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FRANK NORMAN |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Frank Norman |
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal - Stratford East, Gerry Raffles Square, Stratford, London, E15 1BN >>> | 17 Feb 1959 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0573080456 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25878 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | music and lyrics by Lionel Bart; book by Frank Norman | |||||
| After a win on the horses petty criminal and gambling den owner, Fred, has the money to do up his establishment. It is the hang out for numerous underworld types from a burglar - Redhot - who can never get warm to Tosher the Ponce. Fred's moll - Lil just wants to get married and go straight | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 59.34; 59.283 | |||||
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Insideout | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1969 | |||||
Company: | English Stage Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Plays & Players February issue, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60533 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 23 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Prison play with all the usual ingredients: serial prisoner, first timer, bent screws etc. We follow Tommie White on his first term in prison. He is befriended by a long term prisoner who sets him up with his old gang when he leaves. The older prisoner, Tools, is set up by the warders who plant illicit cigarettes in his cell. There are a couple of young male prostitutes who mainly speak in the (was it parlary???) of that time and they are friendly with a gay warder. Tools bullies a disabled prisonner who subsequently hangs himself. Tommie's girl who promised to wait for him doesn't. White leaves prison to return to crime. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kayf Up West, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1964 | ||||
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 | #25879 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | music by Stanley Myers | |||||
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