CECIL P TAYLOR   (1929 - 1981)


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Plays by Cecil P Taylor

CECIL P TAYLOR
AA Went Tae Blaydon Races
1st Produced:
Newcastle-on-Tyne
1962
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
13
Female
13
Parts Other:
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Notes:
aka Blaydon Races
Synopsis:
About a pit strike in Newcastle in 1862
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Ali Baba
1st Produced:
Newcastle
1978
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Genre:
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Community Play
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Allergy
1st Produced:
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Haynes, J. (Ed.), Traverse Plays" Penguin, London
1966
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
About a man who is allergic to adultery
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CECIL P TAYLOR
And a Nightingale Sang. . .
1st Produced:
Newcastle
1978
Company:
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1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London
1979
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Bittersweet growth of an English Family during the World War 2.
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Apples
1st Produced:
Ainwick
1973
Company:
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1st Published:
in "Prompt One" Hutchinson, London
1976
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One Act
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
18 characters
Notes:
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Synopsis:
An allegory about school leavers
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Ballachullish Beat, The
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1st Published:
Rapp and Carrol
1967
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Genre:
Rock Musical
Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
About a rock group, managed by a militant communist party member
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Bandits
1st Produced:
Newcastle
1976
Company:
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1st Published:
Iron Press
1977
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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:
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Synopsis:
About the effects of a murder in the North East in the community
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Black and White Minstrels, The
1st Produced:
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
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Genre:
Intellectual Farce
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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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.
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Bloch's Play
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1971
Company:
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1st Published:
Scottish Theatre Edition
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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:
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Synopsis:
About an old revolutionary brought back to socialist action
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Brave
1st Produced:
Blackworth Drama Centre
1970
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:
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Synopsis:
About the massacre of the Cheyenne in USA in the 1800's
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CECIL P TAYLOR
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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Notes:
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Synopsis:
About two men against the background of the historical events from 1930 to 1960
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Bring Me Sunshine, Bring Me Smiles
1st Produced:
Shaw, London
1982
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:
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Synopsis:
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Carol O.K.
1st Produced:
Newcastle
1974
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Genre:
Youth Play
Youth Audience
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
About growing up in the North of England
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Castro
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Genre:
Play
One Act
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Female
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Synopsis:
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Charles And Cromwell
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Play
One Act
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Cleverness Of Us
1st Produced:
1971
Company:
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1st Published:
in "North: Six Plays" Methuen, London
1987
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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:
aka Peter Pan Man (Glasgow 1979)
Synopsis:
About the nature of imagination, based on the life of JM Barrie
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Columba
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1973
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A life of the saint
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Cyrano
1st Produced:
Newcastle
1978
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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:
Re working of Rostand's play
Synopsis:
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Drums In The Night
1st Produced:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and Hampstead Theatre
1973
Company:
Foco Novo Theatre Company
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis:
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Fable. . .
1st Produced:
Close Theatre, Glasgow
1965
Company:
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1st Published:
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One Act
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
In a fable form
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Filleting Machine, The
1st Produced:
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1971
Company:
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1st Published:
in The Long Line, Iron Press
1994
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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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
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Geordie Jubilee
1st Produced:
Newcastle
1977
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:
cf Not By Love Alone
Synopsis:
About a Northern beauty queen
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Give Us A Kiss
1st Produced:
Newcastle
1978
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:
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Synopsis:
About a menopausal breakdown of sexual relationships as seen through the eyes of a pet budgie
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Good
1st Produced:
Royal Shakespeare Company Warehouse >>> at Aldwych Theatre, London
1981
Company:
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1st Published:
1982
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
an essentially good man becomes Eichmann's right-hand man responsible for the euthanasia programme at Auschwitz
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Grace Darling
1st Produced:
University Theatre, Newcastle
1971
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
About the life of a Victorian heroine
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Gynt
1st Produced:
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1973
Company:
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1st Published:
in "North: Six Plays" Methuen, London
1987
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
32 characters
Notes:
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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
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Happy Anniversary
1st Produced:
Pool Theatre
1968
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
About a Golden Wedding
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Happy Days Are Here Again!
1st Produced:
1965
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
About an Abortion Party
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Happy Lies
1st Produced:
Newcastle
1981
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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:
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Synopsis:
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Killingworth Play, The
1st Produced:
Killingworth
1975
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
A play with music for nine year olds upwards
Synopsis:
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Lenin
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Lies About Vietnam
1st Produced:
1969
Company:
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1st Published:
in "Gay Plays 2" Methuen, London
1984
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
About Anti-Vietnam protest
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Magic Island
1st Produced:
Newcastle
1978
Company:
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1st Published:
in Live Theatre
1981
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
play for children from five to eight
Synopsis:
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Me
1st Produced:
1972
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Autobiographical
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Dramatic autobiography of author
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Next Year In Tel Aviv
1st Produced:
1973
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:
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Synopsis:
About an artist much dominated by his Jewish mother
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CECIL P TAYLOR
North: Six Plays
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
1987
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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
Synopsis:
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Not By Love Alone
1st Produced:
Torrington, Devon
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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:
Reworking of Geordie Jubilee for Orchard Theatre Company
Synopsis:
About a Northern beauty queen
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Oil And Water
1st Produced:
Perth
1967
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:
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Synopsis:
About the clash between cultures, Jewish and Christian, in an inter-marriage situation.
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Open The Big Box
1st Produced:
Newcastle
1978
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
play for children from eight to eleven
Synopsis:
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CECIL P TAYLOR
Operation Elvis
1st Produced:
Newcastle
1979
Company:
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1st Published:
in Live Theatre
1981
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Genre:
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