RICHARD CRANE (1944 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Richard Crane
Baggage And Bombshells |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1991 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Bleak Midwinter |
| 1st Produced: | The Pool, Edinburgh Festival | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Nativity tragedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Blood Stream, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | 3 * 30 min plays | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Modern Oresteia | ||||
Bloody Neighbours |
| 1st Produced: | National TheatreLondon | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Sex and death in the suburbs | ||||
Bradford Revue, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Brothers Karamazov, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1981 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 4 actors | |||
Notes: novel Dostoevsky | ||||
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Burke And Hare |
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow | 1983 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Clownmaker |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Diaghilev, Nijinsky and the Ballets Russes | ||||
Crippen |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1971 | |||
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| Genre: | Music Hall/Melodrama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | flexible to 20+ | |||
Notes: music by Milton Reame James | ||||
Synopsis: The famous murder in 1910 by Dr. Crippen of his wife, a Music-Hall artiste, followed by his escape on board ship with his secretary, disguised as a boy, and their arrest on arrival in America as the result of a message sent by wireless telegraphy.The story is told as continuous, lively and comic burlesque, echoing the way it was perceived by the public at the time and since, yet showing understanding for the trapped but not uncommon situations in which all three principal characters found themselves. | ||||
David, King Of The Jews |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford Cathedral | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Epic allegory | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: music Chris Mitchell | ||||
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Decent Things |
| 1st Produced: | The Pool, Edinburgh Festival | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | 30 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: savage honeymoon farce | ||||
Envy |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: novel by Yuri Olesha | ||||
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Examination In Progress |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Footlights Revue |
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge | 1966 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Others | ||||
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Gogol |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton Festival | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Gunslinger |
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix, Leicester | 1976 | ||
| Company: | Leicester Arts Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London SchoolPlay Productions Ltd, Colchester, Essex, UK >>> | 1979 | ||
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| Genre: | Wild-West Adventure | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | flexible to 30+ | |||
Notes: music by Joss Buckley | ||||
Synopsis: All the archetypal characters of the Wild West appear in this extravaganza which also includes almost every known episode of that over-exposed period of American history. "The challenge of Gunslinger is to take it seriously," writes the author, "to believe in its vastness, to understand that it contains not a word of 'send-up' and to enjoy it." If you believe that then you may even believe some of the far-fetched tales in this fast-moving and lively piece. | ||||
Humbug |
| 1st Produced: | Bracknell South Hill Park, Berkshire | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Christmas Carol Backwards | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Milton Reame-James | ||||
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King, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Manchester Tales |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Contact Theatre Company | ||||
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Mean Time |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | 40 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Mutiny On The Bounty |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Chris Mitchell | ||||
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Mutiny! |
| 1st Produced: | Piccadilly, London | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | Original cast recording: Telstar (2261) | ||
1985 | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by David Essex; lyrics by David Essex and Richard Crane | ||||
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Mystery Play |
| 1st Produced: | Bracknell, Berkshire | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Nero And The Golden House |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Roman epic | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Perils Of Bardford, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with David Edgar | ||||
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Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1990 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Marina Tsvetayeva. Adaptedwith Michael Glenny | ||||
Synopsis: story is told by a narrator who is trapped in a compulsive re-telling of Phaedra's love for her step-son Hippolytus | ||||
Pied Piper, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Christmas musical | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: rats and children follow the leader | ||||
Possessed, The |
| 1st Produced: | Paris | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Yuri Lyubimov, novel Dostoevsky | ||||
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Pushkin |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1987 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Faynia Williams | ||||
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Quest, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Arthurian epic | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Chris Mitchell | ||||
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Quiz, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: a tour-weary actor on the brink. His stage manager has gone missing, hes had a few sherries and outside, in the real world, planes are flying into buildings. He breaks away from the script to contemplate, among other things, his own ending and the dream of conking out on stage, like Kean, Irving and Tommy Cooper. Will tonight be the night he transcends the text and makes the ultimate leap or will he manage to pull off the performance of a lifetime? | ||||
Red Magic |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Rolling The Stone |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Route Of All Evil, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Sand |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton Festival | 1981 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: play recital on George Sand | ||||
Satan's Ball |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Michael Bulgakov | ||||
Synopsis: drawn from Bulgakov's master and Margarita | ||||
Secrets |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | intimate 3 hander | |||
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Soldier Soldier |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: work by Tony Parker | ||||
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Ten Years On |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre In The Mill, Bradford | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with David Edgar | ||||
Synopsis: inaugural production for Theatre in the Mill | ||||
Tenant, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Pool, Edinburgh Festival | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | 30 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Three Ugly Women |
| 1st Produced: | Cork(CD) or London(SYB) | 1967 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: in High Kicks (London) | ||||
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Thunder |
| 1st Produced: | Ilkley, Yorkshire | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London SchoolPlay Productions Ltd, Colchester, Essex, UK >>> | 1976 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: In the spring of 1820 the new incumbent moved into the Parsonage at Haworth, North Yorkshire, with his dying wife and six small children. In those times only those with iron constitutions lived beyond the age of thirty and only the Parson himself and his son-in-law lived into old age. But this was a power-house of creative energy - reams of prose and verse, blood, fire, torrential passions and granite love. They lived largely in a dream world and, although Charlotte achieved fame in her lifetime and there were brief bursts of fun, this is a gothic melodrama and a human tragedy. It takes off on flights of imagination and euphoria and returns finally to cold reality. | ||||
Tom Brown |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Christmas musical | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Under The Stars |
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich, London | 1993 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1994 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | voices | |||
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Vanity |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: story by Pushkin | ||||
Synopsis: Response to 'Eugene Onegin' | ||||
Venus And Superkid |
| 1st Produced: | Arts Theatre, London | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Milton Reame-James | ||||
Synopsis: Transgalatic rock supershow based on Greek legend | ||||