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GRAHAM PADDEN (1948 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Graham Padden is an actor and director. He has worked extensively in British regional theatre, television and radio, and recorded 50 audio books.
Plays by Graham Padden
Deeds Not Words | ||
| 1st Produced: | All Saints' Church, Farley, Wiltshire | 1989 | ||||
Company: | Farley Community Play | |||||
| 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 | #56079 | |||
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: | Community Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
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Synopsis: | The play recreates the turbulent history of Stephen Fox, a Farley child, Civil War soldier, Royalist exile, Restoration Paymaster General, and patron of Chelsea Hospital. It was performed in the church he had built in Farley, designed by Christopher Wren. | |||||
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In Living Memory | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northamptonshire tour | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Lifeblood Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #56080 | |||
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: | Reminiscence theatre Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adapted for the BBC as a Radio feature, 1990. Currently developing a youth theatre version | |||||
Synopsis: | A picture of life in 1930s Northampton, from oral reminiscences | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wrong End of The World, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
Company: | Salisbury Playhouse | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56078 | |||
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: | Drama documentary with traditional music. Documentary | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 6c | |||||
Notes: | This is a large-scale epic play with traditional music. In the professional production we had the cast as above plus an ensemble of 35. There are actually 53 speaking roles, 42M, 5F (who do a lot of singing). | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, early trade union pioneers, and their families. Following rural unrest in the 1830s, the men of Tolpuddle form a union branch. Six men are arrested and transported to Australia, leaving their families destitute. Pardoned after extensive personal and political campaigning, the families resettle in Essex, and in the face of continued victimisation, emigrate to Canada. It is a story of the triumph of the human spirit over oppression. | |||||
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