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ROB JOHNSTON (1962 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Rob is a Manchester-based playwright and producer with Breathe Out Theatre. His plays have been produced many times across the region as well as in Scotland, The Isle of Man, and London. He is an in-house company writer at the Studio Salford theatre collective.
Plays by Rob Johnston
Airborne Adventures of Elisabeth and Jeanne, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool: Unity Theatre, 1, Hope Place Liverpool, L1 9BG >>> | 20 Jul 2012 | ||||
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 | #138101 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | For a woman in 1799, the only way was up. In 2011, other directions are available. 31st Dec 1799. Elisabeth and Jeanne, balloonists extraordinaire, are about to perform their most daring feat and parachute into a new century. Ahead, a future where women and men are said to be equal in all things. But at what price ...? | |||||
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Einstein's Daughter | ||
| 1st Produced: | Preston: The Continental, South Meadow Lane, Preston, Lancashire PR1 8JP >>> | 29 Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | Hyde Festival Theatre Company in association with Breathe Out Theatre and Freerange Theatre 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 | #116035 | |||
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Genre: | 80 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Please contact the author directly regarding performance license fee. | |||||
Synopsis: | Maggie lives in an isolated farmhouse in the north of England with her father Andrew, a celebrated scientist. They lead a life that is as conventional as it is idyllic. Into this blissful, humdrum picture bursts Cath, a childhood friend of Maggie's, away for ten years but now back to tell Maggie something she should have learned a long time ago. By the end of the night nothing is left of the picture-box idyll so carefully constructed by Andrew and taken for granted by Maggie. "One night. One secret. One final act." | |||||
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Fencing for Losers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Paupers Pit Buxton | May 2009 | ||||
Company: | Ignition Stage | |||||
| 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 | #98554 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 75 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Please contact the author directly regarding performance license fee. | |||||
Synopsis: | Mancunian Danny attempts to escape a life that is going nowhere by signing up for fencing classes but seeks nothing less than Olympic gold. His fencing teacher Susan needs to escape a going-nowhere life of her own. Together they learn that escape and gold medals are not the impossibilities they first appear. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Human Habitation | ||
| 1st Produced: | Blue, Manchester | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Breathe Out Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #85760 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 45 min drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Manchester's 24:7 Theatre Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Michael has come to a new town looking for a new life. Frank is meant to help him find one. But who is going to help Frank find a new life of his own? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Myth Of Escape, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Jul 2011 | |||||
Company: | Happystorm Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #130369 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Not Part Of Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Billy finds himself in a cell next to Alex. Neither are quite sure what they have done wrong. Perhaps nothing. It doesn't seem to matter. Someone wanted them imprisoned and so they have been. Absurdist political drama about isolation, oppression, and fighting to hold on to everything you believe in. | |||||
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Now Breathe Out | ||
| 1st Produced: | Apr 2009 | |||||
Company: | Breathe Out Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #96486 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 35 minute black comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Please contact the author directly regarding performance license fee. | |||||
Synopsis: | A play about the perils and pitfalls of finding a lump in your undies. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Opposite of Claustrophobic, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Apr 2009 | |||||
Company: | Breathe Out Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #96487 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 50 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Please contact the author directly regarding performance license fee. | |||||
Synopsis: | A lonely housewife's axe-filled encounter with a would-be burglar reveals that neither are exactly what they seem. Breaking in is easy. Breaking out is difficult. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Plan B for the Workers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hyde Festival Theatre | Nov 2009 | ||||
Company: | RLT | |||||
| 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 | #119128 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 55 minute comic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Please contact the author directly regarding performance license fee. 'Plan B for the Workers' can also be performed as part of a double with 'Taking Stock' under the title 'Workers' Playtime'. | |||||
Synopsis: | A factory in Manchester, almost the last of its kind. The men who work there, almost the last of their kind. But not quite. Until today. Friendships are tested. Loyalties are questioned. Plan A hasn't worked. So what's Plan B? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Poe: Macabre Resurrections | ||
| 1st Produced: | St Mary's Old Church, Stoke Newington, London | 16 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | Second Skin Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #134346 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Rob Johnston, Richard Allden, Mike Carter, Jacob Hodgkinson and Nadine Hearity | |||||
Synopsis: | Under the overall artistic direction of Andy McQuade, he and five other directors present specially commissioned treatments of five Poe's stories rethought for today, plus his best known poem The Raven incorporated in the framing device of a preacher who introduces the evening and guides the audience through the promenade performance. They have not simply transposed the stories to a modern setting, these are not literal transpositions but rethinking in the spirit of what is behind Poe's plots. | |||||
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Rid The World | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Feb 2011 | |||||
Company: | Breathe Out Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #124681 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | based on an unproduced screenplay by Trevor Griffiths | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1911 political activist Tom Mann came to Liverpool to co-ordinate what would become a full-blown transport strike, transforming Liverpool into a city with its own sense of working-class outrage and social responsibility. Britain was brought close to popular revolt, with gunboats up the Mersey and the workers of Liverpool standing as one to face odds that were surely stacked against them. . . | |||||
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Short Sharp Shocks (Head Space) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 03 Mar 2010 | |||||
Company: | Breathe Out Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #111890 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Please contact the author directly regarding performance license fee. | |||||
Synopsis: | An ultra-short comic drama about taking care when you cross the road. | |||||
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Taking Stock | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hyde Festival Theatre | Feb 2006 | ||||
Company: | RLT | |||||
| 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 | #119127 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 50 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Please contact the author directly regarding performance license fee. 'Taking Stock' can also be performed as part of a double with 'Plan B for the Workers' under the title 'Workers' Playtime'. | |||||
Synopsis: | Five women meet up in the tea-room of the supermarket where they work. In the middle of a fuel crisis they try to avert the end of civilization as we know it. "Women are from Salford. Who cares where men are from?" | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Under My Skin | ||
| 1st Produced: | Paupers Pit Buxton | Nov 2009 | ||||
Company: | Breathe Out Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #112686 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | black comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Please contact the author directly regarding performance license fee. | |||||
Synopsis: | Will and Jimmy - two Salford boys at the bottom of the pile - have lost their moral compass. While waiting for it to turn up they decide to follow the example set by our illustrious politicians : it's only a crime if you get caught! Moral compass? Yes they've got one. But it doesn't always point true north! "A pitch-black comedy about guilt-free crime." | |||||
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