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DAVID RUDKIN (1936 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd |
David Rudkin's first play, Afore Night Comes, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in their 1962 experimental season, informed the Company's revolutionizing approach to the performance of Shakespeare. David writes for television, radio, and theatre.
Plays by David Rudkin
Afore Night Come | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | 1960 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in New English Dramatists 7, Penguin, London, 1963 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30322 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | outsiders meet the establishment as a group of seasonal workers pick pears in an orchard not far from the industrialised Midlands | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ashes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hamburg | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30323 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a sensitive study of a childless couple and the various indignities they have to endure in the search to find out why they are childless after two years of trying for a family. Filled with much wry humour this is a delicate treatment of a difficult subject and as such is suitable for advanced societies, University and College groups. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Burglars | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Prompt Two", Hutchinson, London, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30324 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 characters | |||||
Notes: | 1972 Unicorn Theatre, London | |||||
Synopsis: | Children burgle a house and find the owner spreading oil slicks on the road outside and revelling in the deaths he causes. They hunt and catch him, but what should they do then? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cries from Casement as His Bones Are Brought to Dublin | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | BBC Publications, London, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30325 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | written by David Rudkinand Paddy Scully. Adapted by Paddy Scully from David Rudkin's original radio play (BBC 1974) | |||||
Synopsis: | Roger Casement's remains (or what purported to be Casement's remains) were exhumed from their previous location in a British prison and returned to Ireland in 1965 where they were granted a state funeral at Glasnevin Cemetery, instead of Casement's beloved Murlough Bay in Co. Antrim. The play focusses on the living Casement as he wrote his famous diaries and on the personification of his disembodied bones, and grapples with his ultimate dilemma, the divisions of identity between Ulsterman and Irishman, English Man and Irishman. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Deathwatch | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 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 | #30326 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 30m Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | Two men share a prison cell with a notorious killer. One is in love with him. One wants to become him. Four female actors explore Jean Genet's Deathwatch in the U.S. premiere of Obie winning playwright David Rudkin's translation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fifth Hunt, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1972 | ||||
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 | #30327 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The activities of a self appointed Pornography Commission who ultimately, under the leadership of the Devil, join forces with their repressive allies, the pornographers themselves | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Golem, The | ||
| 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 | #30328 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Peter Brook | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Grace of Todd, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aldeburgh, Suffolk | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30329 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Gordon Crosse | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hansel and Gretel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1980 | ||||
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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 | #30330 | |||
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Genre: | Horror Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 with doubling | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | For parents with children, children with parents, and all who have been children. Others need not apply | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hippolytos | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30331 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
Synopsis: | A thorough, as opposed to literal, translation. The Greek theological imagery re-expressed in moral and existential terms that are native to us. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Maids, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 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 | #30332 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mary Whitehouse And The Emperor Of Byzantium | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Gay Sweatshop | |||||
| 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 | #30333 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Master And Margarita, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | National Youth Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #42727 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 16/17/1050 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Merlin Unchained | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatr Y Castell, Aberystwyth | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Aberystwyth University Theatre Studies | |||||
| 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 | #94579 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The play starts off with Merlin - a broken man living in the forest. While people come to see him and attempt to cure him there is no luck. That is when with the help of the Green and Golden Lady he regains his senses for one last mission. Meanwhile we see the sisterhood of light, spreading their religious beliefs, almost a separate story to Merlin's. When Merlin is restored, the story cuts to modern setting. Merlin enters a town to see the poor and sorry state of it, while McAbendroth, the Life President (who was also a demon who talked with the sisterhood) sits upon an astronomers tower and wants to install a new moon so that light will be there forever. With somewhat of an apocalyptical feel to it, Merlin comes and wins the day, allowing darkness and the stars to be seen once more - nature in its course winning over technology. Finally returning to the opening of the astronomer's tower, a rebellious sister who has now become chief astronomer talks about freedom from religion, and a new era until she is murdered by her own son. Finally cutting back to Merlin we see his death. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Moses and Aaron | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1965 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Friends of Covent Garden, London, 1965 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30334 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | translation of the libretto, music by Schoenberg | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mystery Of Jesus, The | ||
| 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 | #30335 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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No Title | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||||
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 | #30336 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A man rents a flat in a country house; but everyone else treats him as though he were the dangerous inmate of a mental institution. Every endeavour of his to establish his identity is valid only builds up the evidence against him | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Peer Gynt | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30337 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | Symbolic satirical in verse based on Norwegian folklore. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Red Sun | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | AJTheatre Company 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 | #43843 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | the tale of a prhistoric shaman creating an avnging zombie from clay. The zombie is called Adamu and the story draws on myths from Gilgamesh anf the Fall in the Bible, to Frankenstein and the Jewish golem - squeezing in the odd quotation from 'Hamlet' on the way. - Marmion, Time Out London | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rosmersholm | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wimbledon Studio, London | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Major Plays Three, oberon, London, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30338 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen,BBC 3, 1990 | |||||
Synopsis: | unmasks the moral evasions which prevent us from being truly free | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Saxon Shore, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30339 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sons of Light, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle upon Tyne | 1976 | ||||
Company: | Tyneside Theatre Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30340 | |||
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Genre: | Myth of Resurrection | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A cold Northern volcanic island; new pastor and anarchic sons; self repressed religious community; tomorrow's new glad slaves in an experimental 'pit' beneath the earth | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sovereignty Under Elizabeth | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||||
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 | #30341 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Queen, on Eve of Jubilee, sleepwalks, tortured by personal guilt she feels for the diminution of her subjects' moral sovereignty during her reign; but by day bravely shoulders her duty to sacrementalise. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Space Invaders | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1984 | ||||
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 | #30342 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Triumph of Death, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30343 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A pagan subculture in a European forest is exterminated by a new religion. One world's baffled encounter with a more powerful one that cannot authenticate it. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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When We Dead Awaken | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Absolute Press, Bath, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30344 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | in which a figure from the past rises to haunt an ageing artist | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Will's Way | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Celandine Press, Stratford, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30345 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A solo in which Will Shakespeare gives a Saturday-morning talk to the audience at Stratford's old Other Place. It was created by Nick Woodeson, who has made it uniquely his own. The text is in print, in a beautifully-produced hardback edition, available from Stratford's Celandine Press | |||||
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