JOHN CHAMBERS   


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Plays by John Chambers

JOHN CHAMBERS
Albert Finney Doesn't Live Here Any More
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Pro-Play (online), 2007
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Genre:
Drama (with humour)
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in the mid ‘90s. A mother has to mediate between her disillusioned 60’s working class radical husband and X generation son. They unite and fight with an explosive outcome!
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Assignment, The
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written by John Chambers and Maggie Norris
Synopsis:
Two sisters – one a model, the other a respected photographer – get a commission to work together. Sexy.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Away From Home
1st Produced:
Manchester
1981
Company:
Pan Theatre Co.
1st Published:
Hodder and Stoughton (in “You Don’t Know You’re Born”)
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Genre:
Play/Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
One act. Subsequently produced by BBC2 (Manchester).
Synopsis:
Set in the early ‘80s when football fan trouble was at its height. An old life-long fan is lucky enough (!) to share a compartment on a football special (Remember them?) with three young fans.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Balling the Blues
1st Produced:
One Step
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Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
Play with music
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Not available for production.
Synopsis:
The life and music of Huddie Leadbetter, “Leadbelly”. With Leadbelly’s songs. Plus loads of respect to musicologists John and Alan Lomas and Woody Guthrie – who helped Huddie shake off the chains of the racist South and make it.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
BeLongings
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
9780755210848
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
BeLongings
What begins as almost a patio and French windows farce ends up in a cataclysmic scene in a shopping mall (complete with fake “Inca” pyramid).
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Berk
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "insightment" >>>, 2008
Lazybee (online), 2007
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Berk
Surreal comedy about Matt Berk a ghastly agent / impressario whose liver is shot so he demands a transplant from his Harley Street quack. A new organ is grown from cells – but this liver develops into a clone of Matt. A young, handsome, nice, innocent version – what’s Matt going to do about it?
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Bottle
1st Produced:
24/7 Festival, Manchester
2005
Company:
Northern Quarter
1st Published:
Lazybee (online), 2007
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Genre:
Play/Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A mother is at death’s door having been battered. Three men – well, one’s only a boy, have to face up to their responsibilities.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
City of Gold
1st Produced:
The Arden, Manchester
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
15
Female
15
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Casting can be varied. Borrows from other plays by the writer.
Synopsis:
An epic set in “the biggest shopping mall in the world”. Picks up on the lives of punters and staff in a fluid way. A larger than life piece which takes on consumerism, surveillance and even predicted the credit crunch – two years before it actually crunched.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Crazy People
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
5
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written by John Chambers and Marvin Close. Not available for production.
Synopsis:
The story of the birth of the Goons – told in a Goon show style!
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JOHN CHAMBERS
His Shoes Were Far Too Tight
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Lazybee (online), 2007
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
“Remarkably well-written” – Alan Bennett
Synopsis:
A chamber play with music. Based loosely on the relationship between Edward Lear and his loyal, but stroppy, manservant Giorgis Kokalis. Nonsense verse, songs and two ill-matched Victorian buddies.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
I'm Marrying Ryan Giggs / Robbie Fowler / A.N. Other!
1st Produced:
Liverpool
-
Company:
P.F. Productions / Liverpool Playhouse
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Playhouse, Liverpool
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written by John Chambers and Dave Simpson
Synopsis:
A family of warring football fans during a “derby” weekend. Can be adapted for any town with two rival clubs.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Interfaces
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
9780755210848
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
-
Interfaces
Supposing two people with Multiple Personalities get together… It’s a dark, adult, sexy journey – and asks how far do/can we choose what sort of people we become.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Kecks
1st Produced:
24/7 Festival, Manchester
2004
Company:
Northern Quarter
1st Published:
Lazybees (online), 2007
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Genre:
Play/Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A mum and daughter shop for wedding night lingerie. The daughter has bruises…
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Kipling’s Jungle Book Stories
1st Produced:
Lancaster Dukes Promenade Seasons
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Theatre Publications (online), 2008
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Family
-
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
7 m/f
Notes:
Scope for a chorus.
Synopsis:
Mowgli’s rites of passage.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Koff
1st Produced:
Green Room, Manchester
-
Company:
One Step
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Play/Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written by John Chambers and Brian Morgan
Synopsis:
Based on a true story of a (racist?) arrest. Laced with dark humour.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Lazy Daze
1st Produced:
24/7 Festival, Manchester
2005
Company:
Northern Quarter
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Play/Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A young woman, written off, as a "spaz", working in a catalogue store stockroom, shows she's got as much insight as Socrates!
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Little Ms Loony
1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks Pub, Manchester
06 Oct 2009
Company:
Real Life Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
short play
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of B Shorts 2, another mini-festival of short plays by TV writers
Synopsis:
features a woman who summered by the pool in her second home in France but now finds herself in a psychiatric clinic
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Look, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
9780755210848
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Genre:
Drama / Musical
-
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Look, The
A young, bright woman who, in spite of her Audrey Hepburn looks, is trapped by her past. Her disillusioned tutor in “popular culture” sees her talent – and a way for them both to make it big. It’s a three-handed musical drama, with poetry chucked in. Whilst it owes a lot to Sartre / de Beauvoir it hopefully gets the contemporary zeitgeist.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Marigolds
1st Produced:
Manchester
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
Lazybee (online), 2007
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Comedy Drama
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
This started as a short, developed into a three part one-act and then a 6 act full length.
Synopsis:
Started as a two-handed short. A repressed lower middle class man – so repressed it’s giving him trouble “down below” - and his long-suffering wife. In the extended versions, the student daughter arrives – and finds father doing something disgusting.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Meek, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
9780755210848
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
the piece is playable by 9 or 10
Notes:
-
Meek, The
a philisophical sort of Death Wish
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Raw Material
1st Produced:
Library Theatre Company
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Play/Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Based on the true story of Robert Blincoe – a lad who suffered all the horrors of child labour in the industrial revolution.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Robin Hood and the Raven’s Revenge
1st Produced:
Library Theatre Company
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Pro-Play (online), 2007
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Family
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A Robin Hood romp with a twist – analogies with the mythological “Green Man”.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Scandals – The Life and Liver of Frank Randle
1st Produced:
Britons Protection, Manchester
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Drama/Comedy
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written by John Chambers and Keith Clifford. Became a “cult hit” (Manchester Evening News) which has sold out at arty and less arty venues all over the North of England.
Synopsis:
Tells the story of Frank Randle – iconic, vulgar, dangerous Northern comic and sometime film star.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Shouting At The Radio
1st Produced:
Library Theatre Company
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Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Silver Lining
1st Produced:
Coliseum, Oldham
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
Pro-Play (online), 2007
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in the 1967 Foot and Mouth epidemic in Cheshire (anticipating more recent events). How does someone cope when they have to slaughter their reason for being? It’s told in an earthy, lyrical way, though not without humour, in spite of the harshness of life.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Small World
1st Produced:
JB Shorts season, Manchester
2009
Company:
Real Life Theatre Co.
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
short 15 min drama
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A young man is caught partying on his own – by his mum.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Stiff Stuff
1st Produced:
Library Theatre Company
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Pro-Play (online), 2007
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Drama/Comedy
-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Collides popular culture, a Prof in Nonsense verse, a “go for it” couple and a down-to-earth barmaid. Resulting in a mix of the poetic and the prosaic.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Three Musketeers, The
1st Produced:
Lancaster Dukes Promenade Seasons
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Epic
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Two Wheel Tricycle
1st Produced:
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set on a municipal tip – where not only consumer waste ends up – but a bunch of people who are surplus to requirements in a consumer society. But the chap from the Council has to do something about them…
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Where There’s Blame
1st Produced:
24/7 Festival (as “Becks”)
2004
Company:
Northern Quarter
1st Published:
Lazybee (online), 2007
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Play/Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
One act. Originally part of 24/7 Fesitival as “Becks”. Re-worked with extra character.
Synopsis:
A young couple trying to “live the dream” on the promises of a loan shark. Bad news for all of them.
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Who Cares
1st Produced:
Manchester
1982
Company:
Pan Theatre Co.
1st Published:
New Playwrights Network
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Play/Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Two girls, from opposite ends of the social scale, end up in care. Both realise it’s the failings of the adults in their lives that account for this – but now it’s down to them…
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JOHN CHAMBERS
Yoiks Oiks
1st Produced:
Octagan, Bolton
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Suitable for a large cast – five or so adults plus 15 or so teenagers.
Synopsis:
It’s cheaper to send a kid to Eton than stick them in Care. So that’s what a cash-strapped local authority and down-at-heel boarding school decide to do.
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