DAVID JOSS BUCKLEY
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by David Joss Buckley
Aladdin |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
| Company: | International Artistes & Bradford Theatres | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | Chorus/dancers | |||
Notes: Original production starred Billy Pearce and Roy Barraclough. | ||||
Synopsis: A family pantomime based on a traditional story. | ||||
Babes In The Wood |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | International Artistes & Bradford Theatres | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | Chorus/dancers | |||
Notes: Original production starred Russ Abbott. | ||||
Synopsis: A family pantomime based on a traditional story. | ||||
Cinderella |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | International Artistes & Bradford Theatres | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | dancers/chorus etc | |||
Notes: Original production starred Paul Nicholas and Billy Pearce. | ||||
Synopsis: A family pantomime based on Charles Perrault's story. | ||||
Dick Whittington |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | International Artistes & Bradford Theatres | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original production starred Matthew Kelly | ||||
Synopsis: A family pantomime based on a traditional story. | ||||
Dolores Claiborne |
| 1st Produced: | Bouffes Parisien, Paris, France | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Armada Theatre Company / Charlice et cie | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Psychological drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Adapted from the book by Stephen King. Two acts, 120 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: Dolores Claiborne is accused of killing her employer, wealthy widow Vera Donovan. In the course of a statement to the police, she reveals a life of misery at the hands of her late husband Joe, who abused both her and their daughter Selena. Dolores denies killing Vera and as the depth of her friendship with the old woman becomes clear, she clears up the mystery that has dogged detective Garret Thibodeau for 20 years - how her husband Joe really died. | ||||
Double Indemnity |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | Theatr Clwyd | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Drama/thriller | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 3 children (optional) | |||
Notes: Adapted from the novel by James M.Cain. Two acts, 120 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: Adapted from James M.Cain's best-selling novel (later filmed with Fred McMurray, Barbara Stanwyck & Edward G Robinson) this is the story of Walter, a greedy insurance agent and the beautiful but psychopathic Phyllis, who tempts him into murdering her husband to claim his life insurance of $50,000. He kills the man, rigs an accident on a train as cover, but then discovers Phyllis has a past he had no idea about - and a trail of other deaths. Finally they are brought to justice by Walter's best friend and colleague, insurance investigator Barton Keyes. | ||||
Girl With A Pearl Earring |
| 1st Produced: | Arts Theatre, Cambridge, UK | 2008 | ||
| Company: | Batway Ltd | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: From Novel By Tracy Chevalier. The play later transferred to Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London - opening on September 24 for limited run. | ||||
Synopsis: Adapted from Tracy Chevalier's blockbuster, the play is a literary what-if? What if the subject of Vermeer's most famous and best-loved painting was a young maid called Griet? What if she had such an effect on Johannes Vermeer that he put his marriage and career at jeopardy because she inspired him to paint her? | ||||
Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The |
| 1st Produced: | Opera House, Buxton, UK | 1988 | ||
| Company: | New Vic Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Comedy/drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 20 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Based on a story by David Joss Buckley & Micky O'Donoughue adapted from Victor Hugo's classic novel. Most of the male parts are doubled or even trebled. An anarchic comic romp, with audience participation | ||||
Synopsis: Stand-up comedian Gringoire arrives in Paris and learns to his distress that he has a double - a hunchback who terrorizes the neighbourhood around Notre Dame. Dom Frollo, a sinister priest, is the only one who can control the creature. Despite his vows of chastity Frollo falls in love with the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda, but when the hunchback takes her prisoner the poor people of Paris, led by Fifi, queen of the beggars, rise up and attack the cathedral. The carnage which ensues with everyone dying is halted by a mysterious fairy gargoyle, who reverses time - and the whole climax of the play is performed backwards (words and all) until a point is reached where it can go forwards once more - this time to the happy ending that Hugo never came up with. | ||||
Jack & The Beanstalk |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | International Artistes & Bradford Theatres | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | Chorus/dancers | |||
Notes: Original production starred Frank Bruno and Geoffrey Durham. | ||||
Synopsis: A family pantomime based on a traditional story. | ||||
Robin Hood (And His Mucky Men) |
| 1st Produced: | Town Hall, Lewisham, London | 1989 | ||
| Company: | New Vic Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 12 (7 doubling) | Female | 5 (3 doubling) |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Based on a storyline by David Joss Buckley and Micky O'Donoughue. An anarchic comedy with audience participation. | ||||
Synopsis: Robin and his men strive to rob the rich and feed the poor - despite the best efforts of Prince John and Guy of Gisborne, the Sherriff of Nottingham. A final showdown between Gisborne and Robin results in triumph for the man in Lincoln green tights - and is capped by the return of King Richard. | ||||
Robinson Crusoe |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| Company: | Handshake Productions/Bradford Theatres/ E&B Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | chorus/dancers etc | |||
Notes: written by David Joss Buckley and Robin Midgley. Original production starred David Essex. | ||||
Synopsis: A family pantomime based on Defoe's character. | ||||
Shakespeare's Motley Crew |
| 1st Produced: | Community theatres tour | 1993 | ||
| Company: | English Shakespeare Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | One-man show | Show | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A look at the clowns of Shakespeare. | ||||
Tale Of Two Cities, A |
| 1st Produced: | Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, IOM, UK | 1990 | ||
| Company: | New Vic Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Comedy/drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 main (20 doubling) | Female | 4 main (10 doubling) |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: From a storyline adapted from the original by David Joss Buckley & Micky O'Donoughue. Apart from the main characters, most parts are one-entrance only and are easily doubled. The first production had a (very busy!) cast of 12. An anarchic comic romp, with audience participation. | ||||
Synopsis: Charlie Dickens narrates his own story of how Sidney Carton fell out of love with the bottle - and in love with Lucy Manette. But she loves someone else and when the life of her husband Darnay is threatened by the French Revolution Sidney swaps places with him in an act of bravery. . . "It's a far, far better thing. . . " etc. This anarchic comic version is the one Dickens never knew he had written. | ||||