TERRY JOHNSON   (1955 - )


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Plays by Terry Johnson

TERRY JOHNSON
Amabel
1st Produced:
Birmingham University, UK
1977-78
Company:
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1st Published:
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Play/Drama
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Male
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Female
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Synopsis:
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TERRY JOHNSON
Bellevue
1st Produced:
on tour
1983
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Synopsis:
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TERRY JOHNSON
Chain Play, The
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Written By Terry Johnson, Philip Ridley, Charlotte Jones, Lee Hall, Sebastian Barry, Zinnie Harris, Kevin Elyot, Nick Dear, Tanika Gupta, Frank McGuinness, Nick Stafford, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Teevan, Patrick Marber, David Lan, Sarah Daniels, Martin She
Synopsis:
One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National Theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night
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TERRY JOHNSON
Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle And Dick
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
1st Published:
1998
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
The Carry On films were the ultimate British seaside postcard made flesh. This play is a tragicomic dissection of this end-of-the-pier institution.
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TERRY JOHNSON
Cries From The Mammal House
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
Open-Hearted Enterprises
1st Published:
in "Plays 1" Methuen, London
1993
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
cry of despair masquerading as a droll allegory about the closing down of a small English zoo.
- Carole Woddis, City Limits
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TERRY JOHNSON
Days Here So Dark
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1981
Company:
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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TERRY JOHNSON
Dead Funny
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
1994
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
At the centre of the play is a consultant gynaecologist in his late thirties whose marriage is as dead as the discarded organs he whips out of his women patients; around him are his old school friend Nick, Nick's bubbly wife Lisa, and his neighbour Brian, all fellow members of the dead funny club. About ordinary middle class people in Britain today trying to find some meaning in life.
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TERRY JOHNSON
Dead Guilty
1st Produced:
New Vic, N Staffs
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Revival
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TERRY JOHNSON
Graduate The
1st Produced:
Gielgud, London
2000
Company:
John Reid and Sacha Brooks
1st Published:
2000
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
from novel by Charles Webb and screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
Synopsis:
tale of sexual misadventure, teenage rebellion and mid-life angst.
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TERRY JOHNSON
Hitchcock Blonde
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
2003
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
A media lecturer and his female protege find some deteriorated Hitchcock footage. It would appear they had discovered some early rushes but what film were they for and who is the mysterious blonde?
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TERRY JOHNSON
Hysteria Fragments Of An Analysis Of An Obsessional Neurosis
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
1993
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Genre:
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Farce
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
When Sigmund Freud meets Salvador Dali two of the world's greatest and most eccentric minds collide. This outrageous comedy finds Freud in his quiet suburb of Hampstead where he hopes to spend his last days in peace. When Salvador Dali appears along with an attractive young student of Freud's work, all hell breaks loose. Why is Freud burning his latest publication? Why is Dali berating him? Why is there a naked woman in his closet? Why is he close to hysteria?
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TERRY JOHNSON
Imagine Drowning
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
1991
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A drama of secrecy, violence and sexual betrayal set in a bleak part of northern England. The strands of two intricate plots and time schemes weave together into a mysterious double helix of actions and counteractions.
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TERRY JOHNSON
Insignificance
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
ESC
1st Published:
1982
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
New York, 1953, beautiful film star, Nobel Prize winning scientist, baseball player and infamous senator meet for extraordinary confrontation
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TERRY JOHNSON
London Cuckolds, The
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
1st Published:
1998
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
14
Female
7
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Edward Ravenscroft
Synopsis:
A playscript about a young rake who sexually plunders and pillages his way through London leaving a dozen angry cuckolds in his wake.
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TERRY JOHNSON
Piano/Forte
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
On the eve of his wedding to the glamorous Dawn, Cliffords plans for a joyous celebration are thrown into turmoil by the return home of his estranged daughter Louise. Her plans to exact revenge prove to have explosive consequences.
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TERRY JOHNSON
Tuesday's Child
1st Produced:
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
1987
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Notes:
written with Kate Lock, televised 1985
Synopsis:
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TERRY JOHNSON
Unsuitable For Adults
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1985
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A story about women hurt by men. The characters are the seedy landlord of a ghastly pub in Paddington and his motley troupe of entertainers, who are a stripper, a female and male alternative comic and a bad alternative magician.
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