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NICK DEAR (1955 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Rosica Colin Ltd |
Born in Portsmouth in 1955, Mr. Dear's career was that of a teacher of film and photography before he became a full-time playwright in 1981
Plays by Nick Dear
Art Of Success, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9204 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | coruscating portrait of William Hogarth used to discuss the role and responsibility of the artist | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bed, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Colchester, Essex | 1985 | ||||
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 | #9205 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Chain Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie | |||||
| 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 | #9207 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written By Terry Johnson, Philip Ridley, Charlotte Jones, Lee Hall, Sebastian Barry, Zinnie Harris, Kevin Elyot, Nick Dear, Tanika Gupta, Frank McGuinness, Nick Stafford, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Teevan, Patrick Marber, David Lan, Sarah Daniels, Martin She | |||||
Synopsis: | One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National Theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Family Affair, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Absolute Press, Bath, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9208 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Alexander Ostrovsky | |||||
Synopsis: | satirical comedy of loose morals and lost manners | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Food Of Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | Almeidia Theatre, London | '14 Jun 1988 | ||||
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 | #9209 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Nick Dear and David Sawer | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Frankenstein | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 Feb 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571277216 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #109994 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | based on the novel by Mary Shelley | |||||
| Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In The Ruins | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Vic, Bristol | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9210 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | broadcast 1984 | |||||
Synopsis: | Virtual monologue by King George III which contrasts the image of the monarchy with the reality of the monarch. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last Days Of Don Juan, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Absolute Press, Bath, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9211 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Tirso de Molina | |||||
Synopsis: | Don Juan: lover or rapist? trickster or psychopath/ martyr or demon? Moliere, Mozart, Pushkin, Byron, Shaw and Camus, to name but a few, have all taken the story of Don Juan as a source of inspiration for their art, philosophy and imagination, defending or condemning him in turn. But it was Tirso de Monlina's classic 17th Century Spanish masterpiece El Burlador de Sevilla which began and created the whole Don Juan mythology. In a theatre as vital, rich and varied as its Elizabethan counterpart, Spain's Golden Age mixed the serious and the comic, the sacred and the profane, and produced that rare thing: great art that manages to be truly entertaining. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Absolute Press, Bath, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9206 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere | |||||
Synopsis: | Monsieur Jourdain's obsessive desire to associate with the gentry provides the backdrop for this classic on snobbery | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lunch In Venice | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cottesloe, London | 09 Jul 2005 | ||||
Company: | Coleg Sir Gār, Llanelli, Shell Connections 2005 | |||||
| 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 | #60056 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Something is weird on the Rialto | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Palace in the Sky | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Nov 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 | #124951 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | music Jonathan Dove, lyrics Nick Dear | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the Tower of Babel story, this is a large scale community opera for the people of Hackney. Performances will involve 150 local people, including groups from primary and secondary schools, youth groups, adults elders and a multi-cultural range of musical groups, incorporating a diversity of musical styles. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Perfect Alibi, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Colchester, Essex | 1980 | ||||
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 | #9212 | |||
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Power | ||
| 1st Produced: | 27 Jun 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9213 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | somewhat reductive, account of the early years of Louis XIV's reign. The thrust of the play is therefore modernity versus tradition, as well as Louis' growing recognition of the pleasures of power as he first casts aside his mother and then Fouquet, a rather more obstinate opponent than even the formidable Anne of Austria | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Promise, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Feb 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57777 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Aleksei Arbuzov. From the translation by Ariadne Nicolaeff. | |||||
Synopsis: | In the savage 1942 winter siege of Leningrad, as the Russians fight off the Nazi invaders, three teenagers - Lika, Marat and Leondik - are thrown together. Losing everything from their past, they forge a new love that binds them and a new hope which keeps them alive: the promise of a better future. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pure Science | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1986 | ||||
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 | #9214 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | broadcast 1983 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Qui Est La? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bouffes du Nord, paris | 1996 | ||||
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 | #124950 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | collaboration with Peter Brook | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Summerfolk | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | NT Ensemble | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9215 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky | |||||
Synopsis: | In Nick Dear's version of Gorky's naturalistic masterpiece a diverse group of Russians meet, as they do every year, at their summer holiday retreat. Some are frightened at the prospect of change, some are angry and some yearn for a new life. As they question the value of their work, their art and leisure, they're shocked by the responses their disputes reveal. Relationships break under the strain and scandals of business and infidelity are laid bare. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Temptation | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1984 | ||||
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 | #9216 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Turn Of The Screw, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bristol Old Vic | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays 1, Faber, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49565 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | story by Henry James | |||||
Synopsis: | story of a young, inexperienced governess only recently released into the world from the confines of her father's country parsonage, and charged with looking after two young children at a remote country estate in Essex | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Villains' Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Apr 2000 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9217 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | music by Stephen Warbeck. After The Begger's Opera by John Gay | |||||
Synopsis: | trade in small-time scams. But his world is shattered when the charismatic villain, Macheath, not only plans to marry his daughter, Polly, but to move into a more dangerous level of activity. In Nick Dear's contemporary version of Gay's The Beggars' Opera, we are shown a modern London teeming with petty thieves, gangland hoods, corrupt politicians and bent coppers. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Zenobia | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9218 | |||
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Genre: | Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 24 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a story of love and adventure at the time of the decline of Imperial Rome as Zenobia makes a stand for independence against the Empire | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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