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Chris Challis

CHRIS CHALLIS  

 Nationality:    British
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Writer, photographer and lecturer, Mr. Challis is an essex man who has served as writer in residence, Northampton College of Further education and writer for BBC Radio Leicester. He has had published numerous articles in magazines and other periodicals on the subject of contemporary literature (he was awarded the first Doctorate in Beatology for his research into Kerouac and the Beat Generation) as well as poems, short fiction and Drama reviews. Some of his Dramatic works are informed by the five years he spent teaching in prison and borstals. In 1985, he received the first Local Radio Writing Fellowship in england and he will be working throughout the year to encourage local writing via radio phone-ins, interviews with aspiring local writers, featuring of regional writer's groups, the launching of writer's workshops on radio, etc.

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

         Coca-Colonisation         Do Us Part         It Stops By Itself         Night Scene         Number One All Over Heaven         Oddy         Re-Union         Ten-Foot Play, The         Wing

Coca-Colonisation

Synopsis:
a work about U.S. imperialism in South

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1st Produced:
Leicester: Phoenix theatre    1972

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Do Us Part

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toured upper schools and colleges    -

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Commissioned by Leicester Theatre Trust for Phoenix T.I.e. Company

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It Stops By Itself

Synopsis:
a couple visit Pere Lachaise cemetery while having a marital row which continues beside the grave of Jim Morrison. Doors music as soundtrack.

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Night Scene

Synopsis:
Dream fantasy in cell block, this play has won first-place in five one-act festivals.

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  or one playing all roles

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Number One All Over Heaven

Synopsis:
a group of young people congregates on the banks of an old industrial canal. their typical afternoon is excited by the fact that one of their own has just achieved the notoriety of a Borstal break out. the contemporary humor highlights the problems of the modern inner city and the perennial frustrations of youth.

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1st Produced:
Northampton College Youth theatre    1983

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Oddy

Synopsis:
the Odyssey set in present-day Greek Isles

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Commissioned by Leicester Theatre Trust for Phoenix

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Genre:
Youth theatre

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  cast of 50

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Re-Union

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1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, Leicester    1972

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Ten-Foot Play, The

Synopsis:
Two men meet by appointment in a pub. What has become of their aspirations since they last met?

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Radio version broadcast by BBC

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Wing

Synopsis:
Twenty-four hours in a maximum security prison wing.

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Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  can all be played by one actress

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