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JOHN CONSTABLE (1952 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
John Constable aka John Crow John Constable is a playwright, poet and performer. He is the author of The Southwark Mysteries, an epic cycle of poems and Mystery Plays, performed in Shakespeare's Globe, Southwark Cathedral and at many festivals. The Southwark Mysteries and a collection of his Sha-Manic Plays are both published by Oberon Books. John's plays include Black Mas, Tulip Futures and the stage adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast (David Glass Ensemble at The Lyric, Hammersmith, and British Council world tours). His solo shows include I Was An Alien Sex God and Raingods Become Me. John also directs community dramas, holds storytelling workshops and leads unusual guided walks. As the shaman John Crow, he conducts rituals, initiations and workshops including his Shamanic Playhouse - teaching ways to access the vision world and transform perceptions of reality. John Crow's channelled songs and poems are available on CDs. email: mysteries@boltblue.com websites: http://www.southwarkmysteries.co.uk and http://www.crossbones.org.uk
Plays by John Constable
Black Mas | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
Company: | Foco Novo Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Shamanic Plays", Oberon Books, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7682 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 non speaking can BF doubled | |||||
Notes: | Magical realist drama | |||||
Synopsis: | Carnival in Trinidad. A white-singer and her lover-manager take refuge from the "bacchanal" in the seedy Hotel Thread. They soon find them mixed up in a deadly game between the hotelier, masquerading as Anancy the Spider, and a rich white man who arrives dressed as Death. | |||||
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Complete Casanova, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
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 | #7683 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Dead Man's Handle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Theatre Company, London | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Shamanic Plays", Oberon Books, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7684 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 non speaking can BF doubled | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned by Soho Theatre Company for its 'Body Politic' season of short plays. | |||||
Synopsis: | A man in a coma on a life-support machine is visited by his distraught lover. In the course of their (imagined?) interaction, he comes to embrace his own death. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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False Hairpiece, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Proteus TC at Southwark Playhouse (director: Chris Baldwin) | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Proteus | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Shamanic Plays", Oberon Books, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7686 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | also suitable for cast of 4 | |||||
Notes: | Black comedy, a contemporary reinvention of the Jacob and Esau story. | |||||
Synopsis: | A mother conspires with her responsible son to cheat his manic depressive elder brother out of an inheritance. When the latter returns, determined to heal old wounds, his good intentions wreak havoc in a family sunk deep in denial. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gormenghast | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | David Glass Ensemble | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7687 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Adaptation Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | irst performed by a cast of 8 with some doubling. The Fnsemble also formed a Chorus, the "Voice" of Gormenghast. | |||||
Notes: | Gothic melodrama, adapted from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy. | |||||
Synopsis: | A rites of passage tale, set in a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals. The story of Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder. And of Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to embody the change that threatens its very existence. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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I Was An Alien Sex God | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe (director: Di Sherlock) | 1995 | ||||
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 | #7688 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An undercover police officer obsessed with David Bowie embarks on a mind-blowing journey through the 1970s. A cautionary tale of drug-abuse. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Iceman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brute Farce (director: Philip Graham) | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Shamanic Plays", Oberon Books, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7689 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A black farce about the War On Drugs | |||||
Synopsis: | A big money drug deal. At least one of the dealers is an undercover cop. He sacrifices his identity, his moral authority and ultimately his sanity in a drug-fuelled bid to crack his own case. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mosquito Coast | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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 | #7691 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | some doubling of minor characters required | |||||
Notes: | physical theatre adaptation of the novel by Paul Theroux | |||||
Synopsis: | An obsessive American inventor takes his family on a journey up-river into the dark and dangerous Honduran jungle. A dark parable of one man's megalomania. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Raingods Become Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #41264 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Southwark Mysteries, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shakespeare's Globe and Southwark Cathedral (director: Sarah Davey) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Southwark Mysteries, Oberon Books, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7692 | |||
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Genre: | Cycle of interlinked short plays Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | first performed with a core cast of 12, supplemented by a 50-strong community cast. | |||||
Notes: | a contemporary urban cycle of Mystery Plays, loosely based on the medieval Mysteries. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Day of Judgement set in contemporary Southwark. An unlikely Jesus does battle with Satan for the wicked souls of The Goose and John Crow. These plays fuse traditional Christian and pagan elements with local folklore and contemporary humour. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tulip Futures | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Theatre Company (director: Abigail Morris) | 1994 | ||||
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 | #7693 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on a story from the margins of history. | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in seventeenth-century Holland, against a back-drop of 'Tulipmania'. A tulip-grower and his wife are sitting for a portrait by Frans Hals. During the sittings, their comfortable world is turned upside down by the sudden boom in tulip prices, and the madness it unleashes | |||||
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