RICHARD CRANE (1944 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Richard Crane
Anna and Marina |
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 3 | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | Radio Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Anna Massey. Director: Matthew Walters | ||||
Synopsis: Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva met and talked for two days in Moscow 1941. What was said and not said between the strong silent one and the chatterbox, which led to a suicide days later? | ||||
Baggage And Bombshells |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| Company: | Black Swan | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play with music | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Directed by Faynia Williams | ||||
Synopsis: The 1991 Gulf War. The Mother of Battles, a soldier's widow and Tank Girl: three irreconcilable views intertwine. | ||||
Bleak Midwinter |
| 1st Produced: | The Pool, Edinburgh Festival | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Christmas play | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Cast: Penny Casdagli, Paul Moriarty, Alan McClelland. Directed by John Cumming | ||||
Synopsis: Alternative nativity play. Mary and Joseph, pawns in celestial power struggle, turn on each other; risk losing the baby. Lucifer saves the day. | ||||
Blood Stream, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Trilogy of short plays | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Cast: Diane Fletcher, Roland Oliver, Guy Slater, Charles Bolton, Tammy Ustinov. Directed by Chris Parr | ||||
Synopsis: Modern Oresteia. A brief encounter and death in the Blitz, lead to a homecoming and teenage revenge in the 50s, and a mind explosion in the 60s. . | ||||
Bloody Neighbours |
| 1st Produced: | 319752Play/Drama | 1975 | ||
| Company: | ||||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Cast: Brenda Blethyn, David Meyer. Directed by Kevin Billington. Evening Standard nomination: Best New Play | ||||
Synopsis: Two semi-detached households. Act I: Denis and Audrey celebrate their tin wedding to mounting din from next door. Denis is driven to extreme violence. Act II: The same time-frame next door: Wilf, Spotty and Tits, eat, drink and make din, unaware that Denis is coming to kill them. | ||||
Brothers Karamazov, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
| Company: | Brighton Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Play with Music | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: From the novel by Dostoyevsky with songs by Schiller. Alan Rickman as Ivan. Bruce Alexander as Dmitry. Stephen Boxer as Alyosha. Peter Kelly as Smerdyakov. Music by Stephen Boxer. Directed and designed by Faynia Williams. 3 London Critics' Award Nominations. Productions worldwide include: National Theatre of Romania 1991; National Theatre Festival, Hungary. Best Ensemble Award 2000. Gavle, Sweden, director Peter Oscarson, 2006 | ||||
Synopsis: Dostoyevsky's great novel seen through the eyes of the four brothers, each of whom takes on the role of the father by slipping into his bear-like coat. When the old man is found murdered, suspicion falls on each of the brothers in turn. Passionate love, pursuit of money, debate with the devil, the death of a saint, epilepsy and story-telling, lead to the chill dawn of freedom and a new view of the world. | ||||
Burke And Hare |
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play with Music | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Directed by Faynia Williams | ||||
Synopsis: Irish immigrants supply bodies for professor of anatomy, no questions asked: murder as business in the cause of medical science; with street songs, Irish ballads, anatomy class, grand guignol. | ||||
Circus Maximus |
| 1st Produced: | Hippodrome, Eastbourne | 2008 | ||
| Company: | New Vic Workshop & Eastbourne Theatres | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play with Music | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Play in development following workshop and public reading | ||||
Synopsis: Five convicted murderers opt to have their sentences reviewed by the mass TV audience: thumbs up for release; thumbs down for execution. The choice is yours. Or is it? | ||||
Clownmaker |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
| Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Directed and designed by Faynia Williams. Winner Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1975. Transferred to New End Theatre London 1976. Off-Broadway New York 1982 | ||||
Synopsis: An imaginative leap into the world of scandal and genius surrounding Diaghilev and Nijinsky | ||||
Crippen |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||
| Company: | University of Bradford Drama Group | |||
| 1st Published: | 1971 | |||
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| Genre: | Music Hall/Melodrama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | flexible to 20 | |||
Notes: Directed by Chris Parr. Music by Milton Reame-James. First professional production Sheffield Crucible, directed by Caroline Smith | ||||
Synopsis: Little doctor poisons music-hall singer wife, dismembers the body, escapes across Atlantic with secretary disguised as a boy, is caught with the aid of wireless telegraphy. With comedy, monologue, suspense, music-hall songs. | ||||
Dancing With Demons |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | Brighton Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Dancing With Demons will celebrate the centenary of the Ballets Russes, in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum's major retrospective on Diaghilev, 2010. | ||||
Synopsis: As empires fell and the world erupted into World War, a revolution in art was sweeping westward across Europe, to the music of Stravinsky, the designs of Bakst, Picasso and Matisse, and the dancing of Nijinsky. But just as the old rules of art were fragmenting, so Nijinsky's mind was breaking up, following his rift with Diaghilev and his marriage to Romola de Pulszky. The play follows Nijinsky's leap to stardom and scandal, and his slow descent into the dark. | ||||
David, King Of The Jews |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford Cathedral | 1973 | ||
| Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Site-specific play with music | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large cast with orchestra | |||
Notes: Directed by Chris Parr. Music by Chris Mitchell | ||||
Synopsis: Epic allegory spanning the Testaments | ||||
Decent Things |
| 1st Produced: | The Pool, Edinburgh Festival | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | 30 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Pool: Cast: Richard Harbord, Juliet Cadzow. Directed by John Cumming. Bush: Cast: Timothy Davies, Keren Wilson. Directed by Hugh Wooldridge. Southern Sound Radio: Cast: Tammy Ustinov, Anthony Head. Directed by Faynia Williams | ||||
Synopsis: Misfits Basil and Gaga, alone for the first time on their wedding night, make an absolute hash of 'what is expected of one'. Through trial and terror, they begin to get to know each other. | ||||
Envy |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||
| Company: | Essex University Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play with music | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: From the novel by Yuri Olesha. Directed by Faynia Williams. Music by Donald Swann | ||||
Synopsis: Adapted from Olesha's 1927 shocking masterpiece. Super-sausage-maker Andrey Babichev, finds envious genius Kavalerov drunk in the gutter. Grooms him to be New Man of the Century only to find him conspiring with his renegade poet brother, Ivan Babichev. Cast out, the two poets plan the Grand Finale of Human Feelings which will bring down the Machine Age. Told in slogans, broadcasts, acrobatics, football commentary, a street mirror, satirical sonnets and torch-songs. | ||||
Eugene Onegin |
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 3 | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Radio Play | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Adapted from Pushkin for the bicentennial of his birth. Producer Richard Bannerman, director Faynia Williams. Alex Jennings as Pushkin, Sam West as Onegin. | ||||
Synopsis: Classic story of mistimed love (see Vanity below) | ||||
Examination In Progress |
| 1st Produced: | late night revue Edinburgh Festival | 1973 | ||
| Company: | Bradford University | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: no scripts exist ? - let us know !! | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Fool in the Night |
| 1st Produced: | The Gold Room, Eastbourne Theatres (reading) | 2005 | ||
| Company: | New Vic Workshop | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Read as part of the Fool on the World Stage project, International Theatre Institute, New York 2005 and Manila, Philippines, 2006. | ||||
Synopsis: King Lear and the Fool play Russian Roulette through the night | ||||
Girl With No Arms |
| 1st Produced: | Arts Lab, London | 1968 | ||
| Company: | Brighton Combination | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Short Play | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Directed by Chris Parr | ||||
Synopsis: Two girls play mad games in the park. | ||||
Gogol |
| 1st Produced: | Marlborough Theatre, Brighton | 1978 | ||
| Company: | Brighton Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: From stories by Gogol. Many performances worldwide including. Edinburgh, Brighton, Belfast, Adelaide Festivals, Moscow, New York, Paris, tours of Poland, Sweden. Actor: Richard Crane. Director/designer: Faynia Williams. For BBC Radio: Actor: Freddie Jones. Director: Alfred Bradley | ||||
Synopsis: Electricity Board Final Demands clerk fills the void of his life with words; gets a new coat and rises to giddy heights; then plummets into the vortex of monomania and debt. | ||||
Gunslinger |
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix, Leicester | 1976 | ||
| Company: | Leicester Arts Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London SchoolPlay Productions Ltd, Colchester, Essex, UK >>> | 1979 | ||
| 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: | Wild-West Adventure | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | flexible to 30 | |||
Notes: Cast included Alan Rickman, Victoria Wood, Geoffrey Durham, Russell Henderson. Music by Joss Buckley Directed by Peter Moss | ||||
Synopsis: Colonel Conquest hosts a Wild West Show in the No-Name Saloon with shoot-outs, lynch-mobs, outlaws, preachers, rustlers, redskins, cattle and gold. | ||||
Humbug |
| 1st Produced: | South Hill Park Bracknell | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Christmas Musical | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Milton Reame-James. Directed by John Cumming | ||||
Synopsis: A Christmas Carol backwards. Scrooge, over-generous in a mean-spirited world, is visited by three ghosts who warn him to tighten up. | ||||
Manchester Tales |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Community Show | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | Local silver bands. | |||
Notes: Researched by the cast, devised and written during rehearsal. Director: Caroline Smith | ||||
Synopsis: Celebration of Manchester, past, present and future. | ||||
Mean Time |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
| Company: | English Stage Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | 40 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Cast: Margaretta Scott. Directed by Richard Crane | ||||
Synopsis: Clerical officer and joker locked in office with time-bomb. | ||||
Mutiny on the Bounty (1) |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University Drama Group | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Christmas Musical | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large cast | |||
Notes: music Chris Mitchell | ||||
Synopsis: Audience set sail under Bligh's stern command; weather storms and punishment; disembark at Tahiti for interval. Christian leads mutiny on return voyage. Bligh cast adrift, rows to safety. Christian and Bounty hide out on Pitcairn. Girls play midshipmen and cabin boys. Guest appearances of Johnson and Boswell, Ghost of Captain Cook, Chief Hiti-Hiti, George III. | ||||
Mutiny on the Bounty (2) |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton Seafront | 1980 | ||
| Company: | Brighton Theatre and Boundstone School Lancing, for Brighton Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Large cast | |||
Notes: Cast from students of Boundstone School Lancing. Directed by Faynia Williams | ||||
Synopsis: The above rewritten Bugsy-Malone-style for child performers. Site-specific, promenade performance, under the arches of Brighton seafront and on the Fishmarket Hard. | ||||
Mutiny! |
| 1st Produced: | Piccadilly, London | 1985 | ||
| Company: | Panter & Friedman | |||
| 1st Published: | - | Original cast recording: Telstar (2261) | ||
1985 | - | |||
| 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: | Large cast | |||
Notes: Music by David Essex. Directed by Michael Bogdanov. Designed by William Dudley.Cast includes David Essex, Frank Finlay, Sinitta. Nominated Ivor Novello Award Best Musical | ||||
Synopsis: Act I: Outward voyage: High hopes, dancing, indiscipline, a flogging, resentment, the doldrums, rough seas round Cape Horn, arrival at Tahiti. Act II: Re-embark with breadfruit saplings. Ship's routine favours plants over men. Christian 'in hell'. Mutiny. Bligh and breadfruit cast adrift; Bounty sails free. Bligh makes it home, instigates revenge. Christian and mutineers hide and revert to savagery on Pitcairn. | ||||
Mystery Play |
| 1st Produced: | Bracknell, Berkshire | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: one of a series of short mystery plays written for churches around Bracknell. no scripts exist ? - let us know !! | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Nero And The Golden House |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Roman epic | Play with music | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Robert Pettigrew. Directed by Chris Parr | ||||
Synopsis: Three crucified 'lighting effects' looks down on the preparations for the opening of the Golden House, which they will illuminate. The actor/emperor will be the star of the show but his arrival is delayed. His mother meanwhile has plans of her own and rumbles of rebellion have reached the gates of Rome. | ||||
Optimistic Tragedy |
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 3 | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Radio drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large cast | |||
Notes: Adapted from play by Vsevolod Vishnevsky. Co-written with Faynia Williams. Cast includes Toyah Willcox. Directed by Ned Chaillet | ||||
Synopsis: In the upheavals following the Bolshevik Revolution, anarchists have taken over a ship of the Baltic Fleet. When an old woman accuses a sailor of stealing her purse, he is summarily executed. Suddenly she finds her purse, so she must die too. In order to restore order, the Party sends a female Commissar to take control of the ship. | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Hammersmith and tour | 1990 | ||
| Company: | Actors' Touring Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Marina Tsvetayeva. Adapted with Michael Glenny | ||||
Synopsis: Phaedra's unrequited love for stepson Hippolytus and its tragic consequences | ||||
Pied Piper, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University Great Hall | 1973 | ||
| Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Christmas musical | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Chris Mitchell. Directed by Richard Crane | ||||
Synopsis: Piper rids Hamelin of rats. Mayor and Corporation are slow to pay. Piper rids them of their children. | ||||
Plutopia |
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 4 | 1994 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Radio musical | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Donald Swann. Cast: William Rushton, Tony Robinson, Fascinating Aida, Denise Coffey, CJ Allen | ||||
Synopsis: Perfect society on the furthest planet, founded on the love of money and the law of the jingle; visited only by the terminally depressed. When John gets there, he is lifted out of sadness into a heaven of cheerfulness until he discovers that, as a bankrupt, he is heading for the Mincer. | ||||
Possessed, The |
| 1st Produced: | Odeon Paris | 1985 | ||
| Company: | Almeida Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Play with music | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: Adapted from Dostoyevsky. Directed by Yuri Lyubimov. Music by Alfred Schnittke. Designed by Stefan Lazaridis. Cast includes Nigel Terry, Harriet Walter, Michael Feast, Gillian Barge, Clive Merrison | ||||
Synopsis: Terrorist cells infiltrate small-town Russia, like devils entering swine. Under the banner of the soulless 'wise serpent' Stavrogin, the revolution implodes, in assassination and suicide. | ||||
Pushkin |
| 1st Produced: | Essex University Theatre | 1987 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Play with music | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Directed & designed by Faynia Williams. Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1987 | ||||
Synopsis: 1837. Pushkin bleeds in the snow, shot in the stomach by his nemesis, dressed in white. He takes two days to die. Crowds gather as a living monument, and his works uncannily merge with his life. Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov, The Gypsies, the Bronze Horseman, Mozart and Salieri, the Feast in the Plague Year, reflect and illuminate his triumphs and catastrophes, and his love-hate for his wife Natalya and the Tsar. | ||||
Quest, The |
| 1st Produced: | St George's Hall, Bradford | 1974 | ||
| Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Play with music | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: Music by Chris Mitchell. Directed by Chris Parr.Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1974. aka The King | ||||
Synopsis: Out of wordless babble, Arthur teaches the land to speak. At Camelot, knights must speak in verse. Lancelot sings. Galahad urges knights to aspire to wordless music and beyond. Only Mordred the bastard speaks in prose. Jousting, dancing, feasting, adventuring, give way to squabbles, sex scandals, the quest for the grail, the break-up of the Table and the last battle. | ||||
Quiz, The |
| 1st Produced: | Eastbourne Theatres | 2007 | ||
| Company: | New Vic Workshop | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Cast: David Bradley. Directed by David Giles | ||||
Synopsis: The ultimate performance. Henry has been touring Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor for too many years. Tonight, like Keane, Irving and Tommy Cooper, he will conk out on stage. He has already taken the tablets and had a few sherries. His stage manager has walked out; so there will be no one to prompt him. Tonight, as the Inquisitor, condemning Christ to be burnt, 'surrendering freedom for happiness, truth and despair for food and entertainment', he will give the performance of his life. | ||||
Red Magic |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||
| Company: | Essex University Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Directed by Faynia Williams. Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1988 | ||||
Synopsis: Sergei Eisenstein, artist of the Revolution, creator of theatre as circus, film as propaganda and chronicle of the brave new socialist world; misfit, comedian, exile, fugitive. The biography as montage, from Potempkin and Strike, to Que Viva Mexica, and Ivan the Terrible. | ||||
Rolling the Stone |
| 1st Produced: | Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh Festival Fringe | 1989 | ||
| Company: | Essex University Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Play with music | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Actor: Richard Crane. Directed and designed by Faynia Williams. Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1989 | ||||
Synopsis: Sisyphus, the eternal optimist, rolls the stone to the top of the hill, where it rolls back down again. Repeat ad nauseam. Stand-up, tumble-down comedy in hell, with operatic support from Medusa's little sister. | ||||
Route of All Evil, The |
| 1st Produced: | Lauriston Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe | 1974 | ||
| Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Late Night Revue | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: Music by Thomas Attlee. Directed by Hugh Wooldridge. aka The Bradford Revue | ||||
Synopsis: Late-night pleasure cruise on the economic tide turns into disaster of titanic proportions. | ||||
Sand |
| 1st Produced: | Pavilion Theatre, Brighton Festival | 1981 | ||
| Company: | Brighton Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Play with music | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Directed by Faynia Williams | ||||
Synopsis: George Sand entertains with Frederic Chopin at the piano. | ||||
Satan's Ball |
| 1st Produced: | Old Chaplaincy, Edinburgh Festival Fringe | 1977 | ||
| Company: | Bradford University Drama Group | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Play with music | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Michael Bulgakov. Music by Phil Wharton. Directed and designed by Faynia Williams. Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1977 | ||||
Synopsis: The devil comes to Moscow and tells the atheist Chairman of the Writers' Union that he will be beheaded by a tram. It happens immediately and is witnessed by Bezdomny, who demands the devil's arrest and is sent to a mental hospital where he meets the Master who has lost his lover Margarita and has written a book about Pontius Pilate who has to condemn to death the one man who can cure his head-ache. There are three levels to the play, Moscow, Jerusalem and Limbo. Margarita, naked and singing, ascends to the top as she flies over Moscow. Jesus is crucified against the organ pipes. Satan's Ball, when all the inmates of the mental hospital start to dance, forms the climax of the show, which ends with the full company singing Blok's The Twelve. | ||||