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Charles Dyer

CHARLES DYER  (1928 - )

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Eric Glass Ltd  

Veteran playwright Charles Dyer learned his craft as an actor, his first London appearance being in 1948 when he took over as Duke in Worms Eye View at the Whitehall Theatre. His first play Who On Earth reached London at the old Q Theatre in 1951, and ever since those early times, most Countries of the World have hosted his works. The eminent american Walter Winchell wrote of Dyers Profound thoughts and emotions expressed with humour. . . People in the shadows discovering sunshine in each other. Sir Harold Hobson (Sunday Times) coined the phrase The Lonely Trilogy to include Rattle (Garrick Theatre 1962-3) and Staircase (RSC 1966-67), plays which have been in constant production throughout the years. Ofthe middle duologue, Hobson wrote: In Mother adam Dyer has written one of the few real tragedies of our time. .., . . . It is more disturbing; it has deeper resonances; it is more beautifully written, with an imagination at once exotic and desperately familiar; it has a profounder pity, and a more exquisite falling Close.Charles is married to actress Fiona Thomson.
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 Class Play     Clubs Are Sometimes Trumps     Futility Rites     Gorillas Drink Milk     Hot Godly Wind, A     Jovial Parasite     Lovers Dancing     Mother Adam     Poison In Jest     Prelude To Fury     Rattle Of A Simple Man     Red Cabbage And Kings     Single Ticket To Mars     Staircase     Time, Murderer, Please     Turtle In The Soup     Wanted - One Body!     Who On Earth?

CHARLES DYER
Class Play

Synopsis:
The fluctuating relationships of three teenagers who only have one thing in common - their hatred of school

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Second Playbill Three" published by Hutchinson 1973   -

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2    Female:  1    Other:  -

Further Reference:
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CHARLES DYER
Clubs Are Sometimes Trumps

Synopsis:
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Notes:
as C Raymond Dyer

1st Produced:
-    1948

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CHARLES DYER
Futility Rites

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1st Produced:
Germany    1980

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CHARLES DYER
Gorillas Drink Milk

Synopsis:

Notes:
Original Playwright - John Murphy

1st Produced:
Coventry    1964

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4    Female:  3    Other:  -

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CHARLES DYER
Hot Godly Wind, A

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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:  -    Other:  extras

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CHARLES DYER
Jovial Parasite

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Notes:
as C Raymond Dyer

1st Produced:
-    1954

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CHARLES DYER
Lovers Dancing

Charles Dyer
four people meet after drunkenly sharing a bed nineteen years previously, the resultant son's paternity was decided by a toss of a coin

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1st Produced:
albery Theatre, London    1983

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1st Published:
amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1984   978-0806399521

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2    Female:  2    Other:  -

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CHARLES DYER
Mother Adam

Charles Dyer
adam's mother is paralysed and he must look after her. He longs to get away from her and marry but deep down he knows that he will never escape.

Notes:
arts, London 30 Nov 1971

1st Produced:
York    1971

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1    Female:  1    Other:  -

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CHARLES DYER
Poison In Jest

Synopsis:

Notes:
as C. Raymond Dyer

1st Produced:
Oxford    1957

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CHARLES DYER
Prelude To Fury

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Notes:
as C. Raymond Dyer

1st Produced:
London    1959

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CHARLES DYER
Rattle Of A Simple Man

Charles Dyer
a bet to spend the night with a prostitute shows how loneliness can drive people to opposite extremes

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1st Produced:
Nottingham    1962

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2    Female:  1    Other:  -

Further Reference:
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CHARLES DYER
Red Cabbage And Kings

Synopsis:

Notes:
as R. Kraselchik

1st Produced:
Southsea, Hampshire    1960

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CHARLES DYER
Single Ticket To Mars

Synopsis:
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Notes:
as C Raymond Dyer

1st Produced:
-    1955

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CHARLES DYER
Staircase

Charles Dyer
a Brixton barber's shop shows the mutual dependence of two middle aged homo sexuals, but was it all in the imagination?

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1st Produced:
Brighton    1966

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  2    Female:  -    Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 16/11

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CHARLES DYER
Time, Murderer, Please

Synopsis:
Saloon bar of a hotel in Hornsey, London; "surely he didn't arrest him for whistling in church?"

Notes:
as C. Raymond Dyer

1st Produced:
Portsmouth    1956

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1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London, 1962   -

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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  5    Female:  5    Other:  -

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CHARLES DYER
Turtle In The Soup

Synopsis:
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Notes:
as C Raymond Dyer

1st Produced:
-    1953

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CHARLES DYER
Wanted - One Body!

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.

Notes:
as C. Raymond Dyer

1st Produced:
Kings Theatre, Southsea    1956

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1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London, 1961   -

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Genre:
Farcical Chiller

Parts:
Male:  5    Female:  4    Other:  doubling

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CHARLES DYER
Who On Earth?

Synopsis:
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Notes:
as C Raymond Dyer

1st Produced:
-    1951

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