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RICHARD DRAIN (1932 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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A teacher of literature and theatre at universities in Holland, the USA and England, Mr. Drain is now associated with York University. In the late sixties, he helped found York Arts Centre as venue for fringe theatre and directs a touring group, York Shoestring Theatre. The group specializes in collaborativelydevised shows on issues of common concern.
Plays by Richard Drain
Caliban Lives | ||
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| 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 | #108321 | |||
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Synopsis: | A play which sandwiches a Caliban's view of "The Tempest" between episodes of colonial-style master and servant and a present-day kidnapping, providing a drastically telescoped history of Prosperos and Calibans across the centuries. Produced Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 1976; national tour by Temba Theatre Company. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 16/1 | |||||
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Death Trip, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | York Arts Centre | 1971 | ||||
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| 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 | #123663 | |||
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Genre: | two acts Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Depicts the collision between Western and indigenous Third World culture in the person of Thomas Cook, the 18th century explorer. In his murder is figured the revenge of that world for later exploitation. | |||||
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Exploding Dream, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | York Arts Centre | 1968 | ||||
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| 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 | #10031 | |||
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Genre: | two acts Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | This work features Guy Fawkes, whose attempt to blow up the English House of Parliament is nationally celebrated in England. It is a parable on the state's stake in secretly encouraging revolutionary terrorism as a way of licensing counter-revolutionary repression. | |||||
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Fleeced | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northern Studio Theatre, York | 1981 | ||||
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| 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 | #123664 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
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Synopsis: | Show about workers in the Yorkshire woollen industry. | |||||
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Hudson's Amazing Money Making Steam Driven Railway | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
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| 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 | #10032 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Ice Cream Doors in the Alps | ||
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| 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 | #108322 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 16/1 | |||||
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Life In A Chocolate Factory | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
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| 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 | #10033 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Written with York Shoestring Theatre. Produced Bush Theatre, London; Nancy Theatre Festiv:al, France; Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam and more 1972-73. | |||||
Synopsis: | this play is' based on interviews with workers at Rowntrees, a local chocolate factory and resulted in an ironic documentary on consumerism that takes the wrapper off your candy bar. | |||||
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Limbo | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
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| 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 | #10034 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | two acts Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | This piece is about the relationship of Charles Baudelaire and Jeanne Duval, about white poet and illiterate mulatto, in the heyday of colonialism and sexism. The flowers of these evils prove to have a lethal beauty that overcomes them both. Produced Bush Theatre, London, 1973. | |||||
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Sunday | ||
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| 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 | #108323 | |||
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Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 16/1 | |||||
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Through the Mincer | ||
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| 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 | #108324 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 16/1 | |||||
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Tiger in the Rockery, The | ||
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| 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 | #108325 | |||
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Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 16/1 | |||||
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Unhealthy Convictions | ||
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| 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 | #123665 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Synopsis: | A Russian dissident with anti-nuclear convictions is sent to a psychiatric assessment center where he meets a number of imaginative people. | |||||
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Zion Street Rag | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadcast BBC | 1983 | ||||
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| 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 | #123666 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in the fifties, this is a play about a fledgling jazz combo in brass band country wherein the conflict revolves around musical and other values. | |||||
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