JOHN BURROWS (1945 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by John Burrows
Cash Street |
| 1st Produced: | Highbury Roundhouse, London | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | for junior schools | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 6 people | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | two sisters, one a boss, the other her worker, feud in a laundrette | |||||
Checkpoint |
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre, London | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with The People Show | |||||
| Synopsis: | In the middle of a forest of fir trees there is a checkpoint on the border between two super powers. It has been there for years and is privately run | |||||
City Delights |
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Sketches in | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Dirty Giant |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Rock Musical | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with John Harding and Peter Skellern | |||||
| Synopsis: | Superstardom versus reality | |||||
Dole Queue Fever |
| 1st Produced: | Albany, London | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Band show | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music Rick Lloyd | |||||
| Synopsis: | about youth unemployment | |||||
For Sylvia |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Best Short Plays 1978", Chilton, Radnor, Pennsylvania, 1978 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with John Harding | |||||
| Synopsis: | Two man version of the battle of Britain | |||||
Freedom Point |
| 1st Produced: | Albany, London | 1979 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 with Music | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music Rick Lloyd | |||||
| Synopsis: | 30 years after Animal Farm, a new rebellion on the farm next door | |||||
Golden Pathway Annual, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | written with John Harding | |||||
| Synopsis: | about a boy growing up in the period from the end of WW2 to the late 1960's | |||||
It's A Girl |
| 1st Produced: | Lancaster | 1987 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music Andy Whitefield | |||||
| Synopsis: | ordinary' woman fights two parallel campaigns, one for the right to have her baby at home and the other against a nuclear waste dump | |||||
Keep On Running |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Musical Comedy | Musical | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Four forty something fellas gather once a week for band practice. By the play's own account it is for 'every bloke who's been in a rock band' | |||||
Last Benefit, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Loud Reports |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with John Harding and Peter Skellern | |||||
| Synopsis: | Three man treatment of British 20th century history. With music | |||||
Manly Bit, The |
| 1st Produced: | Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with John Harding | |||||
| Synopsis: | Two man play about rape | |||||
One Big Blow |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | 7:84 | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Musical comedy | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 6 people | |||||
| Notes: | music Rick Lloyd | |||||
| Synopsis: | in the round, about a colliery brass band | |||||
Restless Natives |
| 1st Produced: | Albany, London | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Anti-racist cabaret | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music Rick Lloyd | |||||
| Synopsis: | for the All Lewisham Campaign against Racism and Fascism | |||||
Some Animals Are More Equal |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Sketches in | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Son Of A Gun |
| 1st Produced: | Cockpit, London | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | Sidewalk Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | life and times of eventual feminist during 50's and 60's | |||||
Sweet Broken Heart |
| 1st Produced: | London Bubble, London | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music Whitfield | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Viva Espana |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1988 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written By John Burrows And Rick Lloyd | |||||
| Synopsis: | Eight people on an 18-30s holiday - sun, sand and sex. Who will bed who? Who will be able to hold their drink? And who will spot that it is a Spanish transvestite? | |||||
Wartime Stories |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music Dickson, lyrics Burrows | |||||
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