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John Boyd

JOHN BOYD  (1912 - 2002)

 Nationality:    Irish
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below is a list of John Boyd's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Christmas Carol, A         Facing North         Farm, The         Flats, The         Guests, The         Round The Big Clock         Speranza's Boy         Street, The         Summer Class         Wuthering Heights

Christmas Carol, A

Synopsis:
On Christmas Eve 1846, miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his business partner Marley, and by the spirits of Christmas past, present and future.

Notes:
an Adaptation of the original novella by Charles Dickens.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Lyric theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  18            Female:  14            Other:  doubling possible

Further Reference:
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Facing North

Synopsis:
adam Grant is a farm owner and factory owner. His son's American girlfriend is abducted from the farm, but is released when she convinces her kidnappers that she is Catholic. Grant's home, Cromwell House, is under a compulsory purchase order to make way for a Catholic housing estate, and there is trouble at the factory when a worker hangs up a Union flag.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Lyric theatre

1st Published:
in John Boyd: Collected Plays 2, Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1982   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Farm, The

Synopsis:
A shipyard worker decides to renovate the family farm house but discovers that it has been left to his son

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Lyric Theatre, Belfast    10 May 1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "John Boyd Collected Plays volume One" published by Blackstaff Press 1981   978-0856402500

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Flats, The

Synopsis:
Belfast 1969. A Catholic family in a block of flats prepare as a crowd of Protestants march on them. The last Protestant woman living in the flats runs out to get help for her ailing mother but is mistaken for a Catholic

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Lyric Theatre, Belfast    15 Mar 1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "John Boyd Collected Plays volume One" published by Blackstaff Press 1981   978-0856402500

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Guests, The

Synopsis:
Maria Carey a middle aged widow is putting on a party on the anniversary of her husband's death. A party he requested her to have

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Lyric Theatre, Belfast    25 Sep 1974

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "John Boyd Collected Plays volume One" published by Blackstaff Press 1981   978-0856402500

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Round The Big Clock

Synopsis:
a biography of the city of Belfast, centred around the albert Clock, one of its famous landmarks. Characters from history appear as the shipbuilders, spinners, soldiers and sailors go about their daily business, until the clock stops in 1939.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Lyric theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
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Speranza's Boy

Synopsis:
Speranza's Boy tells the life story of Oscar Wilde as revealed by flashbacks and unspoken dream sequences. The play focuses on his American tour as well as his relationship with his mother, his wife, and Lord alfred Douglas.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Lyric theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  25            Female:  6            Other:  doubling possible

Further Reference:
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Street, The

Synopsis:
The Downies are a working class family in Belfast during the Depression. Willie Downie is a trades union activist, and his wife a labour candidate: they scandalise the neighbours by soliciting the votes of Catholics as well as Protestants. Willie's brother Bob is a railwayman whose bookish son, Joe, seeks to better himself by education. Bob's wife Jane finds her solace through drink, and this costs her her life.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Lyric theatre

1st Published:
in John Boyd: Collected Plays 2, Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1982   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Summer Class

Synopsis:
an extra mural literature class for adults is being held during the summer vacation. The uneasy relationship between the tutor and his wife threatens to become more serious when she introduces to the class her protege, lately released from the Maze prison.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Lyric theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Wuthering Heights

Synopsis:
The lives of the Earnshaw and Linton families are changed forever by the tempestuous love affair of Heathcliff and Cathy.

Notes:
a dramatisation of the original novel by Emily Bronte.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Lyric theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  doubling possible

Further Reference:
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