JOHN OSBORNE   


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Plays by John Osborne

JOHN OSBORNE
Almost A Vision
1st Produced:
ITV Yorkshire
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
TV Play
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Champagne dialogue alleviates nervousness of sleeping together
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JOHN OSBORNE
Better Class Of Person
1st Produced:
Thames TV
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1985
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Genre:
TV Play
-
Parts:
Male
17
Female
11
Parts Other:
1b extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: Autobiographical look at growing up in wartime suburbia
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JOHN OSBORNE
Blood Of The Bambergs, The
1st Produced:
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1963
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Genre:
Fairy Story
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Parts:
Male
16
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: part of Plays for England
Synopsis: Satire on a royal wedding
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JOHN OSBORNE
Bond Honoured, A
1st Produced:
National Theatre, London
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1966
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Lope de Vega
Synopsis: Message follows message as the hero judges and honours his bond in sixteenth century Spain.
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JOHN OSBORNE
Dejavu
1st Produced:
Comedy, London
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1991
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Look Back in Anger revisited; Alison does the ironing
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JOHN OSBORNE
Devil Inside Him, The
1st Produced:
Huddersfield
1950
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Stella Linden
Synopsis: Idiot Welsh youth in small village, problems when sex maniac kills girl.
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JOHN OSBORNE
End Of Me Old Cigar, The
1st Produced:
London
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1975
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
9
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Confederacy of women plot to end male dominance at a stroke
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JOHN OSBORNE
Entertainer, The
1st Produced:
1957
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1957
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: music by John Addison
Synopsis: Despite his failure as a comedian Archie Rice cannot leave the decaying world of music hall.
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JOHN OSBORNE
Epitaph For George Dillon
1st Produced:
Oxford
1957
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1958
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Anthony Creighton
Synopsis: A mediocre artist is planted into the weed patch of petite bourgeois suburbia
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JOHN OSBORNE
Father, The
1st Produced:
London
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1989
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg
Synopsis: Battle of the sexes presents a moving incisive examination of marriage and parenthood.
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JOHN OSBORNE
Gift Of Friendship, The
1st Produced:
ITV Yorkshire
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1972
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Genre:
TV Play
-
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: televised 1972
Synopsis: Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor
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JOHN OSBORNE
God Rot Tunbridge Wells
1st Produced:
TV
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1985
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Handel on his deathbed. For Tony Palmer's TV feature
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JOHN OSBORNE
Hedda Gabler
1st Produced:
London
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1972
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
Synopsis: Appallingly comic spectacle of a claustrophobic and fragile world coming apart at the seams.
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JOHN OSBORNE
Hotel In Amsterdam, The
1st Produced:
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1968
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Three couples planing their secret weekend away are exposed.
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JOHN OSBORNE
Inadmissible Evidence
1st Produced:
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1965
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Lawyer whose public and private lives are disintegrating
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JOHN OSBORNE
Look Back In Anger
1st Produced:
1956
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1957
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Anger that "there aren't any good brave causes left".
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JOHN OSBORNE
Luther
1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Nottingham
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1961
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
12
Female
1
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: Religious experience; Luther at the Diet of Worms; Luther talking; Luther preaching.
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JOHN OSBORNE
Ms, Or Jill And Jack
1st Produced:
ITV Yorkshire
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1975
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Genre:
TV Play
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: televised 1974
Synopsis: Sophisticated executive out with pouty bit of goods from the suburbs
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JOHN OSBORNE
Patriot For Me, A
1st Produced:
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1966
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
22
Female
8
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: Homosexual Austro Hungarian Empire Officer blackmailed to spy for Tsarist Russia.
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JOHN OSBORNE
Personal Enemy
1st Produced:
Harrogate
1955
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Anthony Creighton
Synopsis: Specious librarian sentimentalised; Un-American activities committee
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JOHN OSBORNE
Picture Of Dorian Gray, The
1st Produced:
London
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1973
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
11
Female
4
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: adaptation of novel by Oscar Wilde
Synopsis: Allegory of beautiful young man whose face and body remain untouched by time as his portrait reflects his ageing in the attic.
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JOHN OSBORNE
Place Calling Itself Rome
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
Primavera
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1973
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: Original Playwright - Shakespeare (Coriolanus)
Synopsis: Osborne's play, which was written in 1972, rewrites Shakespeare's Coriolanus in a modern political and military setting. The Roman intrigues and bloodshed of the original are transposed to a contemporary world in which the old guard patricians continue to manoeuvre against the new force of the 'people's politicians' and the ever-present mob. Osborne also makes more explicit the homoerotic subtext of the Coriolanus - Aufidius relationship. The 50 roles in Osborne's script are played by twelve actors in the Primavera rehearsed reading.
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JOHN OSBORNE
Right Prospectus, The
1st Produced:
BBC 1
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1970
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Genre:
TV Play
-
Parts:
Male
15
Female
2
Parts Other:
boys
Notes: televised 1970
Synopsis: A school story - with a noticeable difference
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JOHN OSBORNE
Sense Of Detachment, A
1st Produced:
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1973
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Genre:
-
Satire
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: . . .a vivid portrait of people reduced to husks, wishes, fantasising, degraded, almost hopeless but still with capacities for love and the beautiful.. The Guardian
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JOHN OSBORNE
Subject Of Scandal And Concern, A
1st Produced:
Nottingham
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1961
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
18
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: televised 1960
Synopsis: A young teacher who was the last person to be imprisoned in this country for blasphemy
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JOHN OSBORNE
Time Present
1st Produced:
Brighton
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1968
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Sisters, an actress and a Labour MP, confront their father's death
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JOHN OSBORNE
Try A Little Tenderness
1st Produced:
Unproduced
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1978
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Genre:
TV Play
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: -
Synopsis: Vicious climax to fun at the big pop festival
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JOHN OSBORNE
Under Plain Cover
1st Produced:
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1963
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
12
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: part of Plays for England
Synopsis: A sado-masochistic menage remains uncondemned
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JOHN OSBORNE
Very Like A Whale
1st Produced:
BBC 1
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1971
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Genre:
TV Play
-
Parts:
Male
8
Female
4
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: written 1971
Synopsis: Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to bits
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JOHN OSBORNE
Watch It Come Down
1st Produced:
London
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1975
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