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Cecil P Taylor

CECIL P TAYLOR

  (1929 - 1981)
Nationality:    Scottish
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    Alan Brodie Representation Ltd  (estate)

Cecil P Taylor was born in Glasgow in 1929. During his thirty year career, he wrote more than seventy plays for Theatre and television, many of which were first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and Live Theatre, Newcastle. His best known plays include SCHIPPEL the PLUMBER (Traverse Theatre & Prince of Wales Theatre, London, 1973), AND A NIGHTINGALE SANG (Live Theatre & Queens Theatre, London 1979), GOOD, which was first produced by the RSC in 1981 and was recently made into a film, produced by Miriam Segal and featuring Viggo Mortenson and Jason Isaacs. Cecil died in 1981 but his plays continue to be produced regularly. His short play, OPERATION ELVIS is currently being developed as a film by Jonathan Stafford Productions, with Richard Platt attached to direct.

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         AA Went Tae Blaydon Races         Abie at Larsa         Ali Baba         Allergy         And a Nightingale Sang         Antigone         Apples         Ballachullish Beat, The         Bandits         Black and White Minstrels, The         Bloch's Play         Brave         Bread and Butter         Bring Me Sunshine, Bring Me Smiles         Carol OK         Castro         Charles And Cromwell         Cleverness Of Us         Collector, The         Columba         Cyrano         Drums In the Night         Fable         Filleting Machine, The         Geordie Jubilee         Give Us A Kiss         Good         Grace Darling         Gynt         Happy Anniversary         Happy Days Are Here Again!         Happy Lies         High King Macbeth, The         How Does a King Drink Tea?         In Care         JMB         Jolly Boys, The         Killingworth Play, The         Lenin         Lies About Vietnam         Lone Rider         Love Story         Magic Island         Me         Mr David         Myopia         Nearer and Further         Nearer Than Further         Next Year In Tel Aviv         North: Six Plays         Not By Love Alone         Oil And Water         On the Brink         One Man         Open the Big Box         Operation Elvis         Ophelia         Orgy         Passion Play         Peter Pan And Emily         Piggy Bank, The         Punch and Judy's War Game         Rainbow Coloured Disco Dancer, The         Rise and Fall of Joe Soap, The         S P Opera         Saints Go Marching In, The         Schippel         So Far So Bad         Some Enchanted Evening         Song of the Clyde         Spital Tongues Plays, The         Thank You Very Much         Threepenny Opera         To Be A Farmer's Boy         Truth About Sarajevo         Walter Getting By Going Home         Who is the Puppet Master         Who's Pinkus? Where's Chelm?         Withdrawal Symptons         Words         You Are My Heart's Delight
AA Went Tae Blaydon Races

Synopsis:
About a pit strike in Newcastle in 1862

Notes:
aka Blaydon Races

1st Produced:
Flora Robson Theatre, Newcastle-On-Tyne     1962

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  13            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Abie at Larsa

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1st Produced:
-     1960

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Genre:
Typescript

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Cecil P Taylor - Dep.182

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Ali Baba

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Newcastle     1978

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Genre:
Community Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Allergy

Synopsis:
About a man who is allergic to adultery

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Haynes, J. (Ed.), Traverse Plays" Penguin, London, 1966   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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And a Nightingale Sang

Synopsis:
Bittersweet growth of an English Family during the World War 2.

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1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1979   

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Antigone

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 64/3

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Apples

Synopsis:
An allegory about school leavers

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ainwick     1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Prompt One" Hutchinson, London, 1976   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  18 characters

Further Reference:
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Ballachullish Beat, The

Synopsis:
About a rock group, managed by a militant communist party member

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Rapp and Carrol, 1967   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Rock Musical Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bandits

Synopsis:
About the effects of a murder in the North East in the community

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1st Published:
Iron Press, 1977   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  11            Other:  doubling

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Black and White Minstrels, The

Synopsis:
set in the 1970's symbolises the conflict of political belief put alongside personal behaviour. About a four handed marriage, disturbed by the alien influences of a Nigerian lodger and Jewish lawyer.

Notes:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    

Music:
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Genre:
Intellectual Farce

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Bloch's Play

Synopsis:
About an old revolutionary brought back to socialist action

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Edinburgh     1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Scottish Theatre Edition,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Brave

Synopsis:
About the massacre of the Cheyenne in USA in the 1800's

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Blackworth Drama Centre     1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Bread and Butter

Synopsis:
About two men against the background of the historical events from 1930 to 1960

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cochrane Theatre, London     1966

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "New English Dramatists Vol.10" Penguin, London, 1967   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Bring Me Sunshine, Bring Me Smiles

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
aka The saints Go marching in

1st Produced:
Shaw, London     1982

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Carol OK

Synopsis:
About growing up in the North of England

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Newcastle     1974

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Youth Play Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Castro

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Charles And Cromwell

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cleverness Of Us

Synopsis:
About the nature of imagination, based on the life of JM Barrie

Notes:
aka Peter Pan Man (Glasgow 1979)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "North: Six Plays" Methuen, London, 1987   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Collector, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1962

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Corrected typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Cecil P Taylor - Dep.182

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Columba

Synopsis:
A life of the saint

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Edinburgh     1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
dance play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.10180/9

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Cyrano

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Re working of Rostand's play

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Drums In the Night

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh And Hampstead Theatre     1973

Organisations:
Foco Novo Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Fable

Synopsis:
In a fable form

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Close Theatre, Glasgow     1965

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Filleting Machine, The

Synopsis:
Of his pal "Muts", a fish filliter, he wrote: 'He could boast it took six polis's to bang him up, and he had the bruises to show, but a machine arrived that could cut fish faster than 10 men, and this giant of a man was undermined'. the giant of a man in

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in the Long Line, Iron Press, 1994   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Geordie Jubilee

Synopsis:
About a Northern beauty queen

Notes:
cf Not By Love Alone

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1977

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Give Us A Kiss

Synopsis:
About a menopausal breakdown of sexual relationships as seen through the eyes of a pet budgie

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Good

Synopsis:
an essentially good man becomes Eichmann's right-hand man responsible for the euthanasia programme at Auschwitz

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Warehouse, Covent Garden, London     09 Sep 1981

Organisations:
RSC

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
RSC ref GOO198109

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Grace Darling

Synopsis:
About the life of a Victorian heroine

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
University Theatre, Newcastle     1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Gynt

Synopsis:
there is An Order To Melt on Peer Gynt unless he can prove he has made an impression on another's soul

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Gulbenkian Studio Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne     1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "North: Six Plays" Methuen, London, 1987   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  32 characters

Further Reference:
-

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Happy Anniversary

Synopsis:
About a Golden Wedding

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Pool Theatre     1968

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Happy Days Are Here Again!

Synopsis:
About an Abortion Party

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Happy Lies

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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High King Macbeth, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Backworth (not Blackworth) Drama Centre was where the play was rehearsed by the then Northumberland Experimental Youth Theatre. I was a member of the cast!!!! - Barry Nelson

1st Produced:
Gulbenkian Studio Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne     c1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Cecil P Taylor - Dep.182

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How Does a King Drink Tea?

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 65/1

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In Care

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1969

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Typescript draft (2 copies)

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Cecil P Taylor - Dep.182

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JMB

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Cecil P Taylor - Dep.182

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Jolly Boys, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1963

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Typescript draft

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Cecil P Taylor - Dep.182

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Killingworth Play, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
A play with music for nine year olds upwards

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Killingworth     1975

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Lenin

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Play One Act

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Lies About Vietnam

Synopsis:
About Anti-Vietnam protest

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-

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in "Gay Plays 2" Methuen, London, 1984   

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One Act. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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Lone Rider

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-

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-     1966

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Corrected typescript

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Love Story

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-

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-     1968

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Typescript (Danish version)

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Magic Island

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
play for children from five to eight

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Live theatre, 1981   

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Me

Synopsis:
Dramatic autobiography of author

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Mr David

Synopsis:
concerns a young man, David, who turns out to be a Messiah sent to establish peace and justice upon earth.

Notes:
won second prize in the 1956 Playwrighting competition organised by the World jewish Congress

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-     1956

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National Library of Scotland ref: Cecil P Taylor - Dep.182

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Myopia

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-

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1st Produced:
-     1966

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Nearer and Further

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-

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-    

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-

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Nearer Than Further

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-

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-

1st Produced:
-     1971

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Corrected typescript drafts

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Next Year In Tel Aviv

Synopsis:
About an artist much dominated by his Jewish mother

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-

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One Act

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North: Six Plays

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Peter Pan Man; the Black And White Minstrels; Gynt!; You Are My Heart's Delight; To Be A Farmer's Boy; Bring Me Sunshine, Bring Me Smiles

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Not By Love Alone

Synopsis:
About a Northern beauty queen

Notes:
Reworking of Geordie Jubilee for Orchard theatre Company

1st Produced:
Torrington, Devon    

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Oil And Water

Synopsis:
About the clash between cultures, Jewish and Christian, in an inter-marriage situation.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Perth     1967

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On the Brink

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-

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-

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-     1961

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Typescript

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National Library of Scotland ref: Cecil P Taylor - Dep.182

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One Man

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-

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Open the Big Box

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
play for children from eight to eleven

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1978

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Operation Elvis

Synopsis:
About a relationship of a normal child with a spastic

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Live theatre, 1981   

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Ophelia

Synopsis:
About the events in Hamlet as seen through the eyes of Ophelia

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Oxford     1977

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Orgy

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-

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-

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-

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Passion Play

Synopsis:
About the problems of two actors coming to terms with their roles of Jesus and Mary

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-

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One Act

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Peter Pan And Emily

Synopsis:
About Peter Pan coming back to a working class family in Newcastle in 1977

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1977

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-

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-   

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Piggy Bank, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
From Eugene Labiche

1st Produced:
Greenwich, London     1989

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-

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-   

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Adaptation

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Punch and Judy's War Game

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1966

Organisations:
-

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-   

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Typescript

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Rainbow Coloured Disco Dancer, The

Synopsis:
About a coloured child of white parents

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1980

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Live theatre, 1981
Contained in: "Right On Cue" published by Collins Educational 1989   

Music:
-

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Rise and Fall of Joe Soap, The

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-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1960

Organisations:
-

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Typescript

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S P Opera

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - John Gay (Beggar's Opera)

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1973

Organisations:
-

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-   

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-

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Adaptation

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Saints Go Marching In, The

Synopsis:
redundant shipworker would prefer a life of peace and quiet but finds he is an eternal peacemaker sorting everything out. Love on the dole 1980

Notes:
aka Bring Me Sunshine, Bring Me Smiles (Tynewear, 1982)

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Samuel French, London,    

Music:
-

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Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Schippel

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
aka the Pilgrim's Progress (Prince of Wales, London, 1974), from Stenheim's Paul Schippel, with music

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-

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Adaptation

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So Far So Bad

Synopsis:
A life of Galileo

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1974

Organisations:
-

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Some Enchanted Evening

Synopsis:
About a young man disappointed in love who tries to jump off the Tyne bridge

Notes:
-

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Organisations:
-

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Hutchinsons, London,    

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-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Song of the Clyde

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-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1964

Organisations:
-

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-   

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-

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Typescript

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Spital Tongues Plays, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
A set of plays for five to nine year olds

1st Produced:
Newcastle     1974

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

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-

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Childrens Youth Audience

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Thank You Very Much

Synopsis:
About a working class family during the week leading up to the beginning of World War One

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1970

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Threepenny Opera

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
University Theatre     1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

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-

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Adaptation

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To Be A Farmer's Boy

Synopsis:
About a Dartmoor farming family

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Devon     1980

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "North: Six Plays" Methuen, London, 1987   

Music:
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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Truth About Sarajevo

Synopsis:
About the Kaiser, during the first week after World War One

Notes:
-

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Organisations:
-

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Scottish Theatre Edition,    

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-

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One Act

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Walter Getting By Going Home

Synopsis:
About a Glasgow Jewish comedian

Notes:
-

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Woodhouse Books,    

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-

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Two Plays Play/Drama

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Who is the Puppet Master

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1971

Organisations:
-

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Typescript

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Who's Pinkus? Where's Chelm?

Synopsis:
The town of Chelm - the city of fools in Jewish folk lore. There lives Pinkus the number one fool. He cannot get a job so leaves for nearby town of Mazeltov to earn his fortune. He runs rings around the rabbi and local businessmen and becomes a great success

Notes:
Music by Monty Norman; lyrics by Cecil P Taylor; lyrics by Monty Norman; book by Cecil P Taylor

1st Produced:
Jeanette Cochrane Theatre, London     1967

Organisations:
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Genre:
Musical

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Withdrawal Symptons

Synopsis:
About a heroin addict who can cope with her addiction and the attempts of a therapy community to change her.

Notes:
-

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Organisations:
Foco Novo Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

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-

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Words

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Second Playbill 2" Hutchinson, London, 1973   

Music:
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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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You Are My Heart's Delight

Synopsis:
About a gamekeeper and his relationship with his sister

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London     1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "North: Six Plays" Methuen, London, 1987   

Music:
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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

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Genre:
Duologue One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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