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JOHN WADDINGTON-FEATHER (1933 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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John Waddington-Feather is a popular British author who belongs to the West Yorkshire 'school' of writers. His children's novel, Quill's Adventures in Grozzieland, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 1989, and his widely produced verse-play, Garlic Lane, won the Burton Award in 1999, and was staged recently in London. His trilogy of romantic historical novels (Illingworth House, Chance Child (1) Chance Child (2) are attracting the interest of the American movie/TV industry). In 2002 he was awarded the American DeWitt Romig Prize for his poetry. He was the first chairman of the J.B.Priestley Society and is now a vice-president. In 1985 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art. Over the past few years his wide range of work has attracted a growing number of readers in many countries, more recently in translation in Eastern Europe.
Plays by John Waddington-Feather
Behind Corridors of Power | ||
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| 1st Published: | Feather Books, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-84175-245-2 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #92174 | |||
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Genre: | Satirical play on politics | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | A full-length play satirising politics and current political figures. The play also looks at life from the perspective of a high-ranking politician's wife whose husband unknown to her has a series of affairs, one with his diary secretary, whilst at Westminster. It also stresses the values of family life. | |||||
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Bill Braithwaite's Miracle | ||
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| 1st Published: | Feather Books, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84175-266-2 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #92175 | |||
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Genre: | Full length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | A full-length comedy about a family of self-made rich cousins who refuse to take in the black sheep of the family returning from Australia after 30 years, a dying impoverished man, as they imagine. When they discover he's a multi-millionaire they fall over themselves to accommodate him believing they're going to inherit his fortune as next of kin. He agrees to take up their offers - but imposes conditions; and therein lies the comedy. | |||||
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Bus Stop | ||
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| 1st Published: | Feather Books, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84175-309-6 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118900 | |||
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Genre: | One-act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A one-act surrealistic play. Four characters, a young couple and an older couple. One set. Touches on contemporary issues. Plenty of humour. A surrealist play with audience participation | |||||
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Easy Street | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leeds Civic Theatre | 1973 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Feather Books, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-84175-033-6 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43123 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length verse -play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | 1 Narrator | |||||
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Synopsis: | A humorous full-length verse-play set over a week (a day for each Sin) in a West Yorkshire mill town, with the Seven Deadly Sins acting as Narrators introducing each day's action. First produced at Leeds Civic Theatre in the 1970s and subsequently revised | |||||
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Edward | ||
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| 1st Published: | Feather Books, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84175-314-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118901 | |||
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Genre: | 20th century historical play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | A full-length play about King Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson and the abdication crisis of 1936, which involved Edward and Mrs Simpson's liaison with the Nazis. | |||||
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Garlic Lane | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leeds Civic Theatre | 1972 | ||||
Company: | Rosemary Branch Theatre, Islington | |||||
| 1st Published: | Feather Books, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-947718-64-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83055 | |||
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Genre: | Verse play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | 2 narrators | |||||
Notes: | A one-act humorous verse-play play set in West Yorkshire in the 1950s. First produced at Leeds Civic Theatre in 1972, it was revised and given a rehearsed reading by Bingley Little Theatre in 1998. In 1999 it was awarded the Burton Prize and described by one critic as the best verse-play since Under Milk Wood. A recording of the play was made live at Bingley Little Theatre in 1998 and is available on CD at £12 and cassette at £5. Its fourth edition London premiere was to a packed house at the Rosemary Branch Theatre in January 2010. | |||||
Synopsis: | A one-act verse-play set in a West Yorkshire mill town. The action takes place one Saturday beginning with a rugby league game and continuing the action through various locations in the town till midnight. | |||||
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Jonah | ||
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| 1st Published: | Feather Books, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-84175-244-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118898 | |||
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Genre: | One-act School musical or play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5 characters male or female | |||||
Notes: | A short play or musical suitable for school or church. Lasts about one hour as a play longer if produced a s short musical. Suitable for 10 to 14 year-olds. | |||||
Synopsis: | A short play based on the biblical story of Jonah | |||||
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Limbo | ||
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| 1st Published: | Feather Books, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84175-308-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118899 | |||
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Genre: | Religious satire/commentary | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | A one and half hour play. Six souls from very different backgrounds find themselves waiting to be assessed for their next life. "Limbo" touches on religious themes, lightened by comedy and some commentary on contemporary events | |||||
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Lollipop Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Feather Books | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-84175-132-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83056 | |||
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Genre: | Serio-comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 8 | ||
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Notes: | Suitable for either stage on in hand reading | |||||
Synopsis: | A full-length play about the homeless - and much else - based on the author's experiences as chaplain in a Night Shelter and Prison | |||||
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Moon Cactus | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #43124 | |||
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Secret Martyrs Against Hitler, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Feather Books, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84175-311-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118897 | |||
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Genre: | 20th century Historical play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Very suitable for in hand reading by a drama group | |||||
Synopsis: | A full-length play based on an account of the resistance against Hitler during the 1930s and 1940s inside Germany, culminating with Stauffenberg's bomb plot of 1944 | |||||
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Tyndale | ||
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| 1st Published: | Feather Books, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84175-223-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #92176 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Historial play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 23 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 1 Narrator | |||||
Notes: | Tyndale splits in half with the Death of Sir Thomas More. The male parts can thus be doubled. Suitable for in-hand group reading | |||||
Synopsis: | A full length play tracing the life and martyrdom of William Tyndale, the first translator of the Bible into English. A drama about free speech and religious freedom; set at a time when modern English evolved to become the global language of Shakespeare and his fellow writers a generation later. The play covers events which marked the beginning of the Anglican Church. | |||||
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