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FRANK GIBBONS |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Plays by Frank Gibbons |
Adolf's Girls | ||
| 1st Produced: | Elizabeth Murdoch College, Melbourne, Australia | Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117891 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Short-listed in Drama Association of Wales one-act playwriting competition 2010. Run time is approximately 55 minutes. | |||||
Synopsis: | The story is set in Germany during WW2, and life in the League of German Girls is fun for Kristina - until a young Gestapo officer seriously threatens a solemn promise she is determined to keep. The escalating problems in Nazi Germany, and her growing disillusionment with Adolf Hitler, soon become the least of her worries. | |||||
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Baby Sparklers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ucheldre Centre, Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey | Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | Ucheldre Repertory Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117892 | |||
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Genre: | Nostalgic comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This is the one-act version of "Sparklers", an evocation of children growing up in an industrial town in the 1970s. The characters are aged 7 to 9, but are intended to be played by adults or teenagers. Run time is approximately 50 minutes. | |||||
Synopsis: | November 4th 1970 - a time for learning to swear, a time for discovering friendship, and a time for earning respect. Armed with dustbin lids and iron railings, Rachel, Susan and Tommy are prepared to guard their modest bonfire pile against an expected raid by the dreaded Dawson twins. But an even greater danger threatens to engulf them when a member of the group is lured away by the Firework Man. | |||||
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Bat Out Of Heaven | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Manor Theatre, Portland, Dorset | Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | Playmakers | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94908 | |||
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Genre: | youth play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 4 extras (either sex) | |||||
Notes: | First draft was short-listed in Drama Association of Wales one-act playwriting competition 2008. | |||||
Synopsis: | Sixteen year-old Rob is stunned when his sister, a talented table tennis player, is diagnosed with leukaemia. He is further shocked when it is revealed that Jessie had been adopted into the family as a young child. Angered by what he feels has been unnecessary secrecy, he becomes increasingly resentful and argumentative. Also, as his relationship with girlfriend Mel becomes difficult to maintain, Rob begins to display an irrational jealousy towards his sick sister. However, during a chat with his grandmother, Rob learns that Jessie may have a true brother or sister somewhere. This means there may be a perfect donor for Jessie's bone marrow transplant, after all. Rob realizes he now has to embark upon a quest to find that person. But how can you possibly trace someone when you don't even know their name? | |||||
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Bill and Ben the Twilight Men | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Millennium Theatre, Lancashire | 2007 | ||||
Company: | The Rossendale Players | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29689 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Playing ages from thirties to sixties | |||||
Synopsis: | Bill is a curmudgeonly barman who nurses a desperate love for widowed innkeeper, Rose, but she has fallen for the charms of Ben, a recent settler in the village. However, a new guest at the hotel, a spate of burglaries and the local copper's electronic inventions combine to turn Bill's fortunes around. | |||||
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Bully Dancers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belfrey Theatre, Telford | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Belfrey Youth Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82142 | |||
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Genre: | youth play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of fourth Annual Derek Lomas Playwriting Competition (youth section) | |||||
Synopsis: | Two rival groups clash as they prepare for a dance team competition and find themselves forced to share the same rehearsal studio. The story develops over several weeks as their dislike for each other intensifies and builds to a climax - after which a happy ending is reached. The play offers a wide mix of characters, whose activities generate strong emotion, lots of physical action (including dance routines), some moments of quiet reflection and a fair sprinkling of humour. | |||||
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Dance Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, Nov 2011 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133944 | |||
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Genre: | One-act youth play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Short-listed in SCDA Play on Words competition 2011 | |||||
Synopsis: | The Dragon Belles dance team is through to the finals of a competition, but one of the members is too ill to dance. In fact, she has a heart condition t hat can only be cured at a hospital in Canada. Now they need the prize money to send her there, but will her replacement be good enough? | |||||
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Get Staffed | ||
| 1st Produced: | Saltburn Drama Festival | 2010 | ||||
Company: | Huntcliff Youth | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104697 | |||
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Genre: | comical farce One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | Offstage - Australian voice (f) | |||||
Notes: | Single set (hotel reception). Playing ages 18 to 25 years. Run time approx 55 minutes. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's opening day for the newest Buzz Hotel, but things are not going well. Their first diners have come down with suspected food poisoning, and their only room booking is probably a hoax - surely it's not the real Kylie Minogue? | |||||
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Laughter Lines Collection | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, Jul 2011 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133945 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A collection of 18 comedy sketches about life, death, relationships and cream cakes (ranging in duration from 2 minutes to 10 minutes) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sparklers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Droylsden Little Theatre, Manchester | 2009 | ||||
Company: | C.D.D.S. | |||||
| 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 | #94909 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length comedy-drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | doubling to 4m 3f | |||||
Notes: | The seventeen characters, played by seven actors, are a mix of adults and children. It is intended that all the parts are played by adult actors. | |||||
Synopsis: | November 4th 1970. . .a time for learning to swear, a time for discovering friendship, and a time for earning respect. Armed with dustbin lids and iron railings, Rachel, Susan and Tommy are prepared to guard their modest bonfire pile against an expected raid by the dreaded Dawson twins. But an even greater danger threatens to engulf them when one member of the group is lured away by the Firework Man. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Train Ride Away, A (A Holocaust Journey) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Blue Coat School, Oldham | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89598 | |||
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Genre: | youth play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | Extras beneficial in most scenes | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a story of love, bravery and cruelty. It begins in Nazi-occupied Hungary in 1944 when the Jewish Klein family are ordered to present themselves at the railway station early the following morning for "transportation and resettlement". Fearing this might ultimately mean death for all of them, Istvan and his wife Chicha pledge to keep their backward daughter blissfully unaware of what fate may have in store for them. | |||||
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