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Chris Beddows

CHRIS BEDDOWS  

 Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Chris Beddows's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 1381         Alpha To Alpha         Fifty-Fifty         Fine And Private Place, A         Other People's Words         Starman

1381

Synopsis:
The Great Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is presented as a form of parable for modern social ills. Debates the causes, effects and consequences of revolutionary, politcal protest.

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1st Produced:
Bridge Lane Theatre, London    1983

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Alpha To Alpha

Synopsis:
a Dramatic monologue for voice, dancers and improvised percussion. a woman relives her formative experiences from pre-birth to death.

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Harrison Award for one Act plays 1981

1st Produced:
Nelson and Colne College Theatre Group    1980

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Genre:
One act

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Fifty-Fifty

Synopsis:
The influence of chance on our lives together with a plea for nuclear sanity is comically illustrated by a series of comic verbal tableaux

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for Actors, miners And children's chorus

1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London    1982

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Genre:
absurdist play

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Fine And Private Place, A

Synopsis:
set in a crumbly private school that is under inspection for licence renewal. Modern educational theories bite the dust in a welter of vested interests.

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Genre:
Black farce Farce

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Other People's Words

Synopsis:
an analysis of the difficulty people have in talking at anything other than a surface level. Comic events in a pub with violence from the local amateur Dramatic society

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Starman

Synopsis:
Updating the Faust legends. In the form of a student revolutionary movement that is exploited by a compromising leader figure

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1st Produced:
Collegiate Theatre, London    1979

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Genre:
Rock-opera

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