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TIM FIRTH (1964 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
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Plays by Tim Firth |
Absolutely Frank | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2006 | ||||
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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 | #86272 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Based on "A Man Of Letters" by Tim Firth | |||||
Synopsis: | Frank puts up signs for shops and office buildings. He longs to be a novelist - to write about spies and espionage. One day when he turns up at work it looks like his fantasy book is coming to life | |||||
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Calendar Girls, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057311067-2 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81282 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 10 | ||
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Notes: | from the Miramax film, Based On Screenplay By Firth And Juliette Towhidi | |||||
| When Annie's husband John dies of leukaemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow WI members to pose nude with them for an "alternative" calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. The news of the women's charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales. gets around, and soon hordes of press have descended on the small Yorkshire village of Knapeley. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie's friendship is put to the test under the strain of their new-found fame. Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre and has since become the fastest selling play in British theatre history. | |||||
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Cardboard City | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1989 | ||||
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 | #11762 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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End Of The Food Chain, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057301755-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11763 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Welcome to the "animal shift" at Kale Moor grocery distribution depot. Under the imaginative guidance of Bruce "The Gamesmaster", work here is an endless round of food sports (sprout tag, Smartie-and-flan-base tiddlywinks, frozen fish swordfighting . . .), sarcasm and juvinile humour, much enjoyed by the all-male night-shift workers. But a major change is due, for their new colleague is not a born games player but is - even worse - a woman, who can see through the childish antics of the men to the insecurities, and weaknesses beneath. At first, relations are reasonably civilized, but the gloves come off when the cerebral challenge of murder-mystery role-playing is presented to the team . . .. and there are surprises in store for all of them.. | |||||
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Flint Street Nativity, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780573111310 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11764 | |||
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Genre: | Christmas Comedy with music Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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| Adapted from his own television play The Flint Street Nativity is a family comedy for any child who's ever been in a nativity or any adult who's watched one through their fingers. | |||||
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Love Songs For Shopkeepers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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 | #11765 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Man Of Letters, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057304227-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58680 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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| A truly outstanding, genuinely funny play, with a wry twist at the end, first seen at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round Studio, Scarborough. Frank has erected signs for a commercial letterer for twenty-five years. With trainee Alan, he attempts to spell 'Forshaw's' - the letters collectively forming the play's third 'character'. He is nonplussed when the right letters do not appear and then realization dawns | |||||
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Neville's Island | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0573140051 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11766 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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| A comedic exploration of the benefits of the business outward bound course and how relationships can be changed forever by a weekend away in the country. Four out-of-condition, middle-aged businessmen sent off on a team building exercise in the Lake District succeed in being the first people ever to get shipwrecked on an island on Derwentwater. Bound in fog, menaced by wildlife and cut off from the world, this perfunctory middle-class exercise turns into a carnival of recreminations, French cricket and sausages. What should have been a bonding process for Gordon, Angus, Roy and Neville turns into a muddy, bloody fight for survival. Because when night settles in, strange things happen out in the wilds. And what took place on Neville's Island that foggy November weekend none of this particular middle-management team would ever forget. | |||||
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Our House | ||
| 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 | #40553 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | music by Madness | |||||
Synopsis: | This musical set in Camden, is a fast moving romantic comedy, which tells the story of Joe Casey, his mates, his girlfriend Sarah and the night he commits a petty crime to impress her. Following the two courses his life would have taken had he stayed to face the music when the police appear on the scene or bunked the law and made a run for it. | |||||
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Safari Party, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London (acting edition) - click here to order >>>, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11767 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Three households in Cheshire have agreed to hold a "safari party" - a dinner party, each course of which is served in a different house. The hors d'oeuvres are served by Daniel and Adam, young brothers whose abusive father was recently shot dead, the entrees by Lol and Esther, upwardly-mobile and vulgar, and deserts by Inga, a seemingly benign antiques dealer. The three housleholds are linked not just socially, however: there's the whole question of the table . . . The brothers sold it to Inga, inventing a slightly colourful history for it to increase its value, and she then re-sold it at a staggering profit - with even more elaborate storytelling - to Lol and esther. As the evening progresses, the many layers of truth about the table, some shocking, are revealed and violence flares. | |||||
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Sign of the Times | ||
| 1st Produced: | Windsor: Theatre Royal, England, EUR (as Absolutely Frank) >>> | 30 Mar 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0573140136 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96467 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Play By Tim Firth, Expanded From His Play A Man Of Letters. aka Absolutely Frank | |||||
| Frank is an aspiring spy novelist and Head of Installation at Forshaws, a commercial lettering factory. Alan is his reluctant teenage trainee, more interested in listening to music and designing album artwork for his band Lizard than Franks beloved bracketing systems. As they attempt to install the company name in giant letters on the side of its building, it soon becomes clear that the letters are supposed to read For Sale instead of Forshaws the company is relocating and Frank will be out of a job. In the second act, three years have passed and Alan is a jaded manager at an electrical goods store to which Frank has been sent for work experience as part of a benefit scheme. Their roles have been reversed, but when a burnt pitta bread triggers a fire alert, Frank and Alan find themselves back in familiar territory and holding the key to each others salvation. Sign of the Times is a full-length comedy based on the authors one-act play A Man of Letters. It starred Matthew Kelly as Frank at Londons Duchess Theatre in March 2011. | |||||
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