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TONY BREEZE |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Brought up in a working-class household in Sunderland, in the north-east of England, Tony succeeded in passing an exam at the age of eleven, which sent him to the local selective Grammar School. He feels he "drifted" from there into the teaching profession, training as a drama teacher at a college in Nottingham, where he met his present wife. Lives are changed by the most ordinary of events and after two years as a teacher he was already becoming bored with teaching when someone in a bar suggested that if he joined the local police they'd give him a house and his qualifications would stand him in good stead. Moved by a naïve desire to "do good for society," a year later saw he was patrolling the local beat in a police uniform and working shifts. For a while he ascended the learning curve, passing all his police exams, gaining a part-time LLB and trying to conform to the culture of the police where, he felt, some of the detectives, were almost as devious as the criminals, bending the rules of fairness when it suited them. Due to his exam successes he was allowed to try for accelerated promotion but didn't get it and had to work his way up the system the hard way, resulting in him getting only to the rank of sergeant and eventually feeling the frustration of seeing others going past him in the promotion stakes. The boredom of shift work soon left a gap in his life and he began the process of writing plays for competitions, some of which he won and so began his urge to become a recognized playwright. Two of his one-act plays were published by New Playwrights Network of Macclesfield, UK, and when he got his first refusal he decided to explore the idea of self-publishing. Since then he has published more than twenty plays, most of which have been performed by UK amateur groups and one, "My Brother's Keeper" reaching the final of the Pittsburgh New Play Festival and later published in Holland and Belgium. He has also published novels and poetry for children and adults. At the age of forty he almost escaped the police system when he went to London to audition at the Poor School for a place on a part-time course for actors. He was the only one in his group to be offered a place but having teenage children and a mortgage he regrets that he didn't have the courage to make the break. They say that the writer must suffer for his art. Tony's desire to write finally got him in trouble with his employers when, working as an instructor at a Police Training Centre in Coventry, he used their ageing photocopier without permission to make some copies of his latest one-act play and when challenged, Washington-like, he told the truth, expecting clemency. Instead they confined him to his room, carried out a full investigation and held a military-style discipline interview after which they summarily expelled him back to his own force. The end of his police career also wasn't happy, but the British law of libel prevents him being able to say why.
Plays by Tony Breeze
5T Rules -OK! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Notts One Act Final | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 5, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4479 | |||
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Genre: | Natural drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 15 juveniles | |||||
Notes: | One-act 45mins | |||||
Synopsis: | Class of schoolchildren take over school | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bill | ||
| 1st Produced: | West Bridgford Dramatic Society, Nottingham | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 6, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4480 | |||
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Genre: | Dramatic Monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Old lady talks to husband getting changed upstairs but he never appears | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Danny Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 7, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4481 | |||
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Genre: | Natural drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | One-act 50 mins. Festival Winner | |||||
Synopsis: | Territorial soldier is lost on moors | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Diaghilev's Bag | ||
| 1st Produced: | Peebles Scotland | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 8, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4482 | |||
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Genre: | Natural drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1c | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Police officers in overalls have picked up pieces of a body at the scene of a suicide on train line and are trying to cope when child arrives and wants to know what's in the bag | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Eckersley Rising, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Burton Joyce Village Hall, Notts | 2006 | ||||
Company: | The Burton Joyce Players | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 9, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4483 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | I juv | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Walter Midgley gives up work against the wishes of his wife to breed chickens and listen to his amateur radio. One day he receives the first signals from another planet and no-one believes him so he builds his own rocket powered by chicken manure | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Examination | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stoke on Trent Festival | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 10, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4484 | |||
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Genre: | Natural drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | juveniles | |||||
Notes: | One act 40 mins | |||||
Synopsis: | Girl refuses to take part in exam- why? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flight Zero One | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103652 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A small plane crash lands in a snow storm and the passengers are forced to spend the night in an abandoned fur trappers cabin | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Happines Tree, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Awaiting premiere | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 11, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4485 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | juveniles | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Allegorical comedy about poor people who discover a tree bearing fruit which makes everyone happy resulting in social disorder. It is made illegal but when attempts to control it fail, the government decide the only thing they can do is to tax its use. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harry's Bird | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 12, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4486 | |||
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Genre: | Natural drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Terminally ill man in hospice meets girl from Probation Hostel next door | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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My Brother's Keeper | ||
| 1st Produced: | Questors Theatre, London | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 13, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4487 | |||
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Genre: | Natural drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2n/s males | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two brothers face a difficult choice with their comatose father - filial duty versus euthanasia | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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My Father's House | ||
| 1st Produced: | Awaiting premiere | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 14, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60262 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 2 juv | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Poor American farming family in 1929 take in a dumb black hobo. Their youngest son is injured and together they build a huge tree house to encourage him to get better. The hobo is wrongly accused of crime and lynched so the farmer makes a stand by cutting down the tree | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Power & The Glory, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Awaiting premiere | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 15, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4488 | |||
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Genre: | Natural drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 15 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on two actual events | |||||
Synopsis: | Soldiers visit village, one is killed, they take over and to loosen tongues seize all the food in the village with disastrous results | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sepia Serenade | ||
| 1st Produced: | Burton Joyce Village Hall, Notts | Jun 1980 | ||||
Company: | The Burton Joyce Players | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872758193 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103653 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The local theatre group are about to start their latest performance when an elderly man with a magic lantern turns up claiming he has been booked to give a talk that evening. Then the electricity is cut off | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sorry | ||
| 1st Produced: | Awaiting premiere | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 16, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4489 | |||
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Genre: | Natural drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Ex drama students return to school to put teacher right about the outside world | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ticking | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lochside Theatre, Castle Douglas, Scotland | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 17, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4490 | |||
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Genre: | Futuristic Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 people | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Post nuclear holocaust people are living underground and have been convinced by the governing authority that no life exists on the surface until one of them finds an old watch that's fallen down and is still ticking | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wasps | ||
| 1st Produced: | Criterion Theatre, Coventry | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 18, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4491 | |||
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Genre: | Natural drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A new girl's first day as a Traffic Warden | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Zoo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northumberland Young Farmers Club at the Queens Hall, Hexham, Northumberland, UK | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ventus Books, 70 Nottingham Road, Burton Joyce, Notts, NG14 19, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4492 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A family of futuristic monkeys spend the day at the human safari park observing their behaviour | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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