NIGEL MOFFATT (1954 - ) |
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Nationality: Jamaican Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Nigel began his writing career with poetry and songs which he performed in clubs in the West Midlands, where he still lives. He recorded PEACE LOVE & HARMONY with Paul Weller on his Respond Record label. He has been writer-in-residence at the National Theatre.
Plays by Nigel Moffatt
Celebration | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
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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 | #24545 | |||
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Lifetime | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 4 | 26 May 1987 | ||||
Company: | BBC Radio | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen/BBC, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413184603 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24546 | |||
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Genre: | Dramatic monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | The script won a Giles Cooper Award as one of the best radio plays of 1987 | |||||
Synopsis: | Archie talks about his long and unhappy married life with the proud, controlling Marcy | |||||
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Mamma Decemba | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Place, London | 1986 | ||||
Company: | Temba Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24538 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Mamma Decemba is a bittersweet play about an older Jamaican woman living in England who finds herself widowed, jobless, and deserted by her children. Her attempts to cope involving hauntingly honest, sometimes humorous and often painful reflections on her past, raising larger questions for all of us about the nature of life-long relationships | |||||
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Musical Youth | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Mar 2001 | |||||
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 | #134305 | |||
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Genre: | play with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Nigel Moffatt's story of Birmingham's first boy band. | |||||
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Niggers | ||
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| 1st Published: | Moffi Media, West Midlands. email moffimedia@mac.com, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82010 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Prime Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
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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 | #46354 | |||
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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Rhapsody 'n Black 'n White | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre Studio, London | 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 | #46352 | |||
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 | |||||
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Stop The Carnival | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cannon Hill Puppet Theatre | 1991 | ||||
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 | #46355 | |||
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 | |||||
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Tony | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre Studio, London | 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 | #46353 | |||
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 | |||||
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Walsall Boxed In | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1987 | ||||
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 | #24548 | |||
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A novella. It's origin is a one man stage play. And yes certainly polemic. If you require anything specific please let me know. Personally I think it's the most important black work since Richard Wright's Native Son. But that's just my opinion.