JOHN CONSTABLE   (1952 - )


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Plays by John Constable

JOHN CONSTABLE
Black Mas
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
Foco Novo Theatre Company
1st Published:
in "Shamanic Plays", Oberon Books, London
1997
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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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JOHN CONSTABLE
Complete Casanova, The
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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JOHN CONSTABLE
Dead Man's Handle
1st Produced:
Soho Theatre Company, London
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Shamanic Plays", Oberon Books, London
1997
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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.
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JOHN CONSTABLE
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
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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.
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JOHN CONSTABLE
Gormenghast
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
David Glass Ensemble
1st Published:
2006
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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.
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JOHN CONSTABLE
I Was An Alien Sex God
1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe (director: Di Sherlock)
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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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.
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JOHN CONSTABLE
Iceman
1st Produced:
Brute Farce (director: Philip Graham)
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Shamanic Plays", Oberon Books, London
1997
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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.
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JOHN CONSTABLE
Mosquito Coast
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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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.
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JOHN CONSTABLE
Raingods Become Me
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Solo
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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JOHN CONSTABLE
Southwark Mysteries, The
1st Produced:
Shakespeare's Globe and Southwark Cathedral (director: Sarah Davey)
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
The Southwark Mysteries, Oberon Books, London
1999
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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.
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JOHN CONSTABLE
Tulip Futures
1st Produced:
Soho Theatre Company (director: Abigail Morris)
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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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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