JACK KLAFF
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Plays by Jack Klaff
Be My - Be My Baby |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: This solo show was also produced by BBC2 as a television play as a two-hander. It tells the story of Jill and Mike both of whom have terrible qualms about having a baby, given the terrible state of the world. But. . ..Jill's biological clock is ticking. Mike relents, and so they try to have a baby. The awful irony is that Jill is infertile. They attempt IVF, and the hormones cause tensions between them. They split up. They get back together and have to go through IVF. There is a dramatic complication: While they were apart Mike made another woman pregnant. . ... Funny and touching parts for two versatile actors | ||||
Bosom Buddies |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 1 f possible | |||
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Synopsis: The six great male encounters of the Twentieth Centuries in brief plays. Each story is told by a woman who knew both men. The plays involve: 1. Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr as told by the daughter whom Einstein gave away! 2. Smuts - South African Prime Minister and also inventor of the philosophy and the word 'Holism'! - and Mahatma Gandhi as told by Emily Hobhouse. 3 Hitler and Stalin as told by Margarete Buber-Neumann who was in the Gulag and in Ravesnbruck. 4 Wittgenstein and Russell as told by Lady Ottoline Morrell. 5. Kennedy and Khruschev as told by Jacie Kennedy-Onassis. 6 Freud and Jung as told by Sabina Spielrein Great dram, an intellectual and emotional feast. Terrific roles for versatile actors | ||||
Cuddles etc |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Three plays | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 1 f possible | |||
Notes: Edfest Fringe First Award | ||||
Synopsis: Penny believes in feminism. Tony is trying hard. This Fringe First-winning work offers opportunities for comedy and pathos | ||||
Daddy, Take Me to the Funfair |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Monologue about the death, long ago, of a father and an appreciation of his life now that the son has grown up. Was the father a coward in the face of the evils of the world, or is there a heroism in the day-to-day slog of providing for a family. | ||||
Fifty-Minute Hour, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Solo/or two-hander | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 1 f possible | |||
Notes: Edfest Fringe First Award | ||||
Synopsis: A psychoanalyst is left alone. A patient is late. The analyst analyses himself and nothing less than the modern western mind. Fringe First Award-winner and also broadcast by Channel Four TV | ||||
Jack Klaff Festival |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - |
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Kafka |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: It is a little-known fact that Franz Kafka loved the theatre and produced his friend, an actor, in a series of one man shows! This deep appreciation of the work as well as the life of a great writer and thinker is dramatic, surprising and has been performed successfully in a wide range of venues around the world. | ||||
Letters Alone |
| 1st Produced: | - | |||
| Company: | RSC | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 1-5 | Female | 1-6 |
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Synopsis: A writer leaves South Africa and over many years the stories of the people he left behind unfold on stage in a Chekhovian piece composed entirely of letters. The writer's life is also revealed in this work that premiered with the Royal Shakespeare Company's new work festival and has also been adapted for broadcast by the BBC | ||||
Lots of Suddenlies |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto | 1991 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Solo/or two-hander | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 1 f possible | |||
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Synopsis: A work comprising folk tales and yarns of all kinds from all over the world. A celebration of storytelling and how much it means to us. | ||||
More Cuddles Now |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Solo/or two-hander | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A post-feminist work exploring the struggles of Mike and Kim to find their way through the minefield of male/female relationships. The play offers an in-depth and hilarious spectacle | ||||
Nagging Doubt |
| 1st Produced: | - | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: In 1960 a group of policemen in South Africa opened fire on a crowd of unarmed black people, killing many and wounding many more. This piece, originally written for the RSC and the BBC and broadcast on Channel 4, PBS and other channels throughout the war tells the story of the Sharpeville Massacre and a State of Emergency during the Apartheid years. | ||||
Secret of the White Rose |
| 1st Produced: | Arts Threshold | 1993 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - |
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Synopsis: The White Rose students were young people in Munich who stood up against Hitler in the bravest way imaginable. This is their story. It has been made into films many times, but works especially well on stage. | ||||
Stand Up |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1987 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - |
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Synopsis: A physicist and his brother in oppressive and repressive Venezuela. This play is a pioneering work in the art and science movement. It also deals with incest in families. | ||||
Urban Rage |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A guy loses it in the city. The city has tipped him over the edge. A sparky monologue An alarm call | ||||
What's Inside |
| 1st Produced: | Pentameters, Hampstead, London | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 2 |
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Synopsis: Two women facing up to the secret police | ||||
Whole Shebang, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: The true story of an artist's work in a freaky Deep Future think-tank. Not science fiction, science fact. | ||||
You Can't Go Wrong |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Monologues | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Three comic monologues | ||||