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HUGH WHITEMORE (1936 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Judy Daish Associates Ltd |
Hugh Whitemore was born in 1936. He began his writing career in British television (contributing to The Wednesday Play, Armchair Theatre and Play for Today) and twice received Writers' Guild Awards. Movie credits include The Return of the Soldier (an adaptation of the novel by Rebecca West), Mel Brooks production of 84 Charing Cross Road, Utz, (an adaptation of Bruce Chatwin's novel) and Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre. His stage plays include Stevie, Pack of Lies , Breaking the Code, The Best of Friends, It's Ralph, A Letter of Resignation, Disposing of the Body, God Only Knows and a new version of Pirandellos As You Desire Me. These plays have been translated into many languages and produced throughout the world. Hugh Whitemores work has twice been named Best Single TV drama by the UK Broadcasting Press Guild, he has received the Scripter Award in Hollywood (for 84 Charing Cross Road), the Script Prize at the 1998 Monte Carlo Festival (for his adaptation of A Dance to the Music of Time) and a special Communications Award from the American Mathematical Society (for Breaking the Code). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of Kings College, London.
Plays by Hugh Whitemore
As You Desire Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Capitol Theatre, Manchester | 26 Nov 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840025842 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46003 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello | |||||
| Elma is a singer in a sleazy 1930s Berlin nighclub. Having suffered an appalling assault during the First World War, she has no memory of her former life. A man appears and tells her that she is, in fact, the wife of an Italian aristocrat, and a new life awaits her. But when she goes to Italy to pursue this dream, she is greeted only by problems and disappointments. Pirandello uses this story to explore the mysteries of identity and memory, themes that preoccupied him throughout his life. | |||||
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Best of Friends, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36997 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Adapted From the Letters and Writings of Dame Laurentia Mclachlan, Sir Sydney Cockerel and George Bernard Shaw | |||||
| In 1924, when George Bernard Shaw was 68, his friend Sydney Cockerell, then Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, introduced him to a Benedictine nun at Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire. Dame Laurentia McLachlan, later to be elected Abbess, enjoyed a lively friendship with both Shaw and Cockerell for over twenty-five years. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol VIII (1988) Page 0166; Theatre Record Vol XXVI (2006) Page 0262 | |||||
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Breaking the Code | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal Haymarket, London | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36998 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence by Andrew Hodges | |||||
| This compassionate play is the story of Alan Turing, who broke the code in two ways: He cracked the German Enigma code during World War II (for which he was decorated by Churchill) and also shattered the English code of sexual discretion with his homosexuality (for which he was arrested on a charge of gross indecency). Whitemore's play, shifting back and forth in time, seeks to find a connection between the two events. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol VII (1987) Page 0811; Theatre Record Vol X (1990) Page 1674; Theatre Record Vol XI (1991) Page 0540; Theatre Record Vol XXIII (2003) Page 1577 | |||||
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Disposing Of The Body | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 July 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868271 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #36999 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| A man leaves London for a secure early retirement in Gloucestershire, where an unexpected passion changes his life irrevocably. | |||||
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God Only Knows | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Aug 2000 | |||||
Company: | Triumph Entertainment | |||||
| 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 | #37000 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Contentedly full of good Italian food and drowsy with wine, four holidaymakers are relaxing on the terrace of a villa in Tuscany. Suddenly, out of the evening shadows, there appears a fugitive - a man who claims to possess long-hidden knowledge that is both momentous and dangerous - an enigma involving the Vatican's Secretary Archieve, an Italian dealer in antiquities, and a Jewish preacher known as Yeshua Ben Pantera. And the answer to this riddle. . .? | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XX (2000) Page 1396; Theatre Record Vol XXI (2001) Page 0355 | |||||
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It's Ralph | ||
| 1st Produced: | Comedy, London | 28 Oct 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868066 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37001 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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| frustrated couple spend weekend in country cottage which, like their marriage, is in need of repair | |||||
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Last Cigarette, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Mar 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780571244096 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94592 | |||
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Genre: | Biographical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | by Simon Gray and Hugh Whitemore, from Gray's The Smoking Diaries | |||||
| Based on the critically acclaimed diaries of late playwright Simon Gray - Fat Chance, Enter A Fox, The Smoking Diaries and Coda - The Last Cigarette was completed just before Gray's death from cancer last year and shows the playwright facing life - and death - with unflinching courage and defiant humanity. Sardonic, humane, intelligent and witty, The Last Cigarette shows that even when writing about his own mortality, Gray did not lose his prodigious talent to entertain. | |||||
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Letter Of Resignation, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Guildford: Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Millbrook, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX >>> | 09 Sep 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868226 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37002 | |||
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Genre: | Documentary Play Documentary | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The complex world of political morality. The War Minister had an affair with a call girl, the call girl with a Russian spy, the Russian spy was set up by MI5 and no one told the Prime Minister. | |||||
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Marvellous Year for Plums, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chichester: Festival Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 6AP >>> | 11 May 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849434966 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136626 | |||
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Genre: | political thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Britain in 1956: the Suez Crisis. Prime Minister Anthony Eden, described by a colleague as 'half mad baronet and half beautiful woman', is faced with the terrible possibility of leading his country into war. His health is collapsing. His friends, colleagues and opponents, among them Hugh Gaitskell and Ian Fleming and his wife Ann, are facing crises of their own, crises of conscience and crises of the heart. Hugh Whitemore's new play is a true epic: a suspenseful thriller, an achingly romantic love story and a fascinating examination of a flashpoint in our history which still resonates today. What is the cost of an 'illegal' war? | |||||
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My Darling Clemmie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tower Arts Centre, Winchester | 15 Nov 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 | #101275 | |||
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Genre: | Biographical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Winston Churchill said, 'My most brilliant achievement was to persuade my wife to marry me.' This is the highly entertaining story of Clementine Churchill described by Lord Halifax as, 'The guardian angel of our country's guardian.' | |||||
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Pack of Lies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37003 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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| Events leading up to the arrest of the Krogers, two Americans spying for the Russians, in London in 1961. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stevie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Richmond, Surrey | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0906399507 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37004 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| A play from the life and work of Stevie Smith | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Towers of Trebizond, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Physician's Hall - Edinburgh | 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 | #37005 | |||
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