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Charles Barron

CHARLES BARRON

  (1936 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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In 1970, Charles became Head of Speech and Drama at Aberdeen College of Education (which changed its name while he was there to the Northern College of Education when it became conjoined with Dundee College of Education. Edinburgh-based civil servants clearly thought of the two cities as being vaguely near each other in the north and saw no reason why staff couldnt commute between the two.) The Barrons bought a sprawling country house, ten miles outside Aberdeen. He carried on writing and publishing plays and eventually, after 18 years, decided to take early retirement in order to devote more time to writing. He took on the part-time role of Arts Director at Haddo House, creating the Haddo Youth Theatre and starting a tradition of an annual pantomime which played to more than 10,000 school children each year.

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

         7 Down         Agent 160         Amang the Craws         As the Bat At Noon         Bairns 'N' Feels         Beneath the Crown         Bertie Mutch         Blown Seed         Bryce Holt         Buchan Trap, The         Cafe Noir         Eagle Has Flown, The         Evie         Flight         Fooshin         Guts         Harry Hernie         King Twice Crowned, A         Mannie         Pond Life         Surrogate, The         Take 2 Girls         Toulmin         Wild Specimens
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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 4/6

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Agent 160

Synopsis:
Whilst on a spying mission playwright aphra Behn falls in love with a black slave

Notes:
part of the New Play Season

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Amang the Craws

Synopsis:
Donnie has been spoilt by his mother and grandmother

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As the Bat At Noon

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Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1981   

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Genre:
Psychological Thriller

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bairns 'N' Feels

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Contained in: "Scottish Plays For Schools" published by Hodder Gibson   

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Beneath the Crown

Synopsis:
Five hundred years of the University of aberdeen

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Bertie Mutch

Synopsis:
Bertie Mutch the farmer falls in love with the Minister's daughter

Notes:
Based on A short story by David Toulmin

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Genre:
One act

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Blown Seed

Synopsis:
the novel is a remarkably honest view of life in a farm community between the wars and when it first appeared in 1976 it created a stir in the area, with its frank account of the brutality, harshness and sexuality of the farm workers' existence. Charles Barron has Dramatised episodes from it as part of the play which sets events in the author's life against the fictionalised view of them that he uses in his writing.

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from the novel by David Toulmin (a pseudonym for John Reid)

1st Produced:
Longside, Aberdeenshire     2004

Organisations:
aberdeen's Studio Theatre Group

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Genre:
adaptation

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Bryce Holt

Synopsis:
Heartless Bryce Holt deprives Davy of his wife and life.

Notes:
Based on A short story by David Toulmin

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Genre:
One act

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Buchan Trap, The

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(Scottish Plays. No. 46). Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1976   

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Genre:
Drama One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cafe Noir

Synopsis:
the staff at Cafe Noir have many problems to overcome - mainly with each other.

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Eagle Has Flown, The

Synopsis:
a teenage girls runs away in distress and disappears. Her friends try to find her

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1st Produced:
Inverurie, Scotland     2003

Organisations:
MiTheatre Companyhell School of Drama

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Genre:
Youth theatre Youth audience

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Evie

Synopsis:
evie's tongue is as biting as ever; her wit as sharp, her humour as lively and her opinions as fiendish but now there is no-one to hear except Tutankhamen - and he would rather sleep in his basket, dreaming of mice and milk. evie is 60 years old, an aberdonian to her fingertips and about to experience a huge change in her way of life

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1st Produced:
Dalyrymple Hall, Fraserburgh, Scotland     2003

Organisations:
Doric Festival

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Flight

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Based on ideas from the pupils of Mitchell School of Drama

1st Produced:
Inverurie Festival     2004

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Fooshin

Synopsis:
Two elderly sisters are able to face life in the 1990s after learning to stand up for themselves whilst their men were away at war

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Guts

Synopsis:
set in a gutting yard during World War 2

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1st Produced:
Dalyrymple Hall, Fraserburgh, Scotland     2003

Organisations:
Fraserburgh Junior Arts

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Genre:
Comedy

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Harry Hernie

Synopsis:
Twins Wattie and Bannie are concerned when their elderly Father disappears

Notes:
Based on A short story by David Toulmin

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Genre:
One act

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King Twice Crowned, A

Synopsis:
Robert the Bruce killed John Comyn and thus gained the Scottish throne. But Edward I of england had all the Scottish coronation regalia and the Stone of Scone

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Mannie

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New Playwrights' Network, nd   

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Pond Life

Synopsis:
the Scottish First Minister copes with blackmail and bribery and splits in her Cabinet

Notes:
Music by Winnie Foster; lyrics by Winnie Foster; book by Charles Barron

1st Produced:
Aberdeen Arts Centre     2006

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Genre:
Musical

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Surrogate, The

Synopsis:
a couple desperate for a child approach their doctor - who has a solution to their problem.

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Take 2 Girls

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1st Produced:
Toured Scotland     2003

Organisations:
Dragon Productions of Glasgow

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Genre:
Two short musical comedies

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Toulmin

Synopsis:
the story of writer David Toulmin

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Wild Specimens

Synopsis:
a fight to the death with grizzly bears, a voyage on board the Discovery, interrogation by a Tibetan secret service man, attack by Japanese fighter planes and smuggling tea out of China. these are just some of the adventures of a group of five men whose jobs may sound unexciting but which led each of them into extreme danger. they were plant hunters, plunging into uncharted territory in search of new species to send home to Britain. the Garden has a number of intriguing new acting areas, including an amphitheatre, a Chinese pagoda and a magnificent wooden Canadian pavilion. the actors will lead the audience around all five of the arenas as they re-enact the lives of the five plant hunters featured in the play.

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1st Produced:
Scottish Plant Collectors' Garden, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Scotland     2004

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Genre:
Outdoor

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