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Les Smith

LES SMITH

  
Nationality:    British
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Les Smith's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Les Smith's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         And Did Those Feet         Bodycount         Chimes, The         Early One Morning         Prince And the Pauper, The         Rescue, The         Schweik In the Third World War         Some Kind Of Hero         Titanic

And Did Those Feet

Synopsis:
This football Drama winds the clock back to the Wanderers' fine hour. the 1923 FACup final is remembered less for the score (Bolton 2, West Ham 0) than the crowd: over 200,000 rushed the turnstiles of the new Wembley stadium, and the match could only begin once the spectators had been cleared from the pitch by a policeman mounted on a white horse. It remains the stuff of legend.
- Alfred Hickling, Guardian

Notes:
written by by Les Smith And Martin Thomasson

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bodycount

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1st Produced:
TIC    1982

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Genre:
45 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.10577/6
Theatre Record Vol VII (1987) Page 0801 - [Theatre: Old Red Lion]

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Chimes, The

Synopsis:
depicts the gap between the haves and the have-nots with incandescent fury. When the inevitable happy ending finally arrives, it does little to dispel the bitter taste of what has gone before.

Notes:
from story by Charies Dickens

1st Produced:
Southwark Playhouse, London    2004

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  doubling

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Early One Morning

Synopsis:
Flanders, August 21st 1917. British forces advancing towards Passchendaele are struggling through driving rain and mud. The fighting is fierce and bloody. Each day thousands are killed, wounded or lost to oblivion. Two miles behind the front line a Field General Court Martial begins. Private James Smith of the King's Liverpool Regiment is charged with desertion. This is the moving and compelling story of a Bolton soldier, who for three years has been fighting in some of the fiercest battles of the First World War. He has been wounded, received two Good Conduct Medals, and been promoted. He is now on trial for his life. Over 300 British soldiers were shot at dawn during the First World War. In 2006 they were granted a pardon that recognised them to be as much victims of war as the soldiers who died in battle. And at last, 92 years after his death, Private James Smith's name was entered in Bolton's Roll of Honour of soldiers who died in the Great War.

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Prince And the Pauper, The

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1st Produced:
-    1980

Organisations:
M6 Theatre Company

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Rescue, The

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1st Produced:
-    1982

Organisations:
M6 Theatre Company

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Schweik In the Third World War

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1st Produced:
-    1981

Organisations:
M6 Theatre Company

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Some Kind Of Hero

Synopsis:
Awaiting court martial in Belfast accused of shooting his commanding officer, the yblack, Birmingham born and bred prisoner declines all attempts to make it look like an accident.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Foundry    1982

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Titanic

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1979

Organisations:
M6 Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
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Further Reference:
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