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Stewart Conn

STEWART CONN  (1936 - )

 Nationality:    Scottish
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Stewart Conn was born in Glasgow in 1936, and grew up in Kilmarnock. For many years he has lived in Edinburgh, where until 1992 he was based as BBC Scotland's head of radio dramA. The first professional stagings of his work were in the Glasgow Citizens and Edinburgh Traverse Theatres, after which he enjoyed a fruitful relationship with the Royal Lyceum Company. His plays include The King, I Didn't always Live Here, The Burning, The aquarium, Thist/ewood, Play Donkey, Herman, Hecuba, By the Pool, a one-man play Hugh Miller, The Dominion of Fancy and Clay Bull. He has won Edinburgh Festival Fringe First and Herald angel awards. His plays and dramatisations have been broadcast here and abroad. He is a fellow of the RSaMD. among his poetry publications are The Luncheon of the Boating Party, Stolen Light: Selected Poems and Ghosts at Cockcrow (all Bloodaxe Books), and most recently The Loving-Cup (Mariscat Press). He also edited 100 Favourite Scottish Poems (Luath Press/Scottish Poetry Library). From 2002 to 2005 he was Edinburgh's first official poet laureate.

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 Any Following Spring         Aquarium, The         Billy Budd         Birds In A Wilderness         Blood Hunt         Break-Down         Broche         Burning, The         By The Pool         Cadenza For Real         Canary Cage, The         Clay Bull         Count Your Blessings         Dominion Of Fancy, The         Fancy Seeing You, Then         Freak, The         Hecuba         Herman         Hugh Miller         I Didn't Always Live Here         In Transit         King, The         Kite, The         Man In The Green Muffler, The         Miss Willmott's Ghost         Mission Boy         Play Donkey         Ryden         Slight Touch Of The Sun, A         Sword, The         Thistlewood         Victims         Wally Dugs Go In Pairs

Any Following Spring

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1st Produced:
-    1962

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Genre:
Typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/2

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Aquarium, The

Stewart Conn
Shows in a naturalistic setting, but with poetic resonances, a father son tension in an imprisoning, middle class social setting. "In Stewart Conn's play The aquarium a woman asks, 'What's the use of loving someone if you don't show it?' This is the key to the bitter conflict between father and son that Conn so vividly presents. Their hostility does not stem from a lack of affection, but from their inability to express goodwill towards each other. Their relationship steeped in rancour . . . neither is prepared to understand the other, or to make the gesture that would bring them closer together."
- allen Wright, The Scotsman

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1st Produced:
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>
two act version presented by Dundee Repertory Company on 19 Sep, 1973    08 May 1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playscript 74, Calder and Boyars, London, 1976
Capercaillie Books, Edinburgh >>>    978-1906220068

Music:
-

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Genre:
Modern Drama Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Lyceum - Dep.207/1

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Billy Budd

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Notes:
novel by Melville, with Stephen Macdonald

1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1978

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-   -

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Genre:
adaptation

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Birds In A Wilderness

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1964

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 11/9

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Blood Hunt

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1st Produced:
-    1985

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Genre:
adaptation

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/20-22

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Break-Down

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1st Produced:
Glasgow    1961

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/1

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Broche

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1st Produced:
Exeter    1968

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/6

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Burning, The

Synopsis:
Epic format with linking ballads depicting the 16th century climate of witchcraft and credulity and the suffering of the defenceless caught in the battle

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1st Published:
Calder & Boyers, London, 1973   -

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Genre:
Epic

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Lyceum - Dep.207/3

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By The Pool

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1988

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/25

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Cadenza For Real

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1st Produced:
-    1964

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Genre:
annotated script

Parts:
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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/3

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Canary Cage, The

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1st Produced:
-    1967

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Clay Bull

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/4

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Count Your Blessings

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1st Produced:
Pitlochry, Perthshire    1975

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Dominion Of Fancy, The

Synopsis:
Tale of rival actor managers and their battle for supremacy in 1820's Glasgow

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Pitlochry, Tayside    1992

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-   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  9            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/27

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Fancy Seeing You, Then

Synopsis:
a conversation piece, in which we are left guessing, until the end, how true one of the character's apparent boastings have been.

Notes:
London 1974

1st Produced:
Strathclyde University, Scotland    1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Playbill Two", Hutchinson, London, 1969   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Freak, The

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 11/9

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Hecuba

Synopsis:
a re working of Euripides' play, underlining its relevance to our times with their racist doctrines and human misery.

Notes:
Music by John Sampson.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Winged Horse Production.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/15

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Herman

Stewart Conn
a lecturer's double fixation with Herman Melville and with a young student, leads to a fantasy fusion of sex and guilt, comedy and pain.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/18

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Hugh Miller

Synopsis:
Hugh Miller discovers fossil remains and tussles with his fundamentalist beliefs

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Netherbrow Theatre, Edinburgh    1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Diehard at The Callander Press 2002   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/24

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I Didn't Always Live Here

Stewart Conn
Not as if I always lived here, mind you. . .I started off in Govan. Never dreamt in those days Id end up this side of the river. Real step up in the world that was&Im grateful for it. Despite everything, Im grateful for it' Glasgow, the 1970s. Martha and Amie are old neighbours, trapped in their decaying tenement and cut off from family and friends. With the present closing in and the future uncertain, Martha and Amies real companions are the past and their memories of ordinary lives peopled by extraordinary characters and their struggles and triumphs. I Didnt Always Live Here is a compassionate and heart-rending journey into the forgotten lives of the dispossessed and elderly, as well as an uplifting journey into the human spirits capacity to cope with social exclusion and financial hardship. One of multi-award-winning playwright and poet Stewart Conns earliest works.

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Calder & Boyers, London, 1976
Oberon Books (2013) >>>    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Citizens' Theatre - acc.4933/2

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In Transit

Synopsis:
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Notes:
in Victims

1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Breakthrough Press, New York, 1972   -

Music:
-

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-

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King, The

Synopsis:
a richly wrought fable, moving from naturalism to ritual murder, bemoaning the human tendency to destroy

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "New English Dramatists 14", Penguin, London, 1970   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 11/9

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Kite, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

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-

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Genre:
Rehearsal script

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/16

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Man In The Green Muffler, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
in Victims

1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Calder & Boyers, London, 1976   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Conversation Piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Miss Willmott's Ghost

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1993

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/29

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Mission Boy

Synopsis:
Sets Thistlewood, ringleader of the Cato Street Conspiracy, against a Frankenstein reading Home Secretary, Sidmouth, and with music from the period comments on social deprivation and the ambivalently brutalising effect of violence.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theatre For Africa

1st Published:
Woodhouse, Todmorden, Lancashire, 1979   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/31

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Play Donkey

Stewart Conn
Focuses on a Scots mercenary under trial in an African state, and on his uncomprehending family and girl, at home; mixing black comedy with social comment and bemoaning with corrosion and loss of human life. "Play Donkey centres on a young Scottish mercenary awaiting an 'exemplary' trial in 'some emergent African state'. Like a child's game of cat's cradle, it links his destiny with some of those most closely affected by it - his bewildered parents, two girls, the clever London lawyer who flies out to plead his cause, knowing it is already as good as lost. Conn's strength is that he refuses to take sides . . . Laughter is written into the play, and deftly so. It is laughter only to stop you weeping."
- Cordelia Oliver, The Guardian

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Woodhouse, Todmorden, Lancashire, 1980
Capercaillie Books, Edinburgh >>>    978-1906220075

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Ryden

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Genre:
-

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.10577/55

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Slight Touch Of The Sun, A

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1972

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Genre:
-

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/9-10

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Sword, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
in Victims.

1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1970

Organisations:
-

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-   -

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Genre:
-

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 11/9

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Thistlewood

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.10365/23 (1975)

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Victims

Synopsis:
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Notes:
includes The Sword, In Transit, The Man in the Green Muffler

1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
see individual plays,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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Wally Dugs Go In Pairs

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Rehearsal script

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Stewart Conn - acc.12098/12

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