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DAVID STOREY (1933 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
David Storey: unique in his generation of writers, David Storey's achievements are divided equally between his work as as novelist and as a playwright. Born in 1933, the son of a mineworker, he went to the Slade School of Fine Art in London and had various jobs, ranging from farm labouring and showground tent-erecting to professional rugby league football and schoolteaching. Among his novels are This Sporting Life, which won the Macmillan Fiction Award in 1960 and was filmed, .Flight Into Camden, which won the John Ucwelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Radcliffe, which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1963. Later novels include Pasmore, a Booker finalist and winner of the Faber Memorial Prize, Savzlle, winner of the Booker Prize in 1976, and most recently, A Serious Man.
Plays by David Storey
Caring | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1992 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays I", Methuen, London, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33491 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Changing Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Cape, London, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33492 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 22 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | It's about exactly what it is: Storey offers us, with an unforced tenderness, the shifting moods of everyday experience - the scene is busy, purposeful and exhilarating. You'd never imagine realism could be this theatrical - The Changing Room takes you into its world in a way few plays achieve.' | |||||
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Contractor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1969 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Cape, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33493 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | erection, decoration and dismantling of a tent as a poetic parable for a wedding and the bizarre collection of misfits at the breakfast | |||||
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Cromwell | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cape, London, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33494 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
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Synopsis: | An exploration of the vices and virtues of the English Puritan instinct using the historical associations of the Cromwellian period. On top of that it is also an impressive piece of poetic drama employing a spare, flinty, concrete language that seems to be hewn out of rock -Storey manages to make the work both specific and allusive - its primal conflicts between principle and expediency, the individual and the community are perennially relevant - a rich and complex play.' | |||||
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Early Days | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Penguin, London, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33495 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Farm, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cape, London, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33496 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | hard drinking, hard working farmer rules the roost, three daughters and his easy going wife, then his son, the aimless poet returns home and the family reaction is considerable | |||||
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Home | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cape, London (Plays & Players 1970), 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33497 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | patients in a mental hospital discuss various topics commanding compassion and respect | |||||
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In Celebration | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1969 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cape, London, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33498 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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| When three brothers return home to their northern roots for a reunion, long-held grievances and family issues intrude on the party atmosphere. David Storey's modern classic explores family love and how the best intentions can threaten to destroy hopes and dreams. | |||||
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Life Class | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cape, London, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33499 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | I have just had in the theatre an experience so remarkable that I doubt if I shall ever forget it - its portrait of a man, dangerous, controlled, and wounded, who brings down his whole career in one enormous gesture signifying that all we hold of good from the past is now incapable of renewal and irrelevant to our present needs - Life Class is not merely a very good play. It is a blazing masterpiece - it is a tremendous experience and its glare lights up the sky.' | |||||
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March On Russia, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33500 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | elderly couple find that only by incanting memories can they come to terms with their barren present and terrifying future | |||||
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Mother's Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cape, London, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33501 | |||
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Phoenix | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 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 | #33502 | |||
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Restoration of Arnold Middleton, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1966 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cape, London, 1967 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33503 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | cramped quarters shared by couple and mother in law lead to problems after a night of drunkenness | |||||
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Sisters | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Penguin, London, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33504 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | two sisters meet after a long separation, one unbeknown to the other has escaped from a psychiatric hospital | |||||
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Stages | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays I", Methuen, London, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33505 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | artist, suffering a mental breakdown, is visited by four women, daughter, ex wife, neighbour and psychiatrist to whom he relates his past life | |||||
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