CLAIRE DOWIE (1956 - )
| Nationality: | English |
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Plays by Claire Dowie
Adult Child, Dead Child |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays By Women Vol.7" Methuen, London, 1988 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | mixture of monologue and poetry showing life and perceptions of an abused and disturbed child | |||||
All Over Lovely |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Drama, London >>> , 1998 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | focus on sex and repression among gay and lesbian characters | |||||
Cat And Mouse |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1986 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Death and Dancing |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | As the lesbian character, Max, explores her confusing love for the other Max, a gay character, they rail against the society that pens them in. | |||||
Designs for Living |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | Ruby Tuesday Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | - | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Drag Act |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
| Company: | Gay Sweatshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Why is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt?", Methuen, UK, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Part of "Threesome" | |||||
| Synopsis: | Lesbian is taken for her birthday treat to see a male drag act. | |||||
Easy Access (for the Boys) |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Drama, London >>> , 1998 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | focus on sex and repression among gay and lesbian characters | |||||
H To He (I'm turning into a man) |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ms, 2004 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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I'm Turning Into A Man |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Leaking From Every Orifice |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Why is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt?", Methuen, UK, | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Lesbian performance artist becomes pregnant with gay male friend | |||||
Sodom |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | - | ||||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Everyone in Sodom apart from Lot and his family, are gay. When angels come to visit Lot everyone wants to have sex with them | |||||
Why Is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt? |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Satire and invective against wearing a skirt and the whole teenage peer pressure of becoming a woman | |||||
Year of the Monkey, The |
| 1st Produced: | Studio 2, London | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | - | ||||
| 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: | Four Monologues | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A woman whose mother has been killed by a drunken driver describes how she shot her way through the criminal's nearest and dearest; Beans On Toast - a little girl whose grandad had Alzheimer's recalls the events leading up to his death; Red Flag - a pensioner who claims not to care about politics lets slip how she and her neighbours opted out of the capalist economy; The Year Of The Monkey - and a well-to-do mother watches her daughter's marriage while railing at her own inability to connect with anyone. Phil Daoust, Guardian | |||||