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Brian Clark

BRIAN CLARK

  (1932 - )
Nationality:    British
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Brian Clark's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Brian Clark's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         All Change At the Wells         Audience Choice         Bye George!         Campion's Interview         Can You Hear Me At the Back         England's Ireland         Hopping To Byzantium         In Pursuit Of Eve         Kipling         Lay By         Petition, The         Post Mortem         Switching In the Afternoon Or, As the Screw Turns         Truth Or Dare?         Whose Life Is It Anyway         Whose Life Is It Anyway? (New Version)
All Change At the Wells

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Stephen Clark, music Andrew Peggie

1st Produced:
London     1985

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Audience Choice

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1st Produced:
Impact Theater Winter One Act Festival, NY     2006

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Music:
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Bye George!

Synopsis:
Who was George? His portrait hangs over the group of family and friends who have gathered after his funeral, yet not one of them would agree on who he actually was. And who now owns the picture? several think it should belong to them. . . in fact it is now quite valuable. They are all in for a surprise.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Brighton Dome, Brighton     03 Oct 2008

Organisations:
Encore Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Campion's Interview

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1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London     1976

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One act

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Can You Hear Me At the Back

Can You Hear Me At the Back
spontaneity in architectural and private life

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1st Produced:
London     1979

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1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, ambergate, Derbyshire, 1979   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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England's Ireland

Synopsis:
episodic historical look at the British in Northern Ireland. Loyalist view followed by bias towards IRa with torturing British Soldiers and Orange Lodge excrement

Notes:
written with Bicat, Brenton, edgar, Fuchs, Hare, Wilson

1st Produced:
Amsterdam     1972

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
20 scenes with songs One act

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Hopping To Byzantium

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Kathy Levin

1st Produced:
Osnabruck, Germany     1990

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1st Published:
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Music:
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In Pursuit Of Eve

In Pursuit Of Eve
Monologue in mixed Shakespearean and Petrarchian lyrics, is a simple story of how a philandering 50 year old writer falls in love (after one book launch and an afternoon at the Tate) with a nice girl from Dundee.
Jonathan Myerson

Notes:
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Organisations:
eve Productions

1st Published:
Amber Lane Press 2001    

Music:
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Genre:
Solo Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Kipling

Synopsis:
Kipling stands crop haired, bespectacled and righteous. He berates his detractors, past and imagined in a non-stop elegy of self justification.
- Keith Nurse, daily Telegraph

Notes:
based on the works of Rudyard kipling

1st Produced:
Mermaid, London     31 May 1984

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lay By

Synopsis:
Fellatio as rape gets perpetrator ten years and pregnant heroin addict victim committed to Holloway. Denouement as main characters are washed in blood and made into jam.

Notes:
written by Brenton, Clark, Griffiths, Hare, Poliakoff, Stoddart, Wilson

1st Produced:
Edinburgh     1971

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Plays & Players" Nov, 1971   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Petition, The

Petition, The
acrimonious argument over wife covertly voting for the Labour Party reveals further truths as wife is dying from cancer

Notes:
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1st Produced:
John Golden Theatre, New York     05 May 1986

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1986   

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Post Mortem

Post Mortem
A property tycoon's P.A. wheels and deals to keep his sinking property company afloat. Unknown to her, he is already dead at home.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London     Apr 1975

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Three One-act Plays", Amber Lane Press, ashover, Derbyshire, 1979   

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  4 voices

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Switching In the Afternoon Or, As the Screw Turns

Synopsis:
a series of brief scenes depicting the conflicts of human relationships

Notes:
part of the American Project: A compendium of short plays

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Music:
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Genre:
Short Play One act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Truth Or Dare?

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1st Produced:
Hull     1972

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Music:
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Whose Life Is It Anyway

Whose Life Is It Anyway
accident victim, paralysed from the neck down, fights for the right to die.

Notes:
televised 1972

1st Produced:
Mermaid, London     1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, ambergate, Derbyshire, 1978   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama (original version)

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Whose Life Is It Anyway? (New Version)

Whose Life Is It Anyway? (New Version)
Female version of the original play

Notes:
Updated from Brian Clark's 1978 play to take into account medical advances over the past 30 years. After a road accident, an intelligently independent and sexy sculptor, now forced to rely on others, fights to reclaim the crucial decisions about her own life and death.

1st Produced:
Comedy Theatre, London     07 Jan 2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Amber Lane   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

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