DAVID POWNALL   


David Pownall
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Plays by David Pownall

DAVID POWNALL
All The World Should Be Taxed
1st Produced:
1971
Company:
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1st Published:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A political rendering of the Nativity story
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DAVID POWNALL
As We Lie
1st Produced:
Nkana-Kitwe Arts Society, Zambia
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nkana-Kitwe, Zambia
1969
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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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DAVID POWNALL
Audience Called Edouard, An
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1979
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A Manet painting provides the stylised setting for a Marxist discussion
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DAVID POWNALL
Barricade
1st Produced:
on tour
1978
Company:
Paines Plough
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: Spanish anarchists attempt the political education of an Englishman on a cycling holiday
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DAVID POWNALL
Beauty And The Beast
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: music by Stephen Boxer
Synopsis: beauty falls for beast etc
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DAVID POWNALL
Beef
1st Produced:
1981One Act
1981
Company:
Paines Plough
1st Published:
in "Best Radio Plays of 1981", Methuen, London
1982
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One Act
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Notes: winner of the John Whiting Award
Synopsis:
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DAVID POWNALL
Black Star
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Plays Two, Oberon Books, London
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Genre:
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Historical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
6 actors
Notes: -
Synopsis: the story of a black American actor, Ira Aldridge, touring Shakespeare in Poland in middle of 19th century
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DAVID POWNALL
Buck Ruxton
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
3
Parts Other:
doubling, extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: Buck Ruxton is an imperial tragedy of 1936, a nororious double murder by a successful Indian doctor driven mad by the scandal of his Scottish wifes infidelity
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DAVID POWNALL
Crates On Barrels
1st Produced:
on Lancashire tour
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays for One Person", Oberon, London
1997
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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DAVID POWNALL
Death of a Faun
1st Produced:
Wickham Theatre, Bristol University
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes: Nijinsky's Requiem For Diaghilev
Synopsis:
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DAVID POWNALL
Dinner Dance
1st Produced:
Leicester
1991
Company:
The Kosh
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Dance play
-
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Machinations based around a kitchen theme. Two guppies (gay yuppies) and a builder and nurse fail to balance the demands of their work and their emotions, while a born-again Christian convinces his glitzy girl-friend of the virtues of an evening at home.
Michael Arditti, Evening Standard
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DAVID POWNALL
Dream Of Chief Crazy Horse, The
1st Produced:
Fleetwood, Lancashire
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1975
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: written for schools
Synopsis: Covers ten thousand years of Red Indian history
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DAVID POWNALL
Edge, The
1st Produced:
London
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Danceplay
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Monologue for a mother estranged from her daughter
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DAVID POWNALL
Elgar's Rondo
1st Produced:
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Composer Plays", Oberon, London
1993
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: part of Composer Plays
Synopsis: captures the depths of the great composers despair as he wrestles with growing feelings of artistic failure
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DAVID POWNALL
Elgar's Third
1st Produced:
BBC3
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Composer {lays", Oberon, London
1993
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Genre:
Radio Play
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: part of Composer Plays
Synopsis: composers final, losing battle to write a third symphony in the face of impending death
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DAVID POWNALL
Gaunt
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: -
Synopsis: focus on the myth and reality of power surrounding a local legend.
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DAVID POWNALL
Getting The Picture
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
1st Published:
Oberon, London
1998
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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4
Female
2
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Notes: -
Synopsis: The Hermitage, Jackson's home near Nashville, Tennessee, and Carrickfergus. 1845. Former US president Andrew Jackson is nearing the end of his days. He is visited by Mathew Brady, a celebrated photographer from New York, and by a young Belfast woman who challenges him to lend his name to an insurrection of United Irishmen.
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DAVID POWNALL
Hot Hello, The
1st Produced:
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
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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:
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DAVID POWNALL
How Does The Cukoo Learn To Fly?
1st Produced:
on tour
1970
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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DAVID POWNALL
How To Grow A Guerrilla
1st Produced:
Preston, Lancashire
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Fantasy
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Soldiers, gangsters and a moronic youth play in an overgrown English garden
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DAVID POWNALL
Human Cartoon Show, The
1st Produced:
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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DAVID POWNALL
King John's Jewel
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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DAVID POWNALL
Ladybird, Ladybird
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1976
Company:
Paines Plough
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A war widow returns to Liverpool after 50 years in the USA to complex relationships with her grandchildren
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DAVID POWNALL
Last Of The Wizards, The
1st Produced:
Lakes Comprehensive School
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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DAVID POWNALL
Later
1st Produced:
1979
Company:
Paines Plough
1st Published:
in "Plays for One Person", Oberon, London
1997
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A middle aged Russian woman who died in 1921 has returned from the dead 16 years later to talk about her family and why she abandoned them
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DAVID POWNALL
Lile Jimmy Williamson
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
doubling, extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: Capitalist millionaire linoleum manufacturer exploits Lancastrian workers at the turn of the twentieth century
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DAVID POWNALL
Lions And Lambs
1st Produced:
on Lancashire tour
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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DAVID POWNALL
Livingstone And Sechele
1st Produced:
1978
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: -
Synopsis: The young missionary explorer has to confront his own faith after converting a local chief in South Africa
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DAVID POWNALL
Master Class
1st Produced:
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1983
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: part of Composer Plays
Synopsis: The loyal composer Shostakovich and outsider Prokofiev are confronted by Stalin in 1948 Russia
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DAVID POWNALL
Motocar
1st Produced:
1977
Company:
Paines Plough
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1979
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: music by Stephen Boxer
Synopsis: A mental hospital run by whites for blacks in pre-independence Rhodesia provides a backdrop for black experience of oppression.
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DAVID POWNALL
Music To Murder By
1st Produced:
University of Kent, Canterbury
1976
Company:
Paines Plough
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1978
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: part of Composer Plays
Synopsis: Two ghosts are conjured up by a Californian woman musicologist to demonstrate creativity and violence
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DAVID POWNALL
My Father's House
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Plays Two, Oberon Books, London
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The story of the Chamberlain family and their extraordinary rise to power and wealth during the latter half of Victoria's reign
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DAVID POWNALL
Nijinsky: Death Of A Faun
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London
1997
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Genre:
Danceplay
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Set on the day of Diaghilev's death and records Nijinsky's reactions
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DAVID POWNALL
Pride And Prejudice
1st Produced:
Leicester
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
11
Parts Other:
-
Notes: from novel by Jane Austen
Synopsis: Period early 19C, worldly ambitions of silly woman, tenderness of her husband and matrimonial ambition of the three pretty daughters contrast with the three suitors
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DAVID POWNALL
Pro, The
1st Produced:
Little Theatre Club, London
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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DAVID POWNALL
Q
1st Produced:
Chingola Arts Society, Zambia
1965
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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DAVID POWNALL
Richard III, Part Two
1st Produced:
1977
Company:
Paines Plough
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1979
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Play/Drama
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: A board game uses George Orwell, 1984, and Richard III, 1484, to demonstrate marketing for success
Synopsis:
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DAVID POWNALL
Rousseau's Tale
1st Produced:
Cockpit Theatre, London
1990
Company:
Not The RSC Festival
1st Published:
in "Plays for One Person", Oberon, London
1997
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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DAVID POWNALL
Seconds At The Fight For Madrid
1st Produced:
Bristol University Drama Department
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Fantasy drama
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: People of diverse nationalities, real and imagined, discuss the Spanish Civil war
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DAVID POWNALL
Seven Foot High In America
1st Produced:
Chingola Arts Society, Zambia
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-