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JOHN BOYD (1912 - 2002) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by John Boyd |
Christmas Carol, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
Company: | Lyric theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4181 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 14 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | An adaptation of the original novella by Charles Dickens. | |||||
Synopsis: | On Christmas Eve 1846, miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his business partner Marley, and by the spirits of Christmas past, present and future. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Facing North | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
Company: | Lyric theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in John Boyd: Collected Plays 2, Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49124 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Adam Grant is a farm owner and factory owner. His son's American girlfriend is abducted from the farm, but is released when she convinces her kidnappers that she is Catholic. Grant's home, Cromwell House, is under a compulsory purchase order to make way for a Catholic housing estate, and there is trouble at the factory when a worker hangs up a Union flag. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Round the Big Clock | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | Lyric theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4182 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A biography of the city of Belfast, centred around the Albert Clock, one of its famous landmarks. Characters from history appear as the shipbuilders, spinners, soldiers and sailors go about their daily business, until the clock stops in 1939. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Speranza's Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
Company: | Lyric theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4183 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 25 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Speranza's Boy tells the life story of Oscar Wilde as revealed by flashbacks and unspoken dream sequences. The play focuses on his American tour as well as his relationship with his mother, his wife, and Lord Alfred Douglas. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Street, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||||
Company: | Lyric theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in John Boyd: Collected Plays 2, Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4184 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Downies are a working class family in Belfast during the Depression. Willie Downie is a trades union activist, and his wife a labour candidate: they scandalise the neighbours by soliciting the votes of Catholics as well as Protestants. Willie's brother Bob is a railwayman whose bookish son, Joe, seeks to better himself by education. Bob's wife Jane finds her solace through drink, and this costs her her life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Summer Class | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
Company: | Lyric theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4185 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An extra mural literature class for adults is being held during the summer vacation. The uneasy relationship between the tutor and his wife threatens to become more serious when she introduces to the class her protege, lately released from the Maze prison. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wuthering Heights | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
Company: | Lyric theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4186 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | A dramatisation of the original novel by Emily Bronte. | |||||
Synopsis: | The lives of the Earnshaw and Linton families are changed forever by the tempestuous love affair of Heathcliff and Cathy. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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