ALAN PLATER   (1935 - )


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Plays by Alan Plater

ALAN PLATER
All Credit To The Lads
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
And A Little Love Besides
1st Produced:
Arts Centre, Hull
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "You and Me: four plays", ed Alfred Bradley, Blackie, London
1973
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Pederasty confronts a religious group who are then surprised by the reaction of the vicar.
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ALAN PLATER
Annie Kenney
1st Produced:
-
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Company:
-
1st Published:
in Act 3, ed David Self and Ray Speakman
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: televised 1974
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Barriers
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
St Magnus Festival Players
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: music by Peter Maxwell Davies.
Synopsis: Following their triumph with 'Greenvoe' in 2000, the Orcadians return with 'Barriers', a tough and tender love story of the Italian POW invasion of Orkney during World War II.
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ALAN PLATER
Blonde Bombshells Of 1943
1st Produced:
Quarry, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, UK
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Musical Play
Musical
Parts:
Male
2
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The simple but enchantingly effective play about a northern women's dance band during the 2nd World War war doesn't just pay tribute to the unsung acts of solidarity that kept Britain going during its darkest hours - it also celebrates the near-magical, care banishing properties of music.
Dominic Cavensish, Daily Telegraph
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ALAN PLATER
Charlie Came To Our Town
1st Produced:
1968
Company:
Harrogate Festival of Arts and Sciences
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: televised as The Nutter 1965. Music by Alex Glasgow
Synopsis: about an eccentric anarchist
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ALAN PLATER
Charlie's Trousers
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy play
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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ALAN PLATER
Close The Coalhouse Door
1st Produced:
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Musical Documentary
Musical
Parts:
Male
8
Female
2
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: music by Alex Glasgow. Adaptation of stories by Sid Chaplin
Synopsis: A hymn of unqualified praise to the miner's circles around a golden wedding party
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ALAN PLATER
Confessions Of A City Supporter
1st Produced:
Hull Truck
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: -
Synopsis: 19/1209
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ALAN PLATER
Don't Build A Bridge, Drain The River!
1st Produced:
Hull
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: music by Michael Chapman & Mike Waterson (revised version, music by by Mike O'Neil, produced Hull, 1980
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Drums Along The Ginnel
1st Produced:
London
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Foot On The Earth, A
1st Produced:
Newcastle upon Tyne
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Fosdyke 2
1st Produced:
London
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with Bill Tidy
Synopsis: continuing the problems and fortunes of the cartoon characters
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ALAN PLATER
Fosdyke Saga, The
1st Produced:
London
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1978
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
10
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Bill Tidy, music Bill Wrigley
Synopsis: based on a cartoon character, the time is 1902 and the Fosdyke tripe business is falling apart
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ALAN PLATER
Going Home
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
Square One, London
1990
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: deals with the long journey from Then to Now, the stops along the way and the music that haunts our dreams
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ALAN PLATER
Greenvoe
1st Produced:
Old St paul's Church, Scotland
2000
Company:
St Magnus Festival
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: an adaption of George Mackay Browns novel for the St. Magnus Festival Players, first performed at the St.Magnus Festival & then at the Edinburgh Festival in Aug. 2000/2001
Synopsis: story of a small village on a small Orcadian island, as the modern generation try to hold their own against the incoming tide of change, their struggles and triumphs are found to worthy of the ancient legends of their ancestors.
Fiona McCade, Scotsman
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ALAN PLATER
Hop, Step And Jump
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
I Thought I Heard A Rustling
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford
1991
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: The proposed closure of a London library unite disparate trio in their attempts to stop the development
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ALAN PLATER
In Blackberry Time
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: with Michael Chaplin - adapted from stories by Sid Chaplin
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
King Billy Vaudeville Show
1st Produced:
Hull
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with others
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Last Days Of The Empire, The
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: music by John Dankworth
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Mating Season, The
1st Produced:
Stoke on Trent
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Worth a Hearing: a collection of radio plays", edited by Alfred Bradley, Blackie, London
1967
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: broadcast 1962
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
On Your Way, Riley!
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: music by Alex Glasgow
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Only A Matter Of Time
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Our Albert
1st Produced:
Hull
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Peggy For You
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
2000
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A day in the life of Peggy Ramsay, the most celebrated play agent of her time
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ALAN PLATER
Prez
1st Produced:
Hull
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes: music by Bernie Cash
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Rainbow Machine, The
1st Produced:
Stoke on Trent
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: broadcast 1962
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Referees, The
1st Produced:
Stoke on Trent
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: televised 1961
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Rent Party
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: from an idea by Nat Shapiro
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
See The Pretty Lights
1st Produced:
Scarborough
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Theatre Choice, a collection of modern short plays", ed Michael Marland, Blackie, London
1972
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: televised 1963; produced London 1970
Synopsis: teenage girl and middle-aged man meet at the end of a pier
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ALAN PLATER
Shooting The Legend
1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne
1995
Company:
Live Theatre
1st Published:
2003
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: a comedy of cultural errors in which two women prepare to make a documentary about the 'socially deprived' of Gateshead
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ALAN PLATER
Simon Says!
1st Produced:
Leeds
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: music by Alex Glasgow
Synopsis: a wholesale attack on the British Ruling classes as represented by Lord Thing, the chairman of the MCC - John Elsom, Contemporary Dramatists
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ALAN PLATER
Skyhooks
1st Produced:
Oldham, Lancashire
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Smashing Day, A
1st Produced:
Stoke on Trent
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: televised 1962. Music by Ben Kingsley & Robert Powell
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Swallows On The Water
1st Produced:
Hull
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Sweet Sorrow
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
Square One, London
1990
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: about a party and a gatecrasher with a special gift for sticking pins in party balloons, whether he makes the party or spoils it depends how you feel about pretty balloons
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ALAN PLATER
Sweet William
1st Produced:
-
2005
Company:
Northern Broadsides
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Shakespeare shares a pint down at the Tabbard Tavern with the cut-purses, prostitutes, tradesmen and dreamers who provide the inspiration for the dramatis personae of the less elevated scenes in his theatrical oeuvre. - Marlowe, The Times
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ALAN PLATER
Tales From The Backyard
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: music by Perter Maxwell Davies
Synopsis: The Orcadians return with the legend of Orkney's oldest 'nightclub.' A tale of enterprise and entertainment on the edge! Written by Alan Plater with music by Peter Maxwell Davies.
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ALAN PLATER
Tales Of Humberside
1st Produced:
Hull
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: music by Jim Bywater
Synopsis:
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ALAN PLATER
Ted's Cathedral
1st Produced:
Victoria Theatre, Stoke on Trent
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Amiable Fantasy
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Parts:
Male
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Female