KEN CAMPBELL (1941 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Ken Campbell
Bedingo |
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Nottingham | 1974 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with Dave Hill and Andy Andrews | ||||
Synopsis: Boxing in the ring | ||||
Children Of Bisu |
| 1st Produced: | Little Angel, London | 2002 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Christopher Pea |
| 1st Produced: | Victoria, Stoke on Trent | 1970 | ||
| 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 Act | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: farce about East End half wit | ||||
Cinderella |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne | 1979 | ||
| 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: | - | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: classic story | ||||
Compleat Berk, The |
| 1st Produced: | Half Moon, London | 1985 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Deeds |
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Nottingham | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Plays & Players, May/June, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with Howard Brenton, David Hare and Trevor Griffiths | ||||
Synopsis: Baby dies from chemicals in Nuzzles Milk Powder, wife disappears,, husband jailed, wickedness all round. 'Bernard Levin's least favourite play, apart from my bits | ||||
Evening With Sylveste McCoy - The Human Bomb, An |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||
| Company: | Ken Campbell Road Show | |||
| 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: | Music hall Entertainment | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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Events Of An Average Bath-Night |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1964 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: music by Clifton Parker | ||||
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Furtive Nudist, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1995 | |||
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| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Get Well Soon |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Wordplays 2" Hutchinson, London | 1982 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Great Caper, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||
| 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: | Fortean drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Hamburg |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | The Sticking Place | |||
| 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: | Solo, 30 min | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1979 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Hyphenator |
| 1st Produced: | Drill Hall, London | 2006 | ||
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| 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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Describing Ken Campbell as eccentric is like describing clouds as fluffy. It's a fair starting point, but hardly the whole caboodle. Still, it's not a branding he shies away from. Wearing a suit decorated with what looks like white paint, but which turns out to be guano from his parrot Doris, he stands on a stage decorated with framed examples of Doris's other artful peckings and droppings. He uses a big metal press to squeeze himself fresh pomegranate juice. And he strides on spitting out the declension "bonus, bona, bonum. . ." in his unmistakable nasal boom before firing out stories to support his latest hobby horse: hyphenation. No, this isn't some .Lynne-Trusson-ice punctuation workshop, but rather an exercise in remixing some of Campbell's stories to invigorating effect. And hinting at the connectedness of all things while's he at it. Ancient hardback in hand, he refers to an opening paragraph by the long-forgotten author Charles Fort in which every word is hyphenated. This, Fort argued, was because nothing is wholly separate from anything else: "A full stop is a lie, or else a hyphen coming straight at you." Initially, this seems like just the latest nifty notion that the veteran theatrical enthusiast recounts in this apparently scattershot show. His stories through six decades of larking about tell us of his all-knowing Latin master, who was in Hitler Youth iong ago, when it was kind of OK". He tells us of the extroverted eccentricity that comes as standard in St Johns, Newfoundland; how Jeremy Beadle has the best library in Britain, in a "secret street" in North London. Eventually, though, he binds his strands together. Whether or not everything is connected in the universe, it certainly is in Campbell's show. Dominic Maxwell, The Times | ||||
If I Ruled the National Theatre |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
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| 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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Illuminatus |
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||
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| 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: | Sci Fi | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Portraying Howard the talking dolphin as an operatic tenor | ||||
In Pursuit Of Cardineo |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | The Sticking Place | |||
| 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: | Solo, 60 min | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Jack Sheppard |
| 1st Produced: | Bolton | 1968 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Macmillan, London | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | Historical Play | - | Parts: | Male | 26 | Female | 8 |
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Notes: aka Anything You Say Will Be Twisted | ||||
Synopsis: About Jack Sheppard, 18th century burglar and gaol breaker | ||||
Jackie Chan |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Jamais Vu |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1995 | |||
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| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Just Go Will You Harry |
| 1st Produced: | Victoria, Stoke on Trent | 1968 | ||
| 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 Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Ken Campbells History Of Comedy: Part 1 Ventriloquism |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| 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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: This is less a history lesson and more a rambling reminiscence triggered by a trip to a ventriloquist convention in Kentucky. Patrick Marmion, Evening Standard | ||||
Memories of Amnesia |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Mystery Bruises |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Night Before The Morning After Show, The |
| 1st Produced: | New Victoria, North Staffs | 1992 | ||
| 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: | Musical Review | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 |
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Notes: written by Alan Ayckbourn, Oliver Beamish, Ken Campbell, Bob Eaton, Sayan Kent, John Kirkpatrick, Byrony Lavery, Jenny Lecoat, Chris Martin, Greg Palmer, Carole Ruggier, Peter Whelan and Johnson Willis | ||||
Synopsis: with the programme you get a party pack of paper hats and streamers and the skits continue | ||||
Old King Cole |
| 1st Produced: | Victoria, Stoke on Trent | 1969 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Evans Bros, London | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Play for kids | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Minor masterpiece of cartoonery, mad invention and childlike glee. | ||||
Parafinalia |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1968 | ||
| 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: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
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Pigspurt - Or Six Pigs From Happiness |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1995 | |||
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| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Pilk's Madhouse |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Ontario | - | ||
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Notes: written with Henry Pilk | ||||
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Psychosis Unclassified |
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Recollections Of A Furtive Nudist |
| 1st Produced: | Offstage D'strs, London | 1991 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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School For Clowns |
| 1st Produced: | Arts Theatre, London | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London | 1982 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: from the German of F K Waechter | ||||
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School Journey To The Centre Of The Earth |
| 1st Produced: | Olivier, London | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Stokesley School, N Yorks | |||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by by Daisy and Ken Campbell. part of Shell Connections | ||||
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Skungpoomery |
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Nottingham | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1980 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Fantasy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: aka Little Boy Blue | ||||
Synopsis: play for kids | ||||
Theatre Stories |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Third Policeman, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1980 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Violin Time |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1996 | |||
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| Genre: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: This monologue features Cathar heretics, a mysterious female French book thief and an oriental violinist who does pig impressions | ||||
Walking Like Geoffrey |
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Nottingham | 1975 | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Dave Hill and Andy Andrews | ||||
Synopsis: Helzapoppin cum funny walks | ||||
War With The Newts |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1981 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Warp, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Sphere Books, London (novelised) | 1980 | ||
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