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Rae Shirley

RAE SHIRLEY

  
Nationality:    British
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Rae Shirley's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Bachelors Gay         Bread of Heaven         Bus Stop         Flesh Game, The         Jester Of Stratford         Kitten, The         Man Upstairs, The         Merry Murder-Go-Round         Merry Regiment Of Women         Not Even A Wimple         Round And Round the Gooseberry Bush         Scarlet Ribbon         Sherry In the Trifle         Think the Beautiful Thoughts         Those Damn Joneses         Time the Sad Jester         What Shall We Do With the body?

Bachelors Gay

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1st Produced:
Swansea    1964

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Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Bread of Heaven

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1978   -

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Bus Stop

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1st Published:
Evans Bros, London, 1981   -

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Flesh Game, The

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1985   -

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Jester Of Stratford

Synopsis:
Anne and Joan are preparing for Susanna's wedding when William arrives from London. William is not welcome back in Stratford - so the two women give him £30 to go back. He promptly gives the money to Susanna as a wedding gift and leaves.

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1st Published:
Samuel French Ltd, London   -

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Genre:
Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Kitten, The

Synopsis:
about relatively trivial events in Edwardian drawing rooms

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1972   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Man Upstairs, The

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 60/3

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Merry Murder-Go-Round

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1st Produced:
Swansea    1965

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Merry Regiment Of Women

Synopsis:
Shakesperian female characters meet their male equivalents to discuss the bard in iambic pentameter

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    -

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Not Even A Wimple

Synopsis:
Lady Godiva with short hair ?

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1st Published:
Evans Bros, London, 1979   -

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Genre:
Historical Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Round And Round the Gooseberry Bush

Synopsis:
about relatively trivial events in Edwardian drawing rooms

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1st Published:
Evans Bros, London, 1979   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Scarlet Ribbon

Synopsis:
Period 1907, narrow and intolerant reverend tries to quell his daughters but under the placid Bible reading surface frustration simmers

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1977   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Sherry In the Trifle

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1st Published:
Evans Bros, London, 1981   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Think the Beautiful Thoughts

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1st Published:
Evans Bros, London, 1980   -

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Those Damn Joneses

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1st Produced:
Swansea    1962

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Time the Sad Jester

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1st Published:
Deane's Series of Plays, Kenyon-Deane, London, 1954   -

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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What Shall We Do With the body?

Synopsis:
a female detective gets caught up in one of her own plots

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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