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Chris Bond

CHRIS BOND

  (1945 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Blanche Marvin  

Chris Bond's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Adventures Of Finn Mccool, The         Alice On the Underground         All the Fun Of the Fair         Beggar's Opera, The         Blood Of Dracula, The         Cantril Tales, The         Chubb         Country Wife, The         Don Quixote Rides Again. . .         Downright Hooligan         Dracula         El Sid         George         Gone To Jesus         Good Soldier Scouse         Hubble Bubble         It's a Fine Life!         Judge Jeffreys         Macbeth         Mountain Fire         Mutiny         Mysterie Of Maria Marten, The         Not So Simple Simon         Roll With the Punches         Scum: Death, Destruction And Dirty Washing         Shem's Boat         Simple Simon         Spend, Spend, Spend         Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street         Tale Of Two Cities, A         Tarzan's Last Stand         Under New Management
Adventures Of Finn Mccool, The

Synopsis:
Finn McCool, toughest giant in the world has to defend his reputation for toughness aginst other giants. Not easy when you are also the smallest giant in the world. Foryunately for him, his wife Oonagh, is the brains of the outfit and is able to trick and outsmart Finns rivals.

Notes:
written by Chris Bond And Bernard Dunleavy

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Genre:
children's play Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Alice On the Underground

Synopsis:
Alice runs away from her dysfunctional family and council estate home and into the Underground. there she meets a busking White Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts.

Notes:
from book by Lewis Carroll. Book And lyrics by Chris Bond & Paula Rees; music by Jo Collins And David Carey

1st Produced:
Hornchurch, Queen's     2004

Organisations:
Chicken Shed Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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All the Fun Of the Fair

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with John McGrath And others

1st Produced:
London     1986

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Beggar's Opera, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - John Gay

1st Produced:
Liverpool     1977

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Genre:
adaptation

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Blood Of Dracula, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
a shorter version of Chris Bond's play "Dracula"

1st Produced:
Coliseum, Oldham     1997

Organisations:
Northern Broadsides

1st Published:
Nelson Thornes (1999)   

Music:
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Cantril Tales, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Others

1st Produced:
Liverpool     1975

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Chubb

Synopsis:
Tobago 18th century. Chubb has been a slave on a sugar plantation all his life

Notes:
Written by Chris Bond and Norman Goodman. Based on the short story "Chubb" by Chris Searle

1st Produced:
Half Moon Theatre, London     08 Oct 1986

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Genre:
Drama

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Country Wife, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - William Wycherley

1st Produced:
Stoke-On-Trent     1974

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Don Quixote Rides Again. . .

Synopsis:
based on the story of Don Quixote

Notes:
music by Jo Collins

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  over 100 people

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Downright Hooligan

Synopsis:
a fixture at the betting shop mainly unemployed Ian Rigby drift through life. His mother bawls at him for masturbating, her lover tells him smutty jokes. the day his grandmother dies he accidentally kills the school hamster and sticks drawing pins in its eyes. He ends up in front of the magistrate and later in frustration attacks an elderly man.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stoke-On-Trent     1972

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Dracula

Synopsis:
classic story of suave vampire whose passion is sinking his teeth into the throats of beautiful young women.

Notes:
from novel by Bram Stoker

1st Produced:
Half Moon, London     1984

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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El Sid

Synopsis:
After the Great Train Robbery, Sid is living in Spain and hitting the booze. His past and wife are catching up with him - fast

Notes:
Music by David Watts; lyrics by Andrew Birtles; book by Chris Bond

1st Produced:
Half Moon Theatre, London     03 Jun 1988

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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George

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1st Published:
in "Prompt One", Hutchinson, London, 1976   

Music:
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Genre:
Social Comment

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Gone To Jesus

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1st Published:
in "Wordplays 2" Hutchinson, London, 1982   

Music:
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Genre:
Short play One act

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Good Soldier Scouse

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Liverpool     1976

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Hubble Bubble

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Queens Theatre, Hornchuch     2004

Organisations:
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Genre:
Youth play

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It's a Fine Life!

Synopsis:
It's a Fine Life! follows Bart's inspirational life story from East End rags to West End riches, from writing hit songs for Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard to his working relationship with Joan Littlewood at the Theatre Royal Stratford East and his close friendship with Barbara Windsor.

Notes:
music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, Book by Chris Bond

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Organisations:
Cut to the Chase

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Genre:
compilation musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Judge Jeffreys

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Northcot Theatre, Exeter     1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  4            Other:  peasants

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Macbeth

Synopsis:
The witches played by the Marx Brothers take charge of the play taking on the parts of lots of the other characters

Notes:
Based on "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Half Moon Theatre, London    

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

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Further Reference:
TR 7/87  1301

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Mountain Fire

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stoke-On-Trent    

Organisations:
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Music:
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Mutiny

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stoke-On-Trent     1970

Organisations:
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Music:
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Mysterie Of Maria Marten, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London     1991

Organisations:
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Music:
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Not So Simple Simon

Synopsis:
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Notes:
there Are two versions - one for family Audiences And one for Adults. This is for Adults

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Roll With the Punches

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Scum: Death, Destruction And Dirty Washing

Synopsis:
musical celebration of the women of the Paris commune 1871

Notes:
written with Claire Luckham

1st Produced:
Monstrous Regiment, London     1976

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Monstrous Regiment" Nick hern Books, London, 1991   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Historical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Shem's Boat

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stoke-On-Trent     1971

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Simple Simon

Synopsis:
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Notes:
there Are two versions - one for family Audiences And one for Adults. This is for family Audiences.

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Genre:
Pantomime

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Spend, Spend, Spend

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with Claire Luckham, play by Jack Rosenthal

1st Produced:
London     1985

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

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Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Synopsis:
Period early 19C, in this version Todd has some grounds for his nefarious activities in that his wife was raped by the Judge and he was deported on a false charge, he returns to seek revenge

Notes:
based on work by George Dibdin Pitt

1st Produced:
Stoke-On-Trent     1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1974   

Music:
-

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Genre:
MeloDrama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Tale Of Two Cities, A

Synopsis:
Period 1860 as classic action is split between London and Paris

Notes:
novel by Charles Dickens

1st Produced:
Liverpool     1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  16            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Tarzan's Last Stand

Synopsis:
enoch Powell in a leopard skin. . .

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Liverpool     1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Under New Management

Synopsis:
the bosses of the factory are all cretins. One even dresses as a schoolboy and carries a teddy bear. the workers rise up and take control

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Liverpool     1975

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