HOWARD BRENTON   (1942 - )


Howard Brenton
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Plays by Howard Brenton

HOWARD BRENTON
Berlin Bertie
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1992
ISBN
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The downing of the Berlin Wall unites two sisters from East Berlin and their native London.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Bloody Poetry
1st Produced:
Leicester
1984
Company:
Foco Novo Theatre Company
1st Published:
ISBN
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-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
voice
Notes:
UK Tour and Hampstead Theatre, London
Synopsis:
Staged to critical acclaim in both New York and London, first at the Hampstead Theatre in 1984 and subsequently in a revival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1988, this is a portrayal of the lives of Shelley, Mary Shelley and Claire Clairemont. Set between the summers of 1816 and 1822 the play opens with their flight from England to Switzerland and Italy where, for the first time, they encounter Lord Byron.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Brassneck
1st Produced:
Playhouse, Nottingham
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1973
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
15
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with David Hare (TV 1975)
Synopsis:
Property business in small town in Midlands expands world wide on death of founder, political corruption then bankruptcy leads to heroin importation
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HOWARD BRENTON
Christie In Love
1st Produced:
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Christie in Love and Other Plays, Methuen, London, 1970
ISBN
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Genre:
Play 11 scenes
-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Police search for famous murder's, John Christie, victims in garden. Confronted by Christie arisen they goad and then re-hang him.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Churchill Play, The
1st Produced:
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1974
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Genre:
Historical drama
-
Parts:
Male
17
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Churchill's hereditary syphilis used as a lampoon, "performed in the winter of 1984 by the internees of the Churchill Camp somewhere in England".
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HOWARD BRENTON
Collateral Damage
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon, London, 1999
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written by Tariq Ali, Howard Brenton, Andy De La Tour
Synopsis:
War rages in the Balkans. While NATO bombs Serbia, the Kosovan Albanians are driven out of their homes. Europe is divided. In homes everywhere, people debate the rights and wrongs of the war. This play reveals the results.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Consequences
1st Produced:
Croydon
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Colaboration
-
Parts:
Male
7
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Dunn, Griffiths, Ikoli, Sobol, Williams, Wilson, Wymark
Synopsis:
Eight playwrights play consequences in the 21stC as a last gasp for Foco Novo, killed by the government and the Arts Council
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HOWARD BRENTON
Conversations In Exile
1st Produced:
UK Tour and Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court
1982
Company:
Foco Novo Theatre Company
1st Published:
in "Theater XVII" No 2 Spring, 1986
ISBN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Translation by David Dollenmayer
Synopsis:
topics on : Passports, order, fascism, the Weimar Republic etc lead to the foundation of a cockroach extermination business
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HOWARD BRENTON
Danton's Death
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
24
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Georg Buchner
Synopsis:
a study of Danton showing not so much his humanity as his existential exhaustion
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HOWARD BRENTON
Deeds
1st Produced:
Playhouse, Nottingham
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Plays & Players, May/June, London, 1978
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Griffiths, Cambell, Hare
Synopsis:
Baby dies from chemicals in Nuzzles Milk Powder, wife disappears,, husband jailed, wickedness all round.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Education Of Skinny Spew, The
1st Produced:
Bradford University, Bradford
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Christie in Love and Other Plays, Methuen, London, 1970
ISBN
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Still in the womb Skinny Spew has adult wisdom, once born he drowns his parents for treating him as a moron. reverts to babyhood under rigours of "proper" education.
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HOWARD BRENTON
England's Ireland
1st Produced:
Amsterdam
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
20 scenes with songs
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Bicat, Clark, Edgar, Fuchs, Hare, Wilson
Synopsis:
Episodic historical look at the British in Northern Ireland. Loyalist view followed by bias towards IRA with torturing British Soldiers and Orange Lodge excrement
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HOWARD BRENTON
Epsom Downs
1st Produced:
Round House, London
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1977
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Joint Stock Theatre
Synopsis:
takes place on Derby day in Silver Jubilee Year encompasses punters of every degree
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HOWARD BRENTON
Fart For Europe, A
1st Produced:
London
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Burlesque
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with David Edgar
Synopsis:
Attacks the 1973 "Fanfare for Europe" celebrations. Labour MP with same views as Enoch Powell; European Trade Union Links; multi-nationals rule
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HOWARD BRENTON
Faust: Parts One And Two
1st Produced:
Swan, Stratford
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1995
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
13
Female
8
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Goethe, translation by Christa Weisman
Synopsis:
Soul to the devil, as always
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HOWARD BRENTON
Fruit
1st Produced:
1970
Company:
Portable Theatre
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Satire on the Future
Satire
Parts:
Male
5
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A man, for reasons of personal revenge and cynicism, tries to bring down government by blackmailing homosexual prime minister.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Gargantua
1st Produced:
Brighton
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
novel by Raalais
Synopsis:
Distortions of scale with huge giants swallowing family having their Christmas dinner.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Genius, The
1st Produced:
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
1 skeleton
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
the theme of an innovator's responsibility in the nuclear age through the related realms of education, the Cold War, student radicalism and political theory
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HOWARD BRENTON
Gothic Triple Bill
1st Produced:
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Revival
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HOWARD BRENTON
Government Property
1st Produced:
Aarhus, Denmark
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
script from Rosica Colin Ltd, london, 1975
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
9 actors
Notes:
reworking of themes in The Churchill Play
Synopsis:
an 'environmental' show
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HOWARD BRENTON
Greenland
1st Produced:
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
Utopian Play
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Over half the play is set 700 years in the future where the gap between expectations and reality is dramatic for a drunk Peer and a middle aged woman.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Gum And Goo
1st Produced:
Brighton Combination, Brighton
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays for Public Places", Eyre Methuen, London, 1972
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Two boys transformed into fantasy gremlins by autistic girl. Girl pushed into a hole and found "not dead - worse, she's silent"
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HOWARD BRENTON
H.I.D. (Hess Is Dead)
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1989
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Investigates the contradictions surrounding the apparent suicide of Hitler' one time deputy.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Heads
1st Produced:
Bradford University, Bradford
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Christie in Love and Other Plays, Methuen, London, 1970
ISBN
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Genre:
Farce
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A girl torn between love for two men, one for his mind the other for his physique, forces them to switch heads.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Hitler Dances
1st Produced:
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
Play in 24 scenes
-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
In collaboration with the Traverse Workshop
Synopsis:
Responses to the 2nd World War debunking the way it has been mythologised in fiction, films and television.
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HOWARD BRENTON
How Beautiful With Badges
1st Produced:
Open Space Theatre, London
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Three Plays" Sheffield Academic Press, 1989
ISBN
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Genre:
Short play
One Act
Parts:
Male
5
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A tortured young working class Maoist disguised as a boy scout accompanied by his childish sidekick confront two hells angels on acid trip.
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HOWARD BRENTON
In Extremis
1st Produced:
Shakespeare's Globe, London
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
6
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
An early version of In Extremis was written in 1997 at the University of California, Davis. It was performed by MFA students of the Drama Department.
Synopsis:
The true-life love story of Héloïse and Abelard. A new spirit of philosophical and religious enquiry is growing in 12th-century France. In its vanguard is the brilliant Peter Abelard, a man of great learning, independence of mind, and sensuality. He starts a war of ideas with the powerful Abbot and Pope-maker, Bernard of Clairvaux, the arch-priest of medieval mysticism and austerity. But when Abelard begins a wild affair with his equally brilliant but disastrously connected student Héloïse, his enemies find just the pretext they need to destroy him. Through the joy and suffering of one of the greatest love stories of the middle ages, Howard Brenton explores the relationships between logic and religion, humanism and fundamentalism, faith and power.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Iranian Nights
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1989
ISBN
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Tariq Ali
Synopsis:
A response to the Iranian Fatwa placed on the writer Salman Rushdie
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HOWARD BRENTON
It's My Criminal
1st Produced:
London
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
An apprentice work"
Synopsis:
A thief who has been living rough attempts to steal from home of retired master criminal and gets punished by his retainer
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HOWARD BRENTON
Jedefrau
1st Produced:
Salzburg
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Synopsis:
a group of women make a journey across modern Europe eating male tourists along the way and finally meeting with death on an autobahn
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HOWARD BRENTON
Kit
1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
about Christopher Marlowe
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HOWARD BRENTON
Ladder Of Fools
1st Produced:
Cambridge
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Science Fiction Dream Play
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
An apprentice work"
Synopsis:
An attempt to escape from an underground science fiction world causes holy fool to dire; the play is then repeated backwards.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Lay By
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays & Players" Nov, 1971
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written by Brenton, Clark, Griffiths, Hare, Poliakoff, Stoddart, Wilson
Synopsis:
Fellatio as rape gets perpetrator ten years and pregnant heroin addict victim committed to Holloway. Denouement as main characters are washed in blood and made into jam.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Life Of Galileo, The
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1980
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
35
Female
11
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis:
charts the progress of Galileo's life from his first demonstration to his imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition
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HOWARD BRENTON
Magnificence
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1973
ISBN
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Genre:
Agit Prop
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A squat is raided by police causing one squatter to lose baby another to be imprisoned. Violent finale as Conservative Minister and released squatter are blown up.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Measure For Measure
1st Produced:
Northcott, Exeter
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Three Plays", Academic, Sheffield, 1989
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Shakespeare
Synopsis:
Vicious attack on Powellism within the Macmillan government and condemnation of puritan backlash.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Moscow Gold
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1990
ISBN
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Genre:
Epic
-
Parts:
Male
21
Female
9
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
written with Tariq Ali
Synopsis:
Charts the rise and rise of Russian President Gorbachov through satire, history, analysis and song.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Mug
1st Produced:
Manchester
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Old man squirts CS gas into mugger's face. A condemnation of "arty little theatre plays about violent times".
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HOWARD BRENTON
Nail Poems: 32 Haiku
1st Produced:
London
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Theatre poem
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
to chart Brenton's everyday landscape, moral and physical
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HOWARD BRENTON
Never So Good
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
National theatre Company
1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
12
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A fascinating portrait of Harold Macmillan in an epic play about the decline of British fortunes in the middle of the twentieth century. Set against a back-drop of fading Empire, war, the Suez crisis, vintage champagne, adultery and vicious Tory politics at the Ritz, Never So Good paints the portrait of a brilliant, witty but complex man, at times comically and, in the end, tragically out of kilter with his times. Harold Macmillan, the Eton-educated idealist who rushed, with Homer's Iliad under his arm, to do his duty in the Grenadier Guards, is tormented by the harsh experiences of war and an unhappy marriage. His career in the 1930s is blocked by his loyalty to Winston Churchill, and he nearly loses his life in the Second World War. When at last he becomes Prime Minister he is brought down by the Profumo scandal
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HOWARD BRENTON
Paul
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
National theatre Company
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
1
Parts Other:
ensemble
Notes:
"They are all praying for me, and they are telling me I will go to hell unless I take the play off. I don't mind, because I don't believe in hell." Nicholas Hytner's sanguine response to 200 letters of complaint received before the play opened. Full story
Synopsis:
The most famous conversion in history - when Saul became Paul on the road to Damascus - was a trick. It was actually Jesus appearing to him. Jesus did not die on the cross but was rescued and sheltered by his brother James, by Peter and by Peter's wife, Mary Magdalene. But they prefer to keep Paul in the dark because, although he is mistakenly preaching that Christ rose again, at least it keeps him busy and gets the Christian message out there. . . Now imprisoned by Nero, Peter finally tells Paul the truth before they go to their deaths as the first Christian Martyrs-
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HOWARD BRENTON
Pravda
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Fleet St Comedy
-
Parts:
Male
14
Female
5
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
written with David Hare
Synopsis:
our starting point was my fascination with a studio photograph of a man with a cigarette in one hand and a pipe in the other Fugard
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HOWARD BRENTON
Revenge
1st Produced:
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Melodrama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
14 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Conflict between an old East End lag just released from prison and a religious, almost ancestral, policeman from Scotland
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HOWARD BRENTON
Romans In Britain, The
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1980
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
homosexual rape, bloody violence, frequent obscenity and political signifying - empire at its worst
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HOWARD BRENTON
Saliva Milkshake, The
1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
TQ Publishing, London, 1977
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
novel Under Western Eyes by Conrad
Synopsis:
the dilemma of a liberal intellectual caught in the crossfire of a political crisis which forces him to make a commitment
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HOWARD BRENTON
Scott Of The Antarctic: Or, What God Didn't See
1st Produced:
Bradford
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays for Public Places", Eyre Methuen, London, 1972
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Ice Show
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Mock "cabaret on ice", Scott is confronted by Devil on motorbike with hell's angels trying to stop his South Pole expedition.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Screens, The
1st Produced:
Bristol
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Genet
Synopsis:
epic panorama on a theme of Eastern fantasies
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HOWARD BRENTON
Short Sharp Shock!, A
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1981
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
13
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Tony Howard
Synopsis:
attempts of "a mad socialist family" who run a junk shop of socialist memorabilia to counter the Thatcher Revolution
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HOWARD BRENTON
Sky Blue Life, A
1st Produced:
London
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Three Plays" Sheffield Academic Press, 1989
ISBN
-
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Genre:
7 continous scenes
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Vignette from the life of Gorky exploring his conflicts with Lenin's revolution in Russia
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HOWARD BRENTON
Sleeping Policemen
1st Produced:
1983
Company:
Foco Novo Theatre Company
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Tunde Ikoli
Synopsis:
Peckham, in South London, through the eyes of six of its inhabitants
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HOWARD BRENTON
Snogging Ken
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon, London, 2000
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
By Tariq Ali, Howard Brenton and Andy de la Tour
Synopsis:
Including the Stigma Manifesto Pity Tony’s nannies at New Labour’s Millbank election war-room: they’re working night and day to get ‘Red Ken’ and prevent him from becoming Mayor of London. Suddenly it’s Ken, the cuckoo in the nest, who’s getting the people’s vote and Millbank, charged with plotting his downfall, is getting desperate. Ever more dastardly plots are afoot as the election draws nearer.
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HOWARD BRENTON
Sore Throats
1st Produced:
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1979
ISBN
-
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Genre:
intimate play
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Judy looks forward to a future of sexual, personal and financial freedom after attacks on her by her divorced husband, a policeman
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HOWARD BRENTON
Thing, The
1st Produced:
Brackley, Northamptonshire
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Play Nine" Arnold, 1981
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Classroom Play For Young People 30 min
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
for children's performance
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HOWARD BRENTON
Thirteenth Night
1st Produced:
1981
Company:
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1981
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Dream Play
-
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
selects the characters in Shakespeare to find the elements in the British character which could transform an Englishman into a Stalin
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HOWARD BRENTON
Ugly Rumours
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Tariq Ali
Synopsis:
Once upon a time Tony-Boy and Gordon were happy. Really, really happy. Then came power, lots of lovely power, but sadly it meant that only one of them could be Chief Executive of the old firm. Behind the smiles lies a mountain of sulks. Envy strangles their friendship. Fear eats their souls. But suddenly angels appear from on high in the shape of two luscious spin-doctors and some delicious quack remedies. Will the nation heave a sigh of relief? Is New Democracy safe?
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HOWARD BRENTON
Wall Dog, The
1st Produced:
London
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Manfred Karge. Adapted with Jane Brenton
Synopsis:
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HOWARD BRENTON
Warwickgate
1st Produced:
Warwick possibly Coventry)
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
University Play
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Tony Howard & 8 others
Synopsis:
On the suppression of learning
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HOWARD BRENTON
Weapons Of Happiness
1st Produced:
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1976
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Political play
-
Parts:
Male
9
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
an old Czech Cabinet minister living in obscurity as a cleaner in London rediscovers love, Stalinism and the European communist movement
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HOWARD BRENTON
Wesley
1st Produced:
Bradford Methodist Church, Bradford
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays for Public Places", Eyre Methuen, London, 1972
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
12 people
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Episodic account of life of Methodist preacher, John Wesley, with sermons, choir and an announcer
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HOWARD BRENTON
Winter, Daddykins
1st Produced:
Nottingham
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Farce
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
An apprentice work" rework of Ladder of Fools
Synopsis:
As father dies his daughter is saved from lad on the make by family
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