DAVID FARR
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by David Farr
Crime And Punishment In Dalston |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | Company Of Angels | |||
| 1st Published: | in Plays 1, Faber & Faber, London | 2005 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: book by Fedor Dostoevsky | ||||
Synopsis: This is a Crime and Punishment with attitude, street-cred and wisdom.' Independent | ||||
Danny Crowe Show, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | StageScrpt, Faber & Faber, London | 2001 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Danton's Death |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
| 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: from Buchne | ||||
Synopsis: Revival | ||||
Elton John's Glasses |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Bill is a fanatical supporter of Watford F.C. Day after day he sits in his unfurnished flat, watching the 1984 FA Cup Final with an obsession verging on madness. The video replays the fatal moment when the Watford goalkeeper fumbles the ball and Everton take a two-nil lead. Bill blames the goalkeeper's mishap on the glare from Elton John's sunglasses. Reconciled to an agoraphobic existence, Bill laments the decline of his beloved team: 'It was there the dream died.' A comedy about ageing, failure and football, Elton John's Glasses is the work of a prodigiously talented dramatist with a rare sympathy for character and relationships. | ||||
Glue Wedding |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| Company: | Cambridge Mummers | |||
| 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: - | ||||
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Great Expectations |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Plays 1, Faber & Faber, London | 2005 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: From Dickens | ||||
Synopsis: Highly dramatic . . . this bold and imaginative approach breathes invigorating fresh life into the popular tale.' BBC Bristol | ||||
Love |
| 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: | adaptation | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: UK premiere of an Icelandic musical by Venturport's Gísli Örn Gardarsson and Vikingur Kristjánsson, adapted by David Farr | ||||
Synopsis: Set in an old people's home - a kind of Romeo and Juliet in reverse - Love is a romantic musical with a professional cast and a chorus of local senior citizens singing songs by popular artists. Neville is 80 and slowly wasting away in an unremarkable care home. His life seems to be heading for a predictable end until Margaret arrives for a short stay. Margaret, 78 and terrified of what will happen to her, meets Neville over tea and singing, and their lives change forever. Then Neville suggests they escape for a night out on the town. . . | ||||
Magic Carpet, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| 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 | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: wriiten by David Farr and Ben Hopkins | ||||
Synopsis: Arabian adventure about a pair of thieves who get more than they bargined for when they try to steal from the Sultan | ||||
Max Klapper - A Life in Pictures |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| 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 Film | ||||
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Metamorphosis |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2006 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from book by Franz Kafka adapted by David Farr and Gisli Orn Gardarsson | ||||
Synopsis: A six-legged nightmare by Franz Kafka. The ordinary, unremarkable life of the Samsas is turned upside down when their son Gregor emerges one morning transformed into a monstrous insect. As revulsion turns into resentment, strange things start to happen to the Samsa family | ||||
Nativity, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1999 | ||
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| Genre: | Christmas Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Joseph, the Carpenter, seems destined never to find love, until one day a beautiful girl enters his workshop to escape from a storm. Her name is Mary, and three months later they are married. But on their wedding night Mary tells Joseph that she is already pregnant. So begins a remarkable journey involving giants, shepherds, kings, devils and angels. A journey covering hundreds of miles and ending in a divine miracle. | ||||
Neville Southall's Washbag |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| 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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Night Of The Soul |
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Royal Shakespeare Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2002 | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: 2001. A large south-coast town. Invisible to all, the ghost of a young woman walks the corridors of a smart modern hotel. The night before his father's funeral a forty-year-old market researcher holes up in the hotel to take stock. Then he sees her. | ||||
Odyssey, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Plays 1, Faber & Faber, London | 2005 | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: after Homer | ||||
Synopsis: Cunning Odysseus, sacker of Troy, is shipwrecked and washed up in England on his way home to Ithaca. He is brtalised by immigration officers who think he's a bogus asylum seeker; to prove he is not, he tells them his story so far. | ||||
Paradise Lost |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from the poem by John Milton | ||||
Synopsis: centres upon the opposing human need for both personal freedom and the overarching morality that limits it. | ||||
Queen Must Die, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 2006 | ||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Ramayana |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | in association with Bristol Old Vic and West Yorkshire Playhouse | |||
| 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 | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: adapted from epic poem | ||||
Synopsis: Exiled from the serene palaces of their homeland and plunged into the deep forest of Southern India, the passionate love of Rama and Sita is put to the test - as demons, goddesses and an army of monkeys do battle for their hearts. The Theatre List | ||||
Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui, 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Translation by Ralph Manheim. Adapted by David Farr and Lucien Msamati | ||||
Synopsis: relocation to Africa and we are clearly meant to be reminded of Robert Mugabe and other African dictators. | ||||
Ruckus In The Garden |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Castleford High School, Yorkshire | |||
| 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: | short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: part of the National Connections Festival | ||||
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Tamburlaine The Great |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | Bristol Old Vic/Young Vic Young Genius for BITE 05 | |||
| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
| 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: | Short Version | One Act | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Christopher Marlowe | ||||
Synopsis: Captivating, charismatic and chillingly calculating, Tamburlaine is a man to admire and to fear. Obsessed with elevating himself from his humble origins, he conquers lands and women with brutality and charm. With the throne of Persia behind him, and an eye on the East, he offers us a dark vision of our own secret ambitions and desires. Unrepentant, utterly convincing and disturbingly compelling, Marlowe's stark epic masterpiece is a mirror of our modern world from the distant past. | ||||
U.N. Inspector, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | NT | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2005 | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: A riotous satire based on Gogols masterpiece, The Government Inspector, David Farrs new play explores human greed and immorality in the highest places. | ||||
Synopsis: Spotted at the Marriott by government aides in search of a decent cappuccino, a British businessman nonentity is mistaken for the dreaded UN inspector. While he exploits the situation for all its worth, presidential panic ensues as ex-Soviet Ministers make farcical attempts to cover up the corruption that lies at the States core. | ||||