GARY OWEN (1972 - )
| Nationality: | Welsh |
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Plays by Gary Owen
After Life |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Slush Theatre | |||
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| 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 | |||
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Amser Canser |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama | |||
| 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 | |||
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Cancer Time |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Gary Owen's two-hander is a strange little number, charting the unlikely friendship of two young women doing jobs they hate in a Welsh call centre. Relief comes in the regular fag breaks, during which they sit outside and watch the skateboarders, contemplate genocide as a form of aerobic workout, consider aesthetics and the Welsh language, and wait to get cancer. Only life has a habit of springing little surprises that often turn out to be nasty even when they come wrapped in tissue paper and ribbon. Like sushi or hazelnut yoghurt, Owen's play is something of an acquired taste. Initially it seems stilted and contrived, but as the young women begin to break down the barriers that surround them, what emerges is an unspoken but deeply felt relationship, something fragile and yet solid, in a world of piss and puke, uncertainty and terror. - Guardian | ||||
Cold Harbour |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Professional Company outside Wales | |||
| 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 | |||
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Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco |
| 1st Produced: | Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Paines Plough/Sgript Cymru | |||
| 1st Published: | 2001 | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Saturday night, small town Wales, one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations - the gimp, the geek and the bully. Their dream - to get the hell out. With a dead cat stuffed through a letterbox, a soupcon of mindless violence and the perfect girl to die for, Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco bristles with the desperately ordinary, the truly extraordinary, and the just plain mad | ||||
Drowned World, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | Paines Plough and Graeae | |||
| 1st Published: | 2002 | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Winner of the George Devine Award for 2002 | ||||
Synopsis: And that is why we can't have these/Fatally radiant creatures/Walking round the place/Reminding us how clumsy/And mean-spirited/And graceless/And cowardly/And shapeless/And flabby and foul we all are. In a drowned world - how far will you go to save your own skin? In this vicious tale of love, revolt and beauty, Gary Owen presents a vision of a world divided between citizens and non-citizens, where friends betray one another and where surfaces matter more than love or kinship. | ||||
Enemy for the People, An |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Ruth is Stranger Than Richard | |||
| 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 | |||
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Fags |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Slush Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
| 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: | Short Work | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: companion piece to Cancer Time | ||||
Synopsis: You're twenty-four hours from death, then someone walks in and says, "I've got a bone to pick with you". | ||||
Ghost City |
| 1st Produced: | Chapter Arts, Cardiff | 2004 | ||
| Company: | Sgript Cymru | |||
| 1st Published: | 2004 | |||
| 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: | Edgy Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Set in Cardiff over a period from 6am to midnight, in 25 scenes Ghost City offers brief snatches of lives lived and souls lost to create an interconnecting map of the city and its people. | ||||
Green, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Professional Company outside Wales | |||
| 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 | |||
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Hartleby, Oooglemore and Jeramee |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Professional Company outside Wales | |||
| 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 | |||
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Heavenly |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | Frantic Assembly | |||
| 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 | |||
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Here Comes Everybody |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Sgript Cymru | |||
| 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 | |||
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In The Pipeline |
| 1st Produced: | reading at Telephone bar & Grill, NY | 2006 | ||
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| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: As Britain tries to wean itself off oil, a massive liquid gas line is being built from the port of Milford Haven, tearing through the countryside of west Wales. Andrew, Dai and Joan are three of the people caught in its path. | ||||
Low Hundreds, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Non- professional or Amateur production | |||
| 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 | |||
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Mari Lwyd |
| 1st Produced: | The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl | 2008 | ||
| Company: | Bridgend Youth Theatre, Bridgend Youth Dance & members of Bridgend Youth Orchestra | |||
| 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: | muti-media | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: Specially commissioned by Bridgend County Borough Councils Arts & Culture Service in partnership with Arts Council of Wales. aka Mary Twice | ||||
Synopsis: an adventure story based on the ancient traditions of Mari Lwyd from the Welsh Mabinogion. Mari is 11 years old, and like lots of 11 year olds she finds her Parents endless efforts to get her interested in things are just embarrassing! Her life is, quite simply, boring! Until, that is, she discovers Otherworld and Grey Mary. As their lives become interwoven, both girls find themselves living a twilight existence between our world and the mystical, magical environment of the Otherworld. | ||||
Playtime |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Written By Gary Owen and Gabriel Bisset-Smith. Hampstead Theatre's second new writing festival is what the theatre describes as "something of a cross-breeding experiment". It's called Daring Pairings and, as the publicity says, "instead of crossing a sheep with a kangaroo and getting a woolly jumper, or a centipede with a parrot and getting a walkie-talkie, we've been cross-breeding writers, artists and theatre companies." | ||||
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Shadow Of A Boy, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2002 | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Luke, a sci-fi obsessed adolescent who lives with his grandmother, is about to start high school. Taunted by his friend, Katie, who warns him of the bullying he'll suffer at the big comp, Luke finds refuge in his alter-ego, Shadow. | ||||
We That Are Left |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
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| 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 |
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Synopsis: Britain, 1940. The situation is desperate, and the Battle of Britain is about to start. Ginger is a radar officer, one of the few women charged with the job of shooting down German bombers. En-gaged to a PoW held by the Nazis. she has little time for the dances that offer the local RAF crews sex and solace before they take to skies. Then she meets Billy, a bomber pilot, and in the hothouse of Britain at war, she does something which will change the course of her life forever.Lyn Gardner, Guardian | ||||