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Chris Bond

CHRIS BOND  (1945 - )

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Blanche Marvin  

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below is a list of Chris Bond's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Adventures Of Finn Mccool, The     Alice On The Underground     All The Fun Of The Fair     Beggar's Opera, The     Blood Of Dracula, The     Cantril Tales, The     Country Wife, The     Don Quixote Rides Again. . .     Downright Hooligan     Dracula     El Sid     George     Gone To Jesus     Good Soldier Scouse     Hubble Bubble     It's A Fine Life!     Judge Jeffreys     Mutiny     Mysterie Of Maria Marten, The     Not So Simple Simon     Roll With The Punches     Scum: Death, Destruction And Dirty Washing     Shem's Boat     Simple Simon     Spend, Spend, Spend     Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street     Tale Of Two Cities, A     Tarzan's Last Stand     Under New Management

CHRIS BOND
Adventures Of Finn Mccool, The

Synopsis:
Finn McCool, toughest giant in the world has to defend his reputation for toughness aginst other giants. Not easy when you are also the smallest giant in the world. Foryunately for him, his wife Oonagh, is the brains of the outfit and is able to trick and outsmart Finns rivals.

Notes:
written by Chris Bond And Bernard Dunleavy

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Genre:
children's play Youth audience

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CHRIS BOND
Alice On The Underground

Synopsis:
alice runs away from her dysfunctional family and council estate home and into the Underground. There she meets a busking White Rabbit and THE Queen of Hearts.

Notes:
from book by Lewis Carroll. Book And lyrics by Chris Bond & Paula Rees; music by Jo Collins And David Carey

1st Produced:
Hornchurch, Queen's    2004

Company:
Chicken Shed Theatre Company

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Genre:
Musical adaptation

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Male:  3    Female:  4    Other:  -

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CHRIS BOND
All The Fun Of The Fair

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Notes:
written with John McGrath And others

1st Produced:
London    1986

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CHRIS BOND
Beggar's Opera, The

Synopsis:

Notes:
Original Playwright - John Gay

1st Produced:
Liverpool    1977

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Genre:
adaptation

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CHRIS BOND
Blood Of Dracula, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
a shorter version of Chris Bond's play "Dracula"

1st Produced:
Coliseum, Oldham    1997

Company:
Northern Broadsides

1st Published:
Nelson Thornes (1999)   978-0748740635

Music:
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CHRIS BOND
Cantril Tales, The

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Notes:
written with Others

1st Produced:
Liverpool    1975

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CHRIS BOND
Country Wife, The

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Notes:
Original Playwright - William Wycherley

1st Produced:
Liverpool    1974

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Genre:
adaptation

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CHRIS BOND
Don Quixote Rides Again. . .

Synopsis:
based on the story of Don Quixote

Notes:
music by Jo Collins

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Genre:
Musical

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CHRIS BOND
Downright Hooligan

Synopsis:
a fixture at the betting shop mainly unemployed Ian Rigby drift through life. His mother bawls at him for masturbating, her lover tells him smutty jokes. The day his grandmother dies he accidentally kills the school hamster and sticks drawing pins in its eyes. He ends up in front of the magistrate and later in frustration attacks an elderly man.

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1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1972

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CHRIS BOND
Dracula

Synopsis:
classic story of suave vampire whose passion is sinking his teeth into the throats of beautiful young women.

Notes:
from novel by Bram Stoker

1st Produced:
Half Moon, London    1984

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6    Female:  2    Other:  -

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CHRIS BOND
El Sid

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Notes:
music by Watts, lyrics by Birtles, idea Barry

1st Produced:
London    1988

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CHRIS BOND
George

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1st Published:
in "Prompt One", Hutchinson, London, 1976   -

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Genre:
Social Comment

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CHRIS BOND
Gone To Jesus

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1st Published:
in "Wordplays 2" Hutchinson, London, 1982   -

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Genre:
Short play One act

Parts:
Male:  7    Female:  2    Other:  extras

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CHRIS BOND
Good Soldier Scouse

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1st Produced:
Liverpool    1976

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CHRIS BOND
Hubble Bubble

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Queens Theatre, Hornchuch    2004

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Genre:
Youth play

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CHRIS BOND
It's A Fine Life!

Synopsis:
script sentimentalises the life story of its subject, Lionel Bart.
Sam Marlowe, The Times

Notes:
compilation musical with book by Chris Bond, music And lyrics by Lionel Bart

1st Produced:
Homchurch, Queen's    2006

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  6    Female:  4    Other:  -

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CHRIS BOND
Judge Jeffreys

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1st Produced:
Exeter    1973

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  12    Female:  4    Other:  peasants

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CHRIS BOND
Mutiny

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1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1970

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CHRIS BOND
Mysterie Of Maria Marten, The

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CHRIS BOND
Not So Simple Simon

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There Are two versions - one for family Audiences And one for Adults. This is for Adults

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CHRIS BOND
Roll With The Punches

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CHRIS BOND
Scum: Death, Destruction And Dirty Washing

Synopsis:
musical celebration of the women of the Paris commune 1871

Notes:
written with Claire Luckham

1st Produced:
Monstrous Regiment, London    1976

Company:
-

1st Published:
in "Monstrous Regiment" Nick hern Books, London, 1991   -

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Genre:
Historical

Parts:
Male:  3    Female:  4    Other:  -

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CHRIS BOND
Shem's Boat

Synopsis:

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1971

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

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CHRIS BOND
Simple Simon

Synopsis:
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Notes:
There Are two versions - one for family Audiences And one for Adults. This is for family Audiences.

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Genre:
Pantomime

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CHRIS BOND
Spend, Spend, Spend

Synopsis:

Notes:
written with Claire Luckham, play by Jack Rosenthal

1st Produced:
London    1985

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Genre:
adaptation

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CHRIS BOND
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Synopsis:
Period early 19C, in this version Todd has some grounds for his nefarious activities in that his wife was raped by the Judge and he was deported on a false charge, he returns to seek revenge

Notes:
based on work by George Dibdin Pitt

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1970

Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1974   -

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Genre:
Melodrama

Parts:
Male:  8    Female:  3    Other:  -

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CHRIS BOND
Tale Of Two Cities, A

Synopsis:
Period 1860 as classic action is split between London and Paris

Notes:
novel by Charles Dickens

1st Produced:
Liverpool    1981

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  16    Female:  10    Other:  -

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CHRIS BOND
Tarzan's Last Stand

Synopsis:
Enoch Powell in a leopard skin. . .

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1st Produced:
Liverpool    1973

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CHRIS BOND
Under New Management

Synopsis:
The bosses of the factory are all cretins. One even dresses as a schoolboy and carries a teddy bear. The workers rise up and take control

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1st Produced:
Liverpool    1975

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