DON TAYLOR (1936 - 2003)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Don Taylor
Achurch Letters, The |
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich theatre | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | TV 1976 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Bernard Shaw's relationship with an actress Jane Achurch and the events that led to the writing of Candida | |||||
Antigone |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | boy | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Sophocles | |||||
| Synopsis: | After the deaths of her parents, Oedipus and Jocasta, her brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, fight over the throne of Thebes and kill one another. Her uncle, Creon, takes over the rule of the city and buries Eteocles with a hero's funeral, but casts out Polynices as a traitor and leaves his body unburied. Antigone is determined to give her brother the dignity of a proper burial, but Creon declares that anyone disobeying his orders will be punished by death. | |||||
Brotherhood |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Burston Drum, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 Musical | Musical | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | book by Ellen Dryden; lyrics by Don Taylor; music by Charles Young | |||||
| Synopsis: | On the 1st April, 1914, in the village of Burston, a group of children went on strike to protest at the unfair dismissal of their teachers. The Burston Drum tells the story in musical form. | |||||
Daughters of Venice |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 22 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Doing The Beast |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | From J M Bridie | |||||
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Exit The Old Brigade |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Comic Political Fantasy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Armed insurrection by the inhabitants of an Old Soldier's Home | |||||
Exorcism, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1974 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Ghost Story with Political Allegory | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | disastrous unauthorised version produced at Comedy theatre, London in 1975 when Mary Ure died on second night | |||||
| Synopsis: | terrifying climax culminating in a tragic report coming from the TV into a an empty brightly lit room | |||||
Fat Man's Night |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Political Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | About a gigantically fat eccentric, who lives by night and sleeps by day, and the alienated drifters he gathers around him | |||||
Grounds For Marriage |
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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House Of Stairs, The |
| 1st Produced: | Thorndike, Leatherhead | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Iphigenia At Aulis |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Methuen Publishing Ltd (12 Jul 1990) | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0413642509 | |||
| 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 | 6 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
 | In a direct ans searching response to the Iraq invasion the production turns to the ancient greeks for amplification. Iphigenia was the daughter of the ancient Greek warrior Agamemnon, and Aulis is the place where she is brought to be sacrificed by her fathers. the idea is to appease the gods and win fair wins for a naval invasion of troy. | |||||
Long March to Jerusalem, A |
| 1st Produced: | Palace Theatre, Watford | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | Watford Theatre for Youth | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Epic Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | very large mixed cast | |||||
| Notes: | An adult play to be largely performed by children | |||||
| Synopsis: | Period 1212, story of the famous Children's Crusade led by the visionary boy Stephen | |||||
Most People Live in Coulsdon |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 66/2 | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
October Events |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Epic Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Multi media style, the events of the Hungarian and Suez crises, as experienced, day by day by a group of Oxford students | |||||
Oedipus the King |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
| Company: | NYT | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | from Sophocles | |||||
| Synopsis: | Revival | |||||
Out On The Lawn |
| 1st Produced: | Palace Theatre, Watford | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Political Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Middle class socialist publisher invites his friends to spend a blistering summer Sunday at a day long picnic in the grounds of his renovated house. good wine, good food, brilliant conversation and the threat of violence when the publisher's nineteen year old son returns from his friends in Germany | |||||
Real Circus, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.4850/20/4 | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Retreat From Moscow |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | idealistic socialist and his disillusioned daughter find their lives invaded by a bear like Muscovite enjoying the fruits of capitalism | |||||
Road To The Sea, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Roses of Eyam, The |
| 1st Produced: | Northcott Theatre, Exeter | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Historical Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | TV 1973 | |||||
| Synopsis: | period 1666, true story of a village stricken with plague through the arrival from London of a box of clothing | |||||
Sam Foster Comes Home |
| 1st Produced: | 1969 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Alienated educated working class hero finds it impossible to live at home with suburban family, or with loving but practical girlfriend | |||||
Sisters |
| 1st Produced: | Northcott Theatre, Exeter | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 66/2 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Three sisters have chosen to live a hermit's life on a remote Dorset smallholding. Two archaeologists working on nearby roman ruins, find out why | |||||
Summer In The Park |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Ellen Dryden | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
When The Barbarians Came |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Women of Troy, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Revival | |||||
| Synopsis: | Following the fate of the women of Troy after the destruction of their city | |||||