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JOHN WATERHOUSE (1928 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: New Playwright Network |
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Plays by John Waterhouse |
Between Ourselves | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36229 | |||
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Genre: | Entertainment | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A collection of monologues, sketches and two playlets | |||||
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Cardboard Cavaliers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36230 | |||
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Genre: | social farce One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Lil, Will and Bill are street people living in three cardboard boxes underneath a railway arch. Bill, their son and not the brightest of youths, informs the family that he has arranged for them all to be interviewed by Corrine, a well-known television presenter of human stories. Lil and Wills eagerness to impress is confounded by Bill's ineptitude. The day does not end happily but there is a great deal of humour along the way. | |||||
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Frank's Feathered Friends | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36231 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | the principal character can BF of either sex. | |||||
Notes: | written with Patricia Leach | |||||
Synopsis: | Frank is in for a shock. His wife is in for a shock. The Rabbi is in for a shock. Their supernatural visitor is in for an even greater schock. How can this shocking situation be resolved. This is a heavenly Farce. | |||||
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Hazel's Nuts | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36232 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male N/S | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The mini-bus outing for the elderly inmates of a nursing home goes horribly wrong when they run out of petrol. unexpectedly they find themselves stranded in a forest. Nurse Hazel and the mini-bus driver, decide they should spend the night in an old barn. Unfortunately the barn turned out to be the hiding place where a couple of young thugs stash their ill-gotten loot. The fun starts when the two lads show up and catch the old people in the middle of a game of 'hunt-the-thimble.' The trouble is , they find more than a thimble! | |||||
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Heaven to Betsy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36233 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Rev. Betsy Barker is expecting, what she believes to be a routine visit by the Bishop of Langley and his chaplain, Canon Chombola. The visit turns out to be anything but routine, anymore than does the reception she has planned for them. Betsy is beset by one problem after another: first by the arrival of an hysterical pregnant woman who gives birth on the spot, followed by a town planning officer who has a choking fit, collapses and his body is disposed of to save embarrassment. However, the real complication starts when the husband of the no longer pregnant woman, shows up and accuses Canon Chombola of being the baby's father because the child is born black and the Canon happens to be the only black man present | |||||
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I Spy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36234 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Our hero of this hilarious spoof of the typical James Bond movie is Cyril Greensleeve in his council house in Bradford. Secret weapons, hidden identities, code words, beautiful Russian spy, the KGB, and the CIA and MI5 they're all there "&..moves at a splendid pace, the laugh lines come fast and furious&. A wonderfully funny zany comedy&"- Amateur Stage. | |||||
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In the Doghouse | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36235 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 3 non speaking | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sam and his henpecked brother, Bert, is harassed by their wives and by two bruisers sent to collect Sam's debts. Thrives mistake the bruisers for pallbearers and Sam do his best to convince Maud the debt was from her deceased mother's card games. | |||||
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Jump Off | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36236 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Suicide is never a laughing&..well, almost never. In this comedy there is an element of doubt. Everything is not quite what it appears. A boy and a girl are about to jump off a tower block. Or are they ? | |||||
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Just The Ticket! | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Intimate Theatre, Palmers Green, London | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Evans Bros, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36237 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a traffic warden collects stuffed birds much to the disgust of his wife, but an owl stuffed full of money causes problems | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mayhem at Mudlark Manor | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36238 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | The entire cast ends up dead in this spoof an Agatha Christie who-dunnit. With so many murders at breakneck speed is essential for the humour to have full effect. "an ingenious piece" Amateur Stage | |||||
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Miss Clithold's Class of 58 | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36239 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | This class reunion takes place in most unexpected circumstances- a supposed burglar turns out to be an old class mate. | |||||
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Nest of Cuckoos, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36240 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Patricia Leach | |||||
Synopsis: | Elsie and Frank need to take a lodger. Two odd but disarming men are accepted Soon their bizarre behaviour disrupts the household and sets wife against husband. Beneath the comedy there is a real menace. | |||||
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Off The Rails | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Princes Theatre, Bradford | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights' Network, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36241 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Harry, the stationmaster and central character, is a dauntless individual desperate to hold on to his job, surrounded by an incompetent staff and the threat of closure | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pillar To Post | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Spa Theatre, Bridlington | 1959 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1962 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36242 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 2 extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Telegraph boy Ernie is entertaining Sonya when he hears voices - fearing his mother will discover him with a floozies he hides with her. He overhears the lodger and a friend talking about the spate of Post Office robberies that have been occurring in the district. Ernie thinks that they must be the thieves. He informs his father who is a postman and together with another postman they hide in the post office so that when the thieves break in they can catch them red handed. However the lodger and his friend turn out to be detectives investigating the robberies and the two postman have some explaining to do as to why they were in the post office after hours. | |||||
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Ping-Pong | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36243 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | For thirty years a couple have played table tennis after dinner. Suddenly Doreen is provoked and the floodgates open. Accusations and resentment are hurled across the net in a bitter and highly amusing contest. | |||||
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Siege of Sevastopol Terrace, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36244 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 3 extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Harry leads a gang of Burglars. Billie arrives to end opposition to his marriage to Harry's daughter with gelignite to enforce his . The police arrive and a full-blown siege results. The misunderstanding between family, burglars and police are superb. | |||||
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Six Of The Best | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Intimate Theatre , Palmers Green, London | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1963 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36245 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by John and Jackie Waterhouse | |||||
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Strictly For The Birds | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #53928 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Talk of the Devil | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36246 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | He uses the devil's name once too often and unwittingly invokes him. The devil appears but is visible only to Harry. "Some very funny and original writing."-Amateur Stage | |||||
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Very Scottish Play, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Oct 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119308 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Terry and Angela head off for a few days of rest and relaxation on a remote Scottish Island. They soon find that the Island is full of natural hazards and it's very own ghost the lady in black., add to that a dodgy landlord; A perfect recipe for A Very Scottish Play. | |||||
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