CHARLES DYER (1928 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Charles Dyer
Futility Rites |
| 1st Produced: | Germany | 1980 | ||
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Gorillas Drink Milk |
| 1st Produced: | Coventry | 1964 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - John Murphy | ||||
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Hot Godly Wind, A |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1975 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Second Playbill 2" Hutchinson, London | 1973 | ||
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| Genre: | Modern Morality | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Lovers Dancing |
| 1st Produced: | Albery Theatre, London | 1983 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford | 1984 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: four people meet after drunkenly sharing a bed nineteen years previously, the resultant son's paternity was decided by a toss of a coin | ||||
Mother Adam |
| 1st Produced: | York | 1971 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Davis Poynter, London | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: Arts, London 30 Nov 1971 | ||||
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Poison In Jest |
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | 1957 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Notes: as C. Raymond Dyer | ||||
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Prelude To Fury |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1959 | ||
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Notes: as C. Raymond Dyer | ||||
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Rattle Of A Simple Man |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1962 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1963 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: a bet to spend the night with a prostitute shows how loneliness can drive people to opposite extremes | ||||
Red Cabbage And Kings |
| 1st Produced: | Southsea, Hampshire | 1960 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Notes: as R. Kraselchik | ||||
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Staircase |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1966 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Penguin, London | 1966 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A Brixton barber's shop shows the mutual dependence of two middle aged homo sexuals, but was it all in the imagination? | ||||
Time, Murderer, Please |
| 1st Produced: | Portsmouth | 1956 | ||
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| 1st Published: | English Theatre Guild, London | 1962 | ||
| 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: | - | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
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Notes: as C. Raymond Dyer | ||||
Synopsis: Saloon bar of a hotel in Hornsey, London; "surely he didn't arrest him for whistling in church?" | ||||
Wanted - One Body! |
| 1st Produced: | Kings Theatre, Southsea | 1956 | ||
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| 1st Published: | English Theatre Guild, London | 1961 | ||
| 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: | Farcical Chiller | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: as C. Raymond Dyer | ||||
Synopsis: Old Mr Barraclough is dead leaving a vast fortune to be split between his stepdaughters and his staff, however his body has been stolen, then both step daughters die iin mysterious circumstances. Everyone has a reason for wanting them dead due to the sisters habit of bribery and blackmail, but who did it? The aggressive chauffeur? The victimised secretary? The dippy maid? The insane undertaker? Or the deaf and blind Doctor? Its a ripping good yarn full of sliding panels and trap doors with half the cast immersed in the thriller and the other half running riot. | ||||