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Sam Cree

SAM CREE

  (1928 - 1980)
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    represented by Richard Mills

Samuel Raymond Cree was born in Lisburn, Co Antrim, on February 19, 1928, the son of Robert Campbell Cree and his wife Sarah (nee Hanna). He wrote popular comedies, pantomimes and sketches. His wrote his first play prompted by James Young of the Group Theatre, who asked Cree to adapt an English play, The Love Match, for a local audience. His next play, Wedding Fever (1960), was hugely popular, and ran for 42 weeks. Cree also wrote film scripts including for the English Carry On series, and Let's Get Laid (1977), about a chicken farm. He died in Lisburn on October 26, 1980. - http://www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=8995

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         Bed, The         Busman's Holiday         Cupid Wore Skirts         Day In The Life Of A Managing Director, A         Don't Tell the Wife         Family Fever         Fancy Free         Let's Get Laid         Love & Marriage         Love Match, The         Love Nest, The         Maried Bliss         Mary Rose         Mating Season, The         Pyjama Tops         Second Honeymoon         Separate Beds         Sink Or Slim         Stop It Nurse         Strictly For The Birds         Tickle Your Fancy         Tickle Your Fancy         Trouble With Alec         Wedding Fever         Widow's Paradise         Wimpsie

Bed, The

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1st Produced:
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Busman's Holiday

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adaptation of British TV sitcom

1st Produced:
Pavilion Theatre, Torquay    26 Jun 1973

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Cupid Wore Skirts

Synopsis:
The action takes place in the living room at the rear of Andrew Coulter's antique shop in Belfast.

Notes:
this is an earlier production than that given in Irish Playography ( ref: Stage Year Book 1965)

1st Produced:
Belfast Arts theatre    21 Sep 1964

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scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

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full length play

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1803

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Day In The Life Of A Managing Director, A

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The career of Sam Cree, the much-loved playwright and comedy writer who was born in 1928, began rather riskily. As a young man in charge of a drawing office in Lisburn, Co Antrim, he was asked to 'do something entertaining' for the firm's annual dinner. He duly obliged, writing a sketch called A day in the life of a managing director. Everyone laughed, except the managing director.

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sketch

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Further Reference:
http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/1066/sam-cree

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Don't Tell the Wife

Synopsis:
A comedy in which Mrs. Willis' convinction that her husband, a plumber, is chasing other women, leads to misunderstandings.

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1st Produced:
Belfast Arts theatre    04 Sep 1967

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scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

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Genre:
full length comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1805

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Family Fever

Synopsis:
Just two days before Christmas, the Galbraith family finds itself in chaos when the married daughter is rushed into hospital for the 'happy event'.

Notes:
this is an earlier production than that given in Irish Playography ( ref: Stage Year Book 1968)

1st Produced:
The Spa, Bridlington    01 Jun 1967

Organisations:
BBM Productions

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scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

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Genre:
full length play

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1751

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Fancy Free

Synopsis:
A musical comedy concerning a group of Americans who tour Ireland, including a wealthy businessman, his daughter, her spinster aunt and a young television producer.

Notes:
written by Sam Cree and Elizabeth Quinn

1st Produced:
Belfast Arts theatre    26 Mar 1963

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scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

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Genre:
musical comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1801

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Let's Get Laid

Synopsis:
A soldier returning from World War II gets mixed up in a series of murders and mistaken identies regarding a cigarette lighter than affects all electric power.

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1st Produced:
Windmill Theatre, London    -

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Further Reference:
http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/1066/sam-cree

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Love & Marriage

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Genre:
one act play

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Love Match, The

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Notes:
based on the play of the same name by Glenn Melvyn

1st Produced:
-    1960

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Love Nest, The

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Maried Bliss

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Notes:
this is an earlier production than that given in Irish Playography ( ref: Stage Year Book 1965)

1st Produced:
Perth Theatre, Scotland    21 May 1965

Organisations:
Jimmy Logan

1st Published:
scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

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Genre:
full length play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1804

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Mary Rose

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adapted from work by Sir James Matthew Barrie 1860-1937

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Mating Season, The

Synopsis:
A comedy in which widower Henry Gillespie, seeking to marry Stella Morley, attempts first to clear the way by matchmaking his two sons, and likewise sorting out housekeeper Mrs. Jamieson and his Old Uncle Fred.

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1st Produced:
Belfast Arts theatre    08 Dec 1969

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1st Published:
scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

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Genre:
Ulster comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1749

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Pyjama Tops

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London    -

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http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/1066/sam-cree

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Second Honeymoon

Synopsis:
A play set in a seaside boarding house, featuring amongst others the landlady, her put-upon husband, their flighty servant girl, some newly weds and a couple celebrating their silver wedding.

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1st Produced:
Belfast Arts theatre    03 Sep 1962

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1st Published:
scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

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Genre:
full length play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1800

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Separate Beds

Synopsis:
A comedy in which, the night before the wedding of the only daughter of the Marshall house, her mother arrives back after an absence of three years, with some unexpected results.

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1st Produced:
Belfast Arts theatre    19 Aug 1970

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scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

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Genre:
Ulster comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1747

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Sink Or Slim

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Stop It Nurse

Synopsis:
set in the men's surgical ward of a large Belfast hospital.

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1st Produced:
Belfast Arts theatre    12 Aug 1968

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

Music:
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Genre:
Ulster comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1752

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Strictly For The Birds

Synopsis:
A comedy featuring the Glover family of Belfast's Castlereagh Road district. When Mrs. Glover and a neighbour draw the favourite in the Irish Sweepstake, they resolve to spend their winnings in advance, never remembering that favourites can sometimes lose. . .

Notes:
This play was first produced under the name For Love or Money

1st Produced:
Belfast Arts theatre    09 Sep 1963

Organisations:
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1st Published:
scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1802

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Tickle Your Fancy

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Tickle Your Fancy

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1st Produced:
Lisburn    1979

Organisations:
Lisburn Multiple Sclerosis Group

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.digitaltheatrearchive.com/archives/1979

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Trouble With Alec

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1st Produced:
-    1965

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http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc12942.pdf

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Wedding Fever

Synopsis:
A comedy following the course of an engagement through to a wedding day, taking in a strike and a major operation along the way.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Group Theatre, Bedford St, Belfast BT2 7FF    28 Sep 1960

Organisations:
Ulster Group Theatre Ltd.

1st Published:
scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

Music:
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Genre:
full length comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1748

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Widow's Paradise

Synopsis:
A farce in which five women travel to stay in a caravan in the Ards peninsula, some trying to get away from their male partners and others hoping to find some.

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1st Produced:
Belfast Arts theatre    05 Sep 1966

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
scripte available for download from irish Playography   -

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Genre:
full length farce

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1750

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Wimpsie

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Genre:
pantomime

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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