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Aidan Chambers

AIDAN CHAMBERS  (1934 - )

 Nationality:    English
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below is a list of Aidan Chambers's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Bed Time Story         Car, The         Chicken Run, The         Dream Cage, The         Johnny Salter         Only Once

Bed Time Story

Synopsis:
When she was sixteen Clara first had sex with Luke. They kept the relationship going through their school, university and on into their first jobs. at the same time she was having a sexual relationship with one of her tutors. She took both men to her aunt's house unbeknownst to each other. Then the aunt dies

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Genre:
Comedy

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Car, The

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Heinemann, London, 1967   -

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Genre:
Childrens Comic Tragedy Youth audience

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Chicken Run, The

Chicken Run, The
Slim is sixteen and wants to be a member of the local motor cycle gang. He has a paper round to earn money to by a motorbike. There is an initiation ceremony - the chicken run - which he must do to become a member

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Heinemann, London, 1968   978-0435231675

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Genre:
Drama for young people

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Dream Cage, The

Dream Cage, The
a travelling showman keeps a young man in a cage. He is attended by a pantomime dame and a principal boy. The young man is being hunted by a gang of athletic beings who finally find him and force him to enact one of his dreams.

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Bristol Old Vic Theatre School    1981

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Heinemann, London, 1982   978-0435231682

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.9830/15

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Johnny Salter

Johnny Salter
Love is a drug. So is smack. When shy working-class single-mother Leigh falls for black dope-dealer angel she is soon addicted to both. I'd eat glass for you," she tells the over-educated and under-employed angel as she jumps feet first into a helter skelter of self-destruction. This is a woman who has selflessly held her life together for years against the odds, worked in local government, brought up her children with love and diligence, been a leading light in the PTa. No wonder she is so bloody exhausted, no wonder love and dependency sneak up and mug her from behind." The Guardian

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1st Produced:
archway School, Stroud    1966

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1st Published:
Heinemann, London, 1966   978-0435231651

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Genre:
Childrens Play Youth audience

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Male:  14            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Only Once

Only Once
eight youngsters aged between sixteen and twenty live in a half-way house. Their lives are thrown into chaos when they learn it is to be closed down

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Line By Line 1998   978-0953260300

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Male:  1            Female:  8            Other:  -

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