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MIKE LEIGH (1943 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
Mike Leigh was born in 1943 in Salford, Lancashire. Between 1960-70 he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, at Camberwell and Central Art Schools and at the London Film School. He also gained wide acting and directing experience including aseason with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His first original play evolved from improvisation at Birmingham in 1965. He was honoured by the French Government in January 1998 when he received the Ordre des Artes et Lettres. ABIGAIL'S PARTY was given a 25th anniversary revival at the Hampstead Theatre in a co-production with Theatre Royal Bath, July 2002. The Production Transferred to The New Ambassadors Theatre on Dec 4th 2002 and was nominated for an Olivier award in the Best Revival Category before transferring to the Whitehall Theatre and touring nationally.
Plays by Mike Leigh
Abigail's Party | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3EU >>> | 1977 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20517 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sharply wicked social satire on lower middle class suburbia leads to dramatic denouement | |||||
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Babies Grow Old | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1974 | ||||
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 | #20518 | |||
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Big Basil | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1969 | ||||
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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 | #20519 | |||
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Bleak Moments | ||
| 1st Produced: | Open Space theatre, London | 1970 | ||||
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 | #20520 | |||
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Box Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1965 | |||||
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 | #20521 | |||
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Career Girls | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571194049 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20522 | |||
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Genre: | Film Script | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Two young women who shared a flat together in university re-unite after six years. As they re-acquaint themselves with each other, their past comes flooding back to them. In the course of their weekend they come face to face with others from their past and have to confront the inadequacy of their lives and the diminishment of their dreams. Career Girls is a moving, yet also hilarious, depiction of friendship, in which the humour is suffused with an unsentimental tenderness. | |||||
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Dick Whittington And His Cat | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||||
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 | #20523 | |||
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Down Here And Up There | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1968 | ||||
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 | #20524 | |||
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Ecstasy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3EU >>> | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854593214 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20525 | |||
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Genre: | black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Jean works in a garage and consoles herself with drink and perfunctory sex. Jean's insistent neighbour Dawn and Dawn's Irish labourer husband, Mick, and Mick's spineless mucker, Len, all join her in a funny, drunken, sad celebration of their mutual affection and bleak lives. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 284 | |||||
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Epilogue | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1969 | ||||
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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 | #20526 | |||
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Goose Pimples | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3EU >>> | 03 Mar 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20527 | |||
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Genre: | Improvisational comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | non English speaking Arab made but of cruel jokes in misunderstanding at flat which he thinks is brothel | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume I (1981) Page 104 | |||||
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Greek Tragedy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belvoir Street,Sydney | 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 | #20529 | |||
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Grief | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Cottesloe, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 21 Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571283026 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132435 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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| 1957. War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin. More and more isolated from her married friends with their successful children, Dorothy tries to cope with Victoria's increasingly hostile behaviour. But is she doing her best, as she thinks, or is she in fact responsible for what threatens to become an unendurable situation? | |||||
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Individual Fruit Pies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Loughton, Essex | 1968 | ||||
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 | #20530 | |||
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It's A Great Big Shame | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
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 | #20531 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
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Jaws Of Death, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1973 | ||||
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 | #20532 | |||
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Last Crusade Of The Five Little Nuns, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1966 | |||||
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 | #20533 | |||
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My Parents Have Gone To Carlisle | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1966 | |||||
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 | #20534 | |||
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Naked | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571202645 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20535 | |||
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Genre: | Film Script | |||||
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Notes: | Naked; Life Is Sweet; High Hopes | |||||
| Few directors in contemporary cinema have laid bare the divisions, misunderstandings and grievances of our society with such skill and rigour as Mike Leigh. Naked is perhaps his most daring achievement, and was hugely acclaimed at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. It's a drama that offers an unlovely vision of London and its denizens, one which many people would rather ignore. Leigh's protagonist Johnny is a consummate nineties anti-hero: full of spleen and repellence, cruelly funny, seemingly callous and careless, yet capable of startling passion and fellow-feeling. In Naked, violence and gentleness, comedy and tragedy go hand in hand, amid a landscape inhabited by the kind of raw drawn-from-life characters only Mike Leigh can create. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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NENAA | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1967 | ||||
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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 | #20536 | |||
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Rancid Pong, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1971 | ||||
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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 | #20537 | |||
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Silent Majority, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||||
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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 | #20538 | |||
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Smelling A Rat | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3EU >>> | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20539 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Bodies tumbling out of closets and the skeletons out of the cupboards. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Two Thousand Years | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cottesloe, London | 2005 | ||||
Company: | NT | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571232369 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45258 | |||
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| a funny but warmly touching story of secular Jewish parents struggling to cope with their son's fierce new dedication to the Hebrew faith. Set against recent world events over the last couple of years, this is a strongly-cast evening to delight and enthral, but one that also reflects our loss of ideals. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waste Paper Guards | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1966 | |||||
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 | #20540 | |||
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Wholesome Glory | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
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 | #20541 | |||
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