PETER YATES
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Peter Yates
Big Yellow Taxi |
| 1st Produced: | St. Albans | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1993 | |||
| 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: | Green' Thriller | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 30 (mostly variable m/f) + crowd. Some doubling possible | |||
Notes: This is a fast moving thriller set against a backdrop of pressing ecological issues. Through varied characters and an exciting storyline it gives a realistic insight into the way that the environment, power and corruption may be inextricably interwoven an | ||||
Synopsis: Douglas Mitchell is a young, up-and-coming "Green" politician standing for The Environment Party. An outspoken campaigner and whistleblower on ecological issues he becomes a marked man under investigation by a secret Government agency. Framed and jailed for arson he is helped by an investigative journalist who himself becomes the target | ||||
Crazy Patterns |
| 1st Produced: | Southampton | 2005 | ||
| Company: | SUSU | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Connie and Josh's marriage has fallen apart. Josh becomes involved with a cult interested in the couple's twin children. Connie has to fight to get her children back with the aid of a young policeman and a priest whilst Josh's psychological problems surface. | ||||
Dignity |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||
| Company: | http://www.musemachine.co.uk | |||
| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
| 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: | Youth inner city drama, 30 min | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 80+ (m/f variable with multiple doubling opportunities.) | |||
Notes: written by Peter Yates & Jenny Wafer. Particularly suitable for GCSE Drama | ||||
Synopsis: Three Inner City Dramas. Three members of the same family dealt with harshly by society in the Inner City. Dignity: Frank Bodelman snr., a pensioner, is harassed in his own home by local children and then exploited by an unscrupulous security contractor. Wages Day: Bodelman's son, Frank jnr., leads a strike at the local factory with devastating personal consequences. Real Gone Kid: Frank's son Gavin runs away from home and becomes involved with drug dealers. Inspired by the music of Ricky Ross. | ||||
Encounters With Doormen |
| 1st Produced: | Cockpit Theatre, London | 2008 | ||
| Company: | Random Cactus & The Wireless Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Short Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: The Wireless Theatre Company: click on www.wirelesstheatrecompany.com.uk for free downloads of plays. | ||||
Synopsis: A clubber and his girlfriend try their luck at negotiating that most precarious of obstacles - the Night Club Doorman. | ||||
Fantasy In Blue |
| 1st Produced: | St. Albans | 1995 | ||
| Company: | SAS | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | rock musical | Musical | Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | Musicians and chorus | |||
Notes: Music by Martin Vishnick | ||||
Synopsis: Loosely based on guitarist Peter Green, the show follows the meteoric rise and drug-induced fall of a rock guitarist. | ||||
Feint Traces of an Alien Being. . . |
| 1st Produced: | Playroom, Cambridge | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 1998 | ||
| 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: Co-writer Jenny Wafer | ||||
Synopsis: Brady is a writer, Chrissie is a sculptor: they are having an affair. When they team up with the strange, mystical Nate, who seems to appear from nowhere, their careers take off but then their lives start to fall apart | ||||
First Casualty |
| 1st Produced: | The Rag Factory, [rehearsed reading] | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Random Cactus | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | political satire | Satire | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Originally written as part of Lie Detector Truth Detector but not included in the first production | ||||
Synopsis: Set in a war-zone, a former advertising agency has been commandeered by the government as its propaganda machine. There's a body in the office, the top spin doctor is dead and the ex-admen have a pressing copy deadline. How do they sell the use of battlefield nuclear weapons as the acceptable face of modern anti-terrorist warfare? | ||||
Giant! |
| 1st Produced: | School of St. Clare, Penzance | 1988 | ||
| Company: | Cormoran Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | children's musical | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10-100 mixed m/f | |||
Notes: Music by Michael Dyer. Some great songs and lots of chorus work for big junior school productions | ||||
Synopsis: A small fishing village is beset by Cormoran, the Giant of St. Michael's Mount, and his Minions. The Townsfolk are in fear of losing their livelihood from the sea but are saved by the arrival of James Anthony Charles Kilroy - Jack, the Giant Killer, and his friends. He teams up with Frances, the publican's daughter, and Neptune and his Waves, to finally rid the village of its scourge. | ||||
Gullibility Factor |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | Random Cactus & The Wireless Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: - | ||||
Synopsis: Peter Yates's original, quirky and highly comic take on the Gullible Society. | ||||
In a Fantasy League of their Own |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 2000 | ||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Co-writer Jenny Wafer | ||||
Synopsis: A TV Tycoon leads a gang, including a Footballer, a Journalist and a Professional Gambler, who kidnap the Premiership's first female referee, all for their own particular reasons. | ||||
Inventing Danny |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | First Among Sequels | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 2000 | ||
| 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: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Co-writer Jenny Wafer | ||||
Synopsis: A group of former students re-unite after ten years and decide to launch an imaginary Rock Icon through an all too gullible tabloid media | ||||
Katie And Hugo Are Magic! |
| 1st Produced: | Greyfriars Kirkhouse, Edinburgh | 2005 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Jenny Wafer and Peter Yates | ||||
Synopsis: Katie and Hugo think they've been happily married for ten years. . .until they wake up one morning to find they've been reviewed. As the pursuit of public approbation becomes an obsession, so their lives descend into an increasingly surreal and ultimately destructive spiral. . ..A very dark, very funny comedy | ||||
Lie Detector |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Practicum Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Directed by Marie Bobin as part of Practicum Theatre's "Breaking News: The Rachel Corrie Ban", which consisted of political pieces to mark the "withdrawl" of "My Name is Rachel Corrie" in New York. | ||||
Synopsis: A suspect is questioned by a secret service agent using sophisticated polygraph equipment with surprising results | ||||
Lie Detector Truth Detector |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Random Cactus | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | political satire | Satire | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Three thematically linked plays that explore the increasing encroachment by Government on personal liberty in the name of the War on Terror. | ||||
Life Less Ordinary People, A |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Practicum Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Short Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Directed by Fiona Morrell as part of Practicum Theatre's Real To Reel Show | ||||
Synopsis: Two very ordinary people turn out to be spies. | ||||
Losers' Guide to the Modern World, The |
| 1st Produced: | Cockpit Theatre, London | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 1999 | ||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 8 M/F (or 2 M/F doubling) | |||
Notes: Co-writer Jenny Wafer | ||||
Synopsis: Four self-contained plays dealing with the trials of 21st century living | ||||
Monitor Thirteen |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Random Cactus | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | political satire | Satire | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Presented as part of Lie Detector Truth Detector | ||||
Synopsis: A shopping mall, a CCTV monitor station and hours of boredom to fill. Two Security Guards dream up their own private nightmare. | ||||
More To Life Than Sex |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | http://www.musemachine.co.uk | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1b 1g | |||
Notes: Notes: Starting as a romantic comedy and then taking a sinster turn, this contoversial play deals with the problems of Internet grooming. | ||||
Synopsis: Gerald, A sound engineer, meets Lizzie, a single mother of two, through an Internet Dating website. He finds himself completely out of his depth when Lizzie's daughter goes missing. | ||||
Out Of Time |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
| Company: | First Among Sequels | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 1997 | ||
| 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: | thriller | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Co-writer Jenny Wafer | ||||
Synopsis: An acquaintance from the distant past turns up at Sylvy's house claiming he has killed her husband. | ||||
Real Gone Kid |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||
| Company: | http://www.musemachine.co.uk | |||
| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
| 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: | Youth inner city drama, 30 min | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 80+ (m/f variable with multiple doubling opportunities.) | |||
Notes: written by Peter Yates & Jenny Wafer. Particularly suitable for GCSE Drama | ||||
Synopsis: Three Inner City Dramas. Three members of the same family dealt with harshly by society in the Inner City. Dignity: Frank Bodelman snr., a pensioner, is harassed in his own home by local children and then exploited by an unscrupulous security contractor. Wages Day: Bodelman's son, Frank jnr., leads a strike at the local factory with devastating personal consequences. Real Gone Kid: Frank's son Gavin runs away from home and becomes involved with drug dealers. Inspired by the music of Ricky Ross. | ||||
Reality Checker, The |
| 1st Produced: | New Place, St Albans | 2005 | ||
| Company: | http://www.musemachine.co.uk | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Deep in our subconscious lurks the nasty stuff. No-one can control when it decides to surface. | ||||
Secret Art of Auditions, The |
| 1st Produced: | New Place, St Albans | 2003 | ||
| Company: | http://www.musemachine.co.uk | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 2004 | ||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | Children (1M 1F) | |||
Notes: Commisioned for the opening of New Place, a new studio theatre in St. Albans. Described by Mike Newell (Director of Four Weddings and a Funeral) as excruciatingly accurate and very funny | ||||
Synopsis: Three self-contained playlets. Part One: A C-List actor's desperate attempts to secure a role in a TV show through audition with a casting director who turns out to be harbouring a long-time secret ambition. Part Two: An Am-Dram group auditions a famous film star for a role in the Christmas Charity Panto. Part Three: The C-List actor tries again: this time his auditioners are not quite what he expected. | ||||
Sins Attached |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 2002 | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Jenny Wafer, music by Michael Dyer | ||||
Synopsis: An updated version of the Dr. Faustus story centred on the Lottery. | ||||
Song of the Suitcase Man |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Co-writer Jenny Andrews | ||||
Synopsis: Harry wants to go to Toronto. Are the two strangers in his flat there to help him | ||||
STC: The Eighteenth Century Junkie |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||
| Company: | Somerset Opera Group | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||
Notes: Music by Michael Dyer | ||||
Synopsis: Based on the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge the show explores the effect of his drug-taking through his major poems - Christobel, Kubla Khan, and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. | ||||
Tears Of A Clone |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | First Among Sequels | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Peter Yates and Jenny Wafer. First performed by Adam Shindler and Tom Martin | ||||
Synopsis: Series of satirical revue sketches | ||||
Truth Detector |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Random Cactus | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | political satire | Satire | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Presented as part of Lie Detector Truth Detector | ||||
Synopsis: The passport application process turned Kafka-esque nightmare. | ||||
Wages Day |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||
| Company: | http://www.musemachine.co.uk | |||
| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
| 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: | Youth inner city drama, 30 min | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 80+ (m/f variable with multiple doubling opportunities.) | |||
Notes: written by Peter Yates & Jenny Wafer. Particularly suitable for GCSE Drama | ||||
Synopsis: Three Inner City Dramas. Three members of the same family dealt with harshly by society in the Inner City. Dignity: Frank Bodelman snr., a pensioner, is harassed in his own home by local children and then exploited by an unscrupulous security contractor. Wages Day: Bodelman's son, Frank jnr., leads a strike at the local factory with devastating personal consequences. Real Gone Kid: Frank's son Gavin runs away from home and becomes involved with drug dealers. Inspired by the music of Ricky Ross. | ||||