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MIKE CARTER (1974 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Mike Carter began writing as a stand up comic, however soon fell for the collaborative challenge of theatre. His writing has been seen on diverse stages from the Criterion, Piccadilly Circus to colleges in the USA. Most significantly he won plaudits for a series of four new plays at the King's Head, Islington.
Plays by Mike Carter
Being In Love With Alice | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Bilwa 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 | #93563 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 | |||||
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Synopsis: | Is there a difference between the symptoms of being in love and the symptoms of mental illness. With the help of a theatrical device, an audience and a fridge, our hero intends to find out. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Colin's Fish | ||
| 1st Produced: | Baron's Court Theatre, London | 2009 | ||||
Company: | First Draft 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 | #94204 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Accidents don't just happen. Not to Goldfish. At least that's the conclusion cleaners Kim and Muriel come to when they risk their jobs by accidentally dropping and killing a goldfish belonging to council worker Colin. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Death by Jennifer | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Bilwa 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 | #94205 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | An Elvis-loving teenager learns that the end, however messy, can be a new beginning/ | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Emily's Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Bilwa 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 | #94206 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Emily's play celebrates the special breed of actor that makes London Fringe Theatre scene what it is today. What exactly that is, of course, we're not exactly sure. This one act comedy is a frenetic and funny attempt to find out. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Goats and other ideas that didn't work | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Bilwa 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 | #94207 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | What's it like having an over-imaginative imagine? How can a typing mistake lead to trouble with Nazis? What can Alfred Hitchcock tell you about theatre? What can possible go wrong during a candle lit dinner with three actresses. For a year Mike Carter kept asking questions like these and is slightly embarrassed by the result. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Poe: Macabre Resurrections | ||
| 1st Produced: | St Mary's Old Church, Stoke Newington, London | 16 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | Second Skin 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 | #134343 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Rob Johnston, Richard Allden, Mike Carter, Jacob Hodgkinson and Nadine Hearity | |||||
Synopsis: | Under the overall artistic direction of Andy McQuade, he and five other directors present specially commissioned treatments of five Poe's stories rethought for today, plus his best known poem The Raven incorporated in the framing device of a preacher who introduces the evening and guides the audience through the promenade performance. They have not simply transposed the stories to a modern setting, these are not literal transpositions but rethinking in the spirit of what is behind Poe's plots. | |||||
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Trunk, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | extract reading at Warehouse, Dingwall Road Croydon CR0 2NF >>> | 06 Mar 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 | #112430 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of International Playwriting Festival 2010 | |||||
Synopsis: | a comedy built around a man who a man who is so disappointed finds life that he attempts suicide by locking himself in a trunk | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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