CECIL P TAYLOR (1929 - 1981)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Cecil P Taylor
AA Went Tae Blaydon Races |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle-on-Tyne | 1962 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 13 |
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Notes: aka Blaydon Races | ||||
Synopsis: About a pit strike in Newcastle in 1862 | ||||
Ali Baba |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Community Play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Allergy |
| 1st Produced: | 1966 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Haynes, J. (Ed.), Traverse Plays" Penguin, London | 1966 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: About a man who is allergic to adultery | ||||
And a Nightingale Sang. . . |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London | 1979 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Bittersweet growth of an English Family during the World War 2. | ||||
Apples |
| 1st Produced: | Ainwick | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Prompt One" Hutchinson, London | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 18 characters | |||
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Synopsis: An allegory about school leavers | ||||
Ballachullish Beat, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Rapp and Carrol | 1967 | ||
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| Genre: | Rock Musical | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: About a rock group, managed by a militant communist party member | ||||
Bandits |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Iron Press | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: About the effects of a murder in the North East in the community | ||||
Black and White Minstrels, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | Intellectual Farce | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: set in the 1970's symbolises the conflict of political belief put alongside personal behaviour. About a four handed marriage, disturbed by the alien influences of a Nigerian lodger and Jewish lawyer. | ||||
Bloch's Play |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Scottish Theatre Edition | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: About an old revolutionary brought back to socialist action | ||||
Brave |
| 1st Produced: | Blackworth Drama Centre | 1970 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: About the massacre of the Cheyenne in USA in the 1800's | ||||
Bread and Butter |
| 1st Produced: | Cochrane Theatre, London | 1966 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "New English Dramatists Vol.10" Penguin, London | 1967 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: About two men against the background of the historical events from 1930 to 1960 | ||||
Bring Me Sunshine, Bring Me Smiles |
| 1st Produced: | Shaw, London | 1982 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Carol O.K. |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1974 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Youth Play | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: About growing up in the North of England | ||||
Castro |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Charles And Cromwell |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Cleverness Of Us |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "North: Six Plays" Methuen, London | 1987 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: aka Peter Pan Man (Glasgow 1979) | ||||
Synopsis: About the nature of imagination, based on the life of JM Barrie | ||||
Columba |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A life of the saint | ||||
Cyrano |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Re working of Rostand's play | ||||
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Drums In The Night |
| 1st Produced: | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and Hampstead Theatre | 1973 | ||
| Company: | Foco Novo Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | ||||
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Fable. . . |
| 1st Produced: | Close Theatre, Glasgow | 1965 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: In a fable form | ||||
Filleting Machine, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in The Long Line, Iron Press | 1994 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Of his pal "Muts", a fish filliter, he wrote: 'He could boast it took six polis's to bang him up, and he had the bruises to show, but a machine arrived that could cut fish faster than 10 men, and this giant of a man was undermined'. The giant of a man in | ||||
Geordie Jubilee |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: cf Not By Love Alone | ||||
Synopsis: About a Northern beauty queen | ||||
Give Us A Kiss |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: About a menopausal breakdown of sexual relationships as seen through the eyes of a pet budgie | ||||
Good |
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Company Warehouse >>> at Aldwych Theatre, London | 1981 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1982 | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: an essentially good man becomes Eichmann's right-hand man responsible for the euthanasia programme at Auschwitz | ||||
Grace Darling |
| 1st Produced: | University Theatre, Newcastle | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: About the life of a Victorian heroine | ||||
Gynt |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "North: Six Plays" Methuen, London | 1987 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 32 characters | |||
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Synopsis: There is An Order To Melt on Peer Gynt unless he can prove he has made an impression on another's soul | ||||
Happy Anniversary |
| 1st Produced: | Pool Theatre | 1968 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: About a Golden Wedding | ||||
Happy Days Are Here Again! |
| 1st Produced: | 1965 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Black Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: About an Abortion Party | ||||
Happy Lies |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1981 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Killingworth Play, The |
| 1st Produced: | Killingworth | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A play with music for nine year olds upwards | ||||
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Lenin |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Lies About Vietnam |
| 1st Produced: | 1969 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Gay Plays 2" Methuen, London | 1984 | ||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: About Anti-Vietnam protest | ||||
Magic Island |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Live Theatre | 1981 | ||
| 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: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: play for children from five to eight | ||||
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Me |
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Autobiographical | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Dramatic autobiography of author | ||||
Next Year In Tel Aviv |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: About an artist much dominated by his Jewish mother | ||||
North: Six Plays |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1987 | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Peter Pan Man; The Black And White Minstrels; Gynt!; You Are My Heart's Delight; To Be A Farmer's Boy; Bring Me Sunshine, Bring Me Smiles | ||||
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Not By Love Alone |
| 1st Produced: | Torrington, Devon | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Reworking of Geordie Jubilee for Orchard Theatre Company | ||||
Synopsis: About a Northern beauty queen | ||||
Oil And Water |
| 1st Produced: | Perth | 1967 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: About the clash between cultures, Jewish and Christian, in an inter-marriage situation. | ||||
Open The Big Box |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: play for children from eight to eleven | ||||
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Operation Elvis |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1979 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Live Theatre | 1981 | ||
| 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 | |||
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