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MARK NORFOLK |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: PFD |
Mark Norfolk has worked as an actor, reporter and sports journalist. He worked on documentary programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky, and has made a number of short films which have been screened at festivals around the world. He recently completed his debut feature 'Love Is Not Enough', which has received critical acclaim.
Plays by Mark Norfolk
Buy Your Leave | ||
| 1st Produced: | Albany Theatre, London | 1998 | ||||
Company: | part of its Black History Month | |||||
| 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 | #25856 | |||
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Fair As The Dark Get | ||
| 1st Produced: | Albany Theatre, London | 1997 | ||||
Company: | part of its Black History Month | |||||
| 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 | #25857 | |||
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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Notes: | short listed for 1998 Alfred Fagon Award | |||||
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Fess Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk | 2004 | ||||
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 | #25858 | |||
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Notes: | new play commissioned by the Menagerie Theatre Company as part of its Eastern New Writing Pipeline scheme. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two people on the run hide out together in an English town. One an African asylum seeker - the other a racist murderer | |||||
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Knock Down Ginger | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jun 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840023794 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25859 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | short listed for 2000 Verity Bargate Award and 2001 International Playwriting Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Luke is 15 and looking for respect. Growing up on a council estate isn't easy, especially when your mother's got a new man in her life. A place where fast cars and fast money are the ultimate status, Luke befriends Nelson who wants to teach him that fear breeds respect. Charlie, an old friend of the family, is on to Nelson's game. Armed with a lifetime of 'been there and done that', how can he persuade Luke to give up and play straight? Or is Luke too far gone to call game over? | |||||
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Naked Soldiers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse Theatre Croydon, Dingwall Road Croydon CR0 2NF >>> | 21 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430197 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115130 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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| tells the story of Jamal an African refugee who is on the run and hiding in a burnt out attic. But as fate would have it he finds himself sharing his 'precious' space with Tony a 17-year-old racist who is also on the run after stabbing a young black boy. | |||||
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Where the Flowers Grow | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse Theatre Croydon, Dingwall Road Croydon CR0 2NF >>> | 03 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430463 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128879 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| To all intents and purposes Vernon has fulfilled his ambitions.He has a good job and a suburban lifestyle with his wife and teenage son. But things change when austerity measures put his job under threat and soon Vernon begins to neglect his family whilst fighting redundancy. When a tragedy at work forces him to look closer to home, he discovers that communicating with loved ones in a postmodern technological age is not as easy as he thinks. | |||||
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Wrong Place | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Theatre | Oct 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840024005 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25860 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| Trevor's in trouble with the law - again. But this time it's serious. He faces twelve years behind bars. Roddy, Trevor's dad, came to Britain in the Sixties and did the right thing worked seven days a week to put food on the table and a roof over his family's head. But now things have changed. Not only is he about to lose his son, but also his job and his marriage. And just when things couldn't get much worse, Trevor's uncle Monty shows up. Wrong Place 'Whether a man innocent or guilty, a black man is guilty by virtue of the colour of his skin. I learn that a long time ago. That's how the white man see it. That's how it stay.' | |||||
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