n/a

n/a

Almost Free, London

1974

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Warehouse, Croydon, London >>>

1982

Omega Projects

in "Plays by Women 3", Methuen, London

1984

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experimental piece

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4

3

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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.

Cockpit Theatre, London

1972

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Childrens

Youth Audience

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Notes:
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Synopsis:

Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK >>>

1991

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Adaptation

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Notes:
novel by Heinrich Mann

Synopsis:

Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK >>>

1984

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in "Three Plays", Penguin, London

1985

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Adaptation

13

6

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Alexandre Dumas fils (La Dame Aux Camelias)

Synopsis:
seduction at the court of 1840's Paris

Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, UK >>>

1984

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Oberon Books, London >>>

2007

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Adaptation

9

5

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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

Barbican, London >>>

1986

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Adaptation

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Notes:
work by Stanislawa Przybyszewska

Synopsis:

Edinburgh Festival

1976

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Samuel French, London

1977

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Play/Drama

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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

Library Theatre, Manchester, UK >>>

1994

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Nick Hern Books, London

1995

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Play/Drama

5

3

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Synopsis:
Its private heart is about the relationship between mothers and daughters.

Newcastle upon Tyne

1980

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Adaptation

3

4

1b 1g

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

Synopsis:
The final revolt of a wife who has been treated as a plaything by pompous husband.

Edinburgh Festival

1976

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Samuel French, London

1977

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Play/Drama

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4

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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 menand lifewith 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 mixeda degree of success for three of the friends and tragedy for the fourth.

ICA, London >>>

1977

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Play/Drama

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Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, UK >>>

1993

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Play/Drama

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Notes:
New Version By Pam Gems

Synopsis:

Roundhouse, London

1974

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Play/Drama

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Edinburgh: Fringe Festival >>>

1976

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Almeida Theatre, London >>>

2003

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Oberon Books, London

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Adaptation

5

3

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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

Synopsis:
The Lady From The Sea (1888) marked a turning-point in Ibsens writing career as it, and the plays that followed it, concerned itself more with individual destinies than with general moral or social principles.

Kings Head Theatre, London >>>

1979

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Play/Drama

1

3

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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

Greenwich Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2004

Sphinx Theatre Company

Oberon Books, London

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Adaptation

2

4

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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.

Arts Theatre, London, EUR >>>

1976

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in "Three Plays", Penguin, London

1985

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Comedy

1

2

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Synopsis:
contemporary love triangel with two girls after the same chap

Coliseum, Oldham

1996

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Oberon Books, London

1999

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Biographical

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3 characters

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Paris in the 1970s Marlene Dietrich, now in her seventies, prepares for her evening performance

York: Theatre Royal, England, EUR >>>

2006

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Oberon Books, London >>>

2006

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Play/Drama

3

3

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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

Soho Poly, London

1976

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Adaptation

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Original Playwright - Marianne Auricoste

Synopsis:

Almost Free Theatre, London

1973

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Play/Drama

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Southampton: Nuffield Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2005

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Play/Drama

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London

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Oberon Books, London

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Play/Drama

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Playhouse Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne

1985

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Play/Drama

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Notes:
music by Paul Sand, lyrics Gems and Sand

Synopsis:

Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK >>>

1978

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Amber Lane Press, Ambergate, Derbyshire

1979

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Play

Biographical

9

5

31 characters

Notes:
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Synopsis:
portrait of a woman who found relief from the frequent unhappiness in her life in the orgasmic joy of singing

Soho Poly, London

1976

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Play/Drama

-

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Notes:
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Synopsis:

Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK >>>

1977

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St. Luke's Press, London

1982

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Historical Play

Historical

5

3

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Notes:
RSC

Synopsis:
uses the story of the Swedish Queen to explore the profound effect of gender training

Soho Poly, London

1976

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Adaptation

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Original Playwright - Marguerite Duras

Synopsis:

Almost Free Theatre, London

1973

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Play/Drama

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1

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Synopsis:
about a young girl, just out of hospital, who is waiting to see a prison psychiatrist about the death of her baby

Jeanetta Cochrane, London

1973

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Historical Play

Historical

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Notes:
written with Tom Eyen, Music Jonathan Kramer

Synopsis:

Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

1994

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Nick Hern Books, London

1994

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Adaptation

8

5

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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?

Wilde, Bracknell

1998

Sphinx

Oberon Books, London

1998

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Biographical

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10 characters

Notes:
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Synopsis:
story of the Polish playwright Stanislawa Przbyszzewska, a pathfinder and a brave lonely woman

Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

1996

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Nick Hern Books, London

1996

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Play/Drama

4

6

-

Notes:
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Synopsis:
A painter wants to have two wives on the go at once.

ICA, London >>>

1982

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Play/Drama

-

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Notes:
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Synopsis:

Hampstead Theatre, London >>>

1979

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Eyre Methuen, London

1979

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Adaptation

6

4

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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

Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, UK >>>

1975

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Play/Drama

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Notes:
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Synopsis:

London

1982

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Sketches in

Sketch

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Notes:
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Synopsis:

BAC Studio, London >>>

1993

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Oberon Books, London

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Adaptation

3

11

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.