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NICK DRAKE (1955 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
Born in Portsmouth in 1955, Mr. Dear's career was that of a teacher of film and photography before he became a full-time playwright in 1981. In 1985 he was serving as resident playwright at the University of Essex and is also working on a new play commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Plays by Nick Drake
Bed, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Essex University Theatre | 1985 | ||||
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 | #121483 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | companion play to "Temptation" | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dead Monkey, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #113184 | |||
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Genre: | Black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The ties that bind couples together for better or worse | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Great Dreams from Heaven | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rehearsed reading, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester | 1984 | ||||
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 | #121484 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An examination of the mentality of hysterical right-wing christians in England and the need for faith in a faithless world. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In the Ruins | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio | 1984 | ||||
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 | #121485 | |||
To Buy This Play: | 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: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | King George III sits alone in his castle at the end of his life, blind, deaf and totally mad. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jonathan Wild | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio | 1985 | ||||
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 | #121486 | |||
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Genre: | Epic | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Adapted from the novel by Henry Fielding set in 18th century London underworld. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mr Sweet Talk | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #84009 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Perfect Alibi, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Colchester and the Edinburgh Festival | 1980 | ||||
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 | #121487 | |||
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Genre: | full length black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a play about corruption in the British police force. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pure Science | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio | 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 | #121488 | |||
To Buy This Play: | 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: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A nuclear parable about a modern-day alchemist who discovers the elixir of life but the side-effects are disastrous. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Scorched Garden, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Spanish Plays, Nick Hern Books, London, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10038 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Juan Mayorga | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stasiland | ||
| 1st Produced: | 24 Jul 2010 | |||||
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 | #116974 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a brand new stage adaptation of Anna Funder's book: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall. Adapted by Nick Drake and directed by Giles Croft, Stasiland will take you on a journey through a fascinating series of accounts from those individuals who resisted the East German regime and those who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. The play brings to life both the dark and the more humane sides of life in the former German Democratic Republic, telling stories of what it was like to work for the Stasi, and how those who did so have now come to terms, or not, with their pasts. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Success | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | The Blue Coat School and St Aelreds RC High School | |||||
| 1st Published: | in New Connections 2009, Faber and Faber, London and National Theatre | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571251353 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97674 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of local heats of the National Theatre's New Connections festival of new, short plays performed by schools and youth groups | |||||
Synopsis: | big brash musical piece offering an updated version of Hogarth's The Rake's Progress | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Temptation, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Company, London | 1984 | ||||
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 | #121489 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Produced Royal Shakespeare Company, London, 1984; Newcastle, 1984; New Delhi, 1984; New York and Washington, 1985; London, 1985; BBC Radio, 1985 | |||||
Synopsis: | A schoolteacher tries to throw himself into the, sea: ritual suicide as penance for the sins of western society. But it is not that easy. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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To Reach the Clouds | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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 | #54911 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Early one morning in August 1974, when the World Trade Centre had just opened, a young Frenchman astonished the world by walking a high wire between the summits of its two towers - 1,350 feet above the Manhattan streets. Philippe Petit's account of his clandestine coup has become an international best-seller. Now poet and novelist Nick Drake has adapted To Reach the Clouds for the stage. In a dentist's waiting room, 18-year-old wire walker Philippe Petit chances on a magazine article about a new building planned for New York: the World Trade Centre will be more than 100 metres higher than France's Eiffel Tower. Over the next six and a half years, as the towers rise up into the sky, Petit and a group of conspirators tackle a host of seemingly intractable difficulties. Even if they can stage a break-in and smuggle one ton of heavy equipment up 110 storeys, will they have time to execute Petit's plan and rig the wire between the towers? Headstrong and utterly driven, Petit tackles the technical problems, the risk of discovery, the fears of his friends and the appalling consequences of failure. | |||||
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