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JACK KLAFF |
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Plays by Jack Klaff |
Be My - Be My Baby | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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 | #48127 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This solo show was also produced by BBC2 as a television play as a two-hander. It tells the story of Jill and Mike both of whom have terrible qualms about having a baby, given the terrible state of the world. But. . ..Jill's biological clock is ticking. Mike relents, and so they try to have a baby. The awful irony is that Jill is infertile. They attempt IVF, and the hormones cause tensions between them. They split up. They get back together and have to go through IVF. There is a dramatic complication: While they were apart Mike made another woman pregnant. . . . . Funny and touching parts for two versatile actors | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bosom Buddies | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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 | #19399 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 f possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The six great male encounters of the Twentieth Centuries in brief plays. Each story is told by a woman who knew both men. The plays involve: | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cuddles etc | ||
| 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 | #19400 | |||
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Genre: | Three plays One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 f possible | |||||
Notes: | Edfest Fringe First Award | |||||
Synopsis: | Penny believes in feminism. Tony is trying hard. This Fringe First-winning work offers opportunities for comedy and pathos | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Daddy, Take Me to the Funfair | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
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 | #48124 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Monologue about the death, long ago, of a father and an appreciation of his life now that the son has grown up. Was the father a coward in the face of the evils of the world, or is there a heroism in the day-to-day slog of providing for a family. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fifty-Minute Hour, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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 | #48129 | |||
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Genre: | Solo/or two-hander | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 f possible | |||||
Notes: | Edfest Fringe First Award | |||||
Synopsis: | A psychoanalyst is left alone. A patient is late. The analyst analyses himself and nothing less than the modern western mind. Fringe First Award-winner and also broadcast by Channel Four TV | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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I Do Not Have The Nagging Doubt. . . | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse, Covent Garden, London | 22 Jan 1982 | ||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 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 | #132203 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of The Warehouse Festival 18 Jan-2 Feb 1982. Full title "I do not have the nagging doubt of ever wondering whether, perhaps, I am wrong", taken from a speech by Dr Vorster, South African Prime Minister | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | RSC ref IDO198201 | |||||
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Jack Klaff Festival | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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 | #19401 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jack the Knife | ||
| 1st Produced: | Assembly @ George Street, Edinburgh: Fringe Festival, Scotland, EUR >>> | Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Jack Klaff | |||||
| 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 | #118488 | |||
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Synopsis: | Klaff gladly risks career suicide. A forensic attack on the theatre, our culture and the abuse of power. 'Makes you think as hard as he makes you laugh.' (Scotsman); 'A triumph!' (New York Times). Direction: Colin Watkeys. -- | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kafka | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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 | #19402 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | It is a little-known fact that Franz Kafka loved the theatre and produced his friend, an actor, in a series of one man shows! This deep appreciation of the work as well as the life of a great writer and thinker is dramatic, surprising and has been performed successfully in a wide range of venues around the world. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Letters Alone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse, Covent Garden, London | 14 Jul 1978 | ||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 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 | #19403 | |||
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Genre: | late night reading | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A writer leaves South Africa and over many years the stories of the people he left behind unfold on stage in a Chekhovian piece composed entirely of letters. The writer's life is also revealed in this work that premiered with the Royal Shakespeare Company's new work festival and has also been adapted for broadcast by the BBC | |||||
Further Reference: | RSC ref LES197807 | |||||
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Lots of Suddenlies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto | 1991 | ||||
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 | #19404 | |||
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Genre: | Solo/or two-hander | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 f possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A work comprising folk tales and yarns of all kinds from all over the world. A celebration of storytelling and how much it means to us. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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More Cuddles Now | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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 | #19405 | |||
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Genre: | Solo/or two-hander | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A post-feminist work exploring the struggles of Mike and Kim to find their way through the minefield of male/female relationships. The play offers an in-depth and hilarious spectacle | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nagging Doubt | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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 | #48130 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | In 1960 a group of policemen in South Africa opened fire on a crowd of unarmed black people, killing many and wounding many more. This piece, originally written for the RSC and the BBC and broadcast on Channel 4, PBS and other channels throughout the war tells the story of the Sharpeville Massacre and a State of Emergency during the Apartheid years. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Secret of the White Rose | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Threshold | 1993 | ||||
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 | #48128 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The White Rose students were young people in Munich who stood up against Hitler in the bravest way imaginable. This is their story. It has been made into films many times, but works especially well on stage. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stand Up | ||
| 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 | #19406 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A physicist and his brother in oppressive and repressive Venezuela. This play is a pioneering work in the art and science movement. It also deals with incest in families. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Urban Rage | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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 | #48126 | |||
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: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A guy loses it in the city. The city has tipped him over the edge. A sparky monologue An alarm call | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What's Inside | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pentameters, Hampstead, London | - - - | ||||
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 | #48131 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women facing up to the secret police | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Whole Shebang, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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 | #48125 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The true story of an artist's work in a freaky Deep Future think-tank. Not science fiction, science fact. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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You Can't Go Wrong | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1988 | ||||
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 | #19407 | |||
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Genre: | Monologues | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three comic monologues | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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