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TED HUGHES (1930 - 1998) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Faber and Faber Ltd |
Ted Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 in Mytholmroyd, a small mill town in West Yorkshire. His father made portable wooden buildings. The family moved to Mexborough, a coal-mining town in South Yorkshire, when Hughes was seven. His parents took over a newsagent and tobacconist shop, and eventually he went to the local grammar school. In 1948 Hughes won an Open Exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Before going there, he served two years National Service in the Royal Air Force. Between leaving Cambridge and becoming a teacher, he worked at various jobs, finally as a script-reader for Rank at their Pinewood Studios. In 1956 Hughes married the American poet Sylvia Plath, who died in 1963, and they had two children. He remarried in 1970. He was awarded the OBE in 1977, created Poet Laureate in December 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998. He died in October 1998. Ted Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Faber in 1957. He published poetry, fiction and prose for both adults and children, as well as acclaimed translations. He also edited a number of poetry anthologies, including (with Seamus Heaney) The Rattle Bag and The School Bag. He won many awards including First Prize in the Guinness Poetry Awards in 1958, the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1974 and the Guardian's Children's Fiction Award in 1985. In 1997 he won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for Tales from Ovid, and repeated this success the following year with Birthday Letters, which was also awarded both the T. S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize for Best Collection of Poetry, and named Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.
Plays by Ted Hughes
Alcestis | ||
| 1st Produced: | Viaduct, Halifax | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Northern Broadsides: Halifax | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17460 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
Synopsis: | The translation is tough, plain and muscular about Euripide's history of Alcestis, the wife who is prepared to die so that her husband Admetus could live. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beauty and the Beast | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Plays For Children" published by Faber and Faber, London | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98166 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blood Wedding | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17461 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
Synopsis: | A young couple from rival clans plans to marry, much to the distress of the bridegroom's mother whose husband and other son have previously been murdered through clan rivalry. As the wedding day draws nearer the tension mounts and after the bride meets and elopes with former lover Leonardo, who is also married, the bridegroom's mother is caught in a dilemma of conscience, wondering whether she should cry for vengeance and bloodshed or protect the life of her remaining son. In a violent ambush Leonardo and the bridegroom are killed leaving the bridegroom's mother, the bride and Leonardo's wife united in their grief. | |||||
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Coming Of The Kings | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Plays For Children" published by Faber and Faber, London | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17462 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The Coming Of The Kings; The Tigers Bones; Beauty And The Beast; Sean, The Fool, The Devil And The Cats | |||||
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Crow | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Borough Hall at Greenwich Dance, London | 21 Jun 2012 | ||||
Company: | A Handspring Puppet Company UK production. Presented by Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF) | |||||
| 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 | #138226 | |||
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Genre: | performance | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Ted Hughes (poem); Matthew Dunster (dramaturgy) | |||||
Synopsis: | Mythic and elemental; Ted Hughes' Crow is at once comic, bleak and beautiful, evoking a world at odds with itself. The central crow character is a scavenger, a collector, a scientist and an innocent, full of anarchic energy and violent comedy. With this irrepressible life, Hughes created a hungry chaos of feathers and dark dreams, a mythic everyman wondering how to fit into life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gaudete | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
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 | #17463 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | From Julia Bardsley/Phelim McDermott | |||||
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Oedipus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northcott, Exeter | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17464 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Seneca | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oresteia, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17465 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Aeschylus. Trilogy comprises : Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides | |||||
Synopsis: | a trilogy of plays concerning the bloody domestic aftermath of the Trojan War | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Orpheus | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Plays For Children" published by Faber and Faber, London | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98167 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Phedre | ||
| 1st Produced: | Albery, London | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17466 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
Synopsis: | replaces Racine's alexandrines with lean English verse that serves to convey the passions of his protagonists | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pig Organ | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Collected Plays For Children" published by Faber and Faber, London | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98168 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sean, The Fool, The Devil And The Cats | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hughes, Ted, The Coming Of The Kings And Other Plays, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17467 | |||
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Genre: | Fantasy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 10 + 4 Voices | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Spring Awakening | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17468 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation. - - Gay, theme/character full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 6b 4g | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Frank Wedekind | |||||
Synopsis: | Youthful tragedy of awakening sexuality in an atmosphere of repression. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Story of Vasco, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #96782 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Georges Schehade | |||||
Synopsis: | A war rages. All the men in the little town of Sosso have gone to fight - except for Vasco, the timid barber. Then Lieutenant September arrives on a mission to recruit the barber. Vasco is needed for 'top secret' duty. But is it really to cut the Mirador General's hair? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tales From Ovid | ||
| 1st Produced: | Swan, Stratford | 1999 | ||||
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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 | #17469 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | By Tim Supple, Simon Reade | |||||
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Tigers Bones, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hughes, Ted, The Coming Of The Kings And Other Plays, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17470 | |||
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Genre: | Fable | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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