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Alan Passes

ALAN PASSES

  (1943 - )
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Raised in Switzerland, France, Great Britain. Have written novels and for radio and film as well as for the Theatre. Have not written anything for the Theatre since early 1980s. Became an anthropologist in my late 40s, specializing in Amazonian studies.

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below is a list of Alan Passes's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         And         Barricadoodah         Death Raise         Mystic of the Western World         No Sheep on the Bush         Spellbound         Wolves, The

And

Synopsis:
Exploration of possible common ground between a Jewish peddler fleeing persecution and two miners on the run for killing a mine owner, set in 19c North England.

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1st Produced:
Little Theatre, St Martins Lane, London    1976

Organisations:
Little Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Political Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Barricadoodah

Synopsis:
Semi-farcical internecine goings-on among a family dwelling in a barricade in an apocalyptic post-revolutionary England.

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Organisations:
Royal Court and RADA

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Music:
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Genre:
surreal comedy

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Death Raise

Synopsis:
As he attempts to resurrect Adolf Hitler, a Nazi scientist is interrupted by a Third World revolutionary who demands that the scientist clone Jesus Christ instead from the shroud of Turin that she has stolen. . .

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1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London    1977

Organisations:
Soho Poly

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Surrealist comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mystic of the Western World

Synopsis:
Rivalrous encounter between St Teresa of Avila, Vincent van Gogh, St Simeon Stylites, and an astronaut, Storm Saxon, the embodiment of a 20c imperialist ubermensch, as they wait for God in a limbo reserved for martyrs and mystics.

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1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London    1976

Organisations:
Soho Poly

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Surrealistic comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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No Sheep on the Bush

Synopsis:
Poetic-impressionistic-documentary exploration of the plight of the elderly in our society.

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1st Produced:
Touring London and provinces    1977

Organisations:
Common Stock Theatre Co.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
community theatre

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Spellbound

Synopsis:
Examination of adult illiteracy and its ramifications

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1st Produced:
Touring London and provinces    1979

Organisations:
Common Stock Theatre Co.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
community theatre

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Wolves, The

Synopsis:
Combines an examination of immigration, identity and intolerance in modern society with the story of a wolf-child and the slaying of the last wolf in England in the 15th century.

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1st Produced:
Touring London, provinces, Eire and Holland    1982

Organisations:
Common Stock Theatre Co.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
community theatre/poetical surrealism

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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