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Tony Craze

TONY CRAZE

  (1944 - 2016)
Nationality:    British
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Anthony Paul Craze was born on July 7, 1944 and died on September 9, aged 72.: 'a voice of honest compassion and insight into the areas where dreams turn into anger, despair and ferocious frustration . . .' (Bloomsbury Theatre Guide). Has worked as Theatre writer since winning the inaugural Verity Bargate award. as artistic director of the Soho Theatre Company, he instituted the first Theatre based writer training programmes. as Theatre Writing associate to Arts Council england, he initiated numerous programmes to provoke writers to new Theatre. Has worked extensively as Dramaturg, and taught Theatre writing across open access courses, professional programmes and on line programmes. He is author of Write a Theatre Script in 25 Days (& 10 hours)

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

         Angelus         At Home With the Cripps         Burning Maps         Closing the Wound         Confrontations         Flying Ashes         Fragmenting Red         Going West         Hit, The         Kaleidoscope         Living With Your Enemies         Love You Take, The         Megabodies         Passion         Shona         Squint         Wake For Miss Montreal, A

Angelus

Synopsis:
Dealer, sinner and society victim Mick seeks redemption through Ruth, an ambiguous psychopathic liar and Madonna like creature, seen as embodiment of all Mick's aspirations to a new life in the USA. Only Mama trips him up and ties him down . . .

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Soho Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol VII (1987) Page 1339

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At Home With the Cripps

Synopsis:
a fast moving, entertaining Drama where four disabled adults show life as it really is - warts and all. Combining great storytelling and stunning physical theatre, at Home with the Cripps reveals the private lives, loves and ambitions of real disabled people. they laugh, they cry, they smoke, they drink, they do good things and bad things . . . it's just an ordinary day with the Cripps. It''s time to put disability reality on the agenda in this challenging new play.

Notes:
devised by Tony Craze (based upon the original by Anna Wallbank/Jeff Banks/Rob Lee/Paula Thompson And Sonia Cakebread)

1st Produced:
Old Town Hall Arts Centre, Hemel Hempstead     23 Nov 2002

Organisations:
Theatre Resource

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Burning Maps

Burning Maps
Recovering addict, Wu Rong, sets off across China, on an anti drugs march, and in search of missing daughter, Kang. Travelling across different time continuums, and continents, Kang, however, leads Wu off course - through stories of death and addiction in contemporary Kabul, in Baghdad and in London, and in 19th century Humen, China, where 'the biggest drug bust in history' takes place, with the burning of 1.5 kilos of opium. Kang would explore the very roots of addiction but when mother and daughter finally join, will Wu still insist on delivering her anti drugs petition - or will Kang have moved her beyond old political paradigms of prohibition/legalisation - perhaps beyond spatial/temporal maps altogether?

Notes:
To be played promenade. aka Are You Anywhere?

1st Produced:
Union Chapel, London     2007

Organisations:
Outside edge Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://www.amazon.com/Hit-Anywhere-theatre-Scripts-ebook/dp/B0091QRZJS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348569276&sr=1-1&keywords=the+Hit+%26+Are+You+Anywhere%3F
http://www.feedaread.com/books/the-Hit-Are-You-Anywhere-9781781767375.aspx (Aug 2012)   978-1781767375

Music:
-

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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Closing the Wound

Synopsis:
Frank and Hannah, brother and sister, seek a lost inheritance and journey to a distant aunt to demand their due. they are joined by Frank's former girlfriend, Julie. While Hannah states her wish to reclaim the past and her inheritance, Frank is making the journey only to be finally shot of the past altogether. Julie says she's just along for the ride . . . But old aunt anne is giving nothing away to anyone - not the inheritance nor the truth of Frank and Hannah's Father - until Frank reveals he's known the truth for years - and walks out; anne crumbles in shame. Julie would show compassion (and grasp a little of this upper class inheritance) - except Hannah finally sets fire to the house and the whole of their history.

Notes:
Closing the Wound, was retitled, eating the English; it's evolution is documented in Write A theatre Script in 25 Days (& 10 hours)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Chelsea Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Confrontations

Synopsis:
Different social class couples fight their separate but entangled ways through relationship wars - one employing fists, the other psychology as a weapon. 'I've got the best wife in the country!' 'No wonder you're happy - I have to live with mine.'

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London     1981

Organisations:
Croydon Warehouse Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Flying Ashes

Synopsis:
a picture of life as it is lived by women who manage to survive the daily round of discomfort and brutality with their imaginations and emotions in tact - from letters smuggled out of Soviet gulags by women prisoners.

Notes:
based on Letters of Love by Julia Voznesenskaya

1st Produced:
ICA, London >>>     05 Feb 1991

Organisations:
exchange Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XI (1991) Page 0145

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Fragmenting Red

Synopsis:
One year on from New Labour's '97 victory, 30 years on from 1968, and a prospective MP, and former Communist Party member, waits for the call to Government . . . only to have his whole life challenged by his best student

Notes:
Part of 'seeing Red' - A festival of dissent

1st Produced:
BAC , London >>>     08 May 1998

Organisations:
Red Room Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XVIII (1998) Page 0844

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Going West

Synopsis:
Bill and Harriet travel across America in search of a very un-American dream . . . an unlikely pair, hooking up to cast an old man's ashes in the Western sunset - Harriet tries to get rid of them a little ahead of schedule. and Bill knows if the ashes aint quite dead, then Harriet's going to be the required sacrifice . . .

Notes:
Going West has since been published in novel form under the title Holli And Bill Go Traveling - the movie

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Soho Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol VIII (1988) Page 0580

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Hit, The

Hit, The
Danny awaits a contact and the cash to leave the country; his former partner Sadie wants to escape everything - not least her current abusive partner . . . neither looks likely to wind up anywhere in this exploration into the cycles of addiction and domestic abuse.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Uk Tour     2003

Organisations:
Outside edge Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://www.amazon.com/Hit-Anywhere-theatre-Scripts-ebook/dp/B0091QRZJS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348569276&sr=1-1&keywords=the+Hit+%26+Are+You+Anywhere%3F
http://www.feedaread.com/books/the-Hit-Are-You-Anywhere-9781781767375.aspx (Aug 2012)   978-1781767375

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Kaleidoscope

Synopsis:
early lunch time draft of 'Confrontations' - see above.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Orange Tree Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Living With Your Enemies

Synopsis:
Relates a mother's lost opportunities, sacrificed in bringing up her children, back to her post war youth, and the promises offered in the glimmerings of a Welfare State.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Soho Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol V (1985) Page 0965

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Love You Take, The

Synopsis:
Looking for the common bond between the Society for Krishna Consciousness, Bhagwan Shree, Rajneesh, therapy, punks and a Catholic Monastery

Notes:
Semi professional Greenwich Festival production

1st Produced:
New Tigers Head Lee Green, London     1981

Organisations:
Plays & Pints Theatre Club

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Megabodies

Synopsis:
Megabodies! sees supreme intellectual and cultural commentator, Levin, in contest with champion bodybuilder, Frankie, each muscling up to the other, for a showdown over female bodybuilder Karla - and she thought she was in the business for emancipatory reasons . . .

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Unproduced    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia.http://library.uq.edu.au/search~S7?/tthe+Hanger+Collection+of+Australian+Playscripts/thanger+collection+of+Australian+playscripts/-3,-1,0,B/browse >>>,

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Passion

Passion
a rare story of love from a Palestinian refugee camp, between a young woman, and an older Western journalist, Opposite worlds, two perspectives, a generation apart. Passion rooted in love set against the passion of different politics. Can Bill re-ignite political passion and cross the divide - or will Hanna's passion for a new Jerusalem see her sacrifice their love. explores the injustice which breeds desperate violence.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Chelsea Theatre, London >>>     25 Mar 2002

Organisations:
Chelsea Theatre Company

1st Published:
Botany Bay (august 3, 2012) as Kindle edition. http://www.amazon.com/Wake-Montreal-theater-Scripts-ebook/dp/B008SV1X0Y/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344331982&sr=1-10&keywords=tony+craze
paperback - www.feedaread.com   B008SV1X0Y

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXII (2002) Page 0386

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Shona

Synopsis:
a terse and painful blast against modern psychiatric practice, and society's inadequate response to different thinking, told through the story and ultimate lobotomisation of a young girl.

Notes:
joint winner of Verity Bargate Award 1982

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Soho Theatre Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol III (1983) Page 0929; http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol VIII (1988) Page 1657

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Squint

Synopsis:
Cultural commentator Hugh seeks if not redemption, at least respite from the booze; partner and blood body artist, Courtney isn't letting him go, but if the resulting last binge ends in Hugh's death, then who's this walking out the refectory next morning . . . Sister Greta may believe it's all to do with faith - Courtney's still only interested in ecstasy - even St Theresa's . . .

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Chelsea Theatre, London >>>     22 Sep 2003

Organisations:
Chelsea Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIII (2003) Page 1328

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Wake For Miss Montreal, A

Wake For Miss Montreal, A
Chronicles the lives of four unlikely friends - a hedonist queen, a bickering gay couple, fighting old age as much as each other, and an upstanding young woman turned promiscuous - all finding comfort, following Miss Montreal's death, in the remembrance of things past, pleasurable and profane . . .

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Chelsea Theatre, London >>>     28 Feb 2000

Organisations:
Chelsea Theatre Company

1st Published:
Botany Bay (august 3, 2012) as Kindle edition. http://www.amazon.com/Wake-Montreal-theater-Scripts-ebook/dp/B008SV1X0Y/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344331982&sr=1-10&keywords=tony+craze
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XX (2000) Page 0351

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