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PETER TINNISWOOD (1936 - 2003) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: MBA Literary Agents Ltd |
Peter Tinniswood, author, playwright and broadcaster was born in Liverpool. He worked as a journalist and then wrote for the satirical BBC show THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS and also for Ned Sherin and David Frost. Peter died in 2003 after a long, well chronicled battle with cancer. Despite losing his voice to the cancer, his illness marked an explosion in his theatre and radio writing.
Plays by Peter Tinniswood
At The End Of The Day | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #34745 | |||
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Brigadier And Uncle Mort, The | ||
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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 | #34746 | |||
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Croak Croak Croak | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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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 | #34747 | |||
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Genre: | 45 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | This is a double-bill of short plays (The Scan and The Voice Boxer) which was written in response to the author's fatal illness | |||||
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Day War Broke But, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1980 | |||||
Company: | Hull Truck Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34748 | |||
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I And The King | ||
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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 | #42621 | |||
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Genre: | 105 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Investiture, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Little Theatre, Bristol | 1971 | ||||
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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 | #34749 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Last Obit, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pleasance, Edinburgh | - - - | ||||
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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 | #42622 | |||
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Genre: | 70 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Millicent has been computerized. After a lifetime's work in the Obituary Department of The Morning Telegraph she has been made redundant. The firm however, has allowed her to go out in style - she can write her last obit in her own hand with her own fountain pen. But whose obit will it be? She plunders her memories, her fantasies and her long friendship with the daft and the dead before she makes her decision. | |||||
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Monument, The | ||
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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 | #42624 | |||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo | |||||
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Napoli Milionaria | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #34750 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 11 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo | |||||
Synopsis: | woman does her best to keep family afloat by dealing on the black market in Naples during WW2; adapted to Liverpool location | |||||
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On The Whole It's Been Jolly | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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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 | #34751 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Sir Plympton Makepeace backbench Tory MP has been 'booted out' after 60 years of dedicated service in the House. 60 years of dedication to mediocrity and sexual dalliances. Sir Plympton leads us down memory lane recalling his involvement in all the major events of the century, but his proudest claim is that he 'never did any harm'. | |||||
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Scan, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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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 | #42732 | |||
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Genre: | 45 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of Croak Croak Croack | |||||
Synopsis: | a man turns up at a hospital concerned that he has something deeply wrong with his throat. He's put into a scanning machine and talks compulsively as if his life depended on it. | |||||
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Tales From A Long Room | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
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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 | #34752 | |||
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Uncle Mort's North Country | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
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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 | #34753 | |||
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Village Fete, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stephen Joseph Scarboro | 1991 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34754 | |||
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Genre: | 105 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Voice Boxer, the | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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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 | #57565 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of Croak Croak Croack | |||||
Synopsis: | A man lies in a hospital bed, silenced by a laryngectomy, while his landlady bustles and gushes over him. | |||||
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Wilfred | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34755 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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You Should See Us Now | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich, London | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34756 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | holiday visit of children also bring disapproving ex wife and her mother to annoy couple | |||||
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