JOHN BOWEN   (1926 - )


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Plays by John Bowen

JOHN BOWEN
After The Rain
1st Produced:
Hamstead Theatre Club, London
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1967
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The time is '200 years after the Rain of 1969' and the action is a paraphrase of the Bible, commencing with the ark and the flood and ending with the sacrifice of the god-figure. A vital youth and a girl are introduced to the rituals of the community led by Arthur, who believes himself divine. Another man becomes his priest and establishes a ritual-ablutions, confession, audiences, sacrifices, etc. But Arthur is disabused of his godly notions and convinced that he was only possessed by God and was only his vicar. It is he who must be sacrificed.
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JOHN BOWEN
Alarm Call
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Rook, R. (Ed.), Play Nine
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
9
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN BOWEN
Bondage
1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London
1978
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
New look at the world of Ivy Compton-Burnett. Ropes and talk of whips disguise a feminist piece.
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JOHN BOWEN
Candidate, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1962
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Genre:
T.V. Drama
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN BOWEN
Coffee Lace, The
1st Produced:
Hamstead Theatre Club, London
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
1968
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Little Boxes
Synopsis:
Group of elderly concert party artistes sell the body for a celebration when one dies
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JOHN BOWEN
Cold Salmon
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1998
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
6
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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JOHN BOWEN
Corsican Brothers, The
1st Produced:
Greenwich Theatre, London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
1970
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Genre:
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Play with Music
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
based on the Alexandre Dumas story, televised 1965. Lyrics by John Holmstrom and John Bowen
Synopsis:
About twin brothers and the vendetta. Songs and lights.
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JOHN BOWEN
Disorderly Women, The
1st Produced:
Stables Theatre, Manchester
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
1969
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides (The Bacchae)
Synopsis:
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JOHN BOWEN
Diversion
1st Produced:
London
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
excerpts in Rook, R. (Ed.), Play Nine, Arnold, London
1981
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
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JOHN BOWEN
Essay Prize, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1962
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Genre:
T.V. Drama
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Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN BOWEN
Fall And Redemption Of Man, The
1st Produced:
Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Scotland
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1968
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Genre:
Religious
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Parts:
Male
10
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
from the Mystery plays
Synopsis:
Selection and translation of assorted mystery plays in verse
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JOHN BOWEN
Florence Nightingale
1st Produced:
Canterbury
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1976
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Genre:
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Historical
Parts:
Male
7
Female
6
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN BOWEN
Geordie Gentleman, The
1st Produced:
Newcastle onupon Tyne
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere
Synopsis:
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JOHN BOWEN
Heil Caesar!
1st Produced:
Midland Arts, Birmingham
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1974
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
11
Female
2
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A version of Shakespeare
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JOHN BOWEN
Holiday Abroad, A
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1962
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Genre:
T.V. Drama
-
Parts:
Male
10
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN BOWEN
I Love You Mrs Patterson
1st Produced:
Cambridge, UK
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans Bros, London
1964
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
About marital inequality among professional classes in the west country. Ambivalent conclusion.
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JOHN BOWEN
Inconstant Couple, The
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
as The Feigned Inconstancy in Marivaux Plays, Methuen, London
1988
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Marivaux (L'Heaueaux Strategeme)
Synopsis:
Baroque elegance. Unsentimental piece about love and jealousy among 18th century upper crust
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JOHN BOWEN
Little Boxes
1st Produced:
Hamstead Theatre Club, London
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
1968
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Genre:
Two 1 Actors
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
13 characters
Notes:
The Coffee Lace and Trevor
Synopsis:
Group of elderly concert party artistes sell the body for a celebration when one dies. Lesbian couple hire an actor as lover of one, fiance of the other, when parents come to visit.
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JOHN BOWEN
Miss Nightingale
1st Produced:
Canterbury Marlowe
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A group of actors try to recreate Miss Nightingale. Her mystery persists
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JOHN BOWEN
Oak Tree Room Seige, The
1st Produced:
Leicester
1990
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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JOHN BOWEN
Robin Redbreast
1st Produced:
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
TV version in 'The Television Dramatists', Elek, London
1973
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Lonely lady in a country cottage gets caught up in village fertility rites. Fields are fertilised with blood.
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JOHN BOWEN
Roger
1st Produced:
Horsham, Sussex
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
in London Magazine, October-November
1976
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
in Mixed Blessings
Synopsis:
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JOHN BOWEN
Silver Wedding
1st Produced:
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mixed Doubles - An Entertainment On Marriage, Methuen, London
1970
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Genre:
Short dialogue
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
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
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
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JOHN BOWEN
Singles
1st Produced:
Greenwich Theatre, London
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays 1" Oberon, London
1999
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
5 characters
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Young woman requires child but no husband, and advertises for impregnator in the New Statesman
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JOHN BOWEN
Spot The Lady
1st Produced:
Playhouse, Newcastle upon Tyne
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Frivolous Play
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
With a transsexual, a peripatetic corpse and various concealed doors
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JOHN BOWEN
Trevor
1st Produced:
Hamstead Theatre Club, London
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
1968
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of Little Boxes
Synopsis:
Lesbian couple hire an actor as lover of one, fiance of the other, when parents come to visit.
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JOHN BOWEN
Waiting Room, The
1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1970
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Two strangers meet in a dusty waiting room.
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JOHN BOWEN
Which Way Are You Facing ?
1st Produced:
New Vic, Bristol
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
excerpts in Rook, R. (Ed.), Play Nine, Arnold, London
1981
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
In a corrupt society, which is worse, to try to alleviate individual pain at the cost of bolstering up the society, or to push the society further towards self destruction at the cost of increasing individual pain ?
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JOHN BOWEN
Young Guy Seeks Part-Time Work
1st Produced:
Action Space, London
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Parents of a teenager receive calls which seem to indicate that he is going in for Personal Service Massage, including French
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