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Peter Barnes

PETER BARNES

  (1931 - 2004)
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Peter Barnes (10 January 1931  1 July 2004) was an English Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter.

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         Acting Exercise         Alchemist, The         Amazon, The         Antonio         Barnes People         Barnes' People Ii: Seven Duologues         Batholmew Fair         Bewitched, The         Billy And Me         Butcher, The         Bye Bye Columbus         Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie         Colombus         Confessions Of A Primary Terrestrial Mental Receiver And Communicator Num Iii Mark I         Corpsing         Dancing         Devil Himself, The         Devil Is An Ass, The         Dreaming         End Of the World And After, The         For All Those Who Get Despondent         From Sleep And Shadow         Glory         Hand Witch Of the Second Stage, A         Head Invents, The Heart Discovers, The         Heaven's Blessings         Houdini's Heir         Humour Helps         Jubilee         Jumping Mimuses Of Byzantium, The         Last Things         Laughter!         Leonardo's Last Supper         Losing Myself         Lulu         Madame Zenobia         More Than A Touch Of Zen         Night Of the Sihhat Tora,the         No End To Dreaming         Nobody Here But Us Chickens         Noonday Demons         Not As Bad As they Seem         Patriot, The         Preacher, The         Purging, The         Real Long John Silver, The         Red Noses         Revolutionary Witness         Right Time And Place, The         Road To Strome, The         Rosa         Ruling Class, The         Scenes From A Marriage         Sclerosis         Singer, The         Slaughterman         Socrates         Sommersaults         Spirit Of Man, The         Sunsets And Glories         Tango At the End Of Winter         theory And Practice Of Belly Dancing, The         Time Of the Barracudas         True-Born Englishman, A         Waiting For A Bus         Yesterday's News

Acting Exercise

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in "Corpsing"

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Samuel French, London, 1996   -

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Alchemist, The

Synopsis:
base metal to gold in restoration times

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Original Playwright - Ben Jonson. Adapted with Trevor Nunn

1st Produced:
Nottingham    1970

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adaptation

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Amazon, The

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Antonio

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plays by Marston, broadcast 1977

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Nottingham    1979

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adaptation

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Barnes People

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acting exercise; Moondog Rogan And the Mighty Hamster; Silver Bridges; Worms; the Right Time And Place; It's Cold, Wanderer, It's Cold; Lament For Armenians And Grey Viruses.

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eight Monologues

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Barnes' People Ii: Seven Duologues

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Batholmew Fair

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Bewitched, The

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London    1974

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Heinemann, London, 1974   -

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Play/Drama

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Billy And Me

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in "More Barnes People", Methuen, London, 1990   -

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Butcher, The

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Bye Bye Columbus

Synopsis:
monologue celebration for bi-centenary of French Revolution

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Short Monologue One act

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Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie

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Comedy

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Colombus

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Confessions Of A Primary Terrestrial Mental Receiver And Communicator Num Iii Mark I

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in "Plays 1" Methuen, London, 1989   -

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Corpsing

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Humour Helps; Waiting For A Bus; Acting exercise; Last Things

1st Produced:
Tristan Bates, London    1996

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1983   -

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Four 1 act Plays

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Dancing

Synopsis:
monologue celebration for bi-centenary of French Revolution

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Devil Himself, The

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London    1980

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Genre:
Revue Show

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Devil Is An Ass, The

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Original Playwright - Ben Jonson

1st Produced:
Nottingham    1973

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Dreaming

Dreaming
a haunting and brutally funny story of heroism and human values. In the bloody aftermath of the Wars of the Roses, Captain John Mallory leads a band of renegades across a war-torn landscape on a breathtaking quest in search of a dream - a dream of home

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Methuen Drama    978-0413735607

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End Of the World And After, The

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For All Those Who Get Despondent

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht And Frank Wedekind

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London    1976

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Genre:
Cabaret

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From Sleep And Shadow

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part of Spirit of A Man

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One act

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Glory

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in "Plays 1" Methuen, London, 1989   -

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Hand Witch Of the Second Stage, A

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part of Spirit of A Man

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Head Invents, The Heart Discovers, The

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BAC , London >>>    1998

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Heaven's Blessings

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Genre:
epic Comedy

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Houdini's Heir

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in "More Barnes People", Methuen, London, 1990   -

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Humour Helps

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in "Corpsing"

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Samuel French, London, 1996   -

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Jubilee

Jubilee
an RSC commission to commemorate the first celebration of Shakespeare''s life and works. a mischievous satire on the foundation of the Shakespeare industry. This irreverent comedy dissects the cult of the theatrical personality, with guest appearances from the Bard himself and Sir Peter Hall

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Swan, Stratford    2001

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Methuen Drama    978-0413761309

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Play/Drama

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Jumping Mimuses Of Byzantium, The

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Last Things

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in "Corpsing"

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Samuel French, London, 1996   -

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Laughter!

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Play/Drama

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Leonardo's Last Supper

Synopsis:
a charnel house of 1519 and the smelly underside of the Renaissance with attempt to resurrect the body of Leonardo da Vinci

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London    1969

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Heinemann, London, 1970   -

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Genre:
Satire One act

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Losing Myself

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in "More Barnes People", Methuen, London, 1990   -

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Monologue Play/Drama

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Lulu

Synopsis:
Lulu embodies the sexual impulse, leading all to disaster; but only..

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Original Playwright - Frank Wedekind (earth Spirit (1895) And Pandora's Box (1904))

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Heinemann, London, 1971   -

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Genre:
Sex Tragedy

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Madame Zenobia

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in "More Barnes People", Methuen, London, 1990   -

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More Than A Touch Of Zen

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Genre:
Short Play One act

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Night Of the Sihhat Tora,the

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part of Spirit of A Man

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One act

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No End To Dreaming

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in "Plays 1" Methuen, London, 1989   -

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Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Synopsis:
Two men believe that they are in fact chickens.

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Contained in: "Revolutionary Witnes and Nobody Here But Us Chickens" published by Methuen, 1989   -

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Noonday Demons

Synopsis:
Two 4th century anchorites vying with one another for rigorous piety.

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London    1969

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Heinemann, London, 1970   -

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Not As Bad As they Seem

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Patriot, The

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in "Plays 3" Methuen, London, 1996   -

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Preacher, The

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Purging, The

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-

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Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau

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in "the Frontiers Of Farce" Heinemann, London, 1977   -

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adaptation

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Real Long John Silver, The

Synopsis:
a battle of supremacy in a syburban living room

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London    1989

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Faber and Faber, London, 1986   -

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Red Noses

Synopsis:
France 1348 the Black Death, a Pope and a band of red nosed comics.

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Faber and Faber, London, 1985   -

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Comedy

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Revolutionary Witness

Synopsis:
monologue celebration for bi-centenary of French Revolution

Notes:
the Patriot; the Butcher; the Preacher; the Amazon

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Bbc Tv    1989

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TV Play

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Right Time And Place, The

Synopsis:
a Samaritan counsels a suicidal woman

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Road To Strome, The

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in "More Barnes People", Methuen, London, 1990   -

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Rosa

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Ruling Class, The

Ruling Class, The
Toryism, yesterday's and today's and tomorrow with cruel eccentric convinced he is God and then Jack the Ripper

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1st Produced:
Nottingham    1968

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Heinemann educational Books, London, 1969   -

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Baroque Comedy

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Scenes From A Marriage

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-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau

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23 Oct 1986,    23 Oct 1986

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Sclerosis

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Edinburgh    1965

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Singer, The

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anti-Romantic Farce, short play

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Slaughterman

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-

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-    -

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in "More Barnes People", Methuen, London, 1990   -

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Socrates

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Sommersaults

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Leicester    1981

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Spirit Of Man, The

Synopsis:
exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate england and nineteenth-century eastern europe" (Independent)

Notes:
includes A Hand Witch of the Second Stage, From Sleep And Shadow And the Night of the Simhat Torah. Televised 1989.

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Sunsets And Glories

Sunsets And Glories
Set in late 13th-century Italy, where power struggles erupt between the Church, the propertied and the landless. the conflict inspires such characters as the spineless Charles II, a paid killer, a mad woman and Pope Celestine V to provoke a crisis of faith. Barnes also wrote 'the Ruling Class'.

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Leeds    1990

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Methuen Drama    978-0413640208

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Black Comedy Comedy

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Tango At the End Of Winter

Tango At the End Of Winter
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Original Playwright - Kunio Shimizu

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Piccadilly, London    1991

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Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1991   978-1872868059

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theory And Practice Of Belly Dancing, The

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Time Of the Barracudas

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-

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-    1963

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True-Born Englishman, A

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Waiting For A Bus

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-

Notes:
in "Corpsing"

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Samuel French, London, 1996   -

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Yesterday's News

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-

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-    -

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1st Published:
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