STEPHEN PLAICE
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Stephen Plaice
Assembly Women, The |
| 1st Produced: | Pavilion Theatre Brighton | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | Alarmist Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Aristophanes; an adaptation and reconstruction of his fragmentary play | |||||
| Synopsis: | Dissatisfied with their husbands' performance, the women of Athens decide to run things for themselves | |||||
Bedbug, The |
| 1st Produced: | Pavilion Theatre Brighton | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A satirical updating of Mayakovsky's 1928 comedy. A yuppie Russian during perestroika is cryogenically preserved after his own wedding party catches fire in 1990. He is defrosted in 2040 into a pan European state. | |||||
Confucius Says |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | children's opera (libretto) | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | large children's chorus | |||||
| Notes: | composer: Richard Taylor | |||||
| Synopsis: | The Chinese Mother Goddess Nü Wa challenges Gong Gong the spirit of the water, and Jurong the spirit of fire to redress the balance of yin and yang in the human beings she creates out of the clay of the Yellow River. They recount six tales to persuade her which of them she should favour in her recipe for the soul. | |||||
Daddy Cool |
| 1st Produced: | Shaftesbury, London | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | music by Boney M and Frank Farian Productions, book by Stephen Plaice with Amani Naphtali | |||||
| Synopsis: | Sunny, a Trinidadian boy, is reunited with his mother in England. He joins a hip hop crew, the Subsonics, who are draw into violence with another crew The Blades, as an MC battle turns into a real shooting. Sunny is in love with Rose, the sister of the leader of the rival gang, but their relationship seems doomed when Sunny is accused of procuring the gun for the shooting. | |||||
Finnish Prisoner, The |
| 1st Produced: | Unit 11 Phoenix Industrial Estate | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | The Paddock / Finnish National Opera / Finnish Chamber Opera co-production | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Opera | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | Finnish Prisoners' Chorus (7) Community Chorus (30), Children's Chorus (20) | |||||
| Notes: | Composer: Orlando Gough | |||||
| Synopsis: | The story of the warm relationship that developed between the Finnish Prisoners held in Lewes War Prison during the Crimean War and the townspeople who guarded them. When Cora Combe parks her car on the site of the former prison, her remote locking disturbs the ghost of Matts Alander, one of the Finnish Prisoners, the first love of her great grandmother, Lily. | |||||
Force of Habit |
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, London | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London, 1976 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Thomas Bernhard. Translated by Neville and Stephen Plaice | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Home Truths |
| 1st Produced: | The Hawth, Crawley | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | Shaker Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A farce set in the housing boom of the Nineties. A provincial South Coast estate agent and volunteer life-boatman Mr Lightvessel attempts to prevent a client from buying a house beneath which he discovers pirate's gold lies buried. | |||||
Io Passion, The |
| 1st Produced: | Snape for the Aldeburgh Festival | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | Aldeburgh/ Almeida Opera | |||||
| 1st Published: | Boosey and Hawkes, 2004 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Opera (libretto) | Opera | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle | |||||
| Synopsis: | On the site of the forgotten Mysteries of Lerna, the compulsive relationship between a man and a woman reawakens the buried gods. They have scented a sacrifice. Back in the city, the woman clings to her domestic routine, trying to come to terms with the terrible manifestation she experienced with the man in Greece. But neither the gods, nor the man will leave the woman alone, and the civilised veneer of her existence is continually punctured by the returning power of the Mysteries she and the man have disturbed | |||||
Last Post, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Hawth, Crawley | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | Shaker Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Short Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of trilogy | |||||
| Synopsis: | A man and a woman, bidders for the same contract, meet at the sorting office as they submit their tenders in the last post. The woman needs stamps, the man needs to know her bottom line | |||||
Leonce and Lena |
| 1st Produced: | Nightingale Theatre | 1987 | ||||
| Company: | Thumbscrew Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | An updated version of Büchner's comedy. trying to escape his arranged marriage Prince Leonce falls in love with Lena the woman he was intended for who is also trying to avoid the marriage | |||||
Milk Train, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Hawth, Crawley | 1998 | ||||
| Company: | Shaker Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Short Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of trilogy | |||||
| Synopsis: | Having discovered that his mistress is unfaithful, a traveller on the first train out of Brighton is desperate to get back to intercept the letter he has written to his wife announcing he is leaving her. | |||||
Misper |
| 1st Produced: | Glyndebourne | 1997 | ||||
| Company: | Glyndebourne Education | |||||
| 1st Published: | Boosey and Hawkes, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Youth Opera for ages 9-15 (libretto) | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | large children's chorus | |||||
| Notes: | composer John Lunn | |||||
| Synopsis: | A Chinese philosopher travels from 11th century China to mend a hole he has burned in the future. The accident he has created is actually the derailing of a train by a gang of teenage boys. Another boy is wrongly accused of the crime, and it is left to a would-be girl detective to clear his name | |||||
Prometheus Unlocked |
| 1st Produced: | Nightingale Theatre Brighton | 1987 | ||||
| Company: | Alarmist Theatre Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A prison teacher is attracted to an arsonist, but it is the prison officer who guards him who reciprocates her feelings. | |||||
School of Night, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
| Company: | Alarmist Theatre Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A dramatisation of the life of Christopher Marlowe focusing on his role in Frances Walsingham's intelligence services which ultimately led to his assassination | |||||
School4Lovers |
| 1st Produced: | Glyndebourne, UK | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | Glyndebourne and Finnish National Opera co-production | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Opera | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | Hip hop crew and large amateur ensemble, orchestra, DJ | |||||
| Notes: | a hip hop adaptation of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte | |||||
| Synopsis: | Hip hop crew manager Big Donnie bets his two roadies, Liam and Freddie, that their girlfriends Bella and Gigi will not remain faithful to them while they are on tour. The boys return disguised as film producers and try to seduce each other's girlfriend, while Donnie enlists Despina's help to encourage the girls break their vow of fidelity. | |||||
Shortlist, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Hawth, Crawley | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | Shaker Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Short Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of trilogy | |||||
| Synopsis: | Three candidates for a job meet outside the interview room where they try to undermine each other's attempts to get the job, each metamorphosing into an animal as they do so | |||||
Tangier Tattoo |
| 1st Produced: | Glyndebourne, UK | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | Glyndebourne on Tour | |||||
| 1st Published: | Boosey and Hawkes, 2005 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Opera | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | Chorus | |||||
| Notes: | Composer John Lunn | |||||
| Synopsis: | In Tangier, the crossroads of two civilisations, where East meets West, Nick, a young backpacker meets Nadine, a beautiful American girl. At a cafe in the old city, they are caught up in a drug exchange that goes wrong, in which two European drug-dealers are gunned down. They escape the shoot-out with a briefcase full of money. Holed up in a seedy hotel, they decide they are going to have the time of their lives. But that night Nadine reveals a mysterious tattoo to Nick that she has had done in the city, the female half of a tattoo representing 'perfect love' | |||||
Trunks |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
| Company: | Shaker Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A dramatic reconstruction of the Brighton Trunk Murders of 1934 when two female corpses were discovered in trunks in the town within a few weeks of each other. The man accused of one of the murders was spectacularly and wrongly acquitted, the perpetrator of the second murder was never found, nor his victim identified. | |||||
Whose Crime is it Anyway ? |
| 1st Produced: | Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | Alarmist Theatre Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written by Stephen Plaice and John Williams | |||||
| Synopsis: | A two-handed criminal review charting the life of the armed robber John Williams (played by himself). | |||||
Young Faust |
| 1st Produced: | Marlborough Theatre Brighton | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | Thumbscrew Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Eve wagers with Mephisto over who can win the soul of Young Faust. If she loses she agrees to bear Mephisto's own child | |||||
Zoe |
| 1st Produced: | Glyndebourne | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | Glyndebourne Education | |||||
| 1st Published: | Boosey and Hawkes, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Youth opera for 14-18 year-olds (libretto) | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | large chorus of teenagers | |||||
| Notes: | composer John Lunn | |||||
| Synopsis: | A young girl discovers she has been cloned from a famous actress with whom her father was obsesssed | |||||