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RICHARD BEAN (1956 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents represented by Rose Cobbe |
Richard Bean studied Social Psychology at Loughborough University. Between 1989 and 1994 he worked as a stand-up comedian and went on to be one of the writers and performers of the sketch show 'Control Group Six' (BBC Radio), which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. In 1994 he wrote the libretto for Stephen McNeff's opera 'Paradise of Fools'. His first full length play, 'Of Rats and Men' was staged at the Canal Cafe and went on to Edinburgh. He adapted it for radio for the BBC and it was nominated for a Sony Award. This was followed by 'Toast', a hit at the Royal Court in 1999.
Plays by Richard Bean
Big Fellah, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newbury: Corn Exchange, Market Place, Newbury, Berks RG14 5BD >>> | 02 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | Out of Joint | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840027754 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83174 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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| Richard Bean's latest is a controversial and hilarious play set amongst the expatriate Irish community of New York as they try to raise money for NORAID, the charitable organisation often accused of being an IRA front. New York fire-fighters of Irish descent give money to NORAID, along comes 9/11 and several die at the hands of a terrorist group. Spot the irony. | |||||
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Count of Monte Cristo, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Nov 2012 | |||||
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 | #139126 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | addapted from book by Book by Alexandre Dumas | |||||
Synopsis: | Alexandre Dumas's classic tale comes to the National Theatre in a theatrical adventure for family audiences. A leader of men, a captain at nineteen, AND a hopeless romantic. Edmond Dantes - illiterate young sailor of Marseilles - is drawn into conspiring with the exiled Napoleon and imprisoned for ten years. Incarcerated in a desolate gaol with no-one but a mad monk for company, Dantes begins an unconventional education. As his enemies become more powerful, all hope of justice and of a reunion with his sweetheart appear to be gone. Still, Dantes clings to hope. Eventually, his chance comes, he escapes his prison, adopts a disguise and the Count of Monte Cristo is born. | |||||
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England People Very Nice | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Feb 2009 | |||||
Company: | NT | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84002-900-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89123 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | There are about 80 characters in the play and one would need a company of about 20 at least to do the production with the balance between men and women about even | |||||
Notes: | the play would appeal to drama schools who are looking for large ensembles to test their actors with multi role plays | |||||
| A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture. And the emerging pattern shows that white flight and anxiety over integration are anything but new. Richard Bean's comedy follows a pair of star-crossed lovers amid cutters' mobs, Papists, Jewish anarchists and radical Islamists across four tempestuous centuries. | |||||
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English Game, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 May 2008 | |||||
Company: | Headlong Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84002-913-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #80247 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| a mixed bag of players, ten men and a boy come to an unnamed London park for a 35 over cricket match against another amateur team. | |||||
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God Botherers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Nov 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840024151 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2483 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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| the borders don't make any sense, there's no rule of law, no running water, you never know when the electric's on, the last war's fucked everything, and the next war will fuck everything else A dark and deeply funny tale of foreign aid workers in far-flung Tambia. . . Truly alternative Christmas entertainment, not for the faint hearted or politically correct. | |||||
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Harvest | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Sep 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84002-913-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44606 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | won the Critics' Circle BEST NEW PLAY 2005 AWARD. It was also nominated for the Olivier Award and the Evening Standard Award in the same category | |||||
| On 14th May 1875 Lord Primrose Agar, drunk as a skunk, wagered one of his tenant farmers, Orlando Harrison, that his border collie pup Jip would outlive the 94 year-old Harrison. The prize would be 82 acres of up and down known as Kilham Wold Farm, near Driffiels in East Yorkshire. Thirteen years later, having buried his dog, Agar shook hands with Orlando and conferred on the Harrisons a century of struggle | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 1123; Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 0196 | |||||
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Heretic, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 04 Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431200 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122216 | |||
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Genre: | black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A black comedy to tackle the divisive issue of climate change, The Heretic questions the position of science in the global argument and invites us to honestly consider what we think we know. | |||||
| The study of climate science is the cool degree at the university where Dr Diane Cassell is a lead academic in Earth Sciences. At odds with the orthodoxy over man-made climate change, she finds herself increasingly vilified and is forced to ask if the issue is political as well as personal. Could the belief in anthropogenic global warming be the most attractive religion of the 21st century? | |||||
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Honeymoon Suite | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 Jan 2004 | |||||
Company: | ETheatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840024062 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2484 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | won the Pearson "New Play of the Year" for 2002 | |||||
| The wear and tear of marriage; and the result, while full of deadpan humour, leaves you unsure whether Bean's deadlocked duo are the victims of temperamental mismatch or social circumstance. Technically, the play is ingenious. The action takes place in a Bridlington hotel suite and traces the shifting marital fortunes of Eddie and Irene: Bean's Ayckbournian trick, however, is to present the three chosen time-periods simultaneously rather than sequentially. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 0048; Theatre Record Vol XXVIII (2008) Page 0263; Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 0378 | |||||
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House Of Games | ||
| 1st Produced: | Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, Islington, London N1 1TA >>> | 09 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114572 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller / Screenplay | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on the Screenplay by David Mamet, story by David Mamet and Jonathan Katz; stage version by Richard Bean | |||||
Synopsis: | "This is a confidence game, not because you give me your confidence, but because I give you mine." Harvard-educated psychoanalyst Margaret Ford is celebrated for her best selling book 'Driven! Compulsion and Obsession in Every Day Life'. Stepping in to help one of her patients settle his gambling debts, she compromises her professional reputation and is drawn into the seedy underworld of the House of Games poker club. Seduced by charismatic hustler Mike, Margaret convinces herself that she can make an academic study of the con. Before she realises it, Margaret is entangled in a fast-paced complex thriller. | |||||
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Hypochondriac, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Nov 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840026170 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46264 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere, adapted by Richard Bean, literal translation by Christopher Campbell | |||||
| Moliere's classic farce pokes fun at Argan, a man so obsessed by his own imaginary ailments that he can no longer control his haphazard household or the mercenary medics he employs. With doctors determined to grow fat from the profits of his condition, Argan's closest relatives battle to show him the truth of his situation. Using elaborate trickery, they strive to cure the real disease from which he suffers, managing to pile confusion upon hilarious confusion. | |||||
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In The Club | ||
| 1st Produced: | 25 Jul 2007 | |||||
Company: | Hamstead Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84002-913-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63765 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Hapless MEP Philip Wardrobe has a busy day ahead of him, balancing his less-than-irreproachable political career with his attemps to start a family. As he prepares for his girlfriend to fly in from Kettering for an afternoon of fertile frolics, his plan to be voted President of the European Parliment is foiled at every turn by unpredictable colleagues: uncouth Yorkshiremen; irate Turks and amarous Frenchwomen. . .to say nothing of the mysterious man in the linen cupboard. | |||||
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Jack and the Beanstalk | ||
| 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 | #99106 | |||
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Genre: | Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | By Richard Bean, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Joel Horwood and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm | |||||
Synopsis: | Pantomime returns to Hammersmith in a community and entertainment extravaganza with the creative team working alongside local talent to present a traditional panto | |||||
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Laws Of War, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 May 2010 | |||||
Company: | Cries from the Heart 2010 | |||||
| 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 | #114573 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by (in alphabetical order) Richard Bean, Aschlin Ditta, David Grossman, Kate Hardie, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Polly Stenham, Tom Stoppard, Jack Thorne and debbie tucker green | |||||
Synopsis: | London's burning! A civil war is raging in modern England threatening to turn the land of cricket, and warm beer into a hell of displaced people, rape, child soldiers and warlord militias where violence is trumps, and the laws of war are screwed up and used to light the campfires. Human Rights Watch applies the skills it has learned in Sri Lanka, Georgia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to this blessed plot, this realm, this England. | |||||
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Le Pub | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books (April 1, 2003) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840023114 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48618 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 30 actors | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Serge Valletti | |||||
| Inventory time in a pub, or rather poeub, somewhere in the world. Life is about to change for Mr Globul. He will go on to fight the inspectors, prompt a revolution, lead the country, lapse into a deep sleep, hide in a crowd of refugees, dress as a barrel and live as a travelling puppeteer. . . Globul could be the heir apparent to Ubu and Gargantua. Poeub is a modern epic comedy where Serge Valetti plays with language, characters, cliches, time and space and leads us through an imaginary world as pitiless, brutal and absurd as our own. | |||||
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London Assurance | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Mar 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840029994 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116998 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Dion Boucicault | |||||
| Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the NT by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw. This stage revival has been brilliantly adapted by the prolific and award-winning playwright Richard Bean. | |||||
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Mentalists, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Jul 2002 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840022876 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2485 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| War, poverty, corruption, spiralling taxes, bad behaviour, inter-personal violence and over-population. Do these things worry you? Middle-aged manager Ted, hits on a utopian plan to change the way we live | |||||
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Mr England | ||
| 1st Produced: | 25 Oct 2000 | |||||
Company: | NT Studio | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840021705 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2486 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Why has middle manager Stephen England got up in the night and defecated on the living room carpet? His wife Judith doesn't know, nor does his mother Irene. Only Andy, the gauche youth who regularly turns up uninvited to borrow his power tools, can save him (or destroy him). | |||||
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Of Rats And Men | ||
| 1st Produced: | Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice, London W2 6ND >>> | 1996 | ||||
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 | #72283 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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On The Side Of The Angels | ||
| 1st Produced: | 24 Apr 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The great game: Afghanistan, Oberon Books, London (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781840029222 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95194 | |||
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Genre: | Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of a three month long festival about the culture and history of Afghanistan. Entitled The Great Game: Afghanistan. The festival will be divided into three parts, each focusing on a period of Afghan history: 1996 - 2009 : Enduring Freedom | |||||
| Richard Bean was always likely to liven up proceedings but, while his tale of NGOs contains some great jokes and a series of memorable characters, it has a dark heart. It starts with a scene where Jackie, a feisty aid worker on the ground played by Jemma Redgrave, tries to "sell" Afghanistan to the charity's fund raisers. Jemima Rooper and Daniel Betts as Fiona and Jonathan are less than impressed at trying to push farming and land rights on to the market but eventually get sold on the idea of projecting the plight of starving farmers who have lost their livelihoods. The action moves to the poppy fields of Herat, where the politics are complicated and deals must be settled over ritualised cups of tea. The combination of Jackie and her headstrong colleague, Tom Mackay's Graham, can be hilarious. They are also incredibly brave and, in Jackie's case, pragmatic, accepting traditional values. This causes a rift between the pair that ultimately leads to a tragic ending to one of the day's strongest plays. . | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 0455; Theatre Record Vol XXX (2010) Page 0872 | |||||
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One Man, Two Guvnors | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Lyttelton, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 24 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978 1849430296 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124415 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | ensemble | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni | |||||
| Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancee's dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who's been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed up at The Cricketers' Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple. Based on Carlo Goldoni's classic Italian comedy The Servant of Two Masters, in this new English version by prizewinning playwright Richard Bean, sex, food and money are high on the agenda | |||||
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Paradise Of Fools | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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 | #72282 | |||
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Genre: | libretto | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | LibrettoOpera by Stephen McNeff | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pub Quiz Is Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Sep 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840029598 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104869 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| a study of a pub quiz team whose name 'My dad's a Drug Addict', is not supposed to be ironic. | |||||
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Smack Family Robinson | ||
| 1st Produced: | 26 Jun 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840023732 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2487 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| If you're a Robinson, family matters. And family matters are about to get serious.' Things have changed since Dad set up the family business in the 60s: new products, more competition, and a bigger market. At the end of the day though, it's still all about cash and stock. But this is no ordinary family business - the Robinsons are drug dealers. After 35 years of serving it up to the local community, Dad has handed over the reins to son Sean. And there are going to be changes, but not all for the better. Strange things are happening in the previously quiet streets of Whitley Bay. The local police are becoming more and more interested in the activities of the family and serious questions are being asked: Who killed Pammy? Who are the mysterious Russians? And more importantly where the f**k are all the spoons? | |||||
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Toast | ||
| 1st Produced: | Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED >>> | 25 Sep 1997 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Machine's New Writing Workshops | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840021047 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2488 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
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| Seven men come together to bake enough bread to feed the population of Hull. It's just another Sunday. Nellie's so worn down from a lifetime making dough, he loses his vest in the mix. First, Owen Man's on a promise. The ovens are cranked up and running, and the wholemeal's pleasingly big going in. But there's a spanner in the works which threatens bread production in Hull for good, and life as they know it for the men on the shift. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XIX (1999) Page 0207; Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 1649; Theatre Record Vol XXVII (2007) Page 0280 | |||||
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Under The Whaleback | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Apr 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840022868 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2489 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | winner of the George Devine award for 2002 | |||||
| The life of Darrel Ascough, a Hull trawlerman, is played out in three acts in the crew's quarters of a distant water trawler: First, at sixteen, Darrel is a deckie learner on the Kingston Jet. Here he meets Hull's "one man circus" Cassidy, and is introduced to his legacy. On the James Joyce, and as a young but skilled trawlerman, Darrel is the only survivor when the trawler capsizes when heavy with ice. In the final act, on the heritage museum ship the Arctic Kestrel, Darrel meets the confused and rootless youth Pat, and is forced to address the meaning of his legacy and his true heritage. | |||||
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Up On Roof | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Mar 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84002-913-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50484 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | nominated for the 2006 TMA award for Best New Play | |||||
| fictional account of the eruption at Hull prison (UK) in 1976 | |||||
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