ALAN BLEASDALE (1946 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Alan Bleasdale
Are You Lonesome Tonight? |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1985 | ||
Original cast recording: Bertelsmann Music Group (312332) | 1985 | |||
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| Genre: | Biographical | Musical | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 |
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Crackers |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds | 1978 | ||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Down The Dock Road |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||
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| 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: | entertainment | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: About the tricks that Liverpool Dockers get up to, and where the security police ignore or participate in. theme of corruption and the needs for dreams aside the realities of city life. | ||||
Fat Harold And The Last Twenty Six |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Takes place in a bus depot on a foggy night and while basically a comedy, involves considerable verbal violence and, at the end, a physical assault on the inspector, Fat Harold | ||||
Feet First |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Franny's Scully's Christmas Stories |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1976 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with Kenneth Alan Taylor | ||||
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Having A Ball |
| 1st Produced: | Oldham | 1981 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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It's A Madhouse |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1986 | ||
| 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: | Black Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: One Evening in a Psychiatric ward, an unexpected visitor and jaws. | ||||
Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing |
| 1st Produced: | Redditch, Worcestershire | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Act I", Hutchinson, London | 1979 | ||
| 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: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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No More Sitting On The Old School Bench |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Woodhouse, Todmorden, Yorkshire | 1979 | ||
| 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 | 5 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: the staff of a multi racial comprehensive school try to cope with redeployment and an earnest novice teacher | ||||
No Surrender |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | Deadpan Farce | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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On The Ledge |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1993 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 |
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Party's Over, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Four young girls, a warden and his wife, in a girl's probation hostel. The warden is having an affair with one of the girls and she is blackmailing him | ||||
Pimples |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1978 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Scully |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Hutchinson, London | 1984 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: written with others | ||||
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Should Auld Acquaintance |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1976 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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What Are We Going To Do Now? |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Wordplays 2" Hutchinson, London | 1982 | ||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 18 characters | |||
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Young People Today |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1983 | ||
| 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: | - | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: in the Big One | ||||
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