theatre's translation competition | ||||
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Girl Who Fell To Earth, The |
| 1st Produced: | Grantham, Lincolnshire | 1991 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Great Eastern Stage national Tour | ||||
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Gods New Frock |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | Teatro Do Mundo | |||
| 1st Published: | in The Sexual Theologian, Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood, SCM Press | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: La nuova tonica di Dio (Italian translation of God's New Frock) in Teatro scozzese, Intercity Festival and Ubulibri , Milano 2007. To be produced by Teatro della Limonaia, Florence, as part of their Intercity festival in October 2007. | ||||
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Great Expectations |
| 1st Produced: | TAG Theare Company, Glasgow | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Frontline Drama 4: Adapting Classics" Methuen, london | 1996 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: novel by Charles Dickens | ||||
Synopsis: charts the rise and rise of young Pip, a victim of circumstance whose criss-crossing between the classes not only gives him ideas above his station but instills in him a sense of liberal decency, however removed from his roots he becomes. - Neil Cooper, Herald. | ||||
Hansel And Gretel |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Workshop | 2000 | ||
| Company: | Blue Tiger Music Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: musical adaptation by Pete Stollery | ||||
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Heaven Bent, Hell Bound |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Tirso de Molina | ||||
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House Of Bernarda Alba, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | ||||
Synopsis: the problems of five women whose mother keeps them under strict subjection and prevents them from marrying because there are no suitors of the right class | ||||
House With Two Doors, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca | ||||
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How Like An Angel |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Co-opEdinburgh | 1987 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Ines De Casrto |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "First Run 2", Hern, London | 1990 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: also an opera | ||||
Synopsis: Doomed love affair between Pedro, heir to the Portuguese throne and a woman. | ||||
La nuova tonica di Dio |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: see God's New Frock (listed above) | ||||
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Leave to Remain |
| 1st Produced: | Scottish Storytelling Centre | 2007 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Piece | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Devised and performed by John Clifford and Suzanne Dance | ||||
Synopsis: a performance/ritual on death and the recovery from mourning | ||||
Life Is A Dream |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh International Festival | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca | ||||
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Light In The Village |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1991 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Parable | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: About a poor Third World family and their corrupt masters, one of whom commandeers the village electricity supply | ||||
Losing Venice |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Scot-Free", Hern, London | 1990 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A noble Duke does things because. . .that's what Dukes do. | ||||
Lucy's Play |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2007 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: "John Clifford uses the story of St. Lucy who, in Syracuse in 300 AD is said to have put out her eyes rather than submit to a Roman general, as a jumping off point in all kinds of directions ... Clifford looks at the way self-deception, ambition and manipulation are used by the Church to secure their position 'at a time of darkness before the red dawn'. And he goes on to deal with the warmongers, the futility of conflict and the ability of the human spirit to surmount impossible odds, ending on a high note of forgiving optimism." - Richard Mowe, Theatre Scene | ||||
Macbeth |
| 1st Produced: | Perth Theatre Company | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Shakespeare | ||||
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Magic Flute, The |
| 1st Produced: | Blue Tiger Music Theatre | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Magic Theatre, The |
| 1st Produced: | Winged Horse Touring Theatre Company, Edinburgh | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: from Cervantes | ||||
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Opera Pour Terezin, Un |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1996 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Translated with the help of the Beaumarchaise Foundation | ||||
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Playing With Fire |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
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Queen Of Spades, The |
| 1st Produced: | Pitlochry | 2002 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from the novella by Pushkin and the opera by Modest and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky | ||||
Synopsis: It is in 1917 in St Petersburg and old Russia's last days are come; war rages and revolution waits in the wings. | ||||
Romeo And Juliet |
| 1st Produced: | TAG Theare Company, Glasgow | 1984 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Shakespeare | ||||
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Schism In England |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca | ||||
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Tchaikovsky And The Queen Of Spades |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from story by Alexander Pushkin. Revived with Russian and British actors at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton (10th- 26th May, 2007) | ||||
Synopsis: Clifford's idea is to find in Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades a key to the composer's own life. Thus the aged Countess who, in the story, possesses the secret of the fortune-creating three cards, transmogrifies into the real-life Madame von Meck who bankrolled the composer. And, just as the fictional Hermann is torn between money and love, so the composer himself battles with the pull of art and sex. Mean-while, a ghostly Tchaikovsky surveys events from the vantage point of 1917. - Michael Billington, Guardian | ||||
Ten Minute Play |
| 1st Produced: | English Shakespeare companyLondon | 1991 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Tieresias |
| 1st Produced: | Work In Progress | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Piece | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: a narrative/performance piece exploring archetypes of androgyny | ||||
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Tree Of Life, The |
| 1st Produced: | Brunton Theatre | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Vie De Boheme, La |
| 1st Produced: | Pitlochry | 1993 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: From The Novel By Henri Murger | ||||
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What's In A Name |
| 1st Produced: | Prithvi Theatre, Bombay | 1993 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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World, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2005 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: co-production between the Byre Theatre, St. Andrews, and Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh | ||||
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Wuthering Heights |
| 1st Produced: | Pitlochry | 1995 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Yerma, Blood Wedding |
| 1st Produced: | Work In Progress | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Translations | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: new translations to be published by Nick Hern Books | ||||
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