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Ian Brown

IAN BROWN

  
Nationality:    British
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Ian Brown's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Ian Brown's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Antigone         Bacchae, The         Beatrice         Carnegie         Fork, The         Gala Opening, The         Great Reckonin', A         Joker In the Pack         Knife, The         Margaret         Mary         Mary Queen And the Loch Tower         Mother Earth         New Reekie         Positevely the Last Final Farewell Performance         Quite Contrary         Rabelais         Rune         Runners         Scotch Play (Originally Entitled Harry Lauder'), The         Wasting Reality         Yeah

Antigone

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 8/5

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Bacchae, The

Synopsis:
depicts the turbulent arrival of the Dionysiac religion in Greece

Notes:
Original Playwright - euripides

1st Produced:
Prospect Theatre Co for studio Theatre tour    1972

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  chorus

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Beatrice

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1st Produced:
-    1989

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Genre:
Corrected typescript drafts

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Ian Brown - acc.12081/5-18

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Carnegie

Synopsis:
about andrew Carnegie's exploitative philanthropy

Notes:
Prospect theatre Co

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Genre:
Play with songs Play with Music

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Fork, The

Synopsis:
Presenting interactions of landlady, lodger and their respective sexually and socially upsetting visitors

Notes:
companion to the Knife

1st Produced:
ICA, London, UK >>>    06 Apr 1976

Organisations:
Gay Sweatshop

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Music:
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Genre:
Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gala Opening, The

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Genre:
Typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Ian Brown - acc.7010/18

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Great Reckonin', A

Synopsis:
Follows King James 1 royal troupe of 'guisers' as they gather in Perth to reconstruct his life following his assassination by multiple stabbing in the monastery of Perth's Preaching Friars.
allan Radcliffe, List

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Perth    2000

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Joker In the Pack

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1st Produced:
-    1983

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Music:
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Genre:
Corrected typescript drafts

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Ian Brown - acc.12081/1-4

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Knife, The

Synopsis:
set in Scottish staff room concerned with violence by pupils and teachers

Notes:
companion to the Fork

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Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Margaret

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1st Produced:
-    2000

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Corrected typescript drafts

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Ian Brown - acc.12081/30-33

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Mary

Synopsis:
Of Mary Queen of Scots, in which her elusive historical persona is reflected in the theatrical variety of the play's forms

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Genre:
Series of views

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mary Queen And the Loch Tower

Synopsis:
uses theatrical resource to explore the myth of Mary

Notes:
for 8 - 12 year olds

1st Produced:
Borderline Theatre Co    1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mother Earth

Synopsis:
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Notes:
involved in workshop collaboration

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Genre:
Collaboration

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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New Reekie

Synopsis:
a comic view of edinburgh's pretensions to culture, sophistication and respectability

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Positevely the Last Final Farewell Performance

Synopsis:
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Notes:
one Act ballet

1st Produced:
Scottish Ballet, Edinburgh    1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Scenario

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Quite Contrary

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 8/5

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Rabelais

Synopsis:
presentation of readings as late-night show

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival    1973

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Readings

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 hander

Further Reference:
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Rune

Synopsis:
text for choral work

Notes:
music by John Maxwell Geddes

1st Produced:
John Currie Singers    1973

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Music:
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Genre:
Text for choral work

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Runners

Synopsis:
the rise of two athletes to international standing and the costs of that rise for them and their colleagues

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Scotch Play (Originally Entitled Harry Lauder'), The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1991

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Corrected typescript drafts

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Ian Brown - acc.12081/19-21

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Wasting Reality

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1st Produced:
Perth    1992

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Yeah

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 8/5

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