CHARLES WOOD (1932 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Charles Wood
Across from the Garden of Allah |
| 1st Produced: | Guildford, Surrey | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays I", Oberon, London | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Eccentric fun at the Hunt Ball | ||||
Can Opener, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1974 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Victor Lanoux | ||||
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Chaff |
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Synopsis: Play about the Falklands | ||||
Chateau |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Synopsis: Play set in Hollywood | ||||
Cockade |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1963 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "New English Dramatists Vol.8" Penguin, London | 1959 | ||
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| Genre: | Three Plays | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: includes Prisoner and Escort, John Thomas, Spare | ||||
Synopsis: About Fascism and military life | ||||
Collier's Wood |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1970 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Death Or Glory Boy |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Synopsis: Play about young men in the army during the 50's | ||||
Dingo |
| 1st Produced: | Bristol | 1967 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Penguin, London | 1969 | ||
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| Genre: | Historical Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Machinations in the western desert during the Second World war. | ||||
Do As I Say |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Synopsis: Play about rape | ||||
Don't Forget To Write |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Synopsis: Play about playwrights | ||||
Don't Make Me Laugh |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1965 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: part of "Home and Colonial" by the RSC | ||||
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Eidelweiss |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Synopsis: Play about teenagers in Hitler's war | ||||
Fill the Stage With Happy Hours |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1966 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "New English Dramatists Vol.11" Penguin, London | 1967 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: a comedy about a run down repertory theatre, nearly autobiographical | ||||
Garden, The |
| 1st Produced: | Sherborne, Dorset | 1982 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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H, Being Monologues at Front of Burning Cities |
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, London | 1969 | ||
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| 1st Published: | 1970 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Historical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 25+ | |||
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Synopsis: Picture of the Indian Army during the Mutiny of 1857 | ||||
Has "Washington" Legs? |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London | 1978 | ||
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Synopsis: Another play about waste | ||||
Jingo |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays II", Oberon, London | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Historical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10 characters | |||
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Synopsis: Set at the fall of Singapore, the symbolic end of the white man's dominance in East Asia | ||||
John Thomas |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Labour |
| 1st Produced: | Bristol | 1968 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Man, Beast and Virtue |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1989 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (L'uomo, la bestia, e la virtu) | ||||
Synopsis: love for the mother of one his pupils causes problems for private tutor of great propriety | ||||
Meals On Wheels |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1965 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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Mountain Giants, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello | ||||
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Ms Courage |
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| 1st Published: | in "plays 3", Oberon, London | 1997 | ||
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Synopsis: a brutal yet darkly comic reworking of Mother Courage by Johann von Grimmelshausen | ||||
Next To Being A Knight |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Synopsis: Play about childhood | ||||
Plantagenets |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1988 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Shakespeare (Henry VI) | ||||
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Prisoner And Escort |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: black comedy about army life | ||||
Rachel I Suppose |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Set in Bristol about selfishness | ||||
Red Star |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||
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| 1st Published: | in "plays 3", Oberon, London | 1997 | ||
| 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: | - | Historical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 24+ | |||
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Synopsis: Story of an actor in the Russian theatre who bears an uncanny resemblance to Stalin. | ||||
Savages Of American |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Synopsis: Play about Indians | ||||
Script, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: On Line takes place The Day After The Collapse - of our whole social structure. People of the City of New York are on line in the Municipal Building, where they have gathered in response to notices hastily circulated by the new Rulers, the civil serva | ||||
Secrets |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Synopsis: Play about Russia | ||||
Spare |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Tie Up the Ballcock |
| 1st Produced: | Bristol | 1964 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Second Playbill 3", Hutchinson, London | 1973 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1g extras | |||
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Tower, The, Or, Marguerite de Bourgogne |
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | 1998 | ||
| 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 | |||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Alexandre Dumas pere | ||||
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US |
| 1st Produced: | Roundhouse, London | 1966 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London | 1968 | ||
| 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 | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: Music by Richard Peastee; lyrics by Adrian Mitchell; original text by Denis Cannan (aka Tell Me Lies; adaptors of documentary material: Michael Kustow and Michael Scott; directed by Peter Brook. Majot contribution from Charles Wood. Developed with works | ||||
Synopsis: America and Vietnam, anti war protest | ||||
Veterans; or, Hair in the Gates of the Hellespont |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London | 1972 | ||
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Synopsis: Play about waste | ||||
Welfare |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1971 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Notes: includes Tie Up the Ballcock, Meals on Wheels, Labour | ||||
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