SAM HOLCROFT
| Nationality: | Scottish |
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Plays by Sam Holcroft
Cockroach |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | Traverse Theatre Company / National Theatre Of Scotland | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 9781848420328 | ||||
| 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 | 4 |
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 | A seemingly normal detention in a seemingly normal modern day comprehensive. The valiant teacher battles on with biology revision. She believes only education will set her pupils free. For outside the world is in the middle of a long and bloody war. Despite all her best efforts, all too soon the tide of conflict is lapping at the school gates and one by one pupils and teacher are pulled under, as their hopes and dreams float away from them. But as she has taught them in her biology lesson, like the cockroach, the fittest will survive. She is no longer sure however if tenderness and humanity stand a chance? | |||||
London Street Sauna |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| 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 |
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| Synopsis: | Saul and Gemma are doing just fine living on their own. With no parents on the scene Sauls big sister looks after her teenage brother ok. But when Hailey comes into their lives she stirs up their emotions to test the nature of all our true loves. | |||||
Ned & Sharon |
| 1st Produced: | Halesworth, Suffolk | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | HighTide Festival | |||||
| 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: | half hour play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A story of love and tenderness about a troubled teenager in a care home. | |||||
Old O'Malley |
| 1st Produced: | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | - | ||||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Vanya |
| 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 | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | inspired by Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya | |||||
| Synopsis: | Writer Sam Holcroft has condensed the plotting, reducing the dramatis personae to four and concentrating on Chekhov's sexual conveyor belt as the main linking thread. | |||||
Vogue |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | Latitude Festival | |||||
| 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: | short play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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