BILL FINDLAY
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Plays by Bill Findlay
Albertine In Five Times |
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| 1st Published: | in The Guid Sister, Nick Hern Books, London | 2001 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 |
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Notes: written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay | ||||
Synopsis: Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine. Albertine at 30 is recuperating in the country after viciously beating her 11-year-old daughter; Albertine at 40 is a virago at war with the world; at 50 she has rejected her past by reinventing it; at 60 she has given in to depression; at 70 she's found a kind of peace. First performed in London in 1986 at the Donmar Warehouse. | ||||
Bairns Bothers |
| 1st Produced: | Mull Little/tour | 2000 | ||
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| 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 | 1 | Female | - |
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Notes: From The Play Enfantillages By Raymond Cousse | ||||
Synopsis: Set in a small French village 50 years ago, Cousse's monologue for a single child character falls roughly into six sections - on conflict, sex, school, more sex, religion and mortality and ending. with a passionate nightmare sequence denouncing the hypocrisy and emptiness of organised religion. Joyce McMillan, Scotsman | ||||
Fire In The Basement |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: by Pavel Kahout | ||||
Synopsis: Three days ago, two young, naïve lovers were married. The lovers' world is literally turned upside down as they are sucked into exploitation, corruption and the sinister search for a fire which may - or may not - exist. | ||||
Forever Yours |
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay | ||||
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Guid Sisters, The |
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| 1st Published: | in The Guid Sister, Nick Hern Books, London | 2001 | ||
| 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 | |||
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Notes: written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay | ||||
Synopsis: Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out. | ||||
Hosanna |
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay | ||||
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House Among The Stars |
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay | ||||
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If Only. . .. |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
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| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay | ||||
Synopsis: explores different stages in the relationship between Tremblay and his lively outspoken mother. | ||||
Manon/Sandra |
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| 1st Published: | in The Guid Sister, Nick Hern Books, London | 2001 | ||
| 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 | |||
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Notes: written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay | ||||
Synopsis: The play crosscuts the lives of Manon, an obsessively religious girl, and 'Sandra', a sex-obsessed ############, exploring the similarities and differences between them. A controversial but humane duet. | ||||
Marie-Lou |
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| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay | ||||
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Real World, The |
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay | ||||
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Reel Of The Hanged Man, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | Stellar Quines | |||
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| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Jeanne-Mance Deliales. Translated with Martin Bowman | ||||
Synopsis: Set in a hard rural mining district of Quebec in the 1960s, the play deals with the subject of Incest and abuse in the family not so much by condemning it as by trying to explain it, as a response to powerlessness and emotional repression. Joyce McMillan, Scotsman | ||||
Solemn Mass For A Full Moon In Summer |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 2000 | ||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 |
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Notes: translated by Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay; play by Michel Tremblay. British Premiere | ||||
Synopsis: on six moonlit Montreal balconies on a sultry summer's evening, eleven people tell their stories of love. Each pieces together the landscape of an affair, tracing the graduations between intoxicating highs and heartbreaking lows. | ||||
Weavers, The |
| 1st Produced: | Dundee Rep, Scotland | - | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Gerhart Hauptmann | ||||
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Werewolves |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: by Teresa Lubkiewicz | ||||
Synopsis: In a remote farmhouse, in a place scarred by wars and unhealing resentments, a community busies itself with the timeless rituals of birth, marriage and death as one man hosts a wake for his mother, and a wedding party for his niece. | ||||