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Alan Ayckbourn

ALAN AYCKBOURN

  (1939 - )
Nationality:    British
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This listing would not be possible without the help of Simon Murgatroyd, Alan Ayckbourn's archivist and Website administrator, www.AlanAyckbourn.net. Alan Ayckbourn was born in London, 12 April 1939. educated at Haileybury, Hertford, 1952-56. Married Christine Roland in 1959; two sons. Stage manager and actor, Donald Wolfit's company, in Edinburgh, Worthing, Leatherhead, Scarborough, and Oxford, 1956-57; actor and stage manager, Stephen Joseph Theatre-in-the-Round, Scarborough, Yorkshire, 1957-62; associate director, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1962-64; Drama producer, BBC Radio, Leeds, 1964-70. Since 1970 artistic director, Stephen Joseph Theatre-in-the-Round; associate director, National Theatre, London, 1986-88; professor of contemporary Theatre, Oxford University, 1991-92. Recipient: evening Standard award, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990; Olivier award, 1985; Plays and Players award, 1987. D.Litt.: University of Hull, Yorkshire, 1981; University of Keele, Staffordshire, 1987; University of Leeds, 1987. C.B.e. (Commander, Order of the British empire), 1987. 1997: Knight Bachelor

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         Absent Friends         Absurd Person Singular         Arrivals & Departures         Awaking Beauty         Backnumbers         Bedroom Farce         Between Mouthfuls         Between the Lines         Body Language         Boy Meets Girl         Boy Who Fell Into A Book         By Jeeves         Callisto 5         Callisto 7         Champion Of Paribanou         Cheap And Cheerful         Chloe With Love         Chorus Of Disapproval, A         Christmas V Mastermind         Comic Potential         Communicating Doors         Confusions         Countdown         Cut In the Rates, A         Dad's Tale         Damsels In Distress         Dear Uncle         Double Hitch         Dreams From A Summer House         Drinking Companion         Drowning On Dry Land         Ernie's Incredible Illucinations         Family Circles         Farcicals         First Course         Flatspin         Follow the Lover         Forest, The         Game Plan         Garden (House & Garden)         Girl Meets Boy         Gizmo         Gosforth's Fete         Haunting Julia         Henceforward         Hero's Welcome         House (House & Garden)         How the Other Half Loves         If I Were You         Improbable Fiction         Incidental Music         Inside Outside Slide Show, The         Intimate Exchanges         Invisible Friends         It Could Be Any One Of Us         Jeeves         Joking Apart         Jollies, The         Just Between Ourselves         Kidderminster Affair, The         Last Word?, The         Life And Beth         Life Of Riley         Living Together         Love After All         Making Tracks         Man Of the Moment         Me, Myself, And I         Men On Women On Men         Mere Soup Songs         Miss Yesterday         Mother Figure         Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays         Mr Whatnot         Musical Jigsaw Play, The         My Sister Sadie         My Very Own Story         My Wonderful Day         Neighbourhood Watch         Night Before the Morning After Show, The         Orvin - Champion Of Champions         Princess And the Mouse, The         Private Fears In Public Places         Relatively Speaking         Revengers' Comedies, The         Roleplay         Ron And Julie         Round And Round the Garden         Roundelay         Season's Greetings         Second Helping         Service Not Included         Seven Deadly Virtues, The         Sisterly Feelings         Small Family Business, A         Snake In the Grass         Sparrow, The         Square Cat, The         Standing Room Only         Story So Far, The         Suburban Strains         Sugar Daddies         Surprises         Table Manners         Taking Steps         Talk In the Park, A         Ten Magic Bridges         Ten Times Table         Things We Do For Love         This Is Where We Came In         Time And Time Again         Time Of My Life         Tons Of Money         Trip To Scarborough, A         Vaudeville         Virtual Reality         Way Upstream         We Who Are About To         Westwoods, The         Whenever         Wildest Dreams         Wolf At the Door         Woman In Mind         Word From Our Sponser

Absent Friends

Synopsis:
Colin's friends are determined to comfort him in his grief over the death of his fiancee - a girl they have never met. they arrange a tea-party for him and are understandably on edge wondering what to say to him as they await his arrival. their unease, however, has deeper roots as they are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross-marital emotional ties and by the time Colin arrives their tension contrasts Dramatically with his cheerfully relaxed air.

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1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1974

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1975   -

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Genre:
Social Comedy Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Absurd Person Singular

Synopsis:
We visit three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas eves of three successive years: the lower-class Hopcrofts; their bank manager and his wife and their architect neighbour with a suicidal wife. Running like a darker thread through the wild comedy of behind-the-scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts and the declines of the others.

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1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1972

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1974   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Arrivals & Departures

Synopsis:
At a London mainline rail terminus an elaborate trap is deployed in an attempt to capture a dangerous and elusive terrorist, codenamed Cerastes. Major Quentin Sexton and his hand-picked SSDO (Strategic Simulated Distractional Operations) Unit are poised, ready to pounce. To assist them, civilian witness Barry Hawkins and ez Swain, his 'minder', are on hand to confirm final identification. What can possibly go wrong? For the luckless Major quite a lot really, when his key witness turns out to be a garrulous, suspiciously unreliable traffic warden and the minder, a troubled young female soldier with severe attitude problems. On top of which, is Quentin's so-called elite unit really all it's cracked up to be?

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Organisations:
Stephen Joseph Theatre Company

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Awaking Beauty

Awaking Beauty
ever wondered what else happened to Sleeping Beauty when she finally woke up in the 21st century? Alan ayckbourn provides the answer with this alternative seasonal fare in the musical awaking Beauty. the Prince awakens Princess aurora and the eager, happy young couple are about to embark on their first night of passionate love when ugly, unloved Carabosse, the wicked witch, butts in having taken a fancy to the Prince. But which one will be the awaking Beauty? Love, lust, triplets and the ultimate in makeovers are just some of the milestones our heroes and heroines must pass before they can all live happily ever after.

Notes:
Words by Alan Ayckbourn, music by Denis King

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Samuel French, London >>>   978-0573180026

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Backnumbers

Synopsis:
Backnumbers was a compilation of songs from previous revues by Alan ayckbourn and Paul Todd. there were two variants of it: Tuesday and Thursday, each with different songs and a different cast.

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Genre:
Revue Show

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Bedroom Farce

Synopsis:
Three bedrooms are presented simultaneously on stage and the action between three households flows in and out from one to the other during this hectic night. there are ernest and Delia celebrating an anniversary with pilchards on toast after a disastrous meal out; Malcolm and Kate preparing a house-warming party and Nick and Jan, the former resting his injured back in bed. the marital disasters of Trevor and Susannah weave in out and out of the bedrooms.

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1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1975

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1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1977   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Between Mouthfuls

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1st Produced:
Mermaid Studio, London    1992

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Between the Lines

Synopsis:
Between the Lines was a revue compiled from songs by Alan ayckbourn and Paul Todd, loosely arranged into a love triangle story. the book was written by Paul Todd and it is to be emphasised that Alan is credited solely as the lyricist for this piece.

Notes:
music by Paul Todd

1st Produced:
Attic Theatre, Wimbledon    1992

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Genre:
Revue Show

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Body Language

Synopsis:
Journalist Jo has a problem with her body. She hates the sight of it. the more she eats and drinks to forget it, the more of it there is to remind her. Photographic model angie has a problem too. People won't stop looking at hers. Women with envy or sometimes open hostility. Men with - well, God knows what the men are thinking. But what if amd Gie and Jo could choose to change places with each other? and what if they didn't have any choice in the matter?

Notes:
Body Language was revised by Alan Ayckbourn in 1999.

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 2002   -

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Genre:
play for anyone who has body

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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Boy Meets Girl

Synopsis:
linked lunch time show

Notes:
music by Paul Todd

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Genre:
Revue Show

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Boy Who Fell Into A Book

Boy Who Fell Into A Book
a cautionary tale about reading in bed, that's full of laughs, a few scares and a lot of music! When Kevin falls asleep in the middle of an un-put-down-able book, he wakes to find himself in the thick of the action and in considerable danger. How will he ever get home again? the simple solution, of course, is to work his way back along the bookshelf towards his bed. But what other books will he have to pass through to get there? Will they prove equally as challenging? Help. . .!

Notes:
Written to celebrate the National Year of Reading in 1998.

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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2000   978-0571203345

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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By Jeeves

By Jeeves
Proudly presenting an evening in the company of that celebrated raconteur, man about town, wit, bon viveur and banjo player extraordinaire, Bertram Wilberforce Wooster, esq. . .. . .Or so the published programme would have it .But, alas, even men of genius can have their plans thwarted. How can any banjo player, however gifted, begin to pluck a note when some philistine has stolen his instrument, by George? How can he possibly hope to entertain the eager throng until a replacement banjo arrives, by Jove? Is there no one to step in and snatch the charred streaky from the bonfire, by Jeeves? By Jeeves. . .

Notes:
By Jeeves was rewritten And revised from Jeeves. the play opened the new Stephen Joseph theatre And was described by the theatre As: "an Almost entirely new musical.". Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Original cast recording: MCa (MCF-2726

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Callisto 5

Synopsis:
For eight years, young Jem has sat in space station Callisto 5, patiently awaiting the return of his parents. eight years. . . with only Damaris (the robot nanny) and the disembodied voice of Iris (the computer) for company. eight years of macaroni cheese for breakfast, lunch and supper. . .It's enough to drive a boy crazy - until a new, unexpected, and rather dangerous creature arrives on Callisto

Notes:
rewritten in 1999 As Callisto 7

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1995   -

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  monster

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Callisto 7

Synopsis:
Thirteen year old Jodi and her nine-year old brother Jem have spent the past five years abandoned on a uniplex on the moon of Callisto. With only the computer IRIS and the malfunctioning PaDWaC for company, they have become restless. But they must learn to work together when a monster, invisible except to video, infiltrates the uniplex. eventually the monster is defeated and revealed to be a game engineered by IRIS. at the same time, the children's parents return having been marooned during a rescue mission to help the other Uniplexes.

Notes:
reworking of Callisto 5

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Champion Of Paribanou

Synopsis:
an adventure, a love story, a fantasy. . .Murganah loves ahmed, ahmed loves Murganah. But he is a royal prince and is destined for a world that can never include a lowly maidservant. This is the story of the two different paths they choose - one right and one wrong. and of their final fateful meeting. . .and of a magic carpet. and of an incredible mechanical man. and of an enchanted cave. and of a meeting with the bookmarker creature. and of a magic apple. and of much, much more. . .

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1st Published:
in "Plays 2" Faber, London, 1998   -

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Cheap And Cheerful

Synopsis:
Remember revue as it used to be? Dazzling dance routines, glittering costumes, a full chorus with a 20 piece orchestra, witty quickfire sketches, a whirling extravaganza of sound and colour. . .?Well forget all that. Instead, welcome to the real world of modern, low budget, underfunded enjoyment .BUT NeVeR FeaR! Fortunately, we have managed to secure the services of the Very Last actor We Can afford This Year - entertainer Reg Pittock, fresh from his highly successful holiday camp season at Portsea. Singer, dancer and all round entertainer Reg (plus a few promised special guest friends) will keep you in stitches, humming along with your toes tapping.

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Music Denis King, Simon Cryer

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Genre:
Revue Show

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Chloe With Love

Synopsis:
Teddy's marriage to Lottie is going through a difficult period. Does he still love Lottie? Does Lottie still love him? Cue next door neighbours Penny and Reggie to the rescue. Penny weighing in to help Lottie and Reggie resolving to help his best friend to resist temptation. But with the arrival of the voluptuous Chloe all their best laid schemes are put to the test. An inconsequential comedy of love, lust and loss of trousers.

Notes:
part of Farcicals

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Organisations:
Stephen Joseph Theatre Company

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Genre:
one act comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Chorus Of Disapproval, A

Synopsis:
amateur operatic society mirrors Beggar's Opera. British embarrassment in face of emotion.

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1985   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Christmas V Mastermind

Synopsis:
Father Christmas faced with a strike by his gnomes. "the most disastrous play I have ever done".

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1st Produced:
Victoria Theatre, Stoke On Trent    1962

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Comic Potential

Comic Potential
Is comedy humanity's divine gift? Or its own invention, designed to make the rest of life bearable? either way, could it conceivably be appreciated by a mere machine? and could such laughter ever lead to love? adam and JCF 31333, star-crossed, mis-matched lovers of the next millennium, face an uncertain future where everything has changed except human nature. Two of the television crew are an "item".

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Faber and Faber, London, 1999   978-05711978-73

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Lesbian, theme/character, one act

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  doubling

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Communicating Doors

Synopsis:
time travel for a sex specialist who stumbles into a murder plot 1978/1998/2014

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Faber and Faber, London, 1995   -

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Genre:
Comedy Thriller Thriller

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Confusions

Confusions
ayckbourn's series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. the plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the problem of loneliness. the Mother Figure shows a mother unable to escape from baby talk; in the Drinking Companion an absentee husband attempts seduction without success; in Between Mouthfuls, a waiter oversees a fraught dinner encounter. a garden party gets out of hand in Gosforth's Fete whilst a Talk in the Park is a revue style curtain call piece for the five actors. Whether the comedies concern marital conflict, infidelity or motherhood and take place on a park bench or at a village fete, the characters are familiar and their cries for help instantly recognisable.

Notes:
Between Mouthfuls; Drinking Companion; A Talk In the Park; Gosforth's Fete; Mother Figure.

1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1974

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1977
Methuen Drama, London   978-0713685510

Music:
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Genre:
5 Playlets One act

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Countdown

Synopsis:
Mixed Doubles, 'an entertainment on marriage,' takes the form of eight short plays, each for two characters. . . each is an independent play in its own right but the whole sequence, linked by a series of wickedly anti-authoritarian monologues written by George Melly adds up to an amusing if acid picture of the progress of married life from honeymoon to cemetry

Notes:
Originally presented As one of eight plays under the title "We Who Are About To. . ." At the Hampstead theatre Club on February 6th 1969, which was subsequently presented As "Mixed Doubles" At the Comedy theatre, London on April 9th 1969

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in Mixed Doubles - an entertainment On Marriage, Methuen, London, 1970   -

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Genre:
Short dialogue One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cut In the Rates, A

Synopsis:
Dark sinister secrets from an illusionist's past.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Televised    1984

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1991   -

Music:
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Genre:
TV 1 act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dad's Tale

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
as Roland Allen

1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1960

Organisations:
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Music:
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Damsels In Distress

Synopsis:
First produced Stephen Joseph theatre in the Round, Scarborough, 2001

Notes:
comprises: Gameplan, Flatspin, Roleplay

1st Produced:
Duchess, London    2002

Organisations:
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough Production

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2002   -

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-

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Three Plays

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Dear Uncle

Synopsis:
Marcus loves eleanor although she's already married and can never be his. His schoolgirl niece Sonya is secretly in love with David, the family doctor and confirmed bachelor, which in her heart of hearts she knows is probably all in vain. and to make things still more hopeless, as days go by, eleanor and David appear to be developing an attraction which is surely unthinkable. as summer comedy grows into autumnal farce, things inevitably lead to winter regrets both for what has occurred and what might have been. Set in the Lake District in 1935, Alan ayckbourn's reworking of Uncle Vanya brings an affectionate english slant to anton Chekhov's classic love story

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. A new version of Uncle Vanya

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Stephen Joseph Theatre Company

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adaptation

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Double Hitch

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-

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only ever presented in Amateur production

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Dreams From A Summer House

Synopsis:
comic battle of the sexes illustrating the disparity between romantic ideals and earthly reality, proving once again that true love is impossible but also desperately necessary

Notes:
music by John Pattison

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Samuel French, London, 1997   -

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Musical Play Musical

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Drinking Companion

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-

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-

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Mermaid Studio, London    1992

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-

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-   -

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Play/Drama

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Drowning On Dry Land

Synopsis:
Charlie is that modern media phenomenon, an a list celebrity. Mobbed and adored by thousands, his face is everywhere, his name on everything from breakfast cereals to sports gear. He is truly the man who has it all. a beautiful wife, wonderful children, immense wealth and a magnificent home. everyone is agreed that Charlie Conrad is undoubtedly the man to know and be associated with. What is far more difficult to pin down is what precisely it is that has made Charlie so famous. What has Charlie ever done? Indeed, has he ever done anything? and, in the distorting, mirrored world of celebrity hype, does anyone even care? (Stephen Joseph theatre brochure copy, Spring 2004)

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Ernie's Incredible Illucinations

Synopsis:
Twenty quid now? Or a royalty? asked the editor. I chose the royalty. a shrewd decision as it turned out. Though it has meant generations of youngsters (including my own near thirty-year-olds) coming up to me to tell me they once played it at school."

Notes:
a one-act play written for schools to produce And published in 1969. It was televised in November 1987

1st Produced:
Unicorn Theatre For Children    1971

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-

1st Published:
Playbill One, Hutchinsons, London, 1969   -

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-

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Family Circles

Synopsis:
looking at man's three daughters and their unsuitable husbands, it is difficult to disagree with his pronouncement that we all marry the wrong person

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-

1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1970

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-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1997   -

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-

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Comedy

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Farcicals

Synopsis:
Two interconnected, one-act plays showing individually in the Restaurant and as a double bill in the McCarthy. See the Kidderminster Affair and Chloe With Love for full details

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-

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Stephen Joseph Theatre Company

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-   -

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-

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one acts

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First Course

Synopsis:
Ten songs charting impressions of the decades from 1890 to the 1980's

Notes:
music by Paul Todd

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Musical Revue

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  mixed cast

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Flatspin

Synopsis:
a night of romance in her luxurious riverside apartment with the good looking stranger from next door. How can Joanna possibly go wrong ? except the flat isn't hers, her name isn't Joanna it's Rosie and heaven knows what the good looking stranger from next door is really after. Nothing is what it seems and Rosie, instead of romance, suddenly finds herself in considerable danger.

Notes:
part of the Damsels In Distress trilogy. Three unconnected plays sharing the same set And cast. Music: Keith Jarrett

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-

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Faber and Faber, London, 2002   -

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-

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Musical Play Musical

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Follow the Lover

Synopsis:
-

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only ever presented in Amateur production

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-

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Forest, The

Forest, The
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Alexander Ostrovsky (Translation: Vera Liber)

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-

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Faber and Faber, London, 1999   978-0571201860

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adaptation

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Game Plan

Synopsis:
When Lynette's business collapses and her husband disappears into the blue, she finds herself a single parent with a rapidly dwindling lifestyle. the future looks bleak. But she reckons without teenage daughter Sorrel's last ditch attempts to save them both. But will Sorrel succeed? Or will her desperate 'game plan' plunge them both into greater trouble. . ..?

Notes:
part of the Damsels In Distress trilogy. Three unconnected plays sharing the same set And cast. Music: Keith Jarrett

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Faber and Faber, London, 2002   -

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Musical Play Musical

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Garden (House & Garden)

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-

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-

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-

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-

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Girl Meets Boy

Synopsis:
linked lunch time show

Notes:
music by Paul Todd

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-

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Revue Show

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  mixed cast

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Gizmo

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-

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-

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NTheatre Company, Hull School Of Performing Arts

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-   -

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Gosforth's Fete

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Mermaid Studio, London    1992

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-

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-   -

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-

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Play/Drama

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Haunting Julia

Synopsis:
Julia has been dead nearly 15 years, a brilliant musician with her whole life ahead of her. Why did she have to die? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or something altogether more sinister? Her Father Joe is determined to discover the truth about his daughter's death. Obsessed, he will stop at nothing - even if it means trying to reach Julia herself.

Notes:
Haunting Julia was intended to be the first play by Ayckbourn for the McCarthy in the new Stephen Joseph theatre, but delays in the project led it to be staged At the SJTITR in the round. It was later revived for the McCarthy And changed from A one-act to

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-

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Samuel French, London, 2006   -

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-

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One act

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  female voice

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 11 Page 589

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Henceforward

Synopsis:
Futuristic problems of robots, riots and alienation

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-

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Organisations:
-

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Faber and Faber, London, 1988   -

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-

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Play/Drama

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Hero's Welcome

Synopsis:
Seventeen years ago, Murray fled the neighbourhood under somewhat of a cloud and certain local folk have long memories, not least Alice, the mayor, whom he left standing at the alter. Indeed few of his friends, once the welcome flags have stopped waving and the town band has ceased playing, seem particularly happy to see him back. Murrays declared intention of staying put and settling down with his new bride threatens to stir up all sorts of old rivalries and resentments. Suddenly the couple, in search of peace, find themselves once more in the firing line.

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-

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Play/Drama

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House (House & Garden)

House (House & Garden)
Up at the house, Teddy has dreams of a bright political future as the new local MP. the only problem barring his path is an urgent need to clean his private life before the Prime Minister's special envoy arrives. Unfortunately there can't be many of us with more complex private lives than Teddy's. How can he ever hope to create the right impression when practically nobody's speaking to him and if he can't understand a single word of the few that are? To cap it all, it just has to be the day of the garden fete. Down in the garden, frenzied preparations are underway for the annual village fete. Will the young maypole dancers pull it off? Is there someone sinister lurking in the bushes? Where on earth are the rest of the Morris team? and just what does go on in the fortune teller's tent? Clouds are a gathering everywhere, in the sky and within personal lives. Old Warn, the gardener, watches all this with casual indifference. He's been through storms before. But, as he later discovers, never one quite like this.

Notes:
House And Garden Are two plays designed to run simultaneously with the same cast. the cast moving between the House And the Garden. the plays can be seen in Any order And, theoretically, one without the other. However, maximum enjoyment of the play comes

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2 1 acts One act

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Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  -

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How the Other Half Loves

Synopsis:
Two menages project their infidelity onto a third, totally innocent and socially retarded couple.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1969

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Evans Plays, London, 1971   -

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-

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Farce

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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If I Were You

If I Were You
the Rodales seem like an ordinary family, but beneath the surface things are beginning to crack. Jill and Mal have lost the spark in their marriage, their son Sam resents his Father and their daughter Chrissie has recently become a mum and is dealing with marriage issues of her own. and while they all share advice on how others should live their lives, nobody is really taking it on board - until Mal and Jill see things from a Dramatically different perspective, that is. Waking up one morning and finding they have switched personas, Mal in Jill's body and Jill in Mal's, they must continue life "as normal" as their other half. Jill faces the challenges of working with their son-in-law, Dean, as the Store Manager of a homewares shop, while Mal has suddenly becomes a housewife, learning more about his children - and finding out the secrets they already know about him! Will seeing things from the other side make matters even worse, or is this just what they need in order to save their family?

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-

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-

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Samuel French, London >>>   978-0573111952

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-

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Play/Drama

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Improbable Fiction

Synopsis:
Returning to his familiar fictional borough of Pendon, aycjbourn introduces us to the local writers' circle, a self-help group for the creatively stalled and artistically deluded, who meet once a month at the home of Arnold, a genial unmarried gent who dreams of creative endeavours more liberating than the translation of foreign instruction manuals.

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Incidental Music

Synopsis:
bittersweet human relations. "More experiments, this time with quite hefty narrative songs with a beginning. middle and end. Popular. We did it in the main house and then in the bar." (Alan ayckbourn, 1989)

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Revue Show

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Inside Outside Slide Show, The

Synopsis:
Mrs Grimshaw is trying to give a very serious illustrated lecture on how Edwardians used to live. But her assistant Clyde has different ideas, and not only gets everything wrong, but ends up falling into the slide projector

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-

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Childrens Youth audience

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Intimate Exchanges

Synopsis:
Middle class foibles linked as each scene ends.

Notes:
affairs In A Tent; events On A Hotel Terrace; A Garden Fete; A Pageant; A Cricket Match; A Game Of Golf; A One Man Protest; Love In the Mist

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Organisations:
-

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in "Vols 1 & 2" French, London, 1985   -

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-

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Series of 8 scripts

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  doubling

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Invisible Friends

Invisible Friends
Childhood friend materialises but when you get what you want its not what you wanted.

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-

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1991   978-0571144761

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-

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Childrens Youth audience

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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It Could Be Any One Of Us

Synopsis:
the murderer could be one of three people, the identity of whom can change every night; and the thrills are leavened throughout with tongue-in-cheek humour and slyly ironic comment.

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-

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1998   -

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-

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Genre:
Comedy Thriller Thriller

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Jeeves

Synopsis:
adaptation of P G Wodehouse stories.

Notes:
music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, rewritten 1996 As By Jeeves

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-

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-   -

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-

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  10            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Joking Apart

Synopsis:
Brian's endless list of anthea substitutes continues over a 12 year span.

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-

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1979   -

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-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Jollies, The

Synopsis:
I mean, what do you do when you suddenly find out you've got a mother who's younger than you are? and a kid brother who turns out to be 20 years older than you? Tight. You panic. Yes, 11 year old Polly has quite a problem. Now the police are after her as well .Not to mention the social services. and a very, very big dog. . ..Heeeeeelllllp!

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-

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-

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Faber and Faber, London, 2002   -

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-

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Genre:
play for all the family.

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Just Between Ourselves

Synopsis:
Mans obsessions aggravate wives leading to climax of bizarre madness.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1976

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1977   -

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-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Kidderminster Affair, The

Synopsis:
Sexual intrigue at Teddy's garden barbecue. Is his secret liaison with his neighbour, Penny, about to leak out? Will his wife Lottie discover the awful truth about Kidderminster? Will Penny's husband and best friend Reggie ever get hold of the right end of the stick? Will he burn the barbecue? Or indeed resolve the mystery of the slow puncture? A frivolous comedy of fun, infidelity and food fights.

Notes:
part of Farcicals

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Organisations:
Stephen Joseph Theatre Company

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one act comedy

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Last Word?, The

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written by Alan Ayckbourn, John Bowen, Lyndon Brook, David Campton, John Gorrie, Julia Jones, James Saunders and Faye Weldon

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entertainment

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Life And Beth

Life And Beth
It's Christmas, and Beth Timms is mourning the recent death of her health and safety officer husband, Gordon. Beth's sister-in-law Connie and son Martin have come to stay, determined to ensure that she should have a stress-free Christmas, but between Connie's drinking problem and Martin's unspeaking and emotionally volatile girlfriend ella, their intentions prove to be short-lived. Only David, the local vicar, provides Beth with any comfort, but when he says a prayer for her bereavement he unwittingly summons Gordon's ghost to return to the family home. Gordon has been busy implementing health and safety measures in the afterlife and is now determined to stick around to help Beth manage her affairs. It soon becomes apparent, however, that his return is not altogether welcome.

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part of "the Things That Go Bump"

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Life Of Riley

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With a few months of his life remaining, George Riley's closest friends remember with love, nostalgia or occasional bursts of fury, how deeply he has affected all their past lives. George, though, is plotting one lasr final farewell which threatens to upset all their future lives. What exactly is the eccentric mavErick Riley playing at?

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Living Together

Synopsis:
takes place in the living room

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the Norman Conquests, Aka Make Yourself At Home

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1975   -

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Love After All

Synopsis:
Based on Barber of Seville; Father wants to marry his daughter to wealth - true love triumphs

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as Roland Allen

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Library Theatre, Scarborough    1959

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Farce

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Making Tracks

Synopsis:
bittersweet human relations

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music by Paul Todd

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Revue Show

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Man Of the Moment

Synopsis:
ex robber and his timid clerk victim are reunited for TV chat show.

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Faber and Faber, London, 1990   -

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Black Comedy Comedy

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Me, Myself, And I

Synopsis:
ayckbourn has always been haunted by the nuclear family's ability to deprive women of emotional, intellectual and even physical fulfilment. Here he wittily embodies that idea by showing 36-year-old Mary Yately first dreaming that she is to be the local paper's mum of the year" and then contrasting that with domestic reality. His deftest touch is to divide Mary into three, so that her frustrated diurnal self is shadowed, and often mocked, by her cool, worldly superego and her ragingly sensual id - an idea that ayckbourn took even further in 1985 in the surreal, hallucinatory Woman in Mind." the Guardian

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music by Paul Todd. Me, Myself & I was staged As three connected, but seperate lunchtime shows in Scarborough And As one show in London

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Men On Women On Men

Synopsis:
Worries at a variety of facets of the relationship between sexes.

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music by Paul Todd (cassette TSJITR 001, Stephen Joseph theatre)

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short late night revue One act

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Mere Soup Songs

Synopsis:
late night cabaret on theme of not telling the truth

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music by Paul Todd

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Miss Yesterday

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Tammy is a problem; bottom of her class, constantly in trouble, she's the despair of her teachers and of her wealthy, successful parents. Why can't she be more like her brilliant older brother Glenn? Where did it all go wrong? What on earth will become of her? Fifteen years old and having reached the lowest point in her entire life, even Tammy is beginning to wonder. then a chance meeting with a stranger appears to change everything. a woman offers Tammy the chance to go back just twenty-four hours to try to put things right. Back to this time yesterday. But can Tammy really alter things? Is it even possible? Can she ever hope to change her life in such a way? and why does the mysterious woman seem curiously familiar? (Copy from Stephen Joseph theatre Winter Brochure 2004)

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Mother Figure

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in Mixed Blessings

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Horsham    1973

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Samuel French, London, 1977   -

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Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays

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Mr accousticus causes strange things to happen to Suzy and her puppy.

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Childrens Youth audience

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Mr Whatnot

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a mute piano player becomes entangled in the life of the Lord of the Manor.

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Stoke On Trent    1963

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Samuel French, London, 1992   -

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Musical Jigsaw Play, The

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My Sister Sadie

My Sister Sadie
Luke and his mother, avril, eke out their existence tending to their run down, isolated farm in a remote part of england. they both miss Luke's sister June so much and would give anything in the world to have her back with them, alive and well again. But life can be harsh and these days we can rarely hope for miracles. Until one day, the miracle happens. Out of the night sky drops a brand new, full grown, large-as-life sister - the answer to all their prayers. Or is she? For who exactly is Sadie and where did she come from? Is she all she appears to be? and if so, why are so many mysterious people determined to find her? an exciting, funny, tender tale of a family whose lives are changed forever by the strangest of strangers. (Stephen Joseph theatre brochure winter 2003)

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My Very Own Story

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Do you have a double? they say everybody does - somewhere. Our speaker today, Percy Patton, appears to have not just a double (Peter Patchett), but a treble (Paul Peel)! all with their Very Own Story to tell. Only, alas, when Peter gets into Paul's tale, and Paul appears in Percy's, and Percy gets into Peter's, the whole thing tends to get distinctly perplexing.

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Samuel French, London, 1995   -

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My Wonderful Day

My Wonderful Day
Winnie is nearly nine. Her mum, Laverne, is second-generation afro-Caribbean and heavily pregnant but continues with her cleaning job since her husband left while she dreams of moving the family back to Martinique. Tuesdays are special: Laverne insists that Winnie speaks only French (in preparation for Martinique) and today is Tuesday - not her usual day to clean at the north London house of Kevin Tate, an affluent, bad-tempered, philandering, minor television personality. Not well enough to go to school, Winnie accompanies her mum and settles down to her homework: an essay entitled "My Wonderful Day". Throughout the course of the next few hours, the shy, astute and ever-watchful Winnie will amass plenty of material for her essay as a variety of adults parades before her: Kevin's baby-talking and patronizing mistess, his vengeful wife, and the hungover family friend who pours out his heart believing that Winnie doesn't speak english. But as events reach a frenzied climax, Winnie's essay will speak volumes.

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Neighbourhood Watch

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Things are not right on the Bluebell Hill Development. theft, petty crime, vandalism, all the ills of modern suburban existence are on the increase. Newcomers Martin and his sister Hilda are the crime wave's latest victims - on the very day of their housewarming party, no less - and resolve to take action. after all, the law of the land, all that's right and proper and even God Himself are surely on their side. But what starts out as a well intentioned neighbourhood watch scheme soon develops into something altogether more sinister. In these matters, it seems the frying pan is closer to the fire than anyone realises. Alan ayckbourn's cautionary tale of the dangers of taking the law into your own hands is his seventy fifth play. It is also the three hundredth new play to be commissioned by the SJT.

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Night Before the Morning After Show, The

Synopsis:
with the programme you get a party pack of paper hats and streamers and the skits continue

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written by Alan Ayckbourn, Oliver Beamish, Ken Campbell, Bob eaton, Sayan Kent, John Kirkpatrick, Byrony Lavery, Jenny Lecoat, Chris Martin, Greg Palmer, Carole Ruggier, Peter Whelan And Johnson Willis

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New Victoria, North Staffs    1992

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Genre:
Musical Review

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Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Orvin - Champion Of Champions

Synopsis:
an epic musical tale of accidental heroism. the chorus of gods sets out to relate the tale of the Great Ulmar, legendary warrior and champion of Sollistis. But their narrative suffers a major technical hitch when Orvin, Ulmar's hopeless squire, oversleeps on the eve of battle. What follows proves a challenge even to such seasoned story tellers as the gods themselves as they vainly attempt to re-write history with only the help of Orvin, the unlikeliest, most reluctant of last minute replacement champions. (Copy from the Stephen Joseph theatre brochure summer 2004)

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written By Alan Ayckbourn And Dennis King

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Musical

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Princess And the Mouse, The

Synopsis:
a new adaptation of the famed fairy tale, aimed at children under the age of 8.

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The Mccarthy, Stephen Joseph Theatre    2002

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Childrens 1 act Youth audience

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Private Fears In Public Places

Synopsis:
My heart used to leap about and sing. It really did. at the thought of seeing you after two - there months. It did what they say it does. It literally leapt. But coming here to meet you today, it sort of sank. I'm sorry. It did. . . Six people, six separate lives - yet all strangely linked by circumstance. Does Nicola still love Dan? Can Stewart be on the verge of an office romance? Will Imogen ever find true love? Does ambrose have a secret life? and what on earth is Charlotte up to? This latest play by Alan ayckbourn is a tale of the misheard, the unspoken and the sadly misunderstood. (Stephen Joseph theatre publicity, 2004) "a tale of the misheard, the unspoken and the sadly misunderstood. . ." (Alan ayckbourn)

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Stephen Joseph Theatre Company

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Plays 3, Faber and Faber, London, 2004   -

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Relatively Speaking

Synopsis:
amorous ding-dongs

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aka Meet My Father

1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1965

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Evans Plays, London, 1968   -

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Comedy

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Revengers' Comedies, The

Revengers' Comedies, The
Two people meet on London's albert Bridge at midnight, both prepared to jump off. Henry Bell has just been ousted from his job by a thrusting corporate executive; Karen Knightly has lost her farmer-lover to his scheming rustic wife. they decide that revenge is sweeter than suicide, but it is Karen who declares that she will see to Henry's oppressor if he will take care of hers.

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Black Comedy Comedy

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Roleplay

Synopsis:
In their luxurious apartment, Justin Lazenby and Julie-ann Jobson plan an introductory supper for their respective parents. Will the Jobson's, Derek and Dee, meet with the approval of Justin's mother, arabElla - plus whoever it is she plans to bring with her? It's an important occasion and everything needs to be just right. Things seem to be planned down to the last detail. But no one has allowed for the arrival of the desperate Paige Petite who literally drops in from the upstairs flat - hotly pursued by the menacing Micky Rale. . .. . .

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part of the Damsels In Distress trilogy. Three unconnected plays sharing the same set And cast. Music: Keith Jarrett

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Ron And Julie

Synopsis:
playful love story betwee theatre technicians, who act out their roles with gusto as their story is narrated side-stage

Notes:
part of "Scenes Unseen" an eight play compendium of unperformed miatures by established writers alonfside new works by younger voices

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New Inck Theatre / Tron Theatre Company

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short piece

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Round And Round the Garden

Synopsis:
the Norman Conquests consists of three inter-connected plays set in the garden, living-room and dining room of a house over one weekend. the plays are: Table Manners (play 13); Living Together (play 14); Round and Round the Garden (play 15). Original titles: Fancy Meeting You (Table Manners) Make Yourself at Home (Living Together) TaBLe MaNNeRS: the events of one weekend as seen from the dining room. In which Reg finds food rather scarce despite having it thrown at him by Sarah - Sarah is scandalised by annie - annie is disappointed by men in general and Tom in particular - Tom knocks down Norman - Norman's romantic proposals are ruined thanks to Ruth - Ruth loses her patience, her temper and her glasses - and in which everyone has trouble deciding where to sit - LIVING TOGetheR the events of one weekend as seen from the Sitting Room. In which Reg is driven mad by Tom - Tom tells annie a thing or two - annie nearly comes to blows with Sarah -Sarah sees a different side of Norman -Norman sorts things out with Ruth -Ruth discovers the charms of a fireside rug - and in which nobody enjoys playing board games - ROUND aND ROUND the GaRDeN the events of one weekend as seen from the Garden. In which Ruth thoroughly confuses Tom - Tom succeeds in asking annie - annie gets a glimpse of Norman's pyjamas - Norman tells Sarah stories by moonlight - Sarah disapproves of Reg's outdoor sports -and in which everyone gets to roll in the grass - (Stephen Joseph theatre in the Round brochure copy, summer 1993)

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the Norman Conquests

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Roundelay

Synopsis:
To mark his 75th birthday year, Alan Ayckbourn has created a confectionery assortment, a varied bouquet of five related short plays, each with differing flavours and colours and written to be played in no particular order. Some are connected through shared characters, some through overlapping narrative. Some are sequels to others which turn out to be preludes to others. There are (apparently!) 120 possibilities as to the order in which they can be performed. Depending on the chosen sequence, each evening will develop differently. Which order will you see? Nobody knows for certain, least of all us. It won't be decided till the night!

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The Agebt (2m/1f); The Judge (2m/1f); The Novelist (2m/1f); The Politian (2m/3f); The Star (1m/3f)

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The Stephen Joseph Theatre Company

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piece of five short plays

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Season's Greetings

Season's Greetings
On Boxing Day the previous nights fracas is passed off as a drunken romp. But was it?

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Samuel French, London, 1982
Faber and Faber Ltd, London (2010) >>>    978-0573114014

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Black Comedy Comedy

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Second Helping

Synopsis:
Ten songs about aspects of love.

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music by Paul Todd

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Musical Revue

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Service Not Included

Synopsis:
the barman is professionally impervious to revelations at the companies fancy dress dance

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-

1st Produced:
Bbc 2    1974

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-

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1977   -

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TV Play

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Seven Deadly Virtues, The

Synopsis:
a hooded look at the virtues

Notes:
music by Paul Todd

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Sisterly Feelings

Synopsis:
Sisterly choices determined either deliberately or at random

Notes:
Sisterly feelings has two Acts with two scenes each. there Are two Alternative scenes for Act I, scene II And Act II, scene I. the decision for which scene is used in Act I is decided by the flip of A coin. the decision for which scene is used in Act II i

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Small Family Business, A

Small Family Business, A
Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his father-in-law's business he's approached by a private detective armed with some compromising information. Jack's integrity fades away as he discovers his extended family to be thieves and adulterers, looting the business from their suburban homes. Rampant self-interest takes over and comic hysteria builds to a macabre climax.

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-

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National Theatre, London

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Snake In the Grass

Snake In the Grass
For annabel and her sister, Miriam, their sunlit garden is filled with deeply buried childhood memories. But when night begins to fall, is it only the past which comes back to haunt them? Or something infinitely more terrifying?

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Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

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Sparrow, The

Synopsis:
ed convinces evie to stay the night, Tony has other ideas, Julia doesn't like it.

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-

1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1967

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Square Cat, The

Synopsis:
Mothers infatuation with teenage popstar who eventually finds true love with daughter

Notes:
as Roland Allen

1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1959

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-

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-   -

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-

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Standing Room Only

Synopsis:
a 21st Century traffic jam with family living in bus on Shaftsbury avenue, London.

Notes:
as Roland Allen

1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1961

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-

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-   -

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Story So Far, The

Synopsis:
looking at man's three daughters and their unsuitable husbands, it is difficult to disagree with his pronouncement that we all marry the wrong person

Notes:
aka Me Times Me Times Me (1972); Aka Family Circles (1978)

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Suburban Strains

Synopsis:
Wife's two relationships are presented in filic counterpoint to peripheral advice.

Notes:
music by Paul Todd

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Samuel French, London, 1982   -

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Sugar Daddies

Synopsis:
When Sasha comes to the aid of Father Christmas, could this prove the start of a beautiful friendship? Or are there dangerous times ahead for her? Is anything quite as it appears? Should she follow her heart or listen to the warnings of her friends? and just exactly who is the one eyed stranger who has mysteriously entered her life? a cautionary comedy of dark intentions. (Copy from Stephen Joseph theatre Brochure Summer 2003)

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-

1st Produced:
The Round, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough    2003

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-

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Plays 3, Faber and Faber, London, 2004   -

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-

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Surprises

Surprises
Love stories yet to happen, in a future filled with surprises. Who is the amorous stranger, Titus, who materialises in young Grace's bedroom? Can she believe he is who he says he is? For her parents, Franklin and Martha, does love everlasting still hold true if death is postponed indefinitely? Can lawyer Lorraine, who prides herself on her infallibility, have finally discovered the ideal partner, one who is also never wrong? Will lonely secretary Sylvia, after unhappy affairs with everyone from deep sea divers to space shuttle pilots, ever find her Mr Right?

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comedy

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Table Manners

Synopsis:
events around meal times in the dining room.

Notes:
the Norman Conquests, Aka Fancy Meeting You

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-

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1975   -

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Taking Steps

Synopsis:
Confusion piles on confusion from putative ghostly whore to a suicide note.

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-

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1981   -

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Farce

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Talk In the Park, A

Synopsis:
-

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-

1st Produced:
Mermaid Studio, London    1992

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-

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-   -

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Ten Magic Bridges

Synopsis:
Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who went on a great adventure, helped by lots and lots of her friends. . .

Notes:
a 10 part Adventure for children under the Age of 8, designed to play A chapter A week

1st Produced:
The Mccarthy, Stephen Joseph Theatre    2003

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-

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-   -

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-

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Childrens Youth audience

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Ten Times Table

Synopsis:
Committee farcically organise local pageant whilst retaining their personal problems.

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-

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-

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Samuel French, London, 1978   -

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-

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Things We Do For Love

Things We Do For Love
an ingenious set : the cross-section of a south-west London Victorian terraced house divided into three flats provides the theme of the play

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-

1st Produced:
The Mccarthy, Scarborough    1997

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-

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This Is Where We Came In

Synopsis:
the group of Players arrive, together with the amazing Kevin on Keyboards, ready to tell their stories. Here they meet young Fred, a complete stranger who at the same time seems curiously familiar. Is he someone from their past? Or could it be their future? None of them, least of all Fred, seems certain. But then their lives and memories are no longer their own. Instead, as we soon discover, they are each controlled by the weird, eccentric, ever-so-elderly Storytellers.

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-

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Samuel French, London, 1995   -

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Time And Time Again

Synopsis:
theatrical equivalent of archaeological digs

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough    1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1973   -

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-

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Time Of My Life

Synopsis:
family skeletons intrude on happy domestic scene: man's unfaithfulness, business recession and failed marriage

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-

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-

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Faber and Faber, London, 1993   -

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-

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Tons Of Money

Synopsis:
Problems over life interest in a fortune.

Notes:
revision of Will evans & Valentines 1922 production

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-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1986   -

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adaptation

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Trip To Scarborough, A

Synopsis:
takes Sheridan as a starting point but sets most of it in the entrance hall to a posh hotel in Scarborough

Notes:
Loose Adaptation of R B Sheidan

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entertainment

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Vaudeville

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-

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-

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-

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-

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Virtual Reality

Synopsis:
a man leaves his wife to move in with his lover, who is an actress, but soon he is not the only one questioning how he's performing his new role

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Mccarthy, Scarborough    2000

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-

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-   -

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-

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Way Upstream

Synopsis:
a boating holiday with events not going as smoothly as anticipated

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-

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Organisations:
-

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Samuel French, London, 1983   -

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-

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Black Comedy Comedy

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We Who Are About To

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with Bowen, Campton, Owen, Saunders

1st Produced:
-    1981

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-

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-   -

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-

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-

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Westwoods, The

Synopsis:
four stages in the life of Patricia Westwood

Notes:
music by Paul Todd

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-

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-   -

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-

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Revue Show

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Whenever

Synopsis:
In 1886, nine-year-old orphan emily Bonny, fleeing for her life, climbs aboard her uncle's amazing new time machine. Her journey is to take her to the end of time itself and in the process change not only her life but all our lives forever!

Notes:
music by Dennis King

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-

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Faber and Faber, London, 2002   -

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-

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Wildest Dreams

Synopsis:
four typical ayckbourn misfits are playing Dungeons and Dragons type game in a suburban living room, but the game is more than a game

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-

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-

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Faber and Faber, London, 1993   -

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-

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Wolf At the Door

Synopsis:
Period 19C, death of Father plunges family into economic turmoil with all sorts of characters 'helping' to sort out the complicated estate

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henry Becque; translated by David Walker

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Organisations:
-

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Samuel French, London, 1993   -

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-

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Woman In Mind

Synopsis:
Woman finally breaks down in a nightmarish involving her real and imaginary families.

Notes:
subtitled Summer Bee

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1986   -

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-

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Black Comedy Comedy

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Word From Our Sponser

Synopsis:
the Rev Harry Wooller has a dream. To stage a musical version of a long-neglected local mystery play right there in his town's defunct railway station:

Notes:
music by John Patterson

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1998   -

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-

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Musical Play Musical

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