STEVE GOOCH (1945 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Steve Gooch
Back-Street Romeo |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: adaptation of Shakespeare set in the East End | ||||
Big Wolf |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Davis Poynter, London | 1972 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Harald Mueller | ||||
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Cock-Artist |
| 1st Produced: | Almost free Theatre,London | 1974 | ||
| Company: | Foco Novo Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Gambit 39-40", Calder, London | 1982 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Rainer Werner Fassbinder | ||||
Synopsis: about a Greek immigrant in a small German town | ||||
Dark Glory |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Delinquent |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1979 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Harald Mueller | ||||
Synopsis: about the relationship between an ex Borstal Boy, a left wing sociologist and her Christian Democrat lover. | ||||
Dick |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Christmas Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: about the highway man Dick Turpin | ||||
Fast One |
| 1st Produced: | Southampton | 1982 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Solent People's Theatre, Southampton | 1982 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: about merchant seamen caught up in Superpowers intrigue in a politically turbulent South American country | ||||
Female Transport |
| 1st Produced: | Half Moon, London | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Pluto Press, London | 1974 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: prison ship scenes of six women being transported for life in nineteenth century London | ||||
Flotsam |
| 1st Produced: | Croydon, Surrey | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Gambit 39-40", Calder, London | 1982 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Harald Mueller | ||||
Synopsis: about young couple whose eight year old daughter has just been swept out to sea | ||||
Fuente Ovejuna |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1982 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Lope de Vega | ||||
Synopsis: oppressed inhabitants of fifteenth century Spanish village rise and kill tyrannical military overlord | ||||
Future Perfect |
| 1st Produced: | On Tour | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Michelene Wandor and Paul Thompson | ||||
Synopsis: about a Utopia with problems | ||||
Good For You |
| 1st Produced: | Leicester | 1985 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Great Expectations |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1970 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from Dicken's novel | ||||
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Home Work |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Gambit 39-40", Calder, London | 1982 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz | ||||
Synopsis: about abortion | ||||
How The Peace Was Lost |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Account of people in South London under the labour Government 1945 - 1951 | ||||
In The Club |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1979 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: about cuts in government expenditure, set around a golf course | ||||
It's All For The Best |
| 1st Produced: | Stoke-on-Trent | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: novel Candide by Voltaire | ||||
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Landmark |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1980 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Theatre Action Press, Colchester | 1982 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: new version of 'Our Land, Our Lives' | ||||
Synopsis: set against the introduction of cruise missiles | ||||
Lulu |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1990 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original playwright - Frank Wedekind (Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora's Box (1904)) | ||||
Synopsis: Lulu embodies the sexual impulse, leading all to disaster; but only.. | ||||
Made In Britain |
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Paul Thompson | ||||
Synopsis: about the British Leyland Motor Company | ||||
Man Is Man |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | soldiers | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
Synopsis: four soldiers loot an Indian temple but one is left behind, soldiers get Irish docker to impersonate him | ||||
Marquis Of Keith |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1990 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Frank Wedekind | ||||
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Massa |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | New Cross, London | 1990 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
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Mister Fun |
| 1st Produced: | Sheffield | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Mister Paul |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | Contemporary Stage Co | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst in collaboration with Ursula Echler | ||||
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Mother, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London | 1978 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
Synopsis: Period 1916 Russia, mother is drawn by her son into the revolutionary movement only for him to be shot and herself beaten up | ||||
Motor Show, The |
| 1st Produced: | Dagenham, Essex | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Pluto Press, London | 1975 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Political play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: written with Paul Thompson | ||||
Synopsis: about the Ford empire, it covers the corporation's origins and bloody battle to unionise the plant, life on the line and the battles at Dagenham | ||||
NAB Show, The |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Nicked |
| 1st Produced: | Exeter | 1972 | ||
| Company: | TIE | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Prison play about the three stages of recidivism | ||||
Our Land Our Lives |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: aka Landmark | ||||
Synopsis: Young marrieds in a market town looking back on their teenage expectations | ||||
Our Say |
| 1st Produced: | Wednesbury, Est Midlands | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Passed On |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: About the first English non-conformists, the Lollards, between the Peasants Uprising of 1381 and the reign of Henry V | ||||
Public Relations |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: version of 'Turandot' story, set in a government information department | ||||
Rosie |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Harald Mueller | ||||
Synopsis: about a doctor's daughter who, via a succession of increasingly sordid men friends has become a motorway tart | ||||
Santis |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Martin Walser | ||||
Synopsis: about young private detective hired by ageing writer to observe his departed mistress | ||||
Star Turns |
| 1st Produced: | Croydon W'house, London | 1987 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Strike '26 |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Historical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Frank McDermott | ||||
Synopsis: About the General Strike in 1926 UK | ||||
Taking Liberties |
| 1st Produced: | Tom Allen, London | 1984 | ||
| Company: | Theatre Venture | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
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Synopsis: fascinating example of popular disenchantment with parliamentary corruption in the form of the mock elections held in a village south of London throughout the latter part of the 18th century | ||||
What Brothers Are For |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1983 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Terence (The Brothers) | ||||
Synopsis: set in present day South London | ||||
Will Wat; If Not, What Will? |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Pluto Press, London | 1975 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Historic | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
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Synopsis: Will Watt doesn't show you the Peasants' revolt of 1381, it involves you in it& | ||||
Women Pirates, The: Ann Bonney And Mary Read |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Pluto Press, London | 1978 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Historic | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: The lives of two women pirates | ||||