ALISTAIR BEATON
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Plays by Alistair Beaton
Arsonists, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | Royal Court | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Max Frisch. Max Frisch's parable about appeasement is given its first major UK revival since its Royal Court premiere in 1961, which was directed by Lindsay Anderson. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Fires are becoming something of a problem. But Biedermann has it all under control. He's a respected member of the community with a loving wife and a flourishing business, so surely nothing can get to him. The great philanthropist is happy to meet his civic duty by giving shelter to two new guests but when they start filling his attic with petrol drums, will he help them light the fuse? | |||||
Caucasian Chalk Circle |
| 1st Produced: | 30 Sep 2009 | |||||
| Company: | co-produced with Yorkshire Playhouse and Shared Experience | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 978-1408126707 | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
 | Alistair Beaton's new translation has an earthy vibrancy and the production matches it. This corrupt little province is an impoverished place. Only in that intensely human scene where peasant maid Gruscha sees the soldier she has promised herself to across a river of patterned blue cloth do we get a suggestion of a countryside that could be beautiful. | |||||
Feelgood |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | It's party conference time, and in the leader's hotel suite, the spin doctors are sweating over the Prime Minister's speech. With public opinion increasingly volatile, there's panic at the top. This time it's all got to be perfect. But in the same hotel a journalist is piecing together a scandal so far-reaching that it could keep the party out of power for a generation. Can the story be killed? Can the journalist be bought off? And exactly how far will a government go to save itself? | |||||
Follow My Leader |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Musical Satire | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music by Richard Blackford | |||||
| Synopsis: | As the real Bush and Blair and their cronies plot the next stage in their plans, The REP's very own Bush and Blair are joined on stage by Clare Short and Osama Bin Laden, with a guest appearance from God! | |||||
Government Inspector, The |
| 1st Produced: | Chichester Festival | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. | |||||
| Synopsis: | One of the most famous comedies in world theatre, Gogol's masterpiece has lost none of its bite. In a small town corruption is rife, and the Mayor and his cronies have got it made. So when they learn they are going to be subject to an undercover government inspection they panic. Mistaking a penniless nobody for the inspector they swiftly fall victims to their own stupidity and greed. A dazzling blend of preposterous characters and familiar situations, Nabokov called 'The Government Inspector' the greatest play in the Russian language. | |||||
King of Hearts |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A handsome young heir to the throne falls for a Muslim girl and finds himself at war with a panicked prime minister. SuddenIy, its not just the future of the Royal Family thats at stake, but the very identity of Britain itself Theatre List | |||||
Nose, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | directed by Martin Duncan. An original play, based on the short story of the same name by Nikola Gogol | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Ratepayers' Iolanthe |
| 1st Produced: | Queen Elizabeth Hall, London | 1984 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | satirical operetta | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | fairies and chorus | |||||
| Notes: | adapted from the light opera by W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan by Ned Sherrin and Alistair Beaton | |||||
| Synopsis: | An extravagent concotion of parody of Gilbert and Sullivan, Mrs Thatcher and Ken Livingston. Launched as a political self-defensive squib by the Greater London Council, to try and stop its closure. Mrs Thatcher is presented as a usurping and predatory Fairy Queen trying to get Red Ken off the GLC and into parliment to be useless among Labour Backbenchers. | |||||