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CHRIS HANNAN (1958 - ) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
Chris Hannan was born in 1958, the fourth of five children, and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland, before going to University College Oxford. After graduating at the age of 20 with a double first in English Literature, he returned to Glasgow to work with homeless people in a night-shelter. His first play was an agit-prop piece for 7:84 (Scotland), co-written with the legendary John McGrath. In 1982 he began a long assocation with the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh for which he wrote Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (1985) - revived in 2006 by the National Theatre of Scotland - and Shining Souls (1996) - which was revived the following year by Sir Peter Hall at the Old Vic in London and subsequently received productions in Chicago and Glasgow. His 1990 play The Evil Doers was produced by The Bush in London and won numerous prizes including a Time Out Award, and in 2001/2 he was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Drama at the University of Cambridge. His first novel will be published early in 2008 by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux in the United States, Chatto & Windus in the UK and Commonwealth, and Einaudi in Italy.
Plays by Chris Hannan
Baby, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15433 | |||
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Genre: | Epic Drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in Rome 78 B.C. where professional mourners are forced to wail at the funeral of a tyrant. When the wailers protest there are reprisals and the baby of the heroine is murdered. This is a revenge-drama on an epic scale with language to match. It is also a simple love story. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Elizabeth Gordon Quinn | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854597335 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15435 | |||
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Genre: | Serious Melodrama Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | being revived 2006 by the National Theatre of Scotland and will be published by Nick Hern Books on its own (not as part of a anthology). | |||||
| A Marie-Antoinette of the slums, this monstrous and magnificent heroine refuses to believe she is poor, living her life in denial. But it's 1915. A Rent Strike is raging around her and when her son deserts and returns to hide in her house her world and her sanity is threatened. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Evil Doers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15436 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A demented family career about the streets of Glasgow pursued by a debt-collector and their alcoholic mum in a comedy that cuts like a rusty razor. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gamblers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
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 | #15437 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. written by Christopher Rathbone and Chris Hannan | |||||
Synopsis: | Con-men take on a con-man and strip him of his pile and his reason.. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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God of Soho, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Sep 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421684 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124152 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | musicians | |||||
Notes: | Part of the 2011 Theatre Season The Word is God | |||||
| A thief in heaven steals the divinity of the gods. Meanwhile down on earth some fetish items have been nicked from a reality TV star and she's facing exposure in the tabloids. Sex shops and comedy, gods and homeless people, all collide in a fierce, hectic and hilarious story about people looking for the divine. In Essex. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Klimkov: Life Of A Tsarist Agent | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
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 | #15438 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Klimkov joins the Tsarist secret police, just as they are engulfed by the Revolution of 1905. The strange introverted hero is ill-equipped to cope. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.10180/17-19 | |||||
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Orphan's Comedy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
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 | #15439 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A surreal society where contraceptives are banned, creating a black market in condoms - a market which the gambler-hero tries to rig. This is a surreal satire on capitalist markets. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.10180/24 | |||||
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Posthuman Satire Slash Romance | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #102104 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of The World is Too Much, Theatre for Breakfast | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pretenders, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15440 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | Rivals for the throne of Norway do physical and spiritual battle in epic melodrama. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Purity | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
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 | #15441 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Short play about Beethoven before he got famous. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.10180/29 | |||||
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Screw The Bobbin | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow | 1982 | ||||
Company: | 7:84 Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #15442 | |||
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Genre: | Agit Prop Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 2 musicians | |||||
Notes: | written by Chris Hannan and John McGrath. | |||||
Synopsis: | Agit-prop play about the closure of a factory. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre Company - Acc.10893/122-3 | |||||
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Shining Souls | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854599216 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15443 | |||
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Genre: | Romance | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| The mad heroine battles with the dead on the day of her wedding, while three men try to win her half-crazed heart. Think of the carnival atmosphere of the Day of the Dead transferred to the streets and back-courts of Glasgow. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Oct 2010 | |||||
Company: | The Belgrade Theatre, English Touring Theatre & Traverse Theatre Company, Edinburgh | |||||
| 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 | #115691 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audiences | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Paris is being terrorised by the evil Cardinal and a monstrous creature who suffers from serious mood-swings! The young sword-fighter D'Artagnan finds himself on an epic quest to save the city - and a pregnant Princess - but he will need the help of the Three Musketeers. Rumour has it they've gone to seed, gone past their sell-by date and gone into hiding. So can he track them down in time to save the day? Based on the iconic characters created by Alexandre Dumas, this hilarious, anarchic and utterly thrilling new production promises an unforgettable journey into enchanted forests, over lost streams and around REALLY horrible baddies, as we cheer our hero D'Artagnan and heroine Constance to a victorious end. Featuring a dash of live music and a hefty dose of laughter, The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain is a wonderfully surreal re-imagining of these classic stories of friendship, love and identity. Oh. . .and baby-eating monsters! | |||||
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