DAVID HARROWER (1967 - )
| Nationality: | Scottish |
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Plays by David Harrower
365 |
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Edinburgh | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | NTS | |||||
| 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: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Charts the fragmented lives of a group of young people in today's care system as they prepare to make their way in the world on their own. There are more than 70,000 children in care in Britain today. On average they pass through 11 stages of care. In their late teens they have to make the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood, from care to indepen-dence. A Practice Flat is one of the mechanisms used to gently introduce these children to the adult world, 365 is set in the transitory and surreal world of this practice flat. | |||||
Begin Again |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
| 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: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | 1948. The shadow of war falls across the country. In an alley behind a dancehall, one man fatally wounds another man he has never met. How did their paths come to cross? | |||||
Blackbird |
| 1st Produced: | King's, Edinburgh | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN | 9780571233199 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 1c | |||||
| Notes: | book by John Wyndham | |||||
| Synopsis: | the awkward reunion of a man and a woman, 15 years after a brief sexual affair when he was 40 and she was only 12. | |||||
Chrysalids, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | |||||
| Company: | BT connections | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN | 9780571206042 | |||
| 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: | - | |||||
| Notes: | book by John Wyndham | |||||
| Synopsis: | In a post-nuclear holocaust society dedicated to absolute conformity, a group of young people discover they have an unusual gift of communication. Betrayed from within, they escape into the forbidden Fringes. | |||||
Dark Earth |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN | 978057122170x | |||
| 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 of manners | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | When Valerie and Euan's car breaks down in remote countryside near the Antonine Wall they have a problem . With their mobiles left at home and an evening out arranged in Glasgow, they have to find help fast . This comes in the form of Petey and Ida and their 20 year-old daughter, Christine, a farming family who live and breathe the history and traditions of the small area of earth they've made their home . With the rescue van taking longer than anyone could have expected, Euan and Valerie are drawn into a world and a family dilemma which is both familiar and unrecognisable at the same time . | |||||
Girl On The Sofa, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 1840023260 | ||||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse. from a literal translation by Neil Howard and Tonje Gotschalksen | |||||
| Synopsis: | A girl on the verge of adulthood is sitting on a sofa. She is unhappy: she resents her mother and older sister and longs for her absent father, a sailor. What is she going to do with her life? She considers becoming a painter -.A woman approaching middle age is painting a self-portrait. She is watching her younger self: the girl on the sofa. The Girl on the Sofa juxtaposes two stories from the life of one woman and explores the complex interweaving of the past with the present. | |||||
Good Soul of Szechuan, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
| Synopsis: | Three Gods are on a journey to find out if there are any good people left on earth. Only Shen Te, a good-hearted prostitute, offers them shelter. With the money they give her she opens a tobacco shop. At once everyone needs her help. Her livelihood is in danger. Worse, she is falling in love with Sun, a pilot, who is robbing her blind. Her hard hearted cousin Shui Ta arrives to protect her. Who is he and how can good people stay good in a world of poverty and cruelty? | |||||
Ivanov |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 1840023392 | ||||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. from a literal translation by Helen Rappaport | |||||
| Synopsis: | Ivanov, a driving force in local government and a visionary landowner, feels burnt out at thirty-five. Once the pioneer of scientific farming methods and of education for peasants, he now drowns in bureaucracy and debt, his large estate neglected. While his wife is dying, Sacha, a young, educated woman, falls in love with Ivanov and determines to save him. Set in a country suffering from political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's first full-length play anticipates the explosive revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the century. Production at the National Theatre (Cottesloe) in September 2002. | |||||
Kill The Old Torture Their Young |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 9780413735109 | ||||
| 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 | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | a documentary maker returns to the city of his birth. His task to film his impressions. People tell their stories, but who will listen? | |||||
Knives In Hens |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 9780413721105 | ||||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music by Allan Henderson | |||||
![]() | A hard beautiful love triangle set in medieval times involving a peasant, his wife and a miller | |||||
Lucky Box |
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of Ňran Mórs groundbreaking lunchtime theatre programme, A Play, A Pie and A Pint | |||||
| Synopsis: | The hoodie meets the suit in this duologue between a middle-aged man and a teenager on a deserted forest path. It all starts innocently enough with the man 'A' handing the teenager 'J' a glove he appears to have dropped, but their conversation soon moves on to darker territory. At first it seems A is just a lonely man looking for company as he talks to the innocent looking lad J, about laughing at disasters. So far, so 'train journey where some old guy invades your personal space', only the abstract discussion starts to give way to more specific information from both A and J. The discussion of inappropriate sniggering is fascinating in itself and it paves the way for the rest of the piece, as well as giving away a few clues about the two characters. - Seth Ewin, British Theatre Guide | |||||
Mary Stuart |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2006 | 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 | 8 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Presence |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN | 9780571210597 | |||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | 'Weve got nothing to learn from anyone. We are who we are. We do what we do. No-one else can touch us' - except the horrific past of a city where human fat once ran in the gutters, the city ablaze. Homesick, but fame-crazed, a group of Liverpudlian lads are about to become part of Hamburgs history forever. | |||||
Purple |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | Lyceum Youth 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 4 teenage rock musicians | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jon Fosse | |||||
| Synopsis: | Entrenched in the vaults of a disused factory four members of a teenage band meet to rehearse. Deep, dark and oppressive a subtle but revealing journey of unspoken tension, hidden emotion and adolescent rivalry | |||||
Quiet Night In |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
| Company: | Guy Hollands and his KtC 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: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Ostensibly it's about Michael, a photographer returning home after an assignment abroad to find a sea of unopened mail, a stream of ansaphone messages and a to-ing and fro-ing of people demanding his time past, present and future. Among the mail is a video from a former lover on the verge of a crack-up, and the most interesting scenes dove-tail between the video and flashbacks of the pair falling apart. Along the way, there's a comic postman with literary aspirations, Michael's dear old dad and his dead dog, a quartet of anti-road protesters, and the ever-present spectre of a dead colleague. - Neil Cooper, Independant | |||||
Refusal, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| 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: | 9 min monologue | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of Spend A Penny, a series of short plays based on an idea by Andy Arnold | |||||
| Synopsis: | Imagine that there are two half-hour shows, one played out in the Ladies toilet, the other in the Gents. Imagine that each show consists of four five-minute monologues, written and performed by some of the finest theatre artists in Scotland. And then imagine that you experience each of these snippets alone, face to face with a single actor, either in a toilet cubicle, or somewhere around the wash-basins. This is the Arches 15th anniversary show Spend A Penny; and it makes an extraordinary, intense and challenging 21st-century theatre experience, sometimes as rich and intimate as a private moment with a sister or best friend, sometimes as grotesque and vivid as a trip to the underworld, in a painting by Brueghel or Bosch. Joyce McMillam, Scotsman | |||||
Six Characters Looking for an Author |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Penguin Books, UK Methuen Drama; New edition edition (8 Feb 2001) | 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | 1b 1g | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello | |||||
| Synopsis: | Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet been written.Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they long to escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story and release them. Intrigued by their situation, the director and his company of actors listen as the characters begin to describe and argue over the key events of their lives. One of the most extraordinary and mysterious plays of the 20th century, Six Characters speaks directly to an age of uncertainty - where do we come from, where are we going, how do we become what we want to be? | |||||
Sweet Nothings |
| 1st Produced: | 4 Mar 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Co-commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre | |||||
| 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 | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler | |||||
| Synopsis: | A young man has an affair with a married woman. He is terrified her husband will challenge him to a duel and kill him. At a party, he flirts with a girl who believes she is truly loved. Life seems full of joy. The doorbell rings. The husband enters the room. The power of sexual longing, the cruelty of tradition, the vulnerability of those in love. | |||||
Tales from the Vienna Woods |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN | 9780571223046 | |||
| 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: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath. from a literal translation by Laura Gribble. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Set against the sentimental backdrop of the Vienna Woods and to the distant tune of a Strauss waltz, a community steeped in bigotry concerns itself with love affairs, petty squabbles, jealousies and personal tragedy. Meanwhile society at large, haunted by inflation, goes reeling towards Fascism. | |||||
Woyzeck |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | KTheatre 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 | 7 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Georg Buchner | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
