doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Duncan Greenwood

DUNCAN GREENWOOD  (1919 - 1992)

 Nationality:    British
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    n/a


I do not have a biography of this Playwright. Please help doollee to become even more complete by sending me any information you have
thank you

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

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

 Cat Among The Pigeons         In At The Death         Murder By The Book         Murder Delayed         No Time For Fig Leaves         Strike Happy         Surprise Package         Waiting For Yesterday

Cat Among The Pigeons

Synopsis:
Three generations of Tinsleys live in uneasy contentment

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Royal Pavilion, Blackpool    1956

Organisations:
Jack Rose Players

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1957   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

In At The Death

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with Robert King

1st Produced:
Guildford    1967

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Murder By The Book

Synopsis:
a thriller writer indulges in vitriolic verbal duels with his estranged wife, until she turns a gun on him and fires

Notes:
written with Robert King

1st Produced:
-    1982

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1982   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Murder Delayed

Synopsis:
Edwina Maxwell disappeared overboard one night whilst on her husband's yacht. Eight years on and Robert Maxwell has remarried. He and a friend David Kemp have finally been able to wind up Edwina's estate. Then Gordon Shelton arrives with evidence that a fire at Robert's firm was no accident and he tries to blackmail him. Edwina now turns up. She had faked her death and had been living with David Kemp. Robert and his new wife, Helen, discover Edwina's body in their living room - she had been stabbed. To avoid blame for the murder they move the body. But Robert still falls under suspicion by the police

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Paignton    1962

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1961   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Sensational Drama Thriller

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

No Time For Fig Leaves

Synopsis:
an atomic accident has resulted in the disappearance of all men save two kept prisoner in an underground shelter

Notes:
written with Robert King

1st Produced:
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex    1965

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1966   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Strike Happy

Synopsis:
lazy husband fills house with lodgers to supplement income whilst factory is on strike

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1960

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1960   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Farcical Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Surprise Package

Synopsis:
a family's package holiday to Spain proves to be an even greater change from Blackpool than expected

Notes:
written with Derek Parkes

1st Produced:
Tithe Farm Players, Rayners Lane, London    1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1975   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Farcical Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Waiting For Yesterday

Synopsis:
This is a sensitive and perceptive look at the elderly residents of a small private hotel which is set to close. although most of them have lived there for a number of years, they are all just biding their time. all their dreams and hopes for the future are based in the past. They will soon be homeless; this fact, and an attempted suicide, force all the residents to admit that they have been living an illusion. They toast the future, no longer waiting for yesterday.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Swansea    1964

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1985   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page