Salisbury Playhouse >>>

1998

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Play/Drama

2

2

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Synopsis:
The Alchemical Wedding centres on the obsession man has with the most precious of all precious metals - Gold - and its potential transformation from base metals. The most legendary of these experiments is that of the sixteenth century magus John Dee and his assistant and medium Edward Kelly - an experience which plunged them and their wives into a dark voyage and obsession that has haunted occultists and poets ever since.

Act Inn Theatre, London

1972

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Samuel French, London

1983

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One Act

2

2

extras

Notes:
in Comic Pictures

Synopsis:
Often hilarious, with moments of pathos, Cards brings to life the vulgar, bouncy, leering characters of traditional seaside postcards painted by artist Donald McGill. The models for these cards - Big Fat Mam and Wiry Old Dad - reminisce nostalgically of the days of honest, innocent vulgarity. Vera and Charlie, their daughter and son-in-law, have followed in Mam and Dad's footsteps but Charlie is determined to be part of the new "sophisticated" fashion which demands syndicated strips and nudity. Hurt, angry and appalled by a changing postcard trade, Mam and Dad find themselves dumped on the inevitable scrap-heap.

London

1972

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Cards published French, London, 1983; Stars in "Moving Pictures: Four Plays", Methuen, London

1985

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Double-bill of Comedies

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2

2

extras

Notes:
includes Stars and Cards. Scarborough Theatre in the Round 1976

Synopsis:
an infinitely thoughtful and touching and fascinating play - in its account of a wartime Nottingham cinema manager and his ever-optimistic usherette living out fantasies of Humphrey Bogart and Hedy Lamarr amid the ice-cream wrappers.
Punch

Theatre Royal, Plymouth, UK >>>

1982

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis:
A macabre fusion of the novel and the real world of post-Napoleonic War the authoress was living through

Loughborough

1987

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Multi-mediaPlay

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Synopsis:
A multi-media exploration of multiple-personality of two lovers who travelled a road of nightmare love. Based on research of Brady and Hindley. A major study into "the fascism of the imagination".

Nottingham Playhouse >>>

1986

Meeting Ground Theatre

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis:
4 burnt out survivors of the First World War merge with the puppet theatre of a wartime Punch and Judy in a struggle for love and freedom).

The Pit, Barbican, London >>>

1988

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

Methuen Drama, London >>>

1988

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Musical Comedy

Musical

9

6

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Synopsis:
Paris, 1929. A town made for and by the imagination of disparate artists. A dying Lawrence struggles to make his fortune with the paper-back version of Lady Chatterley, the man later to become known as Orwell dreams of lust and literature, and the rich American Crosby stimulates his poetic vision with a heavy mix of opium and passion. A young girl, with no name that has been remembered, inspires them all but has clear dreams of her own.

Derby Playhouse Studio

2005

Tangere Arts

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London

1980

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Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

1981

ESC

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Play/Drama

4

4

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Synopsis:
The adjective that best describes Glasshouses is Lawrentian. Two working-class families, resident in Nottingham in 1963, embody two of the dominant themes in Lawrence's work. In the Cooper family, young Jim looks on in frustrated resentment while his adored mother sacrifices herself to a man intellectually and morally beneath her. In the Ashton family, pitiless Elsie has totally emasculated her husband, Frank - Like Lawrence, Lowe comes Up with extraordinary moments of pathos and poetry.
Sunday Telegraph

Nottingham Playhouse >>>

2004

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

So;o

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1

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Notes:
Anyone can perform this piece without permission or charge - script on Lowe website

Synopsis:
The piece was written and performed within a day at the Nottingham Playhouse prior the evening performance of Brecht's Mother Courage. The aim was to "lock away" the writer to discover a piece from surfing that days newspapers that signified "courage". I came across a tiny paragraph in a south asia English newspaper. There was to be a planned peaceful march in Myanmar in support of Hung San Sun Kiya, the democratically elected leader of what was then named Burma, who had been under house arrest since the military take-over. The article simply stated that leading members of her organisation were being "questioned".

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

1984

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in "Peace Plays 1", Methuen, London

1985

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Comedy

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Synopsis:
set in the present day in the small front room of a terraced house in a small Northern town. It's a black comedy of a woman obsessed by fear of a nuclear attack who builds her own cellar, whilst at the same time tempted into the air by a more mystical lodger.

Leeds Playhouse

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in "Moving Pictures: Four Plays", Methuen, London

1985

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Comedy

4

4

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Notes:
aka Glasshouses

Synopsis:

Nottingham Playhouse >>>

2005

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

2005

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Play/Drama

9

3

doubling

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Synopsis:
His style was legendary. The last great working- class hero, Cloughie was the man in the green jumper who threw out the rule-book and inspired the men of the Forest to their greatest victories. Even after a transfer to the Other Side it's impossible to keep a good manager down. But in the afterlife of Brian, there's a very different sort of team lost in the Forest - and leading a band of theatre-makers to glory is a whole new ball-game. A love of the spotlight, an ego the size of a stadium: perhaps Old Big 'Ead always belonged on the stage. Now Nottingham's finest - and Derby's too - proves he's not just the greatest manager England never had, but the greatest stand-up comic as well. Celebrate the courage and the conviction, the tears and the triumphs - the spirit of the man.

Nottingham Playhouse >>>

1991

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Musical

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Synopsis:
A dramatic musical on the historical battle of the "Luddites", led by the legendary Ned Ludd, against the savage imposition of machinery at the birth of the industrial revolution.

Plymouth

1978

Joint Stock Theatre Company

Joint Stock, London

1978

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Adaptation

6

1

doubling

Notes:
from novel by Robert Tressell

Synopsis:
about a group of painters and decorators and their struggle for survival in a complacent and stagnating Edwardian England, has become a classic of working-class literature since its first publication in 1914

Hampstead Theatre, London >>>

2003

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

2003

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Play/Drama

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4

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Synopsis:
One wintry night, four couples gather for a 'Swinging for Beginners' weekend. Hosts Jimmy and Shirley create a garden of Eden for their guests; they provide the costumes, the ambience, and the foliage. But everyone's appetites are different and surprising vulnerabilities begin to surface. A comic exploration of the age-old confusions between love and sexual desire.

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Roundabout >>>

1977

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis:
A burlesque history of the early days of the Salvation Army

Riverside, London >>>

1984

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in "Moving Pictures: Four Plays", Methuen, London

1985

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Play/Drama

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4

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Synopsis:
The most beautiful thing about Seachange (first seen at Riverside Studios in 1984) is its use of language Lowe's lyricism washed over me like a warm wave. It is set, appropriately, at sea, and was inspired both by the memory of Mr Lowe's grandfather, who drowned on a Red Cross ship in the First World War, and by the more recent war in the Falklands. - Tribune

Scarborough Theatre-in-the-Round

1977

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis:
Inspired by Susan Brownmiller's study of rape- THE ACT OF WILL this is a three -hander exploration of male sexuality, and pornography.

Nottingham Playhouse >>>

2005

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Comedy Drama

Comedy

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Synopsis:
The Spirit of the Man is a hilarious speculative fantasy that follows Cloughie beyond the Final Whistle and into extra time. Not one to take death lying down, Old Big 'Ead jumps at the chance of returning to this earthly realm to dispense his own special brand of inspiration. But there's one thing he hasn't bargained on: it's not a football manager who's in need of assistance, it's a writer-director called Jimmy, whose personal and professional life is falling apart at the seams. Undaunted, Brian soon has him creating a new epic about his own role model, Robin Hood - and when the cast arrive with all manner of problems and suggestions of their own, he has plenty of team-building advice to dispense. Cloughie's idea of a good playwright might be Ernie Wise, but as far as he's concerned, the right way is My Way. No matter that Jimmy, with a phantom football manager popping up at his elbow every two minutes, thinks he's losing his marbles. But this is a play of two halves and even Brian has a thing or two to learn before the final curtain.

Act Inn Theatre, London

1972

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in "Lowe, Stephen, Moving Pictures" Methuen, London

1985

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One Act

2

2

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Notes:
in Comic Pictures

Synopsis:
an infinitely thoughtful and touching and fascinating play - in its account of a wartime Nottingham cinema manager and his ever-optimistic usherette living out fantasies of Humphrey Bogart and Hedy Lamarr amid the ice-cream wrappers.
Punch

The Pit, Barbican, London >>>

1985

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Adaptation

6

6

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Alexander Ostrovsky

Synopsis:

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield >>>

1984

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in "Moving Pictures: Four Plays", Methuen, London

1985

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Short Play

One Act

2

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Synopsis:
The gutsy short play, Strive, is a series of heartfelt dialogues on the subject of peace. A soldier and his girl friend celebrate his return from the Falklands war; but their joyful reunion is interrupted by a veteran American film director - The dialogue is taut, rich and racey. - Guardian

Royal Court Theatre, London >>>

1981

ESC

Eyre Methuen, London

1981

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Play/Drama

12

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Synopsis:
Tibetan Inroads is set entirely in Tibet. The first half tells a timeless story of sexual desire thwarted by cruel oppression but with the second half the action moves startlingly into the present and becomes a striking political parable.

Nottingham Playhouse >>>

1977

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Woodhouse, Todmorden, Yorkshire, 1979
Nick Hern Books, London, 2006 >>>

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Play/Drama

3

7

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Synopsis:
1945, the hundred days between victory in Europe and victory in Japan; in a working-class suburb of Nottingham, a group of women emerge from the tight rein of war. A new future beckons with the impending return of the soldiers.

Plymouth

1983

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Crucible Theatre, Sheffield >>>

1987

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Adaptation

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Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller

Synopsis: