EDWARD BOND (1935 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Edward Bond
A-A-America |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen's New Theatrescript, Eyre Methuen, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Grandma Faust and The Swing. Written for Inter Action | |||||
| Synopsis: | Anti racialist play dealing with American Blacks and Whites, but applicable elsewhere | |||||
Activists Papers, The |
| 1st Produced: | Varies | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The papers are introductions to plays and may be inserted in programmes | |||||
After The Assinations |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Arcade |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
At The Island Sea |
| 1st Produced: | tour British Schools | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | Big Brum Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | On a seemingly ordinary day the extraordinary happens. As a student prepares for the first day of exams he meets someone from the past who confronts him with an impossible dilemma. It's a life or death situation. Can he use his imagination to stop the most horrific events from taking place? | |||||
Balancing Act, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Bingo |
| 1st Produced: | Exeter, Devon | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Historical Play | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | scenes of Money and Death | |||||
| Synopsis: | Last few days in the life of Shakespeare | |||||
Black Mass |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of Sharpeville Sequence: A Scene, A Story, and Three Poems. Written for Anti Apartheid Movement | |||||
| Synopsis: | Christ's place on the cross is taken by an endless succession of policemen after he poisons the south African Prime Minister with communion wine | |||||
Born |
| 1st Produced: | Avignon Festival, France | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Born and People are the third and fourth plays of The Colline Tetralogy. Coffee and The Crime of the Twenty-First Century are the first and second plays. The tetralogy is named after Le Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris which staged the first productions. The Colline Tetralogy is dedicated to Alain Françon. | |||||
| Synopsis: | In this tragic epic for the twenty-first century set in a de-humanised world of surveillance and terror, Luke asks his question but finds no oracle to answer it. | |||||
Bundle, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Philosophical Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 23 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | New Narrow Road to the Deep North | |||||
| Synopsis: | Adopted infant grows up to be rebel leader; villagers versus tyrannous landowner. | |||||
Burns |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Cat, The |
| 1st Produced: | Schetzingen | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | Opera libretto | Opera | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | performed as The English Cat. Music by H W Henze | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Chair |
| 1st Produced: | Avignon Festival, France | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 7 April 2000 | |||||
| Synopsis: | A repressive society where all compassion is a crime, all acts outside the prescribed norm suspicious and even the misuse of an ordinary chair may bring catastrophe. . . | |||||
Chaste Maid In Cheapside, A |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1966 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Thomas Middleton | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Children, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Set in a late-21st-century apocalyptic landscape where human behaviour is monitored, living spaces are designated and where any emotional displays are immediately eradicated. A teenager's unquestioning loyalty to his mother has fatal consequences | |||||
Choruses From After The Assassinations |
| 1st Produced: | Colchester | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | SF | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | three choruses from a putative play about a soldier deserting in the year 2030 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Bond forecasts questions fifty years into the future, in an age of escalating militarism | |||||
Coffee |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1997 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | - | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | voices | |||||
| Notes: | Born and People are the third and fourth plays of The Colline Tetralogy. Coffee and The Crime of the Twenty-First Century are the first and second plays. The tetralogy is named after Le Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris which staged the first productions. The Colline Tetralogy is dedicated to Alain Françon. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A young man alone in a room. A stranger enters. Together they journey into a dark forest - When the men return to the daylight world, they are involved in a trivial incident. It is hardly more than a gesture - yet it is something that once happened and in its triviality captures the history of our century and confronts us with the deepest questions about ourselves. | |||||
Crime Of The Twenty-First Century, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Born and People are the third and fourth plays of The Colline Tetralogy. Coffee and The Crime of the Twenty-First Century are the first and second plays. The tetralogy is named after Le Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris which staged the first productions. The Colline Tetralogy is dedicated to Alain Françon. | |||||
| Synopsis: | The past has been abolished and geography - even the sky - is changed. A woman lives in a vast desert of white rubble. A tiny group of people comes seeking a hiding place - and is exposed to the deepest questions of human existence. | |||||
Derek |
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at The Warehouse, London Youth Festival, Stratford on Avon | 1982 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | SF | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | about political manipulation psychology | |||||
Early Morning |
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscript 18, Calder and Boyars, London, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Surreal farce | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Puns on mourning; expose of Victorian social injustice. Alternative history Queen Victoria seduces Florence Nightingale. Alternative Heaven - where everyone turns cannibal. | |||||
Eleven Vests |
| 1st Produced: | Birmingham prior to tour of Midlands | 1997 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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 | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | one person is involved in two events; one at school, another as a soldier in the army. Although separated by years, the incidents bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. Eleven Vests shows how the adult develops from the younger self and looks at how tragedy escalates from seemingly minor confrontations. | |||||
English Cat |
| 1st Produced: | Schetzingen | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | Opera libretto | Opera | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | performed as The English Cat, aka The Cat. Music by H W Henze | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Enoch Show, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1969 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 in | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Early on, the Upstairs even attempted a kind of living newspaper called The Enoch Show. Every Royal Court dramatist was invited to contribute ever-changing material to a revue about Enoch Powell, who could, by coincidence, be seen every morning at Sloane Square station going to work. | |||||
Existence |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre-Studio Alfortville, Paris | 2002 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 8 April 2002 | |||||
| Synopsis: | After a night out with his mates a man walks home. In the street he chooses a door and breaks into a room where someone sits waiting for him in the dark. . . and where he stumbles to the edge of his universe. | |||||
Fables |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Fool, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 37 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | scenes of Bread and love | |||||
| Synopsis: | An examination of the life of the peasant poet, John Clare, a stormy indictment of society. | |||||
Grandma Faust |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part 1 of A-A-America | |||||
| Synopsis: | Anti racialist play dealing with American Blacks and Whites, but applicable elsewhere | |||||
Great Peace |
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 1985 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | War | - | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | The War Plays | |||||
| Synopsis: | Order restored, military in charge; soldiers obey orders. | |||||
Have I None |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Set in a late-21st-century apocalyptic landscape where human behaviour is monitored, living spaces are designated and where any emotional displays are immediately eradicated. a couple's lives are irreversibly changed by the appearance of a disturbing stranger who questions their existence. | |||||
Human Cannon |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Brutality and horror in the Spanish Civil War. | |||||
In The Company Of Men |
| 1st Produced: | Avignon | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | corscucating attack on the values encapsulated by boardroom power games | |||||
Jackets I |
| 1st Produced: | Leicester | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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 | 12 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | The Village School | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Jackets II |
| 1st Produced: | Leicester | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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 | 12 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | The City | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Lear |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||||
| Company: | English Stage Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | Parable | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | An authoritarian monarch is overthrown by his daughters who, in turn, find the possession of power to be fatally evil. | |||||
Lulu: A Monster Tragedy |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
My Day |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Song cycle for young people | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Narrow Road To The Deep North |
| 1st Produced: | Coventry | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A war parable set in 19th century Japan; enlightenment is where you are. | |||||
Olly's Prison |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | three TV plays | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | an ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will not answer. Slowly their world turns to tragedy and a search begins that lasts for years. | |||||
Orpheus |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1981 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Opera libretto | Opera | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music by H W Henze | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Passion |
| 1st Produced: | Alexandra Park Racecourse, London | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | An open air production presented by the Royal Court Theatre as part of the CND Festival of Life | |||||
| Synopsis: | The verbal and narrative gyrations of a Lonnie Carter play are no more daunting than whipping through a maelstrom on water skis. . .. GULLIVER, Mr Carter's latest explosion, takes the hero of Jonathan Swift's satire on a tour that makes American politics seem even more lunatic than it is. D J R Bruckner, The New York Times | |||||
People |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Born and People are the third and fourth plays of The Colline Tetralogy. Coffee and The Crime of the Twenty-First Century are the first and second plays. The tetralogy is named after Le Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris which staged the first productions. The Colline Tetralogy is dedicated to Alain Françon. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A young man searches in a wasteland run by army gangs. He knows neither his past nor his identity in this exploration of the complexities of guilt and finally of modern innocence. | |||||
Pope's Wedding, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1962 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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 | 10 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Dramatises a young man's effort fully to understand another human being | |||||
Red, Black And Ignorant |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | War | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | The War Plays | |||||
| Synopsis: | A charred blackened master; a boy leaves a woman to die | |||||
Restoration : A Pastoral |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||||
| Company: | ESC | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music by Nick Bicat | |||||
| Synopsis: | Restoration is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mine owner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and fatal crime. He seeks to pin responsibility for it on his guileless, illiterate footman, Bob Hedges. A battle ensues between Bob's black, justice-hungry wife and the fortified privilege of the ruling classes. | |||||
Saved |
| 1st Produced: | 1965 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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 | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | An unhappy loner stands by as youths throw stones at a baby in a car | |||||
Sea, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Man falls in love with fiancee of drowned friend, with fantastic sub plot | |||||
September |
| 1st Produced: | Canterbury | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Short Electra, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Spring Awakening |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1974 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, Chicago, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Frank Wedekind | |||||
| Synopsis: | Youthful tragedy of awakening sexuality in an atmosphere of repression. | |||||
Stone |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
| Company: | Gay Sweatshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | parable of oppression, you cannot have your freedom at someone else's expense | |||||
Summer |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | A European Play | |||||
| Synopsis: | crumbling family structures in Calcutta's Jewish community. The action revolves around a dying matriarch, Mozelle, whose two expatriate daughters rush to her rickety bedside. But the sibling rivalry between the Anglicised Esther and the Americanised Silvie is temporarily ended when they discover, to their horror, that their mother's youngcompanion n is in fact their half-sister. The Guardian | |||||
Swing, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 9 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part 2 of A-A-America | |||||
| Synopsis: | Anti racist play dealing with American Blacks and Whites, but applicable elsewhere | |||||
Three Sisters, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1967 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
| Synopsis: | the death of Tusenbach in a meaningless quarrel is one more of the losses which empty the sisters' future of meaning | |||||
Tin Can People, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | War | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | The War Plays | |||||
| Synopsis: | 17 years after the nuclear holocaust deaths mysteriously multiply | |||||
Tuesday |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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 | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | a young girl sits alone in her bedroom studying when her soldier boyfriend returns unexpectedly from active service. In the action that follows she is confronted with a conflict of love and loyalty between him and her father. | |||||
Under Room, The |
| 1st Produced: | Roade School, Northampton | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | Big Brum | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A work of unffinching purity and brutality as it plays out a series of choices and betrayals. . . It is an intricate puzzle that is compeffing in both its intellectual and emotional intensity Guardian | |||||
We Come To The River |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music by Hans Werner Hese | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
White Devil, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - John Webster | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Window, A |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Big Brum Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Provocative, compelling, disturbing and darkly comic, Edward Bond's plays for young people are a body of work which stand alongside his classics Saved, Lear and The Sea. The latest, his seventh for the internationally renowned Birmingham company Big Brum, asks what it is to be human. A play for our times, it promises not only to question society, but our own values and comfortable assumptions; a unique opportunity to engage theatre audiences, both young and old, with a new play by 'the greatest of post-war British playwrights'. (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian). | |||||
Woman, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Epic | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | Scenes of War and Freedom | |||||
| Synopsis: | The power of hate and destruction vs love and reconciliation | |||||
Worlds, The |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle upon Tyne | 1979 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 14 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||