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Richard Drain

RICHARD DRAIN  (1932 - )

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a teacher of literature and theatre at universities in Holland, the USA and England, Mr. Drain is now associated with York University. In the late sixties, he helped found York Arts Centre as venue for fringe theatre and directs a touring group, York Shoestring Theatre. The group specializes in collaborativelydevised shows on issues of common concern.

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

 Caliban Lives         Death Trip, The         Exploding Dream, The         Fleeced         Hudson's Amazing Money Making Steam Driven Railway         Ice Cream Doors In The Alps         Life In A Chocolate Factory         Limbo         Sunday         Through The Mincer         Tiger In The Rockery, The         Unhealthy Convictions         Zion Street Rag

Caliban Lives

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a play which sandwiches a Caliban's view of "The Tempest" between episodes of colonial-style master and servant and a present-day kidnapping, providing a drastically telescoped history of Prosperos and Calibans across the centuries. Produced Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 1976; national tour by Temba Theatre Company.

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Death Trip, The

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Depicts the collision between Western and indigenous Third World culture in the person of Thomas Cook, the 18th century explorer. In his murder is figured the revenge of that world for later exploitation.

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York Arts Centre    1971

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Exploding Dream, The

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This work features Guy Fawkes, whose attempt to blow up the English House of Parliament is nationally celebrated in England. It is a parable on the state's stake in secretly encouraging revolutionary terrorism as a way of licensing counter-revolutionary repression.

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York Arts Centre    1968

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Fleeced

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Show about workers in the Yorkshire woollen industry.

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Northern Studio Theatre, York    1981

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Hudson's Amazing Money Making Steam Driven Railway

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Ice Cream Doors In The Alps

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Life In A Chocolate Factory

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this play is' based on interviews with workers at Rowntrees, a local chocolate factory and resulted in an ironic documentary on consumerism that takes the wrapper off your candy bar.

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Written with York Shoestring Theatre. Produced Bush Theatre, London; Nancy Theatre Festiv:al, France; Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam And more 1972-73.

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Limbo

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This piece is about the relationship of Charles Baudelaire and Jeanne Duval, about white poet and illiterate mulatto, in the heyday of colonialism and sexism. The flowers of these evils prove to have a lethal beauty that overcomes them both. Produced Bush Theatre, London, 1973.

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Sunday

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Through The Mincer

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Tiger In The Rockery, The

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Unhealthy Convictions

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a Russian dissident with anti-nuclear convictions is sent to a psychiatric assessment center where he meets a number of imaginative people.

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Zion Street Rag

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Set in the fifties, this is a play about a fledgling jazz combo in brass band country wherein the conflict revolves around musical and other values.

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Broadcast BBC    1983

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