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DICK CURRAN |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Dick Curran started writing for the stage when he moved back to Newcastle in 2000, after living in London, Brighton, Hull and Manchester. He was a student in Manchester in 1980's and he stayed on for a year living in a bedsit in Stretford, driving a delivery van and working on the Great Geordie Novel - sadly still unpublished. To back up his understanding of theatre he has been involved in semi-professional and amateur productions in a wide range of capacities from acting to directing and set building. Last year he had a number of pieces given rehearsed readings at Live Theatre in Newcastle, culminating in Venice on Tyne as part of the Live Theatre/RSC co-production, Tyneside Stories. He was commissioned to write a monologue for Paines Plough's Come to Where I'm From tour, and his play, Therapy, will receive its first professional production at Live Theatre in October. He has had full-scale professional productions of plays at the Customs House in South Shields and The Octagon, Yeovil, and many other pieces have been produced at venues ranging from pubs to medieval castles (well, one). Awards won include the Drama Association of Wales Short Play, and the Yeovil Octagon. Therapy was runner-up for the BBC Radio Alfred Bradley in 2005 and his novel, Almost Persuaded, is being republished by Red Squirrel Press later in 2010.
Plays by Dick Curran
Islanders | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle upon Tyne: Studio, Live Theatre, England, EUR (rehearsed reading)>>> | 2009 | ||||
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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 | #99673 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
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Notes: | began life as a reading at Live Theatre in 2009, and had its first full production at Manchester's 24:7 festival | |||||
Synopsis: | set on a bird reserve on The Farne Islands, follows the interwoven relationship between Peter, Nicola and Ellen | |||||
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It Works For Us | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Actor Studio, Seel Street, Liverpool | 16 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | Farnes Productions | |||||
| 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 | #124225 | |||
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Genre: | one act black comedy 55 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of Write Now Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Dawn and Mike are a long-established, married couple with children. Ross and Sacha are unconventional, reckless and in conflict. What happens when Mike, unwisely, brings them together? A comedy about relationships and how codes of behaviour alter depending on who is in the room. | |||||
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Keep It Simple | ||
| 1st Produced: | Midland Hotel, Manchester | 24 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Fames Productions | |||||
| 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 | #128363 | |||
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Genre: | 55 min drama comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Manchester 24:7 Theatre Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Comedy from the writer of 2010s award-winning Islanders. Kate is an agony-aunt with problems of her own. A weekend in a Cumbrian cottage on the eve of her daughters wedding sounds idyllic. Less so when shes there with a failed poet and an insecure chiropodist her husbands past and present. | |||||
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Thearapy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle upon Tyne: Studio, Live Theatre, England, EUR (rehearsed reading)>>> | 01 Oct 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 | #103808 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | Therapy is an engaging comedy about a driving instructor who is busy trying to negotiate his way between his wife, his therapist and his libido, whilst giving away as little as possible. | |||||
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Upstairs in the Hotspur | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle Upon Tyne: Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RH >>> | 07 Jun 2000 | ||||
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 | #116976 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | the Northumbrian Nationalist Party plan to bring the Lindisfarne Gospels back home..a funny and provoking play about regional identity and relationships | |||||
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