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MARK HEALY |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
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Plays by Mark Healy |
Collector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Oct 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The woman stands alone on the edge of the Cobb in Lyme Regis, an isolated figure swathed in cloak and hood, staring out over an endless grey sea and sky. There is no getting away from the movie or from that iconic image of Meryl Streep in this, the first ever stage version of John Fowles' 1969 novel. His book works on many levels, filtering the 19th century novel though mid-2Oth century consciousness, and mixing romance with Darwin, Marx and Freud to tell the story of the poor but educated fallen woman Sarah Woodruff who becomes the erotic obsession of the fossil-hunting gentleman, Charles Smithson. For the film version screenwriter Harold Pinter solved the problem of how to dramatise a novel whose inner life is largely in the footnotes, by creating a framing device of a story within a story; here adaptor Mark Healy matches Fowles' playfulness by cunningly embedding the writer as a major character in his own narrative. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16085 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from the novel by John Fowles. | |||||
Synopsis: | updated version where lottery winner buys himself a cottage, abducts his fantasy lady and locks her in the basement. Having abducted and imprisoned her in the cellar he soon finds the reality is far from his fantasy and their tense claustrophobic realtionship leads to a devastating climax | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Far From The Madding Crowd | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Sep 2008 | |||||
Company: | English Touring Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781848420274 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90744 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | From Novel By Thomas Hardy | |||||
| Having inherited her father's farm, the spirited and feisty young Bathsheba Everdene finds herself playing mistress in a man's world. She is pursued by three would-be lovers: the constant shepherd, Gabriel Oak; the obsessive landowner, William Boldwood; and the reckless Sergeant Troy. But are any of them a match for the headstrong and independent Bathsheba? | |||||
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French Lieutenant's Woman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 Aug 2006 | |||||
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 | #58600 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | from novel by John Fowles | |||||
Synopsis: | The woman stands alone on the edge of the Cobb in Lyme Regis, an isolated figure swathed in cloak and hood, staring out over an endless grey sea and sky. There is no getting away from the movie or from that iconic image of Meryl Streep in this, the first ever stage version of John Fowles' 1969 novel. His book works on many levels, filtering the 19th century novel though mid-2Oth century consciousness, and mixing romance with Darwin, Marx and Freud to tell the story of the poor but educated fallen woman Sarah Woodruff who becomes the erotic obsession of the fossil-hunting gentleman, Charles Smithson. For the film version screenwriter Harold Pinter solved the problem of how to dramatise a novel whose inner life is largely in the footnotes, by creating a framing device of a story within a story; here adaptor Mark Healy matches Fowles' playfulness by cunningly embedding the writer as a major character in his own narrative. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Persuasion | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Mar 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421196 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16086 | |||
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 | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling, large cast possible (8f 9m) | |||||
Notes: | from novel by Jane Austen | |||||
| Sir Walter Elliot demands advantageous love matches for his three daughters, and Annes choice of the poor naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, simply wont do. Seven years later, their fathers arrogance has plunged the Elliots into debt, and they are forced to rent out their beloved estate to Admiral Croft brother-in-law to the now-feted Captain Wentworth. Afflicted by ill-health and agonised by memories of a lost love, Jane Austen writes her final novel. But as she contemplates the bittersweet ending to her own story, can she bring herself to give Anne and Wentworth a happy one? | |||||
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Sense And Sensibility | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Mar 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421189 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16087 | |||
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: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from the novel by Jane Austen | |||||
| When John Dashwood and his snobbish wife Fanny inherit his father's estate, his stepmother, along with his half-sisters, are forced to leave their home and live on a reduced income. Elinor bears the move with her usual stoicism, even though it cuts short her growing friendship with Fanny's brother, Edward Ferrars, while Marianne's grief seemingly knows no bounds. Their new life, from the Devonshire countryside to London's high society - peopled by their eccentric host Sir John Middleton, the brooding Colonel Brandon, the dashing Willoughby and the simpering Lucy Steele - is set to test the sisters' sense and sensibilities to the limit. | |||||
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