NOEL GREIG (1944 - 2009)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Noel Greig
Alice |
| 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | Version Of Carroll | |||||
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Angels Descend On Paris |
| 1st Produced: | Combination, Deptford, London | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
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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: | Play with songs | Play with Music | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | looks at the way in which a totalitarian state, racial and sexual differences that had previously been treated with a civilised liberalism, cannot be tolerated | |||||
As Time Goes By |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | Gay Sweatshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | Two Gay Sweatshop Plays, The Gay Men's Press, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | doubling; pianist | |||||
| Notes: | written with Drew Griffiths | |||||
| Synopsis: | Set in three time periods. 1896 - Sydney arrives in London as is taken up by the proprietor of a male brothel. He and one of the other boys put on a show for two prospective clients. The clients then bid for which boy they wish to have. William, the other boy finishes with his client first and robs the owner. When Sydney has finished he is ordered out as it is suspected that he conspired in the robbery. He goes to the police and the brothel owners are arrested. 1929 - Berlin. Two cabaret drag artists. Lenny has been approached by Magnus Hirschfield, the director of Institute for Sexual Science to talk about his fantasies. Kurt meets Hans a young guy up from the country looking for work. He becomes a waiter at the cabaret and moves in with Kurt. 1933 the owner of the cabaret throws a party to celebrate Kurt and Hans' anniversary. 1934 and the Nazis are rounding up gay people. 1969 New York told in mainly monologue form a number of men in a bar talk of their lives. The Barman on how he tried to avoid the draft by telling the Draft Board he was gay but he was not believed because straight men who were trying to avoid the draft were camping it up, wearing women's clothes and lipstick. The Business Man tells how his long standing relationship with a black guy ended when his partner became a Black Panther and a white lover was inconvenient. The Student who admires his sister's involvement in the Women's Movement and wonders if he should tell her he is gay or whether she knows already. The Leather Guy he just grunts occasionally. The Man just sits and says nothing. The Drag Queen tries to get everyone to take a flower in remembrance of Judy Garland who was buried that morning, but everyone refuses. The second time the Drag Queen offers a flower they accept apart from the Man who turns out to be a police officer and he tries to arrest the Drag Queen for importuning. However, rest of the customers and Barman throw the police officer out. The place is the Stonewall Bar, Christopher Street, New York and the Stonewall Riot had begun. | |||||
At Break of Day |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 for Young People | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | large mixed cast | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The story of two soldiers who make an epic journey home after a long war, encountering many different people on the way. Events become more and more dreamlike, indeed nightmarish, taking them not just along the road home but through a whole century and its conflicts. Along the way they quarrel, make up, quote Shakespeare, fight, comfort each other, joke, escape from prison, and betray each other. One of them records his thoughts in a notebook. Interwoven with the story of the soldiers is that of a young woman who has made her own journey to a distant land, to discover what happened to her great-grandfather. He disappeared after a long-distant war and she searches the battered notebook that once belonged to him for clues. The play presents an absurd universe where time and place shift alarmingly and which is haunted by the echoes of great disasters and great hopes, great poetry and great sorrow | |||||
Best Of Friends |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1985 | ||||
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Blood Green |
| 1st Produced: | Gay Sweatshop | 1980 | ||||
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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: | Futuristic | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | by Noel Grieg and Angela Stewart-Park | |||||
| Synopsis: | set in the year 2050 explores the unholy trinity of the Stage, Church and Medicine. | |||||
Bring Back The Cat |
| 1st Produced: | The Tramshed, Woolwich, London | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Christmas Show | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 2 performers a band | |||||
| Notes: | loosely based on 'Dick Wittington' | |||||
| Synopsis: | A woman leaves her husband to seek a new life in London. A talking cat transforms himself into all the men who try to stop her. | |||||
Dear Love Of Comrades, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
| Company: | Gay Sweatshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | Two Gay Sweatshop Plays, The Gay Men's Press, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 5 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | one actor taking multiple roles; pianist | |||||
| Notes: | Original music: Alex Harding | |||||
| Synopsis: | The story of Edward Carpenter, the socialist, writer, reformer and one of the people who started the Labour Party and George Merril a working class odd job man. Edward has been away in India and is expected back and George Adams and George Hukin (both bi-sexual and married and have been lovers of Edward's from time to time) wait for him at the railway station. When he arrives after greeting them he has words with a man who also got of the train George Merril. Merril gives Edward a slip of paper with his address and invites Edward round for sex. This was the start of a thirty year plus relationship and at the time of the Oscar Wilde trials. | |||||
Death Of Christopher Marlowe, The |
| 1st Produced: | Combination, Deptford, London | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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Do We Ever See Grace? |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1985 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London Cambridge university press (1989) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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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Familiar Feelings |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1989 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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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Final Cargo |
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| 1st Published: | Nelson, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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Good Sisters, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
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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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Dario Fo; with Bill Convill, translated by Lino Pertile | |||||
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Hard Times For Our Times |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 6 performers | |||||
| Notes: | from novel by Charles Dickens | |||||
| Synopsis: | looks at sexual stereotyping of the female characters | |||||
Heelz On Wheels |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | Fittings Multimedia | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 with Songs | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | by Noel Greig with original score by Tayo Akinbode | |||||
| Synopsis: | A ferociously bubbling melting pot of a show about shoes, sex, crips, queers and dressing up. | |||||
He Is Ours |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | - |
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Heroes |
| 1st Produced: | Combination, Deptford, London | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Comic Strip | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | by Noel Greig and John Turner | |||||
| Synopsis: | debunking of schoolboy heroes: Biggles; Dan dare; Sexton Blake; Alf Tupper and chums, With songs | |||||
Jump the Life to Come |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | 7:84 Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A powerful new play about a family trying to make sense of the world. | |||||
Laughter From The Other Side |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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Laughter In The Dark |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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Men |
| 1st Produced: | General Will, Bradford | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | by Noel Greig and Don Milligan | |||||
| Synopsis: | Shop Stewards convene in a Bradford Factory | |||||
Paradise Now And Then |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Richard Coles | |||||
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Picture Me |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | Red Ladder Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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Plague Of Innocence |
| 1st Produced: | Drill Hall, London >>> Crucible, Sheffield 1988 ? | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | Aids Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 5 / Flexible | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | about the Aids panic | |||||
Poppies |
| 1st Produced: | Arts Council Bursary | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | GMP, London (1983) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 7 | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | pre-nuclear crisis, set in London. The scene is Parliament Hill 1986 & 1939 with the everlastin dead commentating on events. " I called him Flag because he flapped whenever the landlord was around" | |||||
Rainbow's Ending |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1984 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Modern Fable | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 20 characters | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Sibrwd yn y Nos |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1998 | ||||
| Company: | Gwent Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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Spinning A Yarn |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
| Company: | Double Exposure Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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Trashed |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | about two women whose lives collided when the planes tore into the twin towers | |||||
Whispers In The Dark |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1998 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | cast : 4 | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Working Hearts |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
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