WILLIS HALL   (1929 - 2005)


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Plays by Willis Hall

WILLIS HALL
All Things Bright And Beautiful
1st Produced:
Bristol
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
Joseph, London
1963
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse
Synopsis:
An exuberant and racy comedy which is yet a sad commentary on twentieth-century bureaucracy. The Hesseltines are living in property well overdue for demolition and are looking forward to being rehoused in more beautiful and salubrious surroundings. The crisis comes when they find that, far from a house with a little bit of garden, they are to live in a warrenous block of flats. . .
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WILLIS HALL
Azouk
1st Produced:
Newcastle upon Tyne
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Robin Maugham, play by Alexandre Rivemale
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Billy Liar
1st Produced:
Cambridge Theatre, London
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
Joseph, London
1960
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Willis Hall, from novel by Waterhouse
Synopsis:
Less than dedicated to his job as undertaker's clerk bored with his North Country family background, Billy Fisher takes refuge in his own invented world. For Billy, an energetic imagination makes life tolerable but well-nigh intolerable for all around him. He lies his way into and out of every situation producing any explanation and making any promise that will extricate him from his present predicament, and thereby creating ever more tortuous entanglements for the immediate future.
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WILLIS HALL
Budgie
1st Produced:
London
1988
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse, music by Mort Shu,am, lyrics by Don Black
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Card, The
1st Produced:
Bristol
1973
Company:
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1st Published:
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-
Music:
Original cast recording: First Night (OCR5)
1973
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall; music by Tony Hatch; lyrics by Jackie Trent. Based on the novel "The Card" by Arnold Bennett
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Celebration: The Wedding And The Funeral
1st Produced:
Nottingham
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
Joseph, London
1961
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse
Synopsis:
a family make preparation for wedding then six months later a funeral of their uncle who provides the link
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WILLIS HALL
Children's Day
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1975
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse
Synopsis:
This play concerns a party which is heard but not seen, and the effect those jollifications have on the lives of two couples; Robin and Emma, and Peter and Polly
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WILLIS HALL
Chin-Chin
1st Produced:
London
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Francois Billetdoux
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Christmas Crackers
1st Produced:
London
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
French-Heinemann, London
1976
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Days Beginning, The: An Easter Play
1st Produced:
-
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Second Windmill Book of One-Act PlaysHeinemann, London
1963
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Genre:
Easter Play
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Parts:
Male
19
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Voices at the Calvary
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WILLIS HALL
England, Our England
1st Produced:
London
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans, London
1964
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse, music by Dudley Moore
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Filumena
1st Produced:
London
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Heinemann, London
1978
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo; Written in collaboration with Keith Waterhouse
Synopsis:
after 25 years marriage Filumena is to be thrown over for a younger woman, pretence of death cures all
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WILLIS HALL
Final At Furnell
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
One Act Play
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Gentle Knight, The
1st Produced:
London
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
Blackie, London
1966
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
broadcast 1957
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Glimpse Of The Sea, A
1st Produced:
London
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans, London
1961
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Help Stamp Out Marriage!
1st Produced:
Booth Theatre, New York
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Play written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. Original Broadway
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Jane Eyre
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1994
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
9
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
novel by Charlotte Bronte
Synopsis:
Jane, untouched and innocent but intellectually his equal finally finds happiness with Rochester
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WILLIS HALL
Joey, Joey
1st Produced:
Manchester
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse, music Ron Moody
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Kidnapped At Christmas
1st Produced:
London
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
French-Heinemann, London
1975
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Last Day In Dreamland
1st Produced:
London
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans, London
1961
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
1
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Long And The Short And The Tall, The
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
Heinemann, London
1959
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Period 1942, soldiers in Malayan jungle face up to unforeseen issues of loyalty and danger
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WILLIS HALL
Lost Empires
1st Produced:
Darlington, County Durham
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse, music Denis King, novel J.B. Priestley
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Love Game, The
1st Produced:
London
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Marcel Achard, translated by Tamara Lo
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Mansfield Park
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1994
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes:
book by Jane Austen
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Our Song
1st Produced:
London
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1993
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse, from Waterhouse's novel
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Peter Pan
1st Produced:
RFH, London
2002
Company:
Imagination Entertainment
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Musical Adventure
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes:
book Willis Hall and lyrics by Anthony Drewe based on book by J m Barrie. Music by George Stiles
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Play Of The Royal Astrologers, The
1st Produced:
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
Heinemann, London
1960
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Genre:
Childrens Fantasy
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
20 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Poet And Pheasant
1st Produced:
Watford, Hertfordshire
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
Deane's Series of Plays, Kenyon-Deane, London
1959
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Lewis Jones, broadcast 1955
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Railwayman's New Clothes
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1974
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Consious of his superior position as branch manager of a a tailor's shop Mr Lumley exercises all his guile and nearly suceeds in landing a sizeable order - but unfortunately at the last minute he is defeated by his own over confidence and over reaches himself
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WILLIS HALL
Return To The Sea
1st Produced:
London
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans, London
1961
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
televised 1960
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Right Christmas Caper, A
1st Produced:
London
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Heinemann, London
1978
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1st Produced:
London
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Heinemann, London
1974
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
11
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo; Written in collaboration with Keith Waterhouse
Synopsis:
a monumental Italian family row breaks out on Saturday night, to be finally and touchingly resolved on the Monday
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WILLIS HALL
Say Who You Are
1st Produced:
Guildford, Surrey
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans, London
1966
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse, aka Help Stamp Out Marriage
Synopsis:
unmarried lover at friends flat, a telephone booth, yet another foreign film all conspire in resultant embroilments
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WILLIS HALL
Sponge Room, The
1st Produced:
Nottingham
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans, London
1963
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse
Synopsis:
about three dreamers who will never have the courage to carry out their dream - for the dreams themselves are a substitute for courage
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WILLIS HALL
Squat Betty
1st Produced:
London
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans, London
1963
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse
Synopsis:
parody of the Theatre of the Absurd, who should leave whom and who should commit suicide - nobody their lives are inextricably entangled
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WILLIS HALL
Stag-Night
1st Produced:
London
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
They Called The Bastard Stephen
1st Produced:
Bristol
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans, London
1965
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
written with Keith Waterhouse, aka Come Laughing Home
Synopsis:
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WILLIS HALL
They Don't All Open Men's Boutiques