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CHRIS CHALLIS |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Writer, photographer and lecturer, Mr. Challis is an Essex man who has served as writer in residence, Northampton College of Further Education and writer for BBC Radio Leicester. He has had published numerous articles in magazines and other periodicals on the subject of contemporary literature (he was awarded the first Doctorate in Beatology for his research into Kerouac and the Beat Generation) as well as poems, short fiction and drama reviews. Some of his dramatic works are informed by the five years he spent teaching in prison and borstals. In 1985, he received the first Local Radio Writing Fellowship in England and he will be working throughout the year to encourage local writing via radio phone-ins, interviews with aspiring local writers, featuring of regional writer's groups, the launching of writer's workshops on radio, etc.
Plays by Chris Challis
Coca-Colonisation | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leicester: Phoenix Theatre | 1972 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121342 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Synopsis: | A work about U.S. imperialism in South | |||||
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Do Us Part | ||
| 1st Produced: | toured upper schools and colleges | - - - | ||||
Company: | Commissioned by Leicester Theatre Trust for Phoenix T.I.E. Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121343 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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It Stops by Itself | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121344 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Synopsis: | A couple visit Pere Lachaise cemetery while having a marital row which continues beside the grave of Jim Morrison. Doors music as soundtrack. | |||||
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Night Scene | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121345 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | or one playing all roles | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Dream fantasy in cell block, this play has won first-place in five one-act festivals. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Number One All Over Heaven | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northampton College Youth Theatre | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121346 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A group of young people congregates on the banks of an old industrial canal. Their typical afternoon is excited by the fact that one of their own has just achieved the notoriety of a Borstal break out. The contemporary humor highlights the problems of the modern inner city and the perennial frustrations of youth. | |||||
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Oddy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Commissioned by Leicester Theatre Trust for Phoenix | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121347 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Youth Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 50 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Odyssey set in present-day Greek Isles | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Re-Union | ||
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix Theatre, Leicester | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121348 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Ten-Foot Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121349 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Radio version broadcast by BBC | |||||
Synopsis: | Two men meet by appointment in a pub. What has become of their aspirations since they last met? | |||||
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Wing | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121350 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | can all be played by one actress | |||||
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Synopsis: | Twenty-four hours in a maximum security prison wing. | |||||
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