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Frank Hatt

FRANK HATT

  (1935 - )
Nationality:    English
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Frank Hatt's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Frank Hatt's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Against the Grain         Amazing And Preposterous Constance Smedley, The         Elderly People Crossing: a Grey Comedy         Good Wives?         Help Yourself         Not In My Back Yard         Outlaw         Piano Making Music Show, The         Players and Gentlemen         Surfing the Severn         Walking To Whiteway

Against the Grain

Synopsis:
the story of the migration of the Guild of Handicraft from the east end of London to Chipping Campden in 1902.

Notes:
Music by Tom Johnson

1st Produced:
Gloucestershire Community Tour    2002

Organisations:
Dr Fosters

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Community Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

Further Reference:
-

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Amazing And Preposterous Constance Smedley, The

Synopsis:
the play spans the years 1903 - 1915 and is based on events in the life of a disabled woman who was a celebrity. Constance Smedley was a successful artist, feminist journalist, novelist, playwright and theatre-worker. She contributed significantly to the women's movement, the international peace movement and the avant-garde theatre of the day. In 1904 she founded the International Lyceum Club for Women artists and Writers, which still survives world-wide. at the height of her fame, Constance surprised everyone by resigning from the Lyceum Club and marrying a gay and penniless artist called Maxwell armfield. they enjoyed a marriage that was unusual but intensely romantic and mutually supportive. Constance and Max were committed pacifists and internationalists. the play closes with them on the brink of departure for America so as to continue their work away from the horrors of the First World War.

Notes:
Doubling means the play can be performed with only 2 male Actors.

1st Produced:
Cheltenham Everyman Theatre Studio.    11 Mar 2010

Organisations:
Stroud Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Biographical Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Elderly People Crossing: a Grey Comedy

Synopsis:
Four people who happen to be old and recently bereaved, finding that it's painful but that there is still humour to be found.

Notes:
The play is written for 2 actors (1m, 1F), age 65+, each playing 2 characters.

1st Produced:
Everyman Theatre (Cheltenham) Studio.    2015

Organisations:
Stroud Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Good Wives?

Synopsis:
a young textile designer's conflict between career and marriage.

Notes:
Studio theatre production, part of "New Directions" season

1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre, Newcastle On Tyne    1996

Organisations:
Limelight Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Help Yourself

Synopsis:
an unambitious and contented couple have their life turned upside down by a self-help guru, whose own life turns out to be a mess.

Notes:
Script-in-hand performance As one of the successful entries in the Watermill's "Raising Voices" competition for new plays.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Watermill Theatre, Newbury

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Not In My Back Yard

Synopsis:
Four characters brought together in an environmental protest find themseleves at loggerheads over other environmental issues. a comedy with songs, based on real issues in the \Stroud valleys.

Notes:
With songs, music by Richard Goldsmith

1st Produced:
Gloucestershire Community Tour    1997

Organisations:
Festival Players

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Small-scale touring Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Outlaw

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 30/1

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Piano Making Music Show, The

Synopsis:
the death and rebirth of a piano factory. Based on real local events.

Notes:
Commissioned for the Nailsworth festival. Music by Pete Rosser

1st Produced:
Nailsworth    2000

Organisations:
Flies on the Wall Youth Theatre with Dr Fosters

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Community Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

Further Reference:
-

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Players and Gentlemen

Synopsis:
Set in 1915, the play follows the Arts League of Service Travelling Theatre and the Invalids Cricket Club on their summer tour.

Notes:
To be played by 4 actors (2m, 2f). Each actor plays one main character and a number of others. Some of this doubling is cross-gender.

1st Produced:
Rondo Theatre Bath and Alma Tavern Bristol    2013

Organisations:
Butterfly Psyche

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  2 major, 8 minor            Female:  2 major, 1 minor            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Surfing the Severn

Synopsis:
Two brothers get trapped in a pub by the Severn Bore on the eve of their 82-year-old mother's wedding.

Notes:
Frank Hatt In collaboration with Steven Deproost And Richard Goldsmith

1st Produced:
Gloucestershire Community Tour    1999

Organisations:
Self -profit-share

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Walking To Whiteway

Synopsis:
an attempt to establish a Utopian self-sufficient community.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cheltenham    1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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