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DAVID CAMPTON   (1924 - 2006)


David Campton
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Plays by David Campton

DAVID CAMPTON
After Midnight, Before Dawn
1st Produced:
Leicester
1978
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1978
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Female
4
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DAVID CAMPTON
Alison
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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One Act
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Fred is a barman who is engaged in conversation every Friday night by a mysterious young woman named Alison. One night she declares her love for him and pleads with him to run away with her, but he is too cautious to act on impulse and while he is deliberating another man shows up. It is Alisori's father and under her makeup Alison turns out to be only a schoolgirl. Fred should be grateful that a nasty situation was averted, but he can only remember that he will never see her again and that he had a chance.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Angel Unwilling
1st Produced:
-
1972
Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1966
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Play/Drama
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Female
8
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Notes:
broadcast 1967
Synopsis:
Agnes Glossop, a middle-aged piano teacher, is fascinated by the exploits of her schoolday friend, Beatie Spence whose scandalous behavior has brought her to the point of being penniless. Agnes take her in, but her motives are not entirely philanthropic. She envies Beatie's lifestyle and tries to imitate it. But Agnes's crude attempt at crime is blamed on Beatie and Agnes is forced by her friends into being the sort of person they have always known.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Apocalypse Now And Then
1st Produced:
Leicester
1982
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Notes:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Asking
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1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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Parts:
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1
Female
1
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
At Sea
1st Produced:
Newcastle-under-Lyme
1960
Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1960
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Female
1
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Notes:
part of "Four Minute Warning"
Synopsis:
A young man discovers that the luxury liner on which he is traveling is going down. He tries to persuade passengers to do something about saving the ship, but they prefer to leave everything to the Captain. When the young man finds that the Captain is only a dummy in uniform, he jumps overboard.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Attitutudes
1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent
1981
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1980
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DAVID CAMPTON
Bacchanalia
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1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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2
Female
3
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Break-Up
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1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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Female
2
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Build Up
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1st Published:
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DAVID CAMPTON
But Not Here
1st Produced:
Leicester
1983
Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1984
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DAVID CAMPTON
Cactus Garden, The
1st Produced:
Reading, Berkshire
1955
Company:
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1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1955
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Comedy
Parts:
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2
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Ellen Johns has kept house for her flighty and impractical sister since their parents died. She sometimes chafes under the confinement and longs for wider horizons. When she is courted, she must make a choice between those wider horizons and leaving her sister alone and vulnerable.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Cagebirds, The
1st Produced:
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
1971
Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1972
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8 characters
Notes:
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Synopsis:
ix birds in a cage exist, each in her own narrow world, concerned only with her looks, her ailments, her food, etc. Then The Mistress introduces a Wild Bird into the cage who tries to rescue the others from their lethargy. She even breaks open the door and urges escape but the caged birds are horrified at the thought of losing their prison and kill the wild bird. They also make it clear that no one in the future will disturb them with such dangerous ideas.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Can You Hear The Music?
1st Produced:
Leicester
1988
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1988
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6 characters
Notes:
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Synopsis:
anthropomorphic mice and their desire to be human
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DAVID CAMPTON
Cards, Cups And Crystal Ball
1st Produced:
Broadway, Worcestershire
1985
Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1986
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Female
5
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Notes:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Carmilla
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1973
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
story by Le Fanu. Known as "Lady Dracula" in the United States
Synopsis:
Adapted from a story by Sheridan Le Fanu, this play features a beautiful stranger who arrives at a schloss in central Europe. Although they have never met before, she is immediately recognized by the daughter of the house. Only at the last minute is the girl saved from the embrace of the vampire.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Change Partners
1st Produced:
Leicester
1952
Company:
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1st Published:
Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1951
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Comedy
One Act
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Cock And Bull Story
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1965
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1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Collections
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Two In The Corner" Campton, Leicester, 1983
ISBN
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
2 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Come Back Tomorrow
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1972
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One Act
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
6 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Two local critics turn up at the dress rehearsal of a new play by a local author/producer. Things go wrong, but the worst event of the evening is the play itself.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Comeback
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1963
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ISBN
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
aka Honey, I'm Home
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Cooked
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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Parts:
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3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Cuckoo Song
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1956
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Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Dark Wings
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1980
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3
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Horror in a Jane Austen setting
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DAVID CAMPTON
Dead And Alive
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1983
ISBN
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Female
3
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Family feud ends with four simultaneous corpses
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DAVID CAMPTON
Do It Yourself
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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Parts:
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2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Doctor Alexander
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1956
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Genre:
costume comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
In December, 1745, Dr. Harnish Alexander is torn between his loyalty to the Stuart Cause and his calling. Three treacherous local tradesmen disgust him with humanity and he prepares to join the Prince. However, at the last minute, his sense of vocation proves too strong and he stays behind to assist in the birth of a child.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Do-It-Yourself Frankenstein Outfit, The
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1976
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9 characters
Notes:
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Synopsis:
A demonstrator putting the latest in the firm's range of robots through its paces is repeatedly interrupted from the floor. The interruptor has been planted there and turns out to be a robot. The question arises "Who is a robot--the Demonstrator, the assistants, the audience?"
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DAVID CAMPTON
Don't Wait For Me
1st Produced:
London
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Worth a Hearing", Blackie, London, 1967
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Female
5
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Notes:
broadcast 1963
Synopsis:
Told in flashbacks, the story relates how a man falls in love with a girl and waits a lifetime for her to agree to marry him. When it is too late, she points out that he should have taken what he wanted.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Dragons Are Dangerous
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1955
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1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
En Attendant FranħOis
1st Produced:
Chelmsford, Essex
1984
Company:
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1st Published:
in "Two in the Corner", Campton, Leicester, 1983
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Parts:
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Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
End Of The Line
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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One Act
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
1 character
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Since the birth of her son, a woman has doted on the boy, ignoring his father. One day, when the boy has grown into a young man, the family goes on a picnic. A girl has joined them and when the mother discovers that her son and the guest have become engaged, she turns to her husband for the first time in years.
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DAVID CAMPTON
End Of The Picnic, The
1st Produced:
Vancouver
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Laughter and Fear", Blackie, London, 1969
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1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
broadcast 1964
Synopsis:
Woman, whilst continually ignoring her husband, becomes extremely jealous of sons girlfriend.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Eskimos
1st Produced:
Horsham, Sussex
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Pieces of Campton", Campton, Leicester, 1979
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-
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
in Mixed Blessings
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Evergreens, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1994
ISBN
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
Fxtras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Everybody's Friend
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1975
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1979
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Synopsis:
Mrs. Roberts is a do-gooder who interferes in the lives of almost everybody in the block of flats where she lives. Trouble arises when Daisy Loxton covets the potted plant belonging to her neighbor, Elsa Furley. A bitter feud develops which Mrs. Roberts settles by throwing the plant from the thirteenth floor. The ladies throw Mrs. Roberts after it.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Festival Prologue
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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Female
-
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-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
For The Present
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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Parts:
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1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Four Minute Warning
1st Produced:
Newcastle-under-Lyme
1960
Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 4vols, 1960
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4 * 1 Acts
One Act
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
includes Little Brother, Little Sister; Mutatis Mutandis; Soldiers From the Wars Returning; At Sea.
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Frankenstein : The Gift Of Fire
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1973
ISBN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
from novel by Mary Shelley
Synopsis:
Frankenstein, driven into the mountains by his creator, returns to exact revenge.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Freedom Log
1st Produced:
-
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Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1980
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-
Parts:
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Funeral Dance
1st Produced:
Dovercourt, Essex
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
One Act plays 87, J. Garnet Miller, London, 1962
ISBN
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Genre:
Comedy for Women
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
For twenty years Ida has been accepted as the wife of Edward Hartshorne. However, on the day of Edward's funeral, his real wife, Mildred, appears. She demands to share Ida's home, threatening to expose her if she refuses. Ida disarms her by revealing the truth to her neighbors, then Ida offers to share her home with Mildred.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Further Outlook
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
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1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Generations
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in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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Male
3
Female
3
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Notes:
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DAVID CAMPTON
George Davenport, The Wigston Highwayman
1st Produced:
Countesthorpe, Leicestershire
1975
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Getting And Spending
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1957
Company:
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1st Published:
Studio Theatre, Scarborough, 1960
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Genre:
Satire
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Part of the Lunatic View
Synopsis:
An ambitious young couple with hopes of raising a large family and of getting on in the world move into a new house; but as everyday chores connected with the house are dealt with, the necessary steps that would bring promotion and fill the nursery have to be postponed. The couple gets older and older, oiling locks, repairing windows, stopping leaks, etc. and they are finally defeated by the house.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Girls And The Boys, The
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1961
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Going Home
1st Produced:
Leicester
1950
Company:
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1st Published:
No Cm 20, Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1951
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play
One Act
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Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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DAVID CAMPTON
Gone
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-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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DAVID CAMPTON
Gooseberry
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Great Little Tilley, The
1st Produced:
Nottingham
1978
Company:
EMMA Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
biography of the music hall star
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DAVID CAMPTON
Honeymoon Express
1st Produced:
Leicester
1951
Company:
-
1st Published:
No Cm 21, Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1951
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Idol In The Sky
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1956
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Stephen Joseph
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
In Committee
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Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1972
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Genre:
Play/Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
8 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
An interminable committee meeting is in progress when one of the members notices the audience. When the fact of its existence is put into words, the committee has to deal with the audience. One member becomes so nervous that he leaves, but a member of the audience climbs on to the stage and sits in the vacant chair.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Incident or Some of My Best Friends are Smiths
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
One Act Plays No 95, J. Garnet Miller, London, 1967
ISBN
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Genre:
play for women
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
in "Ladies Night"
Synopsis:
Molly and Dora, two friends on a walking tour, have reserved rooms at a remote hotel. Although the place is obviously empty, they are told there is no room for Dora. Why?
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DAVID CAMPTON
Jonah
1st Produced:
Chelmsford Cathedral, Chelmsford, Essex
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1972
ISBN
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Genre:
Biblical
-
Parts:
Male
9
Female
7
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
This is a play about a man who feels let down by God. Jonah is told to warn the inhabitants of a sin-filled city that the day of reckoning is at hand. He spreads ~he message efficiently, but the threatened punishment is called off.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Laboratory, The
1st Produced:
Leicester
1954
Company:
-
1st Published:
One Act Plays No 70, J. Garnet Miller, London, 1955
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Genre:
Farce
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Gabriotto, an apothecary in Renaissance Italy, is visited by three disreputable characters--a court official, his mistress and his wife. They all want poison to dispose of each other but the apothecary is unwilling to supply the deadly doses. After he is forced to do as they asked, he discovers' that he has inadvertently provided them with aphrodisiacs.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Ladies Night
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1967
ISBN
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Genre:
4 * 1 Act Plays
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Two Leaves And A Stalk; Incident; Silence On The Battlefield; The Manipulator
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Life And Death Of Almost Everybody
1st Produced:
Questors Theatre, London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1976
ISBN
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Genre:
Allegory
-
Parts:
Male
12
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The sweeper in a theatre is tempted by a bare stage to create a world of his own. He imagines a man and a woman but before he can prevent them, they take on lives of their own. He must keep them in order but his attempts are frustrated by Aunt Harriet, the evil influence who emerges unbidden from his subconscious.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Little Brother, Little Sister
1st Produced:
Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs
1960
Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1960
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
or 2/1
Notes:
part of "Four Minute Warning"
Synopsis:
Sir and Madam, adolescent brother and sister, have grown up in a deep shelter. They are ruled by a tyrant of a Cook, who is the only other person they remember. Growing up, they attempt to escape but Cook catches them and prepares to chop off Madam's head. To save his sister, Sir makes a passionate declaration of love to Cook, who dies of a heart attack allowing Sir arid Madam to leave their shelter.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Look-Sea And Great Whales
1st Produced:
-
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Company:
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1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1981
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-
-
Parts:
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-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Lumps
1st Produced:
-
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Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Two in the Corner", Campton, Leicester, 1983
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
2 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Lunatic View, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1968
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Genre:
sequence of four one-act plays
-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
This foursome is comprised of "A Smell of Burning," "Memento Mon,'1 "Getting and Spending," and "Then.t'
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DAVID CAMPTON
Manipulator, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1967
ISBN
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Genre:
comedy for women
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
in "Ladies Night"; aka A Point of View, radio play
Synopsis:
Auntie, a bedridden old lady with a wicked sense of humor, believes that with the right stick or carrot, anyone can be persuaded to do anything. Her bedroom window looks out upon a busy street arid she affects what goes on there. She faces a crisis when the landlady and her nieces join forces to have her evicted from her window room. Can she find the right stick or carrot to persuade them to leave her alone?
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DAVID CAMPTON
Memento Mori
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1957
Company:
-
1st Published:
Studio Theatre, Scarborough, 1960
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Part of the Lunatic View
Synopsis:
An old estate agent shows a young man around an empty house. The young man wants to take the house so that he can put the body of his recently murdered wife under the floorboards. The old man is reluctant to allow this because his wife is already there. Televised as "A Private Place."
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DAVID CAMPTON
Mismate
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Mrs Meadowsweet
1st Produced:
Ulverston, Lancashire
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1986
ISBN
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
broadcast 1984
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Mutatis Mutandis
1st Produced:
Newcastle-under-Lyme
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1960
ISBN
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of "Four Minute Warning"
Synopsis:
The proud father of a newly- born son has to break the news to his wife that their heir has bright green hair, three eyes and a tail. Eventually, however, they go home proudly with the baby.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Night Watch
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
ISBN
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
No Go Area
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1976
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-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Now And Then
1st Produced:
-
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1973
ISBN
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
6
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A time play in which the manners and costumes and modern and Tudor periods are joined. A shoe buckle, lost by a Tudor lady in compromising circumstances, serves as a link between her and a group of present day sightseers. The encounter causes an upheaval in more than one life and more than one century.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Octopus
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Oh, Yes It Is!
1st Produced:
Braunston, Northamptonshire
1977
Company:
EMMA Company
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1979
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Long dead witch, faggot, takes over respectable villagers
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DAVID CAMPTON
Olympus
1st Produced:
Laicester
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
One Possessed
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1977
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-
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-
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-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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DAVID CAMPTON
Our Branch In Brussels
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1986
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Out Of The Flying Pan
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Campton, David, Little Brother, Little Sister And Out Of The Flying Pan
Synopsis:
Amid fanfares and popping flash bulbs, two diplomats (A and B) meet to engage in a bout of international bargaining. Their rapid-fire dialogue, while composed largely of outlandish doubletalk and windy pronouncements, has chilly overtones of the "real thing," as do their inevitable disagreement and estrangement. Angrily they tear apart the treaty they have signed, and turn their backs on one another. Sirens wail, guns rattle, and then a cosmic-sized explosion-followed by a sudden, heavy silence. In the stillness B stalks off the stage, but then a bird twitters, gentle music plays, and A begins to move to its rhythm, retrieving the pieces of the torn treaty. Another moment passes, the sound of an approaching airplane, and then B reappears, dispatch case at the ready. They shake hands, patter again through the trite preliminaries, and then launch into still another round of pretentious gibberish, while mankind holds its collective breath at the outcome.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Outline Of History, An
1st Produced:
Bishop Aukland, County Durham
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1981
ISBN
-
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-
One Act
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
cast from 8 to 20, m and f, employs imaginative use of music, movement, lighting
Synopsis:
From the beginning of time as soon as Man has secured his safety from natural enemies, he has turned his energies to fighting his fellow man.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Overcoat Lane
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Overhearings
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-
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-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Parcel
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1979
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Problems of old Age
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DAVID CAMPTON
Passport To Florence
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1967
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
aka Stranger In the Family
Synopsis:
Edna Burton, who has spent 20 years bringing up her daughter, finds herself with little to do once the girl is married. As her son-in-law has occasion to remark, however, "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
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DAVID CAMPTON
Permission To Cry
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1996
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Play/Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The dicotomy of Public and private morality. Whilst giving a speech in her constituency, Junior Minster, Julia Gibbon's mind keeps going back over recent events. Her partner Penelope Wright has been killed at an anti-government rally. Julia has kept quiet about her private life but now fears exposure in the tabloids.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Point Of View, A
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1967
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Radio Play
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
in "Ladies Night"; one-act version of "The Manipulator"
Synopsis:
Gossipy old woman attempts to control nieces and her landlady by blackmail
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DAVID CAMPTON
Provisioning
1st Produced:
London
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Miles from anywhere a Stranger stops at an old shack for a drink of water. Beset by business and matrimonial worries, he finds peace in the tumble-down shack but Kez and Adam, the owners, live by eating strangers.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Ragerbo!
1st Produced:
Peckleton, Leicestershire
1975
Company:
EMMA Company
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1977
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
murder as a commercial transaction
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DAVID CAMPTON
Relics
1st Produced:
Leicester
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans, London, 1974
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Three legatees of a once-wealthy aunt meet to divide between them her belongings but find the house bare except for a locked, ornamental box. When they break this open, they find that what they assumed was her hoard is really treasures of sentimental value only.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Reserved
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Two in the Corner", Campton, Leicester, 1983
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-
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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DAVID CAMPTON
Resting Place
1st Produced:
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mixed Doubles - An Entertainment On Marriage, Methuen, London, 1970
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Short dialogue
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Originally presented as one of eight plays under the title "We Who Are About To. . ." at the Hampstead Theatre Club on February 6th 1969, which was subsequently presented as "Mixed Doubles" at the Comedy Theatre, London on April 9th 1969
Synopsis:
An old man and woman, resting on a cemetery bench, bemoan the fact that when they die they will not be able to afford a single grave, but will be buried apart. The woman blames the man for riot having made more money, but in the end they go home to kippers realizing that not the richest man in the cemetery can do that.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Right
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Adam is determined to reach The Right Place where "everyone is king and everyone does just as he pleases." Although a number of people join him, they drop out one by one. Penny stays behind to help her sister, Hughie falters to help the old man,who cannot swim the river, a boy and girl just want to sit and watch the butterflies. When, after a long and difficult journey, Adam reaches The Right Place, he discovers that his former companions have gotten there before him.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Right Place, The
1st Produced:
-
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1969
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Ringed
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Ripple In The Pool
1st Produced:
Leicester
1955
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Miss Cooper is the terror of the Typing Pool, maintaining discipline with her acid tongue. A feud develops between her and the most junior typist. A lie by this typist causes Miss Cooper to tender her resignation and the prospect of losing their tyrant causes varied reactions from the other typists.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Roses Round The Door
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1967
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
aka Ring of Roses
Synopsis:
Mrs. Puce is a retired missionary looking for a country cottage in which to retire but the course of love does not run smooth.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Second Post
1st Produced:
Nottingham
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Sketches in
Sketch
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Service
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Silence On The Battlefield
1st Produced:
Dovercourt, Essex
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
One Act Plays 94, J. Garnet Miller, London, 1967
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
in "Ladies Night"
Synopsis:
Brenda, Coral and Lilly, sisters who love each other, have lived together all their lives. They cannot prevent themselves from fighting and in their most peaceful overtures there are the seeds of the next clash and their truces prove to be merely short-lived periods of silence on the battlefield.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Singing In The Wilderness
1st Produced:
Leicester
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1986
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
6 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Environmental concerns
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DAVID CAMPTON
Smell Of Burning, The
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1957
Company:
-
1st Published:
Studio Theatre, Scarborough, 1960
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Satire with Symbolism
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Part of the Lunatic View
Synopsis:
A married couple sit at the breakfast table, clucking over bits of gossip in the newspaper and bickering about whether the eggs are properly done. In the distance, explosions are heard, and then a rather mysterious gentleman appears, announcing that he is from the City Surveyor's office and concerned with supervising "certain alterations in the structure of the status quo." As he darts in and out busily tending to his duties, the couple remain absorbed in domestic trivialities-as the sounds of violence come ever nearer and the actions of the visitor change from mysterious to sinister. But even as their doom approaches the couple cannot seem to grasp the reality of what lurks outside their cozy flat, cannot comprehend the anarchy which will engulf them. "Strange," muses the old gentleman (who is only doing his job) "that you never notice what is happening."
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DAVID CAMPTON
Smile
1st Produced:
Colefore
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1990
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
So Why?
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1984
ISBN
-
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-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Soldier From The Wars Returning
1st Produced:
Newcastle-under-Lyme
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1960
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of "Four Minute Warning"
Synopsis:
A physically fit soldier boasts to a barman an~ barmaid of the injuries he has inflicted upon the enemy. As he recounts his exploits, though, these injuries show on himself until he limps away, a wreck.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Spectre Bridegroom, The
1st Produced:
Leicester
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1987
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - W T Moncrieff
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Split Down The Middle
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1973
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
cast 3f or lm 2f
Notes:
broadcast 1965
Synopsis:
Two friends, Josie and Fran, go out in a boat. They lose the oars, get caught in a mist, and are convinced the boat is sinking. Frightened into believing that their last moment has come, they confess the nasty things they have done to each other, and beg forgiveness. They are then disturbed to realize that some things cannot be forgiven. They are rescued, but their friendship is in ruins.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Star-Station Freedom
1st Produced:
Leicester
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Stationary
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Sunshine On The Righteous
1st Produced:
Leicester
1953
Company:
-
1st Published:
Rylee, London, 1952
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Gerda is pleased to receive two proposals in one morning, from Aloysius and Ernest. But she is taken aback when she learns that they only want to marry her to protect their reputations.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Table Talk
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Tally Ho
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
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-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Then. . .
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1957
Company:
-
1st Published:
Studio Theatre, Scarborough, 1960
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Satirical comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Part of the Lunatic View
Synopsis:
Sitting alone amid a wasteland of nuclear destruction, his head covered by a brown paper bag, Phythick laments the loss of all that was, and could have been. Then a girl walks by, her head also covered by a paper bag. They talk: he revealing that he was a science teacher; she that she was "Miss Europe." They fall in love, but cannot kiss, cannot remove their paper bags for fear of radiation. The bags are a crinkling barrier between them-and perhaps must always be so. Yet can there be hope? Do they dare? A cloud comes over the moon as Phythick slowly raises his hand towards the bag covering his face.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Time-Sneeze
1st Produced:
Jeanetta Chochrane Theatre, London
1970
Company:
Young Vic
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1974
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Science Fiction Fantasy
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
15 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
sneeze prone hero, Basher, whirls through the ages to encounter Arthurian Legend, Arabian Nights, the Between Times and the machine people
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DAVID CAMPTON
Tinkle Of Tiny Bells
1st Produced:
Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
1 non speaking male
Notes:
broadcast 1963
Synopsis:
Frederick Smith, on impulse visits the house of an old employee who, he discovers, has had a stroke and is nursed by his embittered daughter-in-law. The house seems to be haunted by unexplained secrets and sounds and the visitor uncovers a family tragedy. The blind, dumb and paralyzed stroke victim seems to ask Ruth for forgiveness for his treatment of her, but dies before she can tell him that she does, in fact, forgive him. Even after his death, though, he seems to acknowledge her change of heart.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Token Of Esteem
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Two Leaves And A Stalk
1st Produced:
-
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1966
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
in "Ladies Night"
Synopsis:
Mary is obsessed by the fact that her favorite potted plant is dying. Her friend, Edith, tries to persuade her to take an interest in horse brasses. Living things always die on you, but horse brasses last.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Under The Bush
1st Produced:
London
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Pieces of Campton", Campton, Leicester, 1979
ISBN
-
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-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Under The Sink
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Two in the Corner", Campton, Leicester, 1983
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
2 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Us And Them
1st Produced:
-
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Campton, Leicester, 1972
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
any number
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Two groups of wanderers, looking for a place in which to settle, arrive simultaneously at a fertile spot. They agree to share, but mark the line between their territories with a wall. Gradually, suspicion and mistrust grow arid explode into conflict as each side wonder what is going on behind the wall.
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DAVID CAMPTON
Usher
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
J. Garnet Miller, London, 1973
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
from story by Poe
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
View From The Brink, A
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
section in "Out of the Frying Pan", Methuen, London, 1970
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Playlets
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
Volunteer
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Campton, David, On Stage Again" French, London, 1969
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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DAVID CAMPTON
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