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Peter Terson

PETER TERSON  (1932 - )

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  


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 1861 Whitby Lifeboat Disaster, The         Adventures of Gervase Beckett, The; or, The Man Who Changed Places         Aesop's Fables         Affair at Bennett's Hill, The, (Worcs)         All Honour Mr Todd         Apprentices, The         Ballad of Ben Bagot, The         Ballad Of the Artificial Mash, The         Banger, The         Bread and Butter Trade, The         But Fred, Freud is Dead         Cadium Firty         Chestnuts         Clayhanger         Cul de Sac         Dividing Fence, The         England, My Own         Family Ties         Forest Lodge         Fuzz         Geordie's March         Good Lads At Heart         Holder Dying         Hotel Dorado         How To Write A Play         I'm In Charge of These Ruins         Inside-Outside         Jock-on-the-Go         Labels         Limes, The, and I Kid You Not         Lost Yer Tongue?         Love Us and Leave us         Mighty Reservoy, The         Moby Dick         Mooney And his Caravans         Most Cheerful Man, The         Never Right, Yet Again         Night John, The         Night To Make the Angels Weep, A         Pied Piper, The         Pinvin Careless and His Lines of Force         Prisoners Of The War         Rat Run, The         Rattling the Railings         Samaritan, The         Sing an Arful Story         Slip Road Wedding         Soldier Boy         Spring-Heeled Jack         Strippers         Ticket, The         Tolly of the Black Boy         Trip to Florence, The         Twilight Joker         VE Night         Vince Lays the Carpet, and Fred Erects the Tent         We Were All Heroes         Weeping Madonna, The         Wrong First Time         Zigger Zagger

1861 Whitby Lifeboat Disaster, The

Synopsis:
about the disaster which left destitute 11 widows and 42 children in a hard little town utterly dependent on the sea for its living

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1970

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1st Published:
Woodhouse, Todmorden, Yorkshire, 1979   -

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Genre:
Documentary Documentary

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Adventures of Gervase Beckett, The; or, The Man Who Changed Places

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1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1969

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1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1973   -

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Genre:
Historical Comedy

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Male:  10            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Aesop's Fables

Synopsis:
the long journey for Aesop to almighty Zeus in an effort to gain his liberty and then to spread the wisdom of his fables

Notes:
music by Jeff Parton

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1983

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-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1986   -

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-

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  21 characters

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Affair at Bennett's Hill, The, (Worcs)

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1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1970

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All Honour Mr Todd

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1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1966

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Apprentices, The

Synopsis:
Class struggle between the paternalistic firm and its apprentices

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1st Produced:
London    1968

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1st Published:
Penguin, London, 1970   -

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-

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Play/Drama

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Ballad of Ben Bagot, The

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Notes:
televised 1977

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1st Published:
in "Prompt 2", Hutchinson, London, 1976   -

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Genre:
Teenage Drama

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Male:  11            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Ballad Of the Artificial Mash, The

Synopsis:
Larger than life business leaders and scientists in pollution drama

Notes:
music And songs by Gillian Brown

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1967

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Genre:
Horror story

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Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Banger, The

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1st Produced:
Nottingham    1978

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Bread and Butter Trade, The

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1st Produced:
London    1976

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But Fred, Freud is Dead

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1972

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1st Published:
in "Plays and Players", London, March, 1972   -

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-

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Genre:
Comedy

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Cadium Firty

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1st Produced:
London    1971

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Chestnuts

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1st Produced:
Octagon Bolton    1991

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Play/Drama

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Clayhanger

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Joyce Holliday (Cheeseman), from novel by Arnold Bennett

1st Produced:
Victoria, Stoke-on-Trent    1967

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  8            Other:  singers

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Cul de Sac

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Dividing Fence, The

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-    -

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1st Published:
in "Wordplays 2" Hutchinson, London, 1982   -

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  11 + Fxtras

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England, My Own

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1st Produced:
London    1978

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Family Ties

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
includes Wrong First Time, Never Right, Yet Again

1st Produced:
London    1977

Company:
-

1st Published:
in "Act 2", Hutchinson, London, 1979   -

Music:
-

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Forest Lodge

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1st Produced:
Salisbury    1977

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Fuzz

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1st Produced:
London    1969

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Geordie's March

Synopsis:
-

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1st Produced:
London    1973

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Good Lads At Heart

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
directed by Michael Croft And barrie Rutter

1st Produced:
Jeanetta Cochrane, London    1971

Company:
National Youth Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Holder Dying

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1966

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Music:
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Genre:
extracts

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Hotel Dorado

Synopsis:
-

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1st Produced:
Newcastle upon Tyne    1985

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-

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-

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How To Write A Play

Peter Terson
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Around the World in 21 Plays" published by Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997   978-1557832634

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

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I'm In Charge of These Ruins

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1966

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Inside-Outside

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-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Nottingham    1970

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Jock-on-the-Go

Synopsis:
19th century Yorkshire lad on the make

Notes:
from the story Jock-at-a-Venture by Arnold Bennett

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1966

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-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Labels

Synopsis:
about a once famous wine man who hits rock bottom after a tragic event and attempts to make a comeback

Notes:
written by Jon Hurley And Peter Terson. After An Amateur run out At Glewstone Court, with Another well known Playwright, Alec Rowe playing Danny Doyle, 'an intense poetic figure' , Labels had its professional premiere At Bridstow Hall in Herefordshire on March the 17th., 1995. Labels featured James Masters, Ray Scott-Johnson And Jason Furneval, three Actors who had featured in A number of Peter's previous plays.
Jon Hurley

1st Produced:
Bridstow Hall in Herefordshire , UK    1995

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Play/Drama

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Limes, The, and I Kid You Not

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1st Produced:
London    1979

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Lost Yer Tongue?

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1st Produced:
Newcastle upon Tyne    1974

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Love Us and Leave us

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Paul Joyce

1st Produced:
London    1976

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Mighty Reservoy, The

Synopsis:
struggles with the dark, elemental forces of nature centring on a reservoir

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1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1964

Company:
-

1st Published:
in "New English Dramatists Vol.14" Penguin, London, 1970   -

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-

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Genre:
Naturalistic comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Moby Dick

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from novel by Melville

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1972

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Mooney And his Caravans

Peter Terson
A couple on a caravan site driven away by the site owner

Notes:
televised 1966

1st Produced:
Hamstead Theatre Club,London    1968

Company:
-

1st Published:
Penguin, London, 1970   -

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-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Most Cheerful Man, The

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1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1973

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-

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Never Right, Yet Again

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Night John, The

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-

1st Produced:
London    1980

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-

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-

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Night To Make the Angels Weep, A

Peter Terson
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1964

Company:
-

1st Published:
in "New English Dramatists 11", Penguin, London, 1967   B000HL9H10

Music:
B000HL9H10

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Naturalistic comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Pied Piper, The

Synopsis:
rats and children follow the leader

Notes:
from poem by Robert Browning, music by Jeff Parton

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1980

Company:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1982   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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Pinvin Careless and His Lines of Force

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-

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-

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1977

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-

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-   -

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Prisoners Of The War

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Newcastle upon Tyne    1971

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-

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-   -

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-

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Rat Run, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1965

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-

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-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Rattling the Railings

Synopsis:
deals with an ever present problem, what to do with the 'old 'un

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Soho Poly Theatre, London    1978

Company:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1979   -

Music:
-

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One Act

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Samaritan, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written by Mike Butler And Peter Terson

1st Produced:
Victoria, Stoke-on-Trent    1971

Company:
-

1st Published:
in "Plays and Players", London, July, 1971   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sing an Arful Story

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with others

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1966

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-

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-   -

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-

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Slip Road Wedding

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Newcastle upon Tyne    1971

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-

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-   -

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-

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Play/Drama

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Soldier Boy

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
London    1978

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-

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-   -

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-

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Spring-Heeled Jack

Synopsis:
Frustrations of misfits in an impoverished society

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Jeannetta Cochrane, London    1970

Company:
National Youth Theatre

1st Published:
in "Plays and Players", London, November, 1970   -

Music:
-

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Strippers

Synopsis:
young wife turns to stripping when Bernard is made redundant, he is quite happy watching exotic dancers but when it comes to his wife it is a different matter

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Newcastle upon Tyne Playhouse    1984

Company:
-

1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1985   -

Music:
-

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Comedy

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Ticket, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
London    1980

Company:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Tolly of the Black Boy

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1977

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-

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-   -

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-

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Trip to Florence, The

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-

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-

1st Produced:
London    1974

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-

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-   -

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-

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Twilight Joker

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-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brighton    1977

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-

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-   -

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-

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VE Night

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-

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-

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Vince Lays the Carpet, and Fred Erects the Tent

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent    1975

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-

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-   -

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-

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We Were All Heroes

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Andover, Hampshire    1981

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-

1st Published:
-   -

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-

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Weeping Madonna, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Company:
-

1st Published:
in "New Plays 1: Contemporary One-Act Plays", 1988   -

Music:
-

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Wrong First Time

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-

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-

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-    -

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-

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-   -

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-

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Zigger Zagger

Peter Terson
Specially written for the National Youth Theatre the play depicts with enormous vigour the story of Harry, a 'football hooligan' and his progress forwards from the end of his schooldays. Football is in fact only the background to the author's real concern, which is the emptiness and futility facing so many youngsters today when they leave secondary school at fifteen, only to find themselves in a series of dead-end jobs. The play may indeed be called an important social document but its essential appeal lies in its exhilarating theatrical life

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, London    1967

Company:
-

1st Published:
Penguin, London, 1970   -

Music:
-

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One Act

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