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TIM LUSCOMBE (1960 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Micheline Steinberg Associates |
Tim Luscombe started writing full time six years ago. Productions of his plays include: EuroVision (Drill Hall & Vaudeville); The One You Love (Royal Court & Barracke Berlin); The Death of Gogol and the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest (Drill Hall); The Schuman Plan (Hampstead), Hungry Ghosts (Orange Tree), and adaptations of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. The Schuman Plan and Northanger Abbey are published by Nick Hern Books, Persuasion by Oberon. A Map of the Region was shortlisted for the Bruntwood 2011. He is currently working under commission on new plays for LAMDA, Mountview and RADA, as well as adapting Mansfield Park for the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds. Tim Luscombe trained as a director at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Directing credits include: The Merchant of Venice & Volpone (Lyric Hammersmith & World Tour); Artist Descending A Staircase (Helen Hayes New York & Duke of York's London); When She Danced (Kings Head London & Playwrights' Horizons New York); Easy Virtue (Garrick); Snow Orchid and Salvation (both at the Gate London); The Browning Version & Harlequinade (Royalty), Intimate Exchanges (Scarborough & 59E59 New York), five productions at the Chichester Festival Theatre and five at Salisbury Playhouse. He was nominated for a Lawrence Olivier award for his London productions of Easy Virtue and The Browning Version & Harlequinade. He ran his own theatre company in the early 1990s.
Plays by Tim Luscombe
Amateur Rites | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #47586 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | A fast-paced, hilarious comedy of modern manners - set in a Home Counties community centre. What could be more unsurprising than a suburban AmDram company staging a Jane Austen adaptation? But the ambitions and neuroses of the members of Pogchurch Valley Amateur Dramatic Society come to a perilous and uproarious climax in the white heat of the rehearsal process for their production of Northanger Abbey. Alternately laugh-out-loud-funny and tender, this is a Stepping Out for the twenty first century. | |||||
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Death of Gogol and the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 May 2005 | |||||
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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 | #51940 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Comedy Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, musical | |||||
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Synopsis: | Stuart has written a book about Gogol. Now all he has to do is post it. Held back by fantasies and trapped by agoraphobia, Stuart's problems compound one another. Lenny, the sweet but ruthless singer-songwriter from the Netherlands, leads him constantly back towards the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, where Laurita Venezuela, the cheeky and sexy Spanish TV hostess, is waiting for him. Possessed and pursued by the spirits of Gogol and some of his characters, including Aksenty, hero of Dairy of a Madman, Stuart faces an uncertain future. . . | |||||
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Dirty Shorts | ||
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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 | #117138 | |||
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Genre: | Collection of short plays. - - Gay, one acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | At least 3 | Female | At least 2 | ||
Parts other: | Could be played by up to 29 actors | |||||
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Synopsis: | This is a collection of short plays. Some deal with cotemporary situations. Some are timeless. Some are 'funny and smart'. Some are 'scary and sick and wonderful'. Some shock, some move you. Overall they're 'disturbing and delicious'. | |||||
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Education of Hitler, The | ||
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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 | #117139 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | In the first act, we see the sexual and, to some extent, political education of Hitler, and his transmutation, through his rejection of love, from neurotic-gayboy-lover and artist, via beer hall demagogue, to the leader of the Party. In the second half, having gained power and the love of Ernst Rohm, Hitler's task is to maintain both. His relationship with Ernst is tested as he balances the queer fraternity's energy with his fear of what it holds over him. The resulting collapse and confusion alchemises gayness into a source of misery and terror. Hitler's education within the realpolitik of a dictatorship - as he learns how to resist Goebbels and Goring without relinquishing power - concludes with his purchase of legislative insurance whereby even a murmur against him will be regarded as treason. It's through a complete denial of himself and his love for Ernst and art that he's finally able to persecute the community from which he came - to give Goebbels the green light to act without caution against the 'enemy'. | |||||
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Eurovision | ||
| 1st Produced: | Drill Hall, London >>>; Theatre Record Vol XIII (1993) Page 1308 | 21 May 1992 | ||||
Company: | The London Gay Theatre Co | |||||
| 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 | #21524 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Gary, box office clerk, is a Eurovision freak. Kevin, air steward and Gary's best friend, is a Eurovision cynic. Gary takes them both off to Rome to see the Eurovision Song Contest itself. Kevin's resistance is tempered by the idea of a weekend in Rome and the possibility of meeting some hot men. In Rome, and armed with journalist's access-all-areas passes that Gary has stolen, they meet Katia Europa, the nervous and histrionic hostess of the contest, and, through her, several of the wild and wacky European entries. Not to mention the ghosts of the Emperor Hadrian and his lover Antinous. Oh, and the Spirit of Europe itself! A madcap, crazy farce involving gay men and gay ghosts and mostly set backstage at the Eurovision Song Contest. [Music by Jason Carr] | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XII (1992) Page 0650; Theatre Record Vol XIII (1993) Page 1308 | |||||
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Fairyland | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gielgud Theatre, RADA, London | Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | RADA | |||||
| 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 | #138616 | |||
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Genre: | Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written for 13 2nd year students at RADA 2012 | |||||
Synopsis: | Fairyland tells the story of Sir Walter Raleigh's attempt to bring back the gold from 'Guiana' (present day Venezuela). Incarcerated for treason by James I, Raleigh promised the King that he knew where the gold lay and could bring him back enough to pay off his debts and get him out from under the boot of Spain. But Raleigh didn't know, and returned to England to face certain death. Why did he come back? Loyalty? Family? Duty? Home? Did he possibly think he could talk his way out of it? | |||||
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Hungry Ghosts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Nov 2010 | |||||
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 | #117140 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Top British racing driver Tyler Jones arrives in Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix. His life is airports, hotels, racetracks, corporate events and brolly dollies. For Tyler, Shanghai is no different from Bahrain or Melbourne. He's happy to toe the corporate party line as long as he can do what he lives to do: race cars. But when he meets and falls for Chinese dissident Pin-de, their worlds collide. Racing ambition seems suddenly futile set against Pin-de's struggle for survival in authoritarian China. How can he square his newfound awareness about the reality of life and death in China, and help Pin-de, without losing everything he has? | |||||
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Last Night At Club Kali | ||
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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 | #47588 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Loving Thing, The | ||
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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 | #47587 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Map of the Region, A | ||
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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 | #117137 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | shortlist for Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2011 | |||||
Synopsis: | The Baltics in the late 1980s. When Piret's husband, Mihkel, is taken by the security forces, she starts to uncover his political connections. She's torn between her desire to get involved in the underground work in which he was involved and her desire to look after her teenage son and increasingly senile mother. After a night out, Piret unwisely invites a Russian home with her. The next morning he refuses to leave. As their individual stories unwind, the history of the European fight for freedom in 1989 is told, and a map of the geography of this complex region is drawn. Interweaving with Piret's story is that of Tonu, her son. Now aged 33, he is faced with the new realpolitik of the Baltic States - from the presence of the Russian Mafia to the challenges faced in the pursuit of individual freedom. | |||||
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Naked Joke, The | ||
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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 | #117141 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy. - - Gay, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A hilarious and moving gay re-imagining of Chekhov's Three Sisters. A large, old house in the Lake District. Three out-of-fashion gay performers have gone to a gay artistic commune in Cumbria to lick their wounds after failing to come up with a follow up to their Off-Broadway hit 'Naked Men Telling Jokes'. There they meet a bunch of weary BBC actors on location work. The motivations Chekhov's characters have for theorising, yearning for the unattainable and ignoring each other, find precise parallels for gay under-employed actors with addiction issues or new age bents and spiritual yearnings; men who love their profession and the idea of success more than each other, and who pontificate about their impact on the future, while remaining childless. The play seems to be particularly current through some of the characters' sense of imminent global meltdown, and the alternative ways to avert the situation, ranging from organic farming to high-speed spiritual evolution. By bringing Chekhov's play into the twenty-first century, the comedic aspect shines brightly. | |||||
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Northanger Abbey | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal, York | 24 May 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854598370 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39662 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | Playable from cast size of 8 - 80 | |||||
Notes: | from novel by Jane Austem | |||||
| Catherine Morland, who comes from the comfortable family of a village clergyman, is invited to Bath for the season by her wealthy friends, Mr. and Mrs. Allen. In Bath she meets the Thorpes, Isabella and her persistent brother John. Isabella encourages Catherine's interest in romantic fantasies and "horrid" fictions. Until Mr Henry Tilney comes along. A rare gem: a shrewd psychological exploration of morals and motives, and a sensational glimpse of a colourful and dangerous lost word. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 0730; Theatre Record Vol XXVII (2007) Page 1020 | |||||
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One You Love, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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 | #21525 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - AIDS, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Your stomach is so precious. I love damaging it. Even on the outside it looks delicate. White skin. Like a child's. Milky bag holding in your entrails; a poem wrapped round an explosion. What's it like inside? It's so vulnerable. But you'll let me pummel you. You'll yield and take it. I don't want to lose you. It's about wanting it, dying for it, getting it, living with it. | |||||
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Persuasion | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431934 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131142 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | from novel by Jane Austen | |||||
| Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with a handsome young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, at the age of nineteen. But because he had neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne's mentor and friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her to break off the engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Frederick and when he returns from sea a Captain, she can only watch as every eligible young woman falls at his feet. Can the pair rekindle a love that was lost but not forgotten? | |||||
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Pig | ||
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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 | #117142 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - AIDS, full length | |||||
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Synopsis: | Taylor and Luc chat each other up on the Internet. Stevie and Joe tie the knot in a Civil Partnership. Pig and Knife are two rent boys who specialise in S/M. The tree stories interweave and coalesce. Who is who? Who is telling whose story? What is real and what is fantasy? A dark drama about fantasy and death wish, bug chasing and gift giving, sexual violence and violent sex. | |||||
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Schuman Plan, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Feb 2006 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854599193 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47231 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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| 1970. Bill's believes in Europe, works for Ted Heath and is in love with the girl from the Ministry. What could possibly go wrong? The Schuman Plan is named after the French foreign minister who began the process of Union in Europe. The play moves deftly through the history of post-war Britain, via the story of Bill, constantly rooting itself in the ordinary lives of its citizens, showing how the personal is almost always political, and vice versa. | |||||
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Second World, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lindbury Studio, LAMDA | Jul 2012 | ||||
Company: | LAMDA | |||||
| 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 | #138617 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Written for the leaving post-grad students at LAMDA 2012 | |||||
Synopsis: | 1989. The Trade Union Solidarity changes the face of politics in Poland, the peace movement challenges old communism in East Germany, in Hungary they're tearing down the electric fence which separates them from Austria. But in Romania nothing shifts. Ceausescu is re-elected supreme leader and speaks to his people, receiving thirty-four 'spontaneous' standing ovations. But Toma has a plan. If he can outwit the Securitate and keep his girlfriend onside, he believes he can change the world. | |||||
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