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DAVID HOLMAN (1942 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
David Holman is an English playwright with over seventy plays to his credit. He has been granted resident status in Australia, and has worked between Australia and England since l983, when he was first commissioned by the State Theatre Company of South Australia to write the acclaimed and much performed No Worries for Magpie Theatre which was produced at the l984 Adelaide Festival. The Small Poppies was commissioned by State Theatre for the l986 Adelaide Festival. Beauty and the Beast completed his trilogy of plays for the State Theatre Company of South Australia/Magpie Theatre, and was launched at their Bicentennial Adelaide Festival in l988. Holman's plays are performed all over the world and have been translated into many languages.
Plays by David Holman
1983 | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1983 | ||||
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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 | #16905 | |||
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A B C | ||
| 1st Produced: | Almeida Theatre, London | 07 Oct 1989 | ||||
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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 | #118858 | |||
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Adventure In The Deep | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1973 | ||||
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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 | #16906 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Beauty And The Beast | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Jun 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in No Worries: Three Plays for Children, Currency Press (1 May 1989) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868191812 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16907 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens 60 mins One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
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| Gives the classic tale an Australian context. | |||||
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Big Cat, Big Coat | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1980 | ||||
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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 | #16908 | |||
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Billy Budd | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20 Jun 1991 | |||||
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 | #16909 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Christmas Carol, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0435233051 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16910 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | novel by Charles Dickens | |||||
| traces Scrooge's conversion from miserliness to benevolence | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol VIII (1988) Page 1755; Theatre Record Vol IX (1989) Page 1731; Theatre Record Vol XII (1992) Page 1557; Theatre Record Vol XXI (2001) Page 1690 | |||||
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Diary of a Madman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
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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 | #124717 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | adapted by David Holman with Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush | |||||
Synopsis: | The Diary of a Madman is based on Nikolai Gogol's darkly comic 1853 short story centered on the life of a minor civil servant, Poprischin, in the repressive era of Nicholas I. Written in first-person, diary entry format, the story follows the protagonist's yearning for a senior official's daughter and his elaborate delusions, among them his imagined royal status and communication between animals. Only as Poprischin descends into madness does he attain a measure of greatness. The story satirizes state bureaucracy in 1830s St. Petersburg and relates an average man's quest for individuality in an indifferent world. | |||||
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Drink The Mercury | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1972 | ||||
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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 | #16911 | |||
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Synopsis: | The tragedy of the small Japanese fishing village of Minamata whose main food supply was poisoned with mercury by a local chemical factory. | |||||
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Jack and the Beanstalk | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
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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 | #138449 | |||
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No Pasaran | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1976 | ||||
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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 | #16912 | |||
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Synopsis: | They Shall Not Pass!]. A young Jewish boxers dream of competing in the 1936 Olympics is dashed by the rise of the Nazis so he flees to London only to face Oswald Mosely and the Blackshirts. | |||||
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No Worries | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1984 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in No Worries: Three Plays for Children, Currency Press (1 May 1989) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868191812 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16913 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens 85 min Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
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| One of the world's most popular plays for children, No Worries tells the tale of Matilda Bell who has an idyllic life growing-up on an Australian farm, surrounded by animals and open spaces. But drought strikes, the farm fails and her family are forced to leave the country for the city to find a new life. Matty is heart-broken. She must say goodbye to her beloved animals and to her friends. She does the only thing she can think of to register her anger and anguish..Told through narration, song and exhilarating action, this is a moving and joyful play for younger children. A classic! | |||||
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O.U.T. Spells Out | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant | 06 Apr 2004 | ||||
Company: | Havant Arts Centre's Youth Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #138448 | |||
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Genre: | TYA | |||||
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Synopsis: | Based on the true stories of real-life 'Child Migrants', O.U.T. Spells Out charts the stories of Billy and Alice, brother and sister separated for forty years and by 12,000 miles. | |||||
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Peacemaker | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1983 | ||||
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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 | #16914 | |||
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Small Poppies | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in No Worries: Three Plays for Children, Currency Press (1 May 1989) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868191812 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16915 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens 100 mins One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 6 | ||
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| Tells of that traumatic first day of school. | |||||
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Solomon And The Big Cat | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1987 | ||||
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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 | #16916 | |||
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Susummu's Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1983 | ||||
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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 | #16917 | |||
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Tractor Girls, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Salberg Studio, Salisbury | 31 Jan 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 | #16918 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Caz and Mo attend every Ipswich Town football match they can. Now the team are playing in Europe and they have gone to watch their team | |||||
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Whale | ||
| 1st Produced: | 12 Dec 1989 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16919 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Play Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 51 characters | |||||
Notes: | The Story of Putu, Siku and K'nik | |||||
Synopsis: | An Arctic winter in Alaska - three Grey whales are trapped under a spreading ice-cap as they try to head south to Mexico. The whales' fate is highlighted in a local news splash, causing global waves that pit corporations against communities and bring American, Russian and Inuit people together in a united protest. Whale cleverly weaves this true story with Inuit myths and legends, raising issues of individual, corporate and global responsibility and the power of community action when supported by the media. | |||||
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