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Donald Howarth

DONALD HOWARTH

  (1931 - )
Nationality:    British
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Donald Howarth (born 5 November 1931) is a playwright and theatre director. After training at Esme Church's Northern Theatre School in Bradford, he worked in various repertory theatres around England before writing his first play, Sugar in the Morning, which was selected by George Devine for performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1959. Ian McKellen's first starring role in London's West End was in Howarth's third play, A Lily in Little India, and his fourth play, Three Months Gone starred Diana Dors. - Wiki

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         Adventures Of A Black Girl         All Good Children         Greatest Fairy Story Ever Told, The         Ibchek         Lady On the Barometer         Lily In Little India, A         Meanwhile, Backstage In the Old Front Room         Ogodiveleftthegason         Othello Sleges Blankes         Scarborough         School Play         Secret Of Skiz         Sugar In the Morning         Three Months Gone

Adventures Of A Black Girl

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Notes:
novel by Shaw

1st Produced:
Cape Town     1980

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adaptation

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All Good Children

Synopsis:
examines the problems of the permissive society

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1st Produced:
Bromley, Kent     1960

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1965   

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Greatest Fairy Story Ever Told, The

Synopsis:
Mickadoesque version of CinderElla with Victorian ballads and hymn tunes. CinderElla is murdered, high camp.

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Original Playwright - Kathleen Housell-Roberts

1st Produced:
New York     1973

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adaptation

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Ibchek

Synopsis:
Subsidised group of actors perform Ibsen to dwindling audiences whilst themselves reliving the bourgeois romantic situations of the seagull and the Cherry orchard.

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1st Produced:
Grahamstown, South Africa     1979

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Lady On the Barometer

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aka Sugar in the Morning

1st Produced:
London     1958

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Lily In Little India, A

Synopsis:
celebrates the liberating influence of flower power

Notes:
televised 1962

1st Produced:
London     1965

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1966   

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  voices off

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Meanwhile, Backstage In the Old Front Room

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1st Produced:
Leeds     1975

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Ogodiveleftthegason

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1st Produced:
London     1967

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Othello Sleges Blankes

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Original Playwright - Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Cape Town     1972

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adaptation

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Scarborough

Synopsis:
Three beautiful people live in a barn and eventually share the same bed. Re-working of adam and eve and the serpent Victor, before and after the fall.

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1st Produced:
Cape Town     1972

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Genre:
Reworking

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School Play

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

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

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Secret Of Skiz

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Original Playwright - Gabriela Zapolska

1st Produced:
Bromley, Kent     1962

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1st Published:
Unpublished,    

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adapatation/translation

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Sugar In the Morning

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1st Published:
in "Four Plays" Oberon, London, 1999   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  9 characters

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Three Months Gone

Synopsis:
the rise of the more 'feminine' man

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Organisations:
English Stage Company

1st Published:
French, London (Plays & Players April 1970), 1970   

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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