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STEPHEN JEFFREYS (1950 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd |
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Plays by Stephen Jeffreys |
Backbeat | ||
| 1st Produced: | 12 Feb 2010 | |||||
Company: | Citizens Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112169 | |||
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Genre: | Play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based On The Universal Pictures Film, Writer Iain Softley adapted with Stephen Jeffreys | |||||
Synopsis: | 'He had to choose between his best friends, the woman he loved and the greatest rock 'n'' roll band in the world'. Backbeat is the story of the fifth Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe (the band's original bassist), and the two most important people in his life: John Lennon and Astrid Kirchherr. Re-imagined for the stage by the original writer and director of the acclaimed 1994 film, Iain Softley. This new production of Backbeat is a passionate and vivid portrayal of a love story born out of the famous summer when The Beatles made their name in the city of Hamburg. Inseparable friends, John and Stuart, become entwined in a fiery triangular relationship as Stuart falls madly in love with Astrid. John forces Stuart to choose between his deep loyalty for John, a future with the greatest band in history or following his heart and pursuing a life as an artist with the woman of his dreams. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beggar's Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Out of Joint | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93774 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - John Gay | |||||
Synopsis: | takes place on a convict ship bound for Australia in a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bugles At The Gates Of Jalalabad | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The great game: Afghanistan, Oberon Books, London (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781840029222 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95211 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of a three month long festival about the culture and history of Afghanistan. Entitled The Great Game: Afghanistan. The festival will be divided into three parts, each focusing on a period of Afghan history: 1842-1930 : Invasions And Independence | |||||
| After a brief Siba Shakib prologue delivered by a muralist painting his country's history, the saga starts with a tale related by four British buglers in 1842, assisted by a General's wife. The savagery that led to the deaths of 16,000 British troops and hangers-on forms a kind of introduction to the fate of a benighted country destined to be at war for generations. The story is personalised by the arrival of Nabil Elouahabi playing a local philosopher who probes into colonial motives (are they supporting the cause of God or country?). The consequence of inefficiencies by the ruling classes is quite shocking and will prefigure the perpetual wars by which life in Afghanistan can almost be measured. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Carmen 1936 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17984 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 musicians (optional) | |||||
Notes: | novel by Prosper Merimee. Can be played with bigger company. Won Fringe First, Edinburgh 1984 | |||||
Synopsis: | A very free re-setting of the Merimee story to the Spanish Civil War. Jose is a Basque in Franco's army who becomes captivated by Carmen. When he kills one of his officers in a fit of jealousy, he and Carmen are condemned to live with the losing Republicans. Too late he realises that his infatuation has blinded him to the realities of the conflict. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Clearing House | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kendal, Cumbria | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17985 | |||
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Clink, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854594440 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17986 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling, or 4f 12m | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an Elizabethan stand-up comedian, becomes unwillingly involved in the political skullduggery and jiggery-pokery surrounding the ailing queen. A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Convict's Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Theatre | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Out of Joint & Sydney Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781848420151 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85108 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | John Gay's long-planned sequel to his 18th century ballad entertainment The Beggars' Opera | |||||
| The Convict's Opera follows Gay's pattern in many respects, not least the score which lifts popular tunes ranging from the original 18th century ballad "Over the hills and far away" (sung by Olivier in the film version) to strains of Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and the Gypsy Punks. A fine tradition which is a distinct improvement on the tuneless number of so many so-called "original" musicals. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Counterpoint | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southampton | 1975 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17987 | |||
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Darling Buds Of Kendal | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kendal, Cumbria | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17988 | |||
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Desire | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17989 | |||
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Futures | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kendal, Cumbria | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17990 | |||
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Garden Of Eden, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carlisle, Cumbria | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17991 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Going Concern, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854592705 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17992 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
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| The technological revolution has not yet reached Chapel & Sons, an ailing family business making billiard tables. In the dilapidated workshop, three generations conspire against each other for control of the firm. The play is at once a lament for the passing of an industrial age, a retelling of the classic mythical struggle between fathers and sons and a thoroughly entertaining story. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hard Times | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kendal, Cumbria | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17993 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | from novel by Charles Dickens | |||||
Synopsis: | shows the riches and the hardships of the Industrial Revolution in nineteenth century Britain | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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I Just Stopped By to See the Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854594822 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17994 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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| "Tonight I'm up on stage, Robert Johnson number. I'm singing it and it hits me. Crossroads. That's where he'd go. He'd go to live at the crossroads" Jesse Davidson, last of the old-time Delta blues singers, died fourteen years ago. But legends continue to surround him - like the story about him selling his soul to the devil so that he could play guitar. And the story that he isn't dead at all. When an English rock back hits town, their leader comes looking for the truth and triggers a confrontation of mythic proportions. | |||||
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Imagine | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17995 | |||
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Jovial Crew, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Warner Chappell Plays, London, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17996 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Richard Brome | |||||
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Jubilee Too | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warwick | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17997 | |||
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Libertine, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854592774 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17998 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Of Manners | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | music by Mickey Gallagher | |||||
| Based on life of Rochester, the famous Restoration poet and rake. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Like Dolls Or Angels | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carlisle, Cumbria | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17999 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Best New Play Award, National Student drama Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Small-time stunt circus boss confronted by revolt from Zuki, his girlfriend and principal exploitee | |||||
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Mobile 4 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carlisle, Cumbria | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18000 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An artist's commune disintegrates while hanging an exhibition in a small London gallery in the middle of the three day week | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Peer Gynt | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kendal, Cumbria | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18001 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen; Written in collaboration with Gerry Mulgrew | |||||
Synopsis: | Symbolic satirical in verse based on Norwegian folklore. | |||||
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Returning Fire | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18002 | |||
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Valued Friends | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "First Run 2", Hern, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18003 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | satire on the 1980's property boom as property developer offers large sum of money for four friends basement flat | |||||
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Vigalante Trail, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kendal, Cumbria | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18004 | |||
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Watches Of The Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kendal, Cumbria | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18005 | |||
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Notes: | broadcast 1981 | |||||
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Where The Tide Has Rolled You | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southampton | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18006 | |||
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Year Of The Open Fist | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kendal, Cumbria | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18007 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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