JAMES MARTIN CHARLTON (1966 - )
| Nationality: | English |
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Plays by James Martin Charlton
Battis Boy |
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| 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: | - | Ten minute play | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | 14 year old Joe is given money by his mother to go and get a haircut. Whilst walking through Battis Alley on the way to the barber shop his mind wanders and he imagines various erotic encounters starting in the court of Caligula and ending up with the barber's assistant | |||||
Coming Up |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
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| 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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Adam has stolen some trainers and is due in court. His teacher wants to be a character witness for him but the man who arrested Adam is her partner | |||||
Coward |
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | A young struggling actor is sent to Noel Coward's apartment to audition for a role in Noel's new play. But does Noel have other ideas? | |||||
Desires of Frankenstein, The |
| 1st Produced: | Open Air Theatre, London | 2001 | ||||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | In a mental institution an old man insists that many years ago he created a being - a beautiful young man. Nobody believes Mr Frankenstein including his doctor. Meanwhile another elderly man with a hunchback looks after a beautiful young man. Igor resorts to robbery to keep the sexual favours he gets from the young man | |||||
Divine Vision |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2000 | ||||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Poet William Blake is beset with worries an offer from William Hayley looks like it will be a solution | |||||
Ecstasy Grace |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | Theatre 28 | |||||
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| 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 | 5 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | Once upon a time Davy had visions of a better world. Now he competes. Living in Amsterdam and managing the Blackjacket Porn Shop with his German skinhead lover, Kai, Davy reckons he is doing just fine. The Rae appears from England to bring it all back home. But will it be enough to save Pullet a thirteen year old boy on Davy's payroll? | |||||
Fat Souls |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
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| 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: | verse play | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | winner of the International Playwriting Festival, 1992 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Fat Maggs gets a lowly office job. Everyone at the office hides behind a mask (literally). The office Romeo who always gets his heart broken, the office bully hiding his insecurity and the boss hiding the fact that he is gay. | |||||
Groping In The Dark |
| 1st Produced: | Mermaid Studio | 1996 | ||||
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| 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 | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Governor Lord Stone employs artist Anthony Saint to teach his wayward seventeen year old son Keen to paint. Although he is married Anthony is strongly attracted to Keen. | |||||
I Really Must Be Getting Off |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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| 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 | 7 | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | a country house play detailing the state of (part of) the nation. | |||||
More About The Language Of Love |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1991 | ||||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Rex Mundy has a porn empire making films. He has just hired a recent graduate from film school to make his next porno. Mundy has assembled his cast including a porn veteran and a new comer, a former B-film actor on hard times due to his drinking and a gay porn star who now wants to break into straight porn | |||||
Pilgrim's Progress, The |
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| Company: | commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon, 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 |
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| Notes: | from John Bunyan | |||||
| Synopsis: | The Pilgrim's Progress tells the tale of Christian, who dreams a journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, Zion. His many adventures along the way take him to such legendary places as the peaceful Palace Beautiful; the horrifying Vanity Fair; the twin Valleys of Humiliation & the Shadow of Death; the Doubting Castle and the Delectable Mountains. Herein we meet some of the most famous and memorable characters in all. | |||||
Straight To The Top |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
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| 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: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Mistaken identities, lots of running around, dashing in and out of the wardrobe and dropped trousers. | |||||
Twist of Oliver, A |
| 1st Produced: | Church of the Good Shepherd, Maidstone, Kent | 2002 | ||||
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| 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 | |||||
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| Notes: | Based on "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens | |||||
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What Are Neighbours For? |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1985 | ||||
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| 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 | |||||
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Whatever |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Theatre, London | 2005 | ||||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | Deelen an affluent young advertising executive meets Dean in a chatroom called "trackies 'n' trainers". They meet in real life in Romford where Dean lives and Deelen meets Dean's family. All is well until Dean's brother Tone - a member of the BNP realises what their relationship is | |||||
World and His Wife, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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| 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: | - | Black comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Mike has never loved his wife, Christine, he abuses her both mentally and physically. A police inspector interviews Christine about a series of murders of young women as Mike is a suspect. For help and comfort she first turns to the local vicar - but he is caught up in his world of secret promiscuous gay sex. Next she turns to an old school friend who has now become a militant lesbian feminist. | |||||