STEWART CONN (1936 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Stewart Conn
Aquarium, The |
| 1st Produced: | Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>> two act version presented by Dundee Repertory Company on 19 Sep, 1973 | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscript 74, Calder and Boyars, London | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | Modern Drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: also published http://www.fairplaypress.co.uk/plays/stewart_conn.html, 2007 | ||||
Synopsis: Shows in a naturalistic setting, but with poetic resonances, a father son tension in an imprisoning, middle class social setting. "In Stewart Conn's play The Aquarium a woman asks, 'What's the use of loving someone if you don't show it?' This is the key to the bitter conflict between father and son that Conn so vividly presents. Their hostility does not stem from a lack of affection, but from their inability to express goodwill towards each other. Their relationship steeped in rancour ... neither is prepared to understand the other, or to make the gesture that would bring them closer together." - Allen Wright, The Scotsman | ||||
Billy Budd |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: novel by Melville, with Stephen Macdonald | ||||
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Birds In A Wilderness |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1964 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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Break-Down |
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow | 1961 | ||
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Broche |
| 1st Produced: | Exeter | 1968 | ||
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Burning, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London | 1973 | ||
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| Genre: | Epic | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Epic format with linking ballads depicting the 16th century climate of witchcraft and credulity and the suffering of the defenceless caught in the battle | ||||
By The Pool |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1988 | ||
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Clay Bull |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Count Your Blessings |
| 1st Produced: | Pitlochry, Perthshire | 1975 | ||
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Dominion Of Fancy, The |
| 1st Produced: | Pitlochry, Tayside | 1992 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 9 |
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Synopsis: Tale of rival actor managers and their battle for supremacy in 1820's Glasgow | ||||
Fancy Seeing You, Then |
| 1st Produced: | Strathclyde University, Scotland | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Playbill Two", Hutchinson, London | 1969 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: London 1974 | ||||
Synopsis: A conversation piece, in which we are left guessing, until the end, how true one of the character's apparent boastings have been. | ||||
Hecuba |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||
| Company: | Winged Horse Production. | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by John Sampson | ||||
Synopsis: A re working of Euripides' play, underlining its relevance to our times with their racist doctrines and human misery. | ||||
Herman |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: A lecturer's double fixation with Herman Melville and with a young student, leads to a fantasy fusion of sex and guilt, comedy and pain. | ||||
Hugh Miller |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1988 | ||
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I Didn't Always Live Here |
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Centres on two women and their contrasting social status and attitudes, with flashbacks to the Depression and the Blitz | ||||
In Transit |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1970 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Breakthrough Press, New York | 1972 | ||
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Notes: in Victims | ||||
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King, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||
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| 1st Published: | in "New English Dramatists 14", Penguin, London | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: A richly wrought fable, moving from naturalism to ritual murder, bemoaning the human tendency to destroy | ||||
Man In The Green Muffler, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | Conversation Piece | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: in Victims | ||||
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Mission Boy |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
| Company: | Theatre For Africa | |||
| 1st Published: | Woodhouse, Todmorden, Lancashire | 1979 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Sets Thistlewood, ringleader of the Cato Street Conspiracy, against a Frankenstein reading Home Secretary, Sidmouth, and with music from the period comments on social deprivation and the ambivalently brutalising effect of violence. | ||||
Play Donkey |
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Woodhouse, Todmorden, Lancashire | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: also published http://www.fairplaypress.co.uk/plays/stewart_conn.html, 2007 | ||||
Synopsis: Focuses on a Scots mercenary under trial in an African state, and on his uncomprehending family and girl, at home; mixing black comedy with social comment and bemoaning with corrosion and loss of human life. "Play Donkey centres on a young Scottish mercenary awaiting an 'exemplary' trial in 'some emergent African state'. Like a child's game of cat's cradle, it links his destiny with some of those most closely affected by it - his bewildered parents, two girls, the clever London lawyer who flies out to plead his cause, knowing it is already as good as lost. Conn's strength is that he refuses to take sides ... Laughter is written into the play, and deftly so. It is laughter only to stop you weeping." - Cordelia Oliver, The Guardian | ||||
Slight Touch Of The Sun, A |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1972 | ||
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Sword, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: in Victims | ||||
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Thistlewood |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1996 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Victims |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | see individual plays | - | ||
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Notes: includes The Sword, In Transit, The Man in the Green Muffler | ||||
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