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DAVE ANDERSON |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Dave Anderson has worked as an actor, musician and musical director for numerous Scottish theatres companies including 7:84 and Wildcat, with whom he toured music theatre round the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. His songs for The Steamie are being performed (somewhere) right now! He has collaborated on several one-man shows with David MacLennan including 47, Barking and Stardust. Film credits include: Gregory's Girl, Heavenly Pursuits, Post Mortem and Orphans. On television Dave is best known for his long running BBC sit-com City Lights. He has also made appearances on Taggart, Rab C. Nesbit, Monarch of the Glen and many other shows. Two of Dave's previous shows for Oran Mor, A Walk in the Park and Tir na nOg, (the prequel and sequel respectively, to Flowers of the River) were performed at the Edinburgh Festival last year to critical acclaim, with Tir na nOg winning the MTM:UK Dress Circle Award for Best New Musical.
Plays by Dave Anderson
Alice in Poundland | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Jul 2012 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #140039 | |||
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Genre: | Summer pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Written by Dave Anderson and David MacLennan | |||||
Synopsis: | Alices mum is boracic, and she is wandering the aisles of Poundland looking for summer treats.Alicereaches out to grasp a white rabbit keyring and before she knows it she is on the golden escalator to Plunderland A parallel universe where no one pays 50pence in the pound tax, and where everything costs the same a million but you dont have to pay for it if you are rich. Travel withAliceand meet Milliedum, Milliedee, The King of Clubs, The Queen of Diamonds, The Fat Cat, The Mad Banker and all your other favourite characters you love to hate. | |||||
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Any Minute Now | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
Company: | Wildcat Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #680 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written with D Anderson | |||||
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Bedfellows | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | Wildcat Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #681 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written with David MacLennan | |||||
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Celtic Story, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pavilion, Glasgow | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #682 | |||
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Christmas Carol, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 Nov 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107958 | |||
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Genre: | Christmas Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Dave Anderson and David MacLennan | |||||
Synopsis: | We meet a very grumpy old man who hates Christmas: it's nothing more than a license for cynical profiteers to fleece people of their hard-earned cash, force them into debt buying a lot of crap they don't need, and making them miserable for the rest of the year. It's a meaningless spend-fest and should be abolished! This is Bob Cratchitt who works in a call centre, owned by Ebenezer Scrooge, who loves Christmas. This call centre collects debts. Scrooge is a very cheerful man indeed. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Bob Marley, who soon realizes his mistake sorry, that should be Jacob Marley, Scrooge's old partner whom Ebenezer bought out at the beginning of the Credit Crunch for next to nothing. Jacob is doomed to walk the earth until Ebenezer gives him a fair price for the share of the business after all, the debt collection industry is one sector that is booming. This effectively means eternity since Scrooge will never pay him. Jacob warns Scrooge he will be visited by 3 more ghosts before Christmas morning. The first is the Ghost of Christmas Past, or the Wicked Witch of the South who bears a striking resemblance to Margaret Thatcher, under whose watch Scrooge began to get wealthy. She is accompanied by the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs. The second is Aladdin, or the ghost of Christmas Present, who bears a striking resemblance to Gerard Kelly. Aladdin takes Scrooge on his magic carpet, round to the Cratchit's house, where he observes how poor they are. The third is Prince Charming or the Ghost of Christmas yet to Come who bears a striking resemblance to both David Cameron and Prince Charles and who shows Scrooge how the world will be if he doesn't change his ways. By the end, Scrooge is a miserable, skint wretch and the Cratchits' are happy. We will meet several Fairy-Tale characters along the way. | |||||
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Daveanderson@28ThingsthatbugmeCom | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #683 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Delirious | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tour | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Wildcat Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #684 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | By David Anderson, David Maclennan, Peter Arnott | |||||
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Drop in the Ocean, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95860 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | part of ̉ran Mor's groundbreaking lunchtime theatre programme, A Play, A Pie and A Pint | |||||
Synopsis: | If you take a job as a piano-entertainer on a cruise ship, and haven't taken the trouble to learn "Love on the Rocks" by Neil Diamond, it's only a matter of time before the passengers throw you overboard. Obviously. This is the fate that befalls the Poet in Dave Anderson's Tir na nOg, winner of Best New Musical in Edinburgh in 2007, and described as "The First Magical Realism musical" by - somebody. Actually it was Keith Bruce in the Herald. This companion piece, A Drop in the Ocean, tells the story of what happens to her down there, the creatures she meets, the improbable adventures, the songs she learns, the information she gleans about the Lost City of Atlantis, etc. A Drop in the Ocean is the latest in a series of "through-sung", "boutique" - and various other pretentious adjectives - musicals from the pen of Anderson and the Oran Mor. Great tunes, grand laughs, profound silliness.' | |||||
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Goldilocks and the Glasgow Fair | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Jul 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129384 | |||
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Genre: | summer panto | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of A Play, a Pie and a Pint. The script and songs are by Dave Anderson and David MacLennan | |||||
Synopsis: | We are on a Heritage Cruise going Doon the Watter aboard the Paddle Steamer Waverley. The year is 2011, but the organisers, Big Society Arts (a charitable organisation, slogan - Coming down to your level ) want to take us back to the 1950s, or 40s or 30s. Depression? What Depression? Nonsense! Theyre laying on this trip down Memory Lane, for free, for disadvantaged families. Join Granny and the weans, Darren and Blondie as they head for Largs to the strains of the Dixieland jazz band. Marvel at the Childrens Entertainer, whom we might suspect is just a wee bit drunk, and whose act is a tribute to the forgotten skills of the end-of-the-pier artiste. He is doing a 3 Bears routine involving puppets, but, since he has only two hands and three puppets. . . . . Will Granny drift off into a dream of her childhood doon the watter when the Clyde Coast was Benidorm in the rain? Meet Goldilocks, the three bears and a host of other Panto characters in that world where a Knickerbocker Glory at Nardinis knocked Spanish Tapas into a Pokey Hat. | |||||
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Gun, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | Wildcat Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
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His Master's Voice | ||
| 1st Produced: | Half Moon, London | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #686 | |||
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Further Reference: | (1978 ?) - National Library of Scotland ref: 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre Company - Acc.10893/57 | |||||
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Lysistrata | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 June 2010 | |||||
Company: | aPlay, a Pie and a pint | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114562 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Aristophanes. by David MacLennan and Dave Anderson | |||||
Synopsis: | Originally performed in Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Pelopennesian War. Lysistrata oersuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle between the sexes. X certificate! | |||||
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Sleeping Beauty | ||
| 1st Produced: | 29 Nov 2010 | |||||
Company: | a Play, a Pie and a pint | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122824 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | by David Maclennan and Dave Anderson | |||||
Synopsis: | Oran Mor's Panto this year is Sleeping Beauty - Oh, yes it is! We've assembled the star studded cast of Juliet Cadzow, Dave Anderson, Sandy Nelson and Catriona Grozier to bring you this new version of an old favourite story. Sleeping Beauty doesn't just get pricked by the Spinning Wheel this year - she gets savagely cut! Expect to meet some very unexpected characters, to boo, hiss and cheer, to sing along,to 'look out she's behind you!', to eat a pie and drink a pint. . .and all this in under an hour. David Maclennan and Dave Anderson have teamed up again to write Oran Mor's Panto and it is the best bargain you're going to find this Christmas. Book early to be sure of a ticket or get one on door on the day. . . but be sure to get to the front of the queue! | |||||
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Snow White and the Seventh Dwarf | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 Dec 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132276 | |||
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Genre: | pantomime | |||||
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Notes: | written by Dave Anderson and David macLennan | |||||
Synopsis: | The little-known - indeed, buried - story of a Pantomime Princess's forbidden relationship with a Person of Shortness. The other Dwarves - Whiffy, Jakey, Junkey, Spikey, Fart and Stupid, - are conveniently out of the cabin (budget issues) when Snow-White unburdens herself to Chookie, the Seventh Dwarf. It turns out she is dreading having to be rescued by a Prince: from what she knows of Princes, they're spoilt brats who would make rubbish husbands. She is warming to the charms of the wee man, who loves to work - a relationship The Media have kept under wraps for decades - nay, centuries. (Although you don't have to say "nay" - it's a Pantomime word). In the meantime, Dark Forces are Abroad. That's all you need to know - Dark Forces! Abroad! Will Snow-White be rescued by a Handsome Prince? Killed by a Wicked Queen (is there any other kind?) or live happily ever after in a taboo relationship with the love of her life - who may or may not be a Person of Shortness? | |||||
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Tir Nan Og | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Oran More! At Assembly - The Best From A Play, A Pie And A Pint | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70962 | |||
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Genre: | magical realist Musical | |||||
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Synopsis: | A Scottish exile on a copaceptic quest for the realm of eternal youth. With music and lyrics by Dave Anderson. | |||||
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Walk In The Park, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Oran More! At Assembly - The Best From A Play, A Pie And A Pint | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70919 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A melancholic is inspired by a little girl, a squirrel, a fox, a flower, a bottle of Buckfast, a crow and an echo. 'Deliciously surreal, tragic, humorous, full of theatrical magic' Scotsman . | |||||
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