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BARRY L HILLMAN |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Barry L Hillman |
Amazing Dancing Bear | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1998) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840941166 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16597 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 1 m + 1 f teens | |||||
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Synopsis: | *Writing Award Winner* Daly, an art teacher, is invariably reluctant to criticise his students' mediocre work. His evening class is visited by Paula Vivian, a former student now a world famous artist. She shocks the students by suggesting that, apart from Robin, a newcomer, they should destroy their paintings and begin again. Her attempt to inspire them by slashing an early painting of her own fails, and the students depart determined to carry on as before. Only Robin, who Vivian hinted may have talent, takes her at her word and destroys his picture. We wonder, is he inspired or put off by Vivian's remarks. | |||||
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At The End Of The Day | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1998) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840941579 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16598 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 8 | ||
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Synopsis: | Daisy Locke has 'risen through the ranks' and now owns a successful Old People's Home. One of her charges is old chum Freda - once a successful ballroom dancer, who affianced a rich American. What will happen to her inherited fortune when she dies? No-one knows, because Freda has suffered a recent speech-robbing stroke: but her colourful friends from the ballroom days and the local-radio reporter gather like vultures and try to second-guess her plans - all in favour of their own financial interests of course! But although they try to rig her radio interview, Freda has secrets up her silent sleeve. . . | |||||
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Beyond Necessity | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #50415 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | from a domestic de Maupassant story | |||||
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Bibs and Bobs | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hub Press, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42326 | |||
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Genre: | Collection of Ten Monologues and Duologues | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Robert G Newton and Barry L Hillman | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Chameleon | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840946352 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117722 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jan Janowski and his now-ancient mother, Louise, fled from Poland during the Second World War and now live in London, where Jan is an intellectual antiques dealer. A self-hating and bigoted Jew, Jan - now plain John - is unsure of his sexuality and his status in the British hierarchy and poses as a mentor to a succession of young "proteges", to whom he represents a father-cum-lover figure. One such pupil, Murray, lives with the inseparable couple, emotionally incapable of breaking away - until John's "good cause" and project - a young female teacher , arrives on the scene. She flirts with John and tries to seduce Murray, the permanent lodger, into leaving this unhealthy menage-a-trois. But will he find the courage to live his own life? | |||||
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Dispossessed, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hub Press, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840945430 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41808 | |||
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Genre: | One Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | When pensioner Mabel Maynard gets a Compulsory Purchase Order slapped on her old terrace property - to make way for a new Shopping Centre - the demolition men are all set to move in. But Mabel, a self-styled "awkward old sod", isn`t about to go quietly. Town Councillors, social workers and her own daughter are all drafted in to persuade her; and in the ensuing battle a lot of nasty home-truths and scandals tumble out of the woodwork. Mabel remains adamant. She "won`t clear out unless she`s carried out". How fate conspires to achieve exactly that is the story of Barry L Hillman`s festival-winning play, here produced in a full, revised text by NTP, and a cinch for the mature all-female group. | |||||
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Enemy Of The People | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1999) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840942453 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16599 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | + extras | |||||
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Synopsis: | A new version of the play by Henrik Ibsen adapted from the translation by William Archer When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the waters of his famous Spa town are so heavily polluted that they are actually poisoning its visitors instead of being beneficial to their health., he is confident the townsfolk will be grateful to him. On the contrary! Everyone with a vested interest in the financial prosperity of the town is immediately up in arms and insists on a cover-up! Even the 'campaigning' newspaper men are ready to jump on whichever band-wagon wins, and even try to seduce his daughter! - This is the first-ever Environmental Play, dealing with Green Issues, and Pollution versus Big Business and Greed. If you ever thought of Ibsen as Box Office poison and unable to appeal to modern audiences, this new version of his lively play will persuade you to think again! | |||||
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Establishment At Arles, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #50414 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Van Gogh and the English girl in the brothel | |||||
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Face the music | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #50416 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Girls Reunited | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2007) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840946185 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117723 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 8 | ||
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Synopsis: | Old School reunions cooked up on the Web Sites: well - it's the in thing these days, isn't it? Friends Reunited dot com. But of course, there's no guarantee that they've remained friends, is there? Otherwise there wouldn't be a play! Barry L. Hillman's comedy soon shows how human nature will out - what you once were can become what you still are, only more so - the bully, the flirt, the efficient, the inept. Well-meaning Sarah summons up the computer girls from her old Notre Dame playground. For a start, attendance is less than hoped for: then there's the respondent they prayed wouldn't dare arrive. And just who is the old-girl who nobody recognises? It'll all end in tears, thank Goodness - but let's do it again next year anyway! | |||||
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Happy Returns | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hub Press, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41809 | |||
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Genre: | Farcical Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Housewarming | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1998) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840941586 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16600 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Yes Folks! - it's the Male Menopause Play again:- and this time it's Dan who's got it bad. His Mother has just died, he nearly died himself via heart by-pass surgery. His attempts at a writing career are in a mess. His safe job has hit the fan, and his sexual chickens are come home to roost. All this climaxes at his housewarming party where, in the company of his friends, his life unravels: and with friends like this, who needs unravelling? - Underlying the whole fiasco is the cautionary theme of the way sheer laziness of mind, self-pity and an inability to heed the feelings of others can lead to - unintentional - racism. But it can: and for Dan it's Nemesis Time, as his 'friends' turn the party into a war of nerves, and the black guy next door, who hasn't been invited, turns it into a guerrilla war! | |||||
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Night At The Moulin Rouge | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2000) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840942880 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16602 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Madeline joins a team of dancers at a sleazy Paris night-club at the turn of the last century, she feels that this could be her big chance for success. For isn't the famous Can-Can dancer, the legendary la Goule, the team leader? La Goule! Who scandalised the world with her wild dancing and amoral life-style; star of the Moulin Rouge and friend of artist Toulouse-Lautrec. But Louie Weber (la Goule) is past her prime, sluttish, foul-mouthed and addicted to booze and she and Madeline are soon at each other's throats: and when a mysterious "gentleman caller" starts courting the fading star and turns out to be not at all what he seems, the situation becomes electric and pregnant with conflict. | |||||
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Odds and Sods | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hub Press, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42327 | |||
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Notes: | written by Robert G Newton and Barry L Hillman | |||||
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Partly Furnished | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hub Press, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41810 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
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Queen & The Axe | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, nd | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41811 | |||
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Roly-Poly | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1998) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840941272 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16603 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 8 | ||
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Synopsis: | Roly-Poly, a parable on human hypocrisy, is based on a famous short story by Guy de Maupassant - Boule de Suif. It tells of a group of "respectable" women who take advantage of a prostitute's services to secure their release from an inn where they are held by the Prussians, only to scorn her when she has done what they wanted. The all-women cast provides eight contrasting and worthwhile roles for its actresses. Period: Franco-Prussian war. | |||||
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Simple Ceremony | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2001) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840943238 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16604 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Florrie's son is getting married at the local Registry Office, in 'a simple ceremony' - after all, the bride has been married before. Representatives of both sides of the family are waiting in the nearby pub for the ceremony to begin. Florrie has refused to join them in this vulgar celebration and waits in the Town Hall with her friend and sister. But there is a secret underlying the whole occasion:- Donald is an adopted son, and when his real mother turns up, determined to see her boy settled in life, the balloon goes up. Florrie, tough, and incapable of sentimentality, is incandescent. She fights the interloper and her family for possession of the man she has fostered for 30-odd years and all sorts of family secrets are dragged out of the woodwork. Will she be generous enough to let go; or will her pride force her son to choose between two mothers? | |||||
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Six for the Charleston | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840947748 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41812 | |||
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Genre: | Twenties Skit One Act | |||||
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Till The Devil Be Up | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1997) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840941029 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16605 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Jessica Graine buys an old village house to escape from her unfaithful husband she is grateful for the friendship of the maid, Gracie, who meets her at the station. Long neglected, the house is spooky and frightening and the two women soon become aware that the place is haunted. Alternating between bravado and panic, the new mistress is reduced to a state of shock as the house's history unfolds and Gracie is done to death - till the appearance of the local police sergeant reveals that the house is not so much haunted by spirits as by the maid and her accomplice who have been squatting unlawfully in the building and aim to repel prospective purchasers with their scary tales. Free of the hoaxers Jessica can now live without the threat of ghosts. Or can she? A chilling Victorian ghost story. | |||||
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Two Can Play at that Game | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hub Press, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41813 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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