NICK DEAR   (1955 - )


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Plays by Nick Dear

NICK DEAR
Art Of Success, The
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
1989
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
coruscating portrait of William Hogarth used to discuss the role and responsibility of the artist
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NICK DEAR
Bed, The
1st Produced:
Colchester, Essex
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DEAR
Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
Absolute Press, Bath
1992
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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
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NICK DEAR
Chain Play, The
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie
1st Published:
-
-
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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
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NICK DEAR
Family Affair, A
1st Produced:
London
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
Absolute Press, Bath
1989
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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
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NICK DEAR
Food Of Love
1st Produced:
London
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DEAR
In The Ruins
1st Produced:
New Vic, Bristol
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
1989
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Genre:
-
-
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.
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NICK DEAR
Last Days Of Don Juan, The
1st Produced:
Stratford-on-Avon
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
Absolute Press, Bath
1990
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Tirso de Molina
Synopsis:
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NICK DEAR
Lunch In Venice
1st Produced:
Cottesloe, London
2005
Company:
Coleg Sir Gār, Llanelli, Shell Connections 2005
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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NICK DEAR
Perfect Alibi, The
1st Produced:
Colchester, Essex
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DEAR
Power
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber, London
2003
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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
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NICK DEAR
Promise, The
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber, London
2002
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Aleksei Arbuzov
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.
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NICK DEAR
Pure Science
1st Produced:
Stratford-on-Avon
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
broadcast 1983
Synopsis:
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NICK DEAR
Summerfolk
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
NT Ensemble
1st Published:
Faber, London
1999
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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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.
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NICK DEAR
Temptation
1st Produced:
London
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DEAR
Turn Of The Screw, The
1st Produced:
Bristol Old Vic
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Plays 1, Faber, London
2000
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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
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NICK DEAR
Villains' Opera, The
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
1st Published:
Faber, London
2000
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
large cast
Notes:
music by Stephen Warbeck. After The Beggsr'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.
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NICK DEAR
Zenobia
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1995
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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
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