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Bill Findlay

BILL FINDLAY

  (1947 - 2005)
Nationality:    Scottish
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Bill Findlay's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Albertine In Five Times         Bairns' Bothers         Fire In the Basement         Forever Yours, Marielou         Guid Sisters, The         Hosanna         House Among the Stars, The         If Only         Manon/Sandra         Marie-Lou         Real World, The         Reel Of the Hanged Man, The         Solemn Mass For A Full Moon In Summer         Under Your Skin         Weavers, The         Werewolves

Albertine In Five Times

Albertine In Five Times
Five actresses portray albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine. albertine at 30 is recuperating in the country after viciously beating her 11-year-old daughter; albertine at 40 is a virago at war with the world; at 50 she has rejected her past by reinventing it; at 60 she has given in to depression; at 70 she's found a kind of peace. First performed in London in 1986 at the Donmar Warehouse.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in the Guid Sister, Nick Hern Books, London,    978-185491180

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Bairns' Bothers

Synopsis:
Set in a small French village 50 years ago, Cousse's monologue for a single child character falls roughly into six sections - on conflict, sex, school, more sex, religion and mortality and ending. with a passionate nightmare sequence denouncing the hypocrisy and emptiness of organised religion.
Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

Notes:
From the Play enfantillages By Raymond Cousse

1st Produced:
Mull Little/Tour    2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Fire In the Basement

Synopsis:
Three days ago, two young, naive lovers were married. the lovers' world is literally turned upside down as they are sucked into exploitation, corruption and the sinister search for a fire which may - or may not - exist.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Pavel Kohout

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Communicado Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Scots version adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Fifth estate Theatre Company - acc.11443/84 (c1985)

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Forever Yours, Marielou

Synopsis:
Presenting both their past and present lives, Carmen and Manon agonize-within and between themselves-over the relationship between their parents, Leopold and Marie-Lou. the two sisters are torn in their loyalties to a mother who was uninvolved and a Father who was emotionally and physically abusive. they struggle with the image of their Father as a monster and who has caused a rift between the sisters, who, until a visit to the family home one weekend, have been unable to confront their anger. Scenes from the past reveal the Father as a dominant sexual ogre and the mother as submissive, repressed, and resentful. We learn that to alleviate his own frustration, Leopold drove Marie-Lou over a cliff, ridding himself of the constant pain in his life. the two daughters are left with the legacy of torment, as they struggle to identify their Father as a monster and then move on with their own lives.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Ladderman Playscripts, London 1995   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Guid Sisters, The

Guid Sisters, The
Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. the temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

Notes:
translated by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay from the original French Quebecois Les Belles-Soeurs

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in the Guid Sister, Nick Hern Books, London, 2001   978-185491180

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Hosanna

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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House Among the Stars, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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If Only

Synopsis:
explores different stages in the relationship between Tremblay and his lively outspoken mother.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay. Translated By Martin Bowman And Bill Findlay

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Manon/Sandra

Manon/Sandra
the play crosscuts the lives of Manon, an obsessively religious girl, and 'sandra', a sex-obsessed , exploring the similarities and differences between them. a controversial but humane duet.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay. Translated By Martin Bowman And Bill Findlay

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in the Guid Sister, Nick Hern Books, London, 2001   978-185491180

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Marie-Lou

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Real World, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Martin Bowman; play by Michel Tremblay

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
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Reel Of the Hanged Man, The

Synopsis:
Set in a hard rural mining district of Quebec in the 1960s, the play deals with the subject of Incest and abuse in the family not so much by condemning it as by trying to explain it, as a response to powerlessness and emotional repression.
Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jeanne-Mance Delilse. Translated with Martin Bowman

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Stellar Quines

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Solemn Mass For A Full Moon In Summer

Synopsis:
on six moonlit Montreal balconies on a sultry summer's evening, eleven people tell their stories of love. each pieces together the landscape of an affair, tracing the graduations between intoxicating highs and heartbreaking lows.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay. Translated By Martin Bowman And Bill Findlay

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2000   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Under Your Skin

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Olafur Haukur Simonarson.

1st Produced:
-    c.1989

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Scots Version adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Fifth estate Theatre Company - acc.11443/121

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Weavers, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Gerhart Hauptmann

1st Produced:
Dundee Rep, Scotland    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
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Werewolves

Synopsis:
In a remote farmhouse, in a place scarred by wars and unhealing resentments, a community busies itself with the timeless rituals of birth, marriage and death as one man hosts a wake for his mother, and a wedding party for his niece.

Notes:
by Teresa Lubkiewicz

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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