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Nigel Baldwin

NIGEL BALDWIN

  
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1977-78 Resident Playwright, Royal Court Theatre

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below is a list of Nigel Baldwin's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Adulation Of the Pharisees         Adventures Of Jack the Boot         Ar Lan Y Mor         At the Top Of the Bill         Births, Marriages And Deaths         Dionysus And the Crucified         Essence Of Being Clean, The         Insolent Confessions         Irish Eyes And English Tears         Just A Little Bit Less Than Normal         Men's Beano         Poor Dirty Harry         Shine On the Crazy Diamond         Still We Wonder Why         Sudlow's Dawn         Tolmers Show, The         Way Out Of Order         Wish You Were Here         Zanna
Adulation Of the Pharisees

Synopsis:
Kate Grady had been a famous psychiatrist but was hounded out of the profession. She now works as a media psychic. She is visited by her son and his girlfriend

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1st Produced:
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Adventures Of Jack the Boot

Synopsis:
agit prop about the rise of the right wing and lurking fascism in england.

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1st Produced:
Mayday Theatre     1973

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Ar Lan Y Mor

Synopsis:
20 min playlet under the umbrElla title IN aT the DeaTH with contributions from several contemporary writers. In North Wales a woman mourns the loss of her lover to two pissed newly-wed Mancunian holidaymakers

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1st Produced:
Bush Theatre     1978

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Genre:
Plylet, 20 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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At the Top Of the Bill

Synopsis:
the decline of the music hall (1914 onwards) with the Great War as a background tells story of alcoholic artist and his failed relationship with an adopted boy

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1st Produced:
Queen's, Hornchurch     1976

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Genre:
Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Births, Marriages And Deaths

Synopsis:
after 17 years student journalists of the class of '73 reunite at a Newcastle pub one of them owns - skeletons come flying out of the closet

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1st Produced:
Nuffield Theatre Southampton     1990

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dionysus And the Crucified

Synopsis:
a re-working of euripides 'the Bacchae'

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1st Produced:
Salisbury Playhouse     1972

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Genre:
Play for youth theatre

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Indeterminate cast

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Essence Of Being Clean, The

Synopsis:
How a young person's need to belong is exploited by media and suppressive commercial 'party'

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Genre:
Play for youth theatre

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Insolent Confessions

Synopsis:
In a woman's prison five inmates re-enact the journey of one of then into incarceration - in front of the prison chaplin

Notes:
Winner of Michael elliot Award, Mobil Playwriting Awards

1st Produced:
Drama Studio, London     1990

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Irish Eyes And English Tears

Synopsis:
amongst a group of young Chelsea supporters there is one that strikes up a surprising friendship with a derelict old tramp.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Just A Little Bit Less Than Normal

Synopsis:
a young man loses a leg in a bomb blast and returns home to try and cope with the people closest to him and his own bitterness and cynicism

Notes:
Thames Television Playwright Award. Nominated most promising playwright, evening Standard.

1st Produced:
Queen's, Hornchurch     1976

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Genre:
Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Men's Beano

Synopsis:
about an outing to Brighton organised by men from their local pub in Se London. along the way they pick up a female hitchhiker whose presence provokes a series of disruptions.

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1st Produced:
Warehouse, Covent Garden, London     24 Sep 1979

Organisations:
RSC

1st Published:
in Plays and Players, Nov, Dec, London Magazine, 1979   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
RSC ref MeN197909

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Poor Dirty Harry

Synopsis:
about suppression - a peddler of pornography trying to sell his wares to the audience.

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1st Produced:
Queen's, Hornchurch     1975

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Genre:
50 min cabaret One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Shine On the Crazy Diamond

Synopsis:
Reworking of euripides' Bacchae theme in modern day

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1st Produced:
Salisbury     1972

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Genre:
Play for youth theatre

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Indeterminate number in cast

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Still We Wonder Why

Synopsis:
a celebration of the protest movement through history. (with original music)

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1st Produced:
Salisbury Playhouse     1972

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Genre:
Play for youth theatre

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Sudlow's Dawn

Synopsis:
Dawn's confident and fine flair for dissent, nurtured by Cambridge education, are tragically eroded as her friendship with the retarded Sudlow leads her to seek a solution, not in the comfort of her suburban surroundings, but in the back streets and strip-clubs of Soho

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Tolmers Show, The

Synopsis:
agit prop against property developers destroying communities.

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1st Produced:
Mayday Theatre Company     1973

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Way Out Of Order

Synopsis:
a young disaffected stockbroker advertises for four people to trek with him to Africa. the resultant expedition exposes his - and the others' - agendas

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1st Produced:
Redgrave, Farnham     1987

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Wish You Were Here

Synopsis:
High jinks and pathos on an 18-30's holiday when heavy drinking leads to an assault on one of the girls

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1st Produced:
Nuffield, Lancaster     1985

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Genre:
Student or youth theatre play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  18

Further Reference:
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Zanna

Synopsis:
a disaffected young woman joins a youth theatre with disastrous consequences

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1st Produced:
Greenwich Studio Theatre     1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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