CHRIS HANNAN (1958 - )
| Nationality: | Scottish |
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Plays by Chris Hannan
Baby, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1991 | 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: | Epic Drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Set in Rome 78 B.C. where professional mourners are forced to wail at the funeral of a tyrant. When the wailers protest there are reprisals and the baby of the heroine is murdered. This is a revenge-drama on an epic scale with language to match. It is also a simple love story. | |||||
Elizabeth Gordon Quinn |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 9781854597335 | ||||
| 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: | Serious Melodrama | Melodrama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | being revived 2006 by the National Theatre of Scotland and will be published by Nick Hern Books on its own (not as part of a anthology). | |||||
![]() | A Marie-Antoinette of the slums, this monstrous and magnificent heroine refuses to believe she is poor, living her life in denial. But it's 1915. A Rent Strike is raging around her and when her son deserts and returns to hide in her house her world and her sanity is threatened. | |||||
Evil Doers, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1991 | 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A demented family career about the streets of Glasgow pursued by a debt-collector and their alcoholic mum in a comedy that cuts like a rusty razor. | |||||
Gamblers |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. written by Christopher Rathbone and Chris Hannan | |||||
| Synopsis: | Con-men take on a con-man and strip him of his pile and his reason.. | |||||
Klimkov: Life Of A Tsarist Agent |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
| 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 | 6 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.10180/17-19 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Klimkov joins the Tsarist secret police, just as they are engulfed by the Revolution of 1905. The strange introverted hero is ill-equipped to cope. | |||||
Orphan's Comedy, The |
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.10180/24 | |||||
| Synopsis: | A surreal society where contraceptives are banned, creating a black market in condoms - a market which the gambler-hero tries to rig. This is a surreal satire on capitalist markets. | |||||
Posthuman Satire Slash Romance |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of The World is Too Much, Theatre for Breakfast | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Pretenders, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, | 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
| Synopsis: | Rivals for the throne of Norway do physical and spiritual battle in epic melodrama. | |||||
Purity |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.10180/29 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Short play about Beethoven before he got famous. | |||||
Screw The Bobbin |
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow | 1982 | ||||
| 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: | Agit Prop | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 2 musicians | |||||
| Notes: | written by Chris Hannan and John McGrath. National Library of Scotland ref: 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre Company - Acc.10893/122-3 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Agit-prop play about the closure of a factory. | |||||
Shining Souls |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 9781854599216 | ||||
| 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: | Romance | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
![]() | The mad heroine battles with the dead on the day of her wedding, while three men try to win her half-crazed heart. Think of the carnival atmosphere of the Day of the Dead transferred to the streets and back-courts of Glasgow. | |||||

