Profile: Tony Craze

About This Author

Tony Craze is the author of a dozen theatre premiers across the UK. '. . . a voice of honest compassion and insight into the area where dreams turn into anger, despair and ferocious frustration.' (Bloomsbury Theatre Guide). Listing at http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsC/craze-tony.html His book Write a Theatre Script in 25 Days (& 10 hours) is a subsumation of a thousand days and nights delivering theatre writing workshops; Holli and Bill Go Traveling - the movie, was first produced as, Going West,at London's legendary Soho Poly Theatre. He commenced full time fiction writing with publication of Holli and Bill Go Traveling - the movie. A graduate of the London Film School, his work has been described as, ' . . . packing a powerfully cumulative punch, showing individuals as victims of blighted dreams which reflect the way society has failed them' . . . and as ' . . . different in substance, different in style: it is spare, bald, with the emotional movement of the work told entirely through subtext - work that credits its readers with emotional intelligence . . .' Upcoming titles include Mosaic > lives in flight. Extracts, interviews and more on most titles at www.scriptends.blogspot.com

This Author's Books

The work of award winning theater writer Tony Craze has been described as ' . . . assured, enthralling, daring, and with an emotional charge powerful enough to send one reeling . . .'A Wake for Miss Montreal chronicles the lives of four lifelong friends w....
ISBN: 9781781766620
Published: 17 August 2012
The Urchin’s Progress is an everyman epic chronicling the changing fortunes of Miles Rouse over 50 years as he travels from fatherless urchin to fulfilled father. In three volumes, it traces a life haunted by both the father’s absence and the urchin aband....
ISBN: 9781785107832
Published: 11 May 2015
‘One of the most intelligent new plays of the year.’ (Evening Standard, London)A theatre script from award winning writer, Tony Craze, who has been described as ‘a voice of honest compassion and insight into the area where dreams turn into anger, despair ....
ISBN: 9781782993759
Published: 30 April 2013
Holli and Bill travel across the States in search of a very un-American dream. An unlikely pair to ever hook up together - Holli wants to get West to sign her movie contract, Bill wants to cast some old Shaman’s ashes into the sunset there. Only Holli tri....
ISBN: 9781908895424
Published: 27 January 2012
When 13 year old Laila stumbles on a secret kennel beneath the studio of established artist Lucien Reynolds she becomes captive to this man who until age seven was raised as a dog – and in whom the instinct to attack still surfaces at any danger (especial....
ISBN: 9781786101228
Published: 11 September 2015
Rosie's running from the pain of loss, Atzi from isolation; Harry from a fierce oppression, Juma from insignificance, and Max from chaos. Or are they all simply fleeing some universal void, searching if not for immortality, some small meaning to the prese....
ISBN: 9781786101259
Published: 11 September 2015
The approaching death of old Win' Coles, cared for by her psychopathic son Mark, calls for a reuniting of the family: there's maniac Jane from missionary work in Africa; Frank from the floor of a South London bar; Paul from a Hampstead analyst's couch; an....
ISBN: 9781785104855
Published: 21 January 2015
Originally produced as a set of 36 A5 cards the workbook for Make a Mosaic of your Memoirs delivers the same step by step process enabling you to set down an 18,000 word memoir in just 25 sessions each requiring at most a 90 minute input. The memoir is vi....
ISBN: 9781785103865
Published: 4 December 2014
In the music business identities can be created and junked as easily as erasing a digital image. A new identity can conceal pain, hunger, absence, and it’s hard to hold onto any real authenticity. Motel Rooms are like Movie Sets examines the absurdity of ....
ISBN: 9781785104954
Published: 27 January 2015
Paris Maps tracks the journey of Mackie Kaplan as 40 years on he searches for the identity of a 1968 bomber responsible for an outrage in Paris of which Mackie was always suspected. Set against a present day Paris-wide sans papiers search and arrest opera....
ISBN: 9781781765296
Published: 9 July 2012
The theatre work of award winning-writer Tony Craze has been described as ' . . . assured, enthralling, daring, and with an emotional charge powerful enough to send one reeling . . .' 'Shona' offers a precise, piteous and fearful picture of a young girl’s....
ISBN: 9781782993186
Published: 8 April 2013
The Urchin’s Progress is an everyman epic chronicling the changing fortunes of Miles Rouse over 50 years as he travels from fatherless urchin to fulfilled father. In three volumes, it traces a life haunted by both the father’s absence and the urchin aband....
ISBN: 9781785107894
Published: 11 May 2015
The work of award winning theater writer Tony Craze has been described as ' . . . assured, enthralling, daring, and with an emotional charge powerful enough to send one reeling . . .' In ‘Squint’ cultural commentator Hugh Hornton seeks if not redemption a....
ISBN: 9781785101984
Published: 23 October 2014
The Urchin’s Progress is an everyman epic chronicling the changing fortunes of Miles Rouse over 50 years as he travels from fatherless urchin to fulfilled father. In three volumes, it traces a life haunted by both the father’s absence and the urchin aband....
ISBN: 9781785107917
Published: 19 May 2015
The work of award winning writer Tony Craze has been described as ' . . . assured, enthralling, daring, and with an emotional charge powerful enough to send one reeling . . .' The theatre scripts here were written for forum presentation whereby audiences ....
ISBN: 9781781767375
Published: 6 September 2012
Living in the dusty Palms Trailer Park, in Louisiana, where only the dope dealers stand sentry, Effie Thacker’s got to wonder why she’s sharing a rusty trailer with rats and cockroaches and refusing to touch the secret $7 million she won years before? And....
ISBN: 9781781766354
Published: 7 August 2012
Write a theatre script in 25 days (& 10 hours) takes the aspiringwriter through a step by step process from initial idea to finishedfirst draft. The process leads the writer through units of workcovering character creation, the structure of dramatic actio....
ISBN: 9781781761878
Published: 3 April 2012