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CRAIG HIGGINSON |
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Nationality: n/a Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: PFD (agent: Jessica Cooper) |
Craig Higginson is the Literary Manager of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg
Plays by Craig Higginson
Dream Of The Dog | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grahamstown Main Festival and the Market Theatre, Barney Simon Theatre, Johannesburg | 02 Jul 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in At This Stage: Plays from Post-apartheid South Africa, Witwatersrand University Press (August 31, 2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1868144938 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66970 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | nominated for four Naledi Awards (2007-2008), including Best New South African Play. Was at the Hilton Festival, 2008 | |||||
| Set on a remote farm in kwaZulu-Natal, "Dream of the Dog" explores the terrible secrets that lie between Patricia, a sixty-year-old farmer's wife, and Look Smart, a thirty-year-old land developer who grew up there. In the background is Richard, suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease, and Beauty, sister to the girl Look Smart once loved. . . Filled with extraordinary tension, revelation and dark humour, this brilliant and always surprising new South African play challenges some of our deepest assumptions about ourselves and each other. Higginson's subtle questioning of the memory as a fiction-maker makes this play of central relevance to South Africa's continued negotiation with its past and its struggle to find a workable identity for the future. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Girl in the Yellow Dress, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle upon Tyne: Live Theatre (rehearsed reading), England, EUR >>> | 19 Mar 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430821 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #108707 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| South African writer Craig Higginson's powerful new play is a dark, witty and sexually-charged psychological drama told through the eyes of a beautiful English teacher and her French-Congolese pupil. A state of the nation' exploration of the tensions between the first and third worlds the play explores issues around language, power, identity, sex, past trauma, class, exile and refugees. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jungle Book, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Market Theatre, Johannesburg | 10 Oct 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430104 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106125 | |||
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: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | adapted by Craig Higginson from a version by Tim Supple from the novel by Rudyard Kipling | |||||
| Mowgli was still a toddler when he was lost in the jungle - his parents feeing the tiger, Shere Khan. There, Mowgli was brought up by wolves, and educated by the bear Baloo and the panther Bagheera.He was happy while growing up and learning the ways of the jungle -and his name was soon known amongst all the animals. But Mowgli'sgrowing fame provoked resentment and envy, and his life was soon threatened from all sides. . . First published in the late 1890s, Rudyard Kipling's two Jungle Books have enchanted generations of children and adults. Often describedas an allegory for the society and politics of the time, The Jungle Book has now been adapted by critically-acclaimed South African playwright, Craig Higginson. The play asks: Who is your family? Those who look the same as you or those who love and nurture you? Here, the tales become a powerful examination of an emerging democracy, and the forces that threaten it. Based on a version by the celebrated director Tim Supple, this adaptation was first staged at Johannesburg's Market Theatre in 2008. This powerful and magical version of a much-loved classic is as resonant now as it was when it first appeared - both within South Africa and beyond its borders. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Laughter in the Dark | ||
| 1st Produced: | Other Place Theatre, Stratford, UK | 2000 | ||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 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 | #47436 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | As radio play: On BBC Radio 3 in 2004 and 2005 (winner of the Sony Radio Academy GOLD Award) | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lord of the Flies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Market Theatre, Johannesburg | 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 | #9058 | |||
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: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a contemporary South African adaptation of the novel - one that will be a new piece of drama rather than a literal transcription of the novel - which was given special permission by the William Golding estate. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Perfect Circle, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wits Theatre, Johannesburg | 2008 | ||||
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 | #81245 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7 actors | |||||
Notes: | aka Creatures of Light | |||||
Synopsis: | A play about a group of graduates about to leave university in present-day South Africa | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ten Bush | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grahamstown Main Festival and Market Theatre, Johannesburg | 2007 | ||||
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 | #81246 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 actors | |||||
Notes: | Co-written by Craig Higginson and Mncedisi Shabangu | |||||
Synopsis: | Looks at the life of a young girl in a rural village who is branded as a witch at birth | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Truth in Translation | ||
| 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 | #81244 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Tom Tammi with additional dialogue and dramaturgical interventions by Craig Higginson. The play has toured extensively through Africa, Europe and North America. Won a Fringe First at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. Nominated Best New Play Fleur du Cap and Naledi Awards | |||||
Synopsis: | A play about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, told from the perspective of the translators | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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