DAVID EDGAR (1948 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by David Edgar
Acid |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University, Bradford | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Copycat murder copies Charles Manson massacre, takes place after 1970 pop festival on the Isle of Wight. | |||||
Albert Speer |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | from Gitta Sereny's biography | |||||
| Synopsis: | Plucked from obscurity to be Hitler's architect and Minister of War, Albert Speer became the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany and the closest Hitler had to a friend. This panoramic adaptation of Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography tells the epic story of a man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century. | |||||
All-Singing All-Talking Golden Oldie Rock Revival Ho Chi Minh Peace Love And Revolution Show, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bingley College of Education, Yorkshire | 1974 | ||||
| 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 Extravaganza | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | aka The . . . Show | |||||
| Synopsis: | The story of rock culture from the 1950's to the 1970's through teds, mods, rockers, hippies, yippies, hell's angels, skinheads and teenyboppers. | |||||
Baby Love |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly Theatre, London ? (Leeds Playhouse, March 1973 | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Edgar: Shorts", Hern, London, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | televised 1974 | |||||
| Synopsis: | After the still birth of her illegitimate baby Eileen steals a baby at random, sentenced to nine months imprisonment, Valium rules. | |||||
Ball Boys |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Pluto Press, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of Summer Sports | |||||
| Synopsis: | hyperbolic peroration against beautiful people | |||||
Black Tulips |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 9781840029222 | ||||
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| Genre: | - | Historical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of a three month long festival about the culture and history of Afghanistan. Entitled The Great Game: Afghanistan. The festival will be divided into three parts, each focusing on a period of Afghan history: 1979 - 1996 : Communism, The Mujahideen And The Taliban | |||||
 | The first two plays after the lunch interval view Afghanistan from the perspectives of the countries that use it as a political pawn, the Soviet Union and the United States. David Edgar sees the Russian outlook through the eyes of its military. The audience are cast as several generations of squaddies, addressed by officers and token locals. Various different types of indoctrination and double speak are examined travelling backwards in time (although this could have been made clearer for those not steeped in recent Russian history), most amusingly through the use of interpreters who not only change the language but also the message. The highlight is a comic cameo from Rick Warden as a mine-clearing Ensign with a wicked Cockney sense of humour. . - British Theatre Guide | |||||
Blood Sports |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Edgar: Shorts", Hern, London, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | as Summer Sports at Birmingham Arts Lab, July 1975 | |||||
| Synopsis: | satire of Britain as a divided nation, warning that the real blood sports will involve acts of revenge | |||||
Bloody Rosa |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester University , at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival | 1971 | ||||
| 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: | Theatrical Symposium" | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling 34 parts | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Play within a play on the Polish born revolutionary Rosa Luxembourg displaying different attitudes about the play's subject. | |||||
Case Of The Workers' Plane, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bristol New Vic, Bristol | 1973 | ||||
| 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: | Documentary with Music | Documentary | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | televised in 1975 as Concorde Cabaret | |||||
| Synopsis: | History and glorification of Concorde aeroplane through eyes of a private eye. | |||||
Continental Divide |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | Berkely Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Two Play Cycle | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Daughters Of The Revolution & Mothers Against | |||||
| Synopsis: | Internationally acclaimed playwright David Edgar (Pentecost, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby) turns his attention to American politics with this two-play cycle examining both sides of a gubernatorial campaign. These two plays, which can be seen in either order, explore what has happened to the revolutionary fervour that took hold of both the Right and the Left in the 1960s, and how it has been transmuted and carried on in politics today | |||||
Conversation In Paradise |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh University, Edinburgh | 1971 | ||||
| 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: | Interlude in 1 Act | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Eve discuss life, love and sex with the Virgin Mary in Heaven, interrupted by Angel serpent. | |||||
Daughters of the Revolution |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | Berkely Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | cast of 15 | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Michael Bern, a former campus radical and retiring community college dean, discovers years later that the political collective of which he was a prominent member in the '60s had been infiltrated and betrayed to the FBI by one of their own-a betrayal with consequences for Michael's career and marriage long after he thought he had left his radical past behind. As he sets out on a journey to find the traitor, he must come to terms with the man he has become and the relative success, or failure, of his political ideals. | |||||
Death Story |
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||||
| 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 | 9 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Allegory of Romeo and Juliet set in historically imprecise Verona; sectarian violence exploited by the military and political "peacekeeping" forces. | |||||
Destiny |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen, London >>>, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | supers | |||||
| Notes: | transferred to the Aldwych, London, May 1977 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Telling the story of a by-election campaign in the West Midlands, Destiny examines the rise of right-wing extremism in Britain during the mid-1970s. Edgar explores the emotional appeal of Fascism and how it grows from personal grievance and prejudice. The play's impact is strengthened through its powerful rhetoric and symbolism and the shock ending, which leaves the audience with the words of Hitler. With its portrayal of the motives behind political extremism, Destiny remains topical and relevant today. | |||||
Dick Deterred |
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Monthly Review Press", New York, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Burlesque Play | - | Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Richard Nixon plotting to defeat Edward IV Part III in the 1968 presidential elections parallels Shakespeare's Richard using a kingdom for his own ends. | |||||
Dirty Tickets |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
| 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: | Plays By Peter Simmons, David Edgar: | |||||
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Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | which character is the real one? | |||||
Dunkirk Spirit, The |
| 1st Produced: | On Tour, General Will Theatre Company | 1974 | ||||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | wide variety of roles | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Agitprop-documentary, tracing the economic history since the second world war, from the three day week to the miners | |||||
Eagle Has Landed, The |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool University, Liverpool | 1973 | ||||
| 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: | televised 1973 | |||||
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End, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University, Bradford | 1972 | ||||
| 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: | Documentary Play | Documentary | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | variety of extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Comprises three intercut sections: a school hall for overnight Aldermaston protest marchers; videoed "Polaris Sequences"; "Computer Cold War". | |||||
England's Ireland |
| 1st Produced: | Shoot Theatre Company, Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam | 1972 | ||||
| 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: | 20 scenes with songs | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Bicat, Clark, Brenton Fuchs, Hare, Wilson | |||||
| Synopsis: | Episodic historical look at the British in Northern Ireland. Loyalist view followed by bias towards IRA with torturing British Soldiers and Orange Lodge excrement | |||||
Entertaining Strangers: A Play For Dorchester |
| 1st Produced: | Colway Theatre Trust at St Mary's Church, Dorchester, Dorset | 1985 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen New Theatrescripts, Eyre Methuen, London. New Version 1988, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Community Play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | very large | |||||
| Notes: | new version at the National Theatre, London, Oct 1987 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Victorian , freethinking tradeswoman encounters hard-line religious fundamentalist | |||||
Events Following The Closure Of A Motorcycle Factory |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
| 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 based on real events | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | the workers themselves in response to the closure of their factory form a co-operative of their own to keep the factory going | |||||
Excuses, Excuses |
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | aka Fired. National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 17/1 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Debate on the motives for arson committed in protest at redundancies at the local factory "to get back at the bosses". | |||||
Fart For Europe, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
| 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: | Burlesque | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Howard Brenton | |||||
| Synopsis: | Attacks the 1973 "Fanfare for Europe" celebrations. Labour MP with same views as Enoch Powell; European Trade Union Links; multi-nationals rule | |||||
Gangsters |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1973 | ||||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | televised in 1973 as Sanctuary | |||||
| Synopsis: | Two small time crooks conned out of their loot whilst trying to rob broken vending machines in motorway cafeteria. | |||||
Heartlanders |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | written with Stephen Bill and Anne Devlin | |||||
| Synopsis: | illustrates the contradictions of city life, written for the City of Birmingham's centenary year | |||||
Jail Diary Of Albie Sachs, The |
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at The Warehouse, London | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Rex Collings, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | work by Albie Sachs | |||||
| Synopsis: | young white barrister arrested in South Africa in 1963 and held in solitary under the infamous 90 day law, interrogators try to break his spirit | |||||
Liberated Zone |
| 1st Produced: | Bingley College of Education, Yorkshire | 1973 | ||||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Strip-cartoon style series of sketches about woman's oppression in history and literature. | |||||
Life Of Galileo, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. From a literal translation by Deborah Gearing | |||||
| Synopsis: | a version set against the background of militant holy war breathing vitality into the question of science's relation to ethics. | |||||
Man Only Dines |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds Polytechnic, Yorkshire | 1974 | ||||
| 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 with Music | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Day in the life of Victorian family dealing with Victorian attitudes to etiquette, croquet, marriage, sex, feminism and (especially) food. | |||||
Mary Barnes |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Modern Plays, Eyre Methuen, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | book by Mary Barnes and Joseph Berke. Transferred to the Royal Court, London, Jan 1979. National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 17/1 | |||||
| Synopsis: | passionate and moving affirmation about the value of alternative psychiatry | |||||
Maydays |
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen New Theatrescripts, Eyre Methuen, London, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | using major political world events as a backdrop to the main action traces the effect of the political spectrum on a variety of individuals | |||||
Midas Connection |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Edgar: Shorts", Hern, London, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Mothers Against |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | Berkely Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2004 | 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 | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | It is five weeks before the election and Sheldon Vine, the Republican candidate for governor in a very tight race, has gathered with his key advisors to prepare for the big debate with his Democratic opponent. Vine's own leanings are distinctly libertarian, but revealing his true beliefs and running a forthright campaign would risk alienating the voters. Over the course of the weekend one thing becomes clear: this battle-the one he must fight with his advisors, including his own family, over what kind of campaign to run-is the most crucial of his career, with implications that could change his entire life | |||||
National Interest, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University, Bradford | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Edgar: Shorts", Hern, London, 1989 | 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | subsequently General Will Theatre group, on tour | |||||
| Synopsis: | Sketches show the mythical concept of "The National Interest" used to justify sacrifice by the many in the interests of the few. | |||||
National Theatre, The |
| 1st Produced: | Open Space, London | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Edgar: Shorts", Hern, London, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | satirical strip club play | |||||
Nicholas Nickleby, The Life And Adventures Of |
| 1st Produced: | 1980 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | novel by Charles Dickens | |||||
| Synopsis: | material self interest neither the first nor the most effective motor of human behaviour | |||||
Not With A Bang But A Whimper |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds | 1972 | ||||
| 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: | Documentary in 2 Acts | Documentary | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | flexible | |||||
| Notes: | for Traverse Theatre Workshop | |||||
| Synopsis: | Documentary treatment of various ecological issues, from true stories to science fiction. | |||||
O Fair Jerusalem |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays 1", Methuen, London, 1987 | 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 | 8 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1 singer | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | From the main action in 1348 when the Black Death arrives in England to 1948 and rehearsals for a metaphorical on the subject in a bombed out church. | |||||
Operation Iskra |
| 1st Produced: | Paradise Foundry Theatre Company On Tour | 1973 | ||||
| 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 | 7 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 17/1 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Set in the future supports a forbidding vision of Britain as an emergent corporate state beset by a well disciplined urban guerrilla group. | |||||
Our Own People |
| 1st Produced: | Half Moon Theatre, London | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | Pirate Jenny Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Modern Plays, Eyre Methuen, London. (with Teendreams), 1988 | 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: | Industrial Dispute | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | based around a fictional industrial dispute in Yorkshire in the 1970's | |||||
Pentecost |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1995 | 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: | Historical Play | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The first serious response in the British Theatre to the tragedy of Sarajevo" Observer | |||||
Perils Of Bardford, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre in the Mill, Bradford University, Bradford | 1976 | ||||
| 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: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Richard Crane | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Playing With Fire |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 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 | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Epic portrait of our multicultural nation | |||||
Prisoner’s Dilemma, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| 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 | 10 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | post- Cold War play about conflict resolution | |||||
Rent Or Caught In The Act |
| 1st Produced: | On Tour, General Will Theatre Company | 1972 | ||||
| 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: | Melodrama with Music | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | with doubling | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Written as a contribution to the fight against the Conservatives' Housing Finance Act portraying a number of stock characters. | |||||
Road To Hanoi, The |
| 1st Produced: | Paradise Foundry Theatre Company, E4536London | 1972 | ||||
| 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: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of Point 101 with Howard, Wandor and S Wilson. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Bob Hope's 1971 visit to Hanoi in attempt to buy back American POWs. | |||||
Rupert Show, The |
| 1st Produced: | On Tour, General Will Theatre Company | 1971 | ||||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A church service with interruptions conducted by a vicar who also plays Superman, Lord Longford, Judge Argyll and others. | |||||
Saigon Rose |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays 1", Methuen, London, 1987 | 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 | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.10577/56 | |||||
| Synopsis: | uses a metaphor of sexually transmitted disease to satirise the American colonisation of Scotland | |||||
Shape Of The Table, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1990 | 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 | 11 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | As an old Eastern Bloc government collapses, former political prisoners join banned writers around the negotiating table. | |||||
State Of Emergency |
| 1st Produced: | On Tour, General Will Theatre Company | 1972 | ||||
| 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: | Documentary with Songs | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Chronological play about industrial resistance to the Conservative government between the summers of 1971 and 1972. | |||||
Still Life: Man In Bed |
| 1st Produced: | Pool Theatre, Edinburgh | 1971 | ||||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Variation on the Oblomov theme hero remains in bed for 79 days unable to cope with the decimalization of currency. | |||||
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1992 | 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 | 8 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | novella by Robert Louis Stevenson | |||||
| Synopsis: | The strange story comes to life in a well structured adaptation | |||||
Summer Sports |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Edgar: Shorts", Hern, London, 1989 | 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | includes Beaters, Cricket, Shotputters, Cross Country, Ball Boys. As Blood Sports at the Bush, June 1976 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Sketches of sports and of sports men | |||||
Tedderella |
| 1st Produced: | Pool Theatre, Edinburgh | 1971 | ||||
| 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: | Pantomime | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Tedderella (Heath) wants to go to the Common Market Ball but is prevented by ugly sisters (Wilson and Jenkins). 1970 election intervenes. | |||||
Teendreams |
| 1st Produced: | Van Dyck Theatre. Bristol | 1979 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen New Theatrescripts, Eyre Methuen, London, 1979 | 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: | Feminist Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 12 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Susan Todd. Monstrous Regiment Company | |||||
| Synopsis: | looks at the parallel but divergent careers of two women from their teenage idealism to their sober self awareness ten years later | |||||
Ten Years On |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre In The Mill, Bradford | 1976 | ||||
| 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: | written with Richard Crane | |||||
| Synopsis: | inaugural production for Theatre in the Mill | |||||
Testing The Echo |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | Out of Joint | |||||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The play is about people preparing to become British Citizens. Tetyana studies in secret to escape her marriage, while Mahmood, kidnapped for his own good, has only his abductor to help him with revision practice. Meanwhile, the motley crew in Emma's English class are all looking for something, whether it's a passport - or a fight. As the day of their ceremony approaches, Emma's students begin to challenge some of her dearest-held beliefs. By looking at the way we assess those who want to be British, Testing the Echo takes an illuminating and often very funny look at how we define ourselves as a nation. The play's fictional story strands were inspired and informed by a detailed research workshop. | |||||
That Summer |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Modern Plays, Eyre Methuen, London, 1987 | 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 | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | broadcast BBC World service 08/93 | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
The Show |
| 1st Produced: | Bingley College of Education, Yorkshire | 1974 | ||||
| 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: | Spectacle | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A massive and indescribable musical spectacle | |||||
Time To Keep, A |
| 1st Produced: | Thomas Hardye School Theatre, Dorchester, Dorset | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Dorchester Community Players | |||||
| 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: | - | Community Play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||||
| Notes: | written by David Edgar and Stephanie Dale. Starring Gean Browning and Kay Thorneycroft as the smugglers. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A large-scale historical romp in the terrain between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - co-written by David Edgar, Britain's leading political playwright. Set against the backdrop of the threatened Napoleonic invasion of 1804, A Time to Keep is the story of an unlikely but passionate romance between a well-born but feisty young woman and the youngest son of a family of notorious smugglers. With over 100 characters, from George III and his court to the criminal classes, the play is a rollicking example of the community play, originally written for the Dorchester Community Players but easily adaptable for smaller (and larger!) companies alike. | |||||
Truer Shade Of Blue, A |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University, Bradford | 1970 | ||||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Two businessmen at a Soho strip club encounter stripper/waitress whose story alters their view of the entertainment. | |||||
Two Kinds Of Angel |
| 1st Produced: | Bradford University, Bradford | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The London Fringe Theatre", Burnham House, London. Ed V E Mitchell, 1975 | 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A student revolutionary and sexy blonde model share a flat, arguments over two huge posters and rejection of sexual advances lead to denouement. | |||||
Untitled |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 17/1 | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Up Spaghetti Junction |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
| 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: | written with 3 others. Section called Chamberlains | |||||
| Synopsis: | Documentary about Birmingham | |||||
Wecome To Dallas, JC |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1976 | ||||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Alfred Jarry | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Wreckers |
| 1st Produced: | Barnfield Theatre, Exeter then on tour | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | 7:84 Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen New Theatrescripts, Eyre Methuen, London, 1977 | 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 with Music | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | theme is various kinds of law and lawbreaking from the 1972 dock strike to a 1976 attempt to oust a right wing MP | |||||