PAM GEMS   (1925 - )


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Plays by Pam Gems

PAM GEMS
Amiable Courtship Of Miz Venus And Wild Bill
1st Produced:
Almost Free, London
1974
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Aunt Mary
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
Omega Projects
1st Published:
in "Plays by Women 3", Methuen, London, 1984
ISBN
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Genre:
experimental piece
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Cyst and Mary are two tranvestites and are very literate. They write under umpteen pseudonyms and most of the top ten selling books are by them. Alison, a television producer arrives to talk to Martin a singer who lives at Cyst & Mary's house about a programme idea and is entrance with Mary & Cyst. She wants to make a programme about them. Mary makes a pass at Alison. Cyst, in anger, tries to stab her but fails and then seemingly commits suicide by drowning in a nearby pond. Frogmen fail to find him - but he has been in town with Allison apologising for his behaviour. Mary proposes to Cyst. Alson says that her television company would like to build a programme series around Cyst and Mary - but they are not sure about it. At the "wedding" which is conducted by friends in the garden, Mary & Cyst decide that Mary should also marry Muriel an old friend of their as well.
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PAM GEMS
Betty's Wonderful Christmas
1st Produced:
Cockpit Theatre, London
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Blue Angel, The
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
novel by Heinrich Mann
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Camille
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Three Plays", Penguin, London, 1985
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
13
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Alexandre Dumas fils (La Dame Aux Camelias)
Synopsis:
seduction at the court of 1840's Paris
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PAM GEMS
Cherry Orchard, The
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
9
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov from a translation by Tania Alexander
Synopsis:
Oh, the trees! Nothing but white and green as far as you can see - remember, Lyuba? Oh my lovely childhood. Waking up to happiness, looking out at blossom and trees and there they are - the same trees, the same blossom - after cruel winter, warmth and light and feeling! In his masterpiece The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov maintains an exquisite balance between elegiac celebration of the romance of the past, as embodied in the cherry orchard in full bloom, and the awesome prescience of what is so soon to overwhelm Russia - revolution. The themes are majestic, and yet at the centre of the play is Ranévskaya, a tragic woman who lacks adroitness for survival in a changing world but who has one asset: a capacity for love. It is her solution - and Chekhov's
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PAM GEMS
Danton Affair, The
1st Produced:
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
work by Stanislawa Przybyszewska
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Dead Fish
1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
aka Dusa, Fish, Stas And Vi
Synopsis:
in the somewhat raffish flat which they haphazardly share, the four determinedly 'liberated' girls discuss and work out their various emotional problems
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PAM GEMS
Deborah's Daughter
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1995
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Its private heart is about the relationship between mothers and daughters.
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PAM GEMS
Doll's House, A
1st Produced:
Newcastle upon Tyne
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
1b 1g
Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
Synopsis:
The final revolt of a wife who has been treated as a plaything by pompous husband.
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PAM GEMS
Dusa, Fish, Stas And Vi
1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1977
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
aka Dead Fish
Synopsis:
The scene is an unpretentious London flat, where four young women, on their own for various reasons, have thrown in together. Dusa, who returns as the play begins, laments the loss of her children, who have been abducted by her estranged husband; Fish, an upper-class intellectual and "women's libber," finds herself rejected by the one man she can truly love; Stas, a nurse and part-time hustler, regards men—and life—with a cynicism so bitter as to be suspect; while Vi, a zany "flower child," withdraws into Zen, pills and starvation diets. In a series of revealing, inventive scenes, sometimes hilarious, sometimes deeply affecting, the four endeavor to help each other in pulling their lives together and in finding the sense of purpose and individuality which can so easily elude women in contemporary society. The end result, like life itself, is mixed—a degree of success for three of the friends and tragedy for the fourth.
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PAM GEMS
Franz Into April
1st Produced:
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Ghosts
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
Drama Association of Wales
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
New Version By Pam Gems
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Go West Young Woman
1st Produced:
Roundhouse, London
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Guinevere
1st Produced:
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Historical Play
Historical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Lady From The Sea
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
Synopsis:
The Lady From The Sea (1888) marked a turning-point in Ibsen’s writing career as it, and the plays that followed it, concerned itself more with individual destinies than with general moral or social principles.
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PAM GEMS
Ladybird, Ladybird
1st Produced:
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Mrs Ashley lives in a bleak flat with two teenage children. her younger two boys have been taken into care. Mum is on tablets for her stomach trouble and refuses to see a specialist. An upper class social worker does not help when she calls round.
- Michael Coveney, Financial Times
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PAM GEMS
Little Mermaid, The
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
Sphinx Theatre Company
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
from Hans Christian Andersen
Synopsis:
On the Little Mermaid's fifteenth birthday she visits the world above the sea for the first time and falls in love with a prince whom she rescues from a storm. . .. Capturing the magic and cruelty of Hans Christian Andersen's original tale, this powerful new version reveals the spectacle of the worlds below and above the sea, and the sadness of unfulfilled romance between a mermaid and a prince.
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PAM GEMS
Loving Women
1st Produced:
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Three Plays", Penguin, London, 1985
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
contemporary love triangel with two girls after the same chap
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PAM GEMS
Marlene
1st Produced:
Coliseum, Oldham
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 1999
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Biographical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
3 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Paris in the 1970s Marlene Dietrich, now in her seventies, prepares for her evening performance
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PAM GEMS
Mrs Pat
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
At the turn of the century, Mrs. Patrick Campbell was England's most celebrated and notorious actress. An acclaimed beauty, loved by many, she is remembered for her wit, for bad behaviour, and her close friendship with George Bernard Shaw. She was a great actress, when she wanted to be. She had a low boredom threshold and frequently behaved dreadfully on stage. Her work was daring and unpredictable, enhanced by her great beauty. Shaw worshipped her, wrote Pygmalion for her and begged her to play Eliza. Rather than living to work she always worked to live and died in exile and poverty. Pam Gems' new play is about the art and craft of acting and the turmoil of being a woman who was meant to please but couldn't resist using her mind
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PAM GEMS
My Name Is Rosa Luxemburg
1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Marianne Auricoste
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
My Warren And After Birthday
1st Produced:
Almost Free Theatre, London
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Nelson
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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PAM GEMS
Pasionaria
1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Paul Sand, lyrics Gems and Sand
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Piaf
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Ambergate, Derbyshire, 1979
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Play
Biographical
Parts:
Male
9
Female
5
Parts Other:
31 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
portrait of a woman who found relief from the frequent unhappiness in her life in the orgasmic joy of singing
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PAM GEMS
Project, The
1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Queen Christina
1st Produced:
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
St. Luke's Press, London, 1982
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Historical Play
Historical
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
RSC
Synopsis:
uses the story of the Swedish Queen to explore the profound effect of gender training
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PAM GEMS
Rivers And Forests, The
1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Marguerite Duras
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Sandra and After Birthday
1st Produced:
Almost Free Theatre, London
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
about a young girl, just out of hospital, who is waiting to see a prison psychiatrist about the death of her baby
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PAM GEMS
Sarah B. Divine|
1st Produced:
Jeanetta Cochrane, London
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Historical Play
Historical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Tom Eyen, Music Jonathan Kramer
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Seagull, The
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1994
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis:
Can the young people's dreams be realised or will their desires turn sour when confronted by the cruelties of the adult world?
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PAM GEMS
Snow Palace, The
1st Produced:
Wilde, Bracknell
1998
Company:
Sphinx
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 1998
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Biographical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
10 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
story of the Polish playwright Stanislawa Przbyszzewska, a pathfinder and a brave lonely woman
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PAM GEMS
Stanley
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1996
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A painter wants to have two wives on the go at once.
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PAM GEMS
Treat, The
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Uncle Vanya
1st Produced:
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1979
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis:
story of an uncle in love with a young lady who is married to an old and ill man, she is attracted to the doctor who attends her husband
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PAM GEMS
Up In Sweden
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Variety Night
1st Produced:
London
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Sketches in
Sketch
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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PAM GEMS
Yerma
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London,
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
11
Parts Other:
musician
Notes:
Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca
Synopsis:
Set in a remote Spanish village it follows the story of Yerma, a woman of full of life and passion, who longs for a child but is unable to conceive. This compelling and elemental tale of a woman's quest for a child taps into some of the most universal themes of theatre - love, passion, sexuality, marriage.
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