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Barney Ashton

BARNEY ASHTON

  
Nationality:    English
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Barney Ashton's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Bacchae, The         Born Angry         Boy Changes         Church At Llanbadrig         Culture And Anarchy         Pump Room, The         Queer Dorset Bastard         Rupert Drinks Vodka         Threnody         Torsten and Other Tales         Torsten Bareback Saint         Torsten, The Beautiful Libertine         Volte-Face

Bacchae, The

Synopsis:
They have tasted pleasure and will defend it at any cost! Pentheus wants to stop the women - these wives, these lovers and mothers who have left their homes to revel with the god of dance and wine. He disguises himself as a woman and tries to repress their desires at any cost...The Bacchae tells of curiosity and control, invasion and rage.

Notes:
translation by Barney Ashton And Sam Dowling

1st Produced:
North Pole Theatre, Greenwich     08 Oct 1997

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
version of myth

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Born Angry

Synopsis:
A tawdry tale of tainted and twisted love! The Spirit of Youth is left for dead in a disused public toilet, known by the local gay men of a Somerset village as 'Club Sex'. It was here some five years ago that teenagers Andy and Bovril discarded their youth in favour of anonymous casual sex. But both 'Youth' and 'Love' would return with a vengeance to haunt them forever more

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Etcetera Theatre, London >>>     17 Mar 1998

Organisations:
Rupert Drinks Vodka Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
LGBT full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Boy Changes

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bournemouth Centre For Community Arts     1987

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Church At Llanbadrig

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Barry Ashton And Christiane Di-Re

1st Produced:
Bournemouth Centre For Community Arts     1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Culture And Anarchy

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bournemouth Centre For Community Arts     1990

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Pump Room, The

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Queer Dorset Bastard

Synopsis:
Barney Ashton's new verse playlet embroils sex and trains in a part-nostalgic, part-appalled reflection on life for homosexuals in 1950s Britain. Michael isa stationmaster somewhere along a small regional railway threading through Dorset. His life is upended - to shouts of 'queer Dorset bastard' - when he falls for and begins a relationship with a 15-year-old boy. the play combines Michael and lover Rowland's reflections on the affair -which neither can forget - with the comments of Michael's teenage daughter Doreen, who's developing some queer tendencies herself.
Brian Logan, Time Out

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, Dingwall Road Croydon CR0 2NF     21 Nov 1999

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  voice

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Rupert Drinks Vodka

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bournemouth Centre For Community Arts     1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Threnody

Synopsis:
A bizarre, brutal abstraction from the classic Greek play Antigone.

Notes:
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Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Torsten and Other Tales

Synopsis:
Torsten. . .The Torrid, the tawdy, the exotic and the mundane: three tales of love in all its countless forms. Glory Days - Rory, Alex and Angelica wait in the hospital to hear about Lucy. Rory is out of work and soon to be homeless, although a chance to redeem himself and to make a fast buck has come along - all he needs to do is arrange a poker game. Easy. Or is it? The rules are simple, its more of a mind game than a card game - but will anyone win? or more to the point, who will lose?

Notes:
written by Barney Ashton, Oliver Cox, Peter Shaw

1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, Dingwall Road Croydon CR0 2NF     24 Nov 2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Torsten Bareback Saint

Synopsis:
Torsten is immortal and cursed to have many love affairs but no one to love him

Notes:
Written by Barney Ashton and Christopher Frost

1st Produced:
St James Theatre, London     24 Jul 2014

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Torsten, The Beautiful Libertine

Synopsis:
Erasure's Andy Bell stars as the extraordinary hero in this remarkable new musical. Age-defying, polysexual Torsten is cursed to love many - but get close to no-one. Disconcerted but never thwarted, he sings of the loves and losses of his bizarrely elongated life, while around him two of his former lovers live their bawdy lives and unite in their treasured memories.

Notes:
Rewritten version of "Torsten The Bareback Saint". music by Christopher Frost

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Volte-Face

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bournemouth Centre For Community Arts     1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
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