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DAVID ELDRIDGE (1973 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Independent Talent Group Limited |
David was born in Romford, Essex, in 1973 and began writing full time after graduating in English Literature and Drama from Exeter University in 1995. In 1997, Davis was Pearson TV playwright in Residence at the Royal National Theatre. In 1996, The Bush Theatre was awarded a Time Out Live Award for it's London Fragments season, of which Serving It Up was the second play of three. In 2001, Under The Blue Sky was awarded the Time Out Live Award for Best New Play in the West End. Under The Blue Sky received it's American Premiere at the prestigious Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachesetts in June 2002 and received it's premiere on the West Coast of the United States at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in September 2002. In 2000, BBC Choice broadcast his short television play Killers, and in 2001 BBC Radio Four broadcast his play for radio, Michael and Me.
Plays by David Eldridge
2003 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Jan 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 | #109995 | |||
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Genre: | Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of "Decade" by Amy Rosenthal, Beth Steel, Nimer Rashed, David Eldridge, Lou Ramsden, Fraser Grace, April de Angelis, Richard Marsh, Phil Porter and Rex Obano. Much has changed in the world since our current millennium dawned in 2000. Theatre503 presents ten short plays by ten different playwrights, each encompassing a year of the so-called noughties and encourages the audience to reflect over the past decade whilst taking in a great evening of theatre. | |||||
Synopsis: | This year's big event was the invasion of Iraq and Eldridge depicts the difficult task of informing a family that their eighteen year old son has died in the conflict. The parents get caught up in a whirlwind of emotions as they realistically and movingly battle with shock, denial, grief and anger. This is made even more dramatic as an army officer stands stationary and emotionless stage left watching the parents come to terms with their news. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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All Is Vanity (Or With Apologies To Nathalie Sarraute) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Fringe Festival, Scotland, EUR >>> | 22 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Impossible Things before Breakfast | |||||
| 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 | #118382 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min reading | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two couples in an English garden bicker and moan beyond the politesse of their situation in such a way that reveals the roots of their collective neuroses and lingering bitterness. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Babylone | ||
| 1st Produced: | 27 Oct 2009 | |||||
Company: | The Fish Patnership | |||||
| 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 | #107303 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset. Written in 2002 | |||||
Synopsis: | A safe bourgeois existence collapses as, on a cold Christmas Eve, two men meet in the foyer of an appartment block in the well-healed Rue de Babylone in Paris. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cabbage For Tea, Tea, Tea! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Exeter | - - - | ||||
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 | #51870 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dirty | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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 | #51871 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Falling | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Feb 1999 | |||||
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 | #10885 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A man recovering from a mugging is dealt a blow which highlights the pain of his survival. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Festen | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413774385 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41377 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 3c | |||||
Notes: | Based on the Dogme film and play by Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov and Bo hr. Hansen | |||||
| Helge, the patriarch of a chain of restaurants, is celebrating his sixtieth birthday and everyone is coming home from the party including Helge's sons, Christian, Michael and his daughter Helene. Missing from the roster of invitees is Christian's twin sister, Linda, who recently committed suicide. The reason for her action and the repercussions from it, form the basis of the shocking and painful events that transpire during a twenty-four hour period. In the midst of dinner, Christian makes a startling accusation and, even as the disbelieving guests are choosing sides, the play slowly unwraps the truth. | |||||
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Fighting For Breath | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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 | #51869 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In Basildon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 16 Feb 2012 | ||||
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 | #129042 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | People always get the wrong idea about Essex don't they? Len's on his death bed and the family gather to say their final farewells. His sisters still aren't speaking after nearly 20 years, his nephew's trying for a baby - and a bigger house, while his best mate Ken remembers 'Bas-vegas' when it was a village. As the spread is laid out and the ham sandwiches sit next to the wreaths, it's hard to see who's hungry and who's just greedy. An epic family drama exploring inheritance and the myth of place. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Incomplete And Random Acts Of Kindness | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 May 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413775160 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51868 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Joey's an ordinary man but every-where he lokks people are slipping away. A notice at work catches his eye. He doesn't know where to go next - his Dad, the community or Marvin Gaye. In a world he can't connect with, is there someone out there who can connect with Joey? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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John Gabriel Borkman | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58940 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. From a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund | |||||
Synopsis: | Disgraced and destitute following a fraud scandal and imprisonment, John Gabriel Borkman paces alone in an upstairs room. Downstairs his family is trapped in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a household bound for explosion. A scorching indictment of 19th-century capitalism, Ibsen's penultimate play paints a devastating picture of selfish ambition. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Knot Of The Heart, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, Islington, London N1 1TA >>> | 10 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408153314 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120345 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | male doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Why has this happened to us? Things like this don't happen to families like ours. Beautiful and privileged, Lucy is enjoying a burgeoning career in television. But her social drug habit has become a serious addiction, casting a dark shadow over her future happiness. As her charmed life begins to slip away Lucy comes to realise that the devoted support of her family does not come without a price.With themes of love, family and addiction, The Knot of the Heart explores the creeping onset of self-destruction beneath a veneer of respectability. Full of David Eldridge's trademark lyricism within everyday family life and interaction, this is a play where emotions are high and relationships are sensitively written. Ultimately hopeful and redemptive, The Knot of the Heart is atmospheric and poetic without undermining the all-too-believable characters' realism. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page | |||||
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Lady From The Sea | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manchester: Royal Exchange Theatre, St Anns Square, Manchester, M2 7DH >>> | 13 Oct 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408140925 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115442 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. adapted by David Eldridge, translated by Charlotte Barslund | |||||
| Ellida, the Lighthouse Keeper's daughter, is homesick for the sea. Her life with her husband Dr Wangel and his daughters leaves her restless. Then, on a hot, brilliantly clear summer morning life changes. . .Ellida Wangel's mysterious seafaring lover has returned after many years to reclaim the woman to whom he believed himself to be betrothed. With piercing eyes he exerts a mesmerising hold over all whom he encounters. Yet, he is a man with a past, a murderer, a man of the sea. What is Ellida to do? Whom should she choose? The husband who loves her and is prepared to grant her freedom or the enigmatic man with whom she shares the same watery affinity. A man who holds a 'horrible unfathomable power' over her mind. Yet Ellida's mind is like the sea, it ebbs and flows and finally reaches its own firm conclusion. The Lady from the Sea (1888) represents an important turning point in Ibsen's work. Within a few days of its publication Edmund Gosse wrote 'There is thrown over the whole play a glamour of romance, of mystery, of landscape beauty. . .moreover, after so many tragedies, this is a comedy. . .the tone is quite unusually sunny, and without a tinge of pessimism.' This play explores the hypnotic hold one person may gain over another. It is an emphatic defence of individuality, of inner struggles faced with courage and integrity. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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List, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL >>> | 12 Jul 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 | #95603 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 20 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by the eclectic characters of the East End, three multi-award winning writers investigate the streets where these characters roam and uncover their secrets in an hour of new theatre especially curated for EAST09 Festival. | |||||
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M.A.D. | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 Apr 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413774439 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48420 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Set in a time of political and social unrest the play focuses on one family and the destructive conflict within their home. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Market Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 26 May 2006 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Drama, London | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413776068 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55349 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Set in the late 1980s the play uses Romford market in London to examine a period in hich Margaret Thatcher wrecked coal mining and flogged off our state-owned industries, paving the way for the fat-cat culture of today. A teenage lad gets a job on a shoe stall and soon finds sex, drugs and rock'n'roll at his feet. Market life teems around him in which a vast cast of 31 play an even vaster list of characters. Stallholders, flypitchers, a meat salesman, a transvestitie, a local Labour candidate and, naturally, Mrs T herself all turn up as the plot freewheels between the hero's erratic progress towards manhood and the effect on the market of a stuttering economy and dubious values. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Miss Julie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manchester: Royal Exchange Theatre, St Anns Square, Manchester, M2 7DH >>> | 11 Apr 2012 | ||||
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 | #134073 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - August Strindberg, version by David Eldridge, from a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund | |||||
Synopsis: | Sweden, 1894. Midsummer night's celebrations are in full swing but the Count's daughter, the beautiful and imperious Miss Julie, feels trapped and alone. Downstairs in the servants' kitchen, handsome and rebellious footman Jean is feeling restless. When they meet a passion is ignited that soon spirals out of control. Strindberg's masterpiece caused a scandal when first produced - and has been hugely popular ever since for its searingly honest portrait of the class system and human sexuality. | |||||
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Serving It Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Serving It Up and A Week With Tony", Methuen, London >>>, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413713407 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10886 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Combines a promising talent for spark, funny dialgue with a bleak vision of racism and rage in London's East End . . . What is astonishing is that it manages to be rancidly funny and deeply chilling at the same time. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Something, Someone, Somewhere | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133134 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is a response to the King James Bible book of 1 John | |||||
| The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. The voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient arts of writing and spoken performance | |||||
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Summer Begins | ||
| 1st Produced: | 25 Mar 1997 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10887 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a story of the dreams and frustrations of working class young people living in Barking that "confirms Eldridge's impressive command of dialogue and character." Evening Standard | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Thanks Mum | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | Red Room | |||||
| 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 | #10888 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 May 2010 | |||||
Company: | Lyric Hammersmith Production | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408131466 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #109535 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by David Eldridge, Robert Holman and Simon Stephens | |||||
| On a farm in the North East of England a family gathers. Five brothers and four generations feature in an epic play about hope, love, fear and the very end of time. A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky is a refreshingly subtle and compassionate vision of the world on the edge of apocalypse. Within a cosmological context, the focus is on a single family, their relations with each other and their unreconciled regrets, soon to become permanent. With an ensemble of strong, engaging characters, there are knotty, realistic family dynamics and a palimpsest of recent family history. The characters and dialogue are naturalistic but the serious themes are elucidated and alleviated with humour and quirky, surreal touches. The play represents a unique collboration between three of the UK's pre-eminent stage writers. The ambition of the partnership is matched by the ambition of the play's sweeping scope. Whilst the three voices collide, they also ring out individually without sacrificing the piece's coherent wholeness, and the play represents a rare, fascinating study in stage collaboration. | |||||
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Threepenny Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2010 | ||||
Company: | Headlong | |||||
| 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 | #103857 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, on a new version by David Eldridge | |||||
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Under the Blue Sky | ||
| 1st Produced: | 36783 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10889 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sad single teachers get together, drink tequila, get very pissed and reveal secrets and then stagger home at four in the morning, with some dim light in your brain saying - "Shit. Year seven first lesson" | |||||
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Week With Tony, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Serving It Up and A Week With Tony", Methuen, London >>>, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413713407 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10890 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 | ||
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| Ever struggled to maintain standards at work, with a new partner and a political party that seems to be falling apart? Or battled with preparations for your daughter's expensive wedding? Spend A Week With Tony as he juggles his job, relationship, party politics and plans for the biggest and best wedding his constituency's ever seen | |||||
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Wild Duck, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen, London >>>, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413775757 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46900 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. Classic play of 1884 | |||||
| Should the truth be pursued whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based. | |||||
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