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DAVID BENEDICTUS (1938 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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David Benedictus has been almost everywhere and done almost everything. In this irreverent memoir we get his tumultuous life at Eton, his weird job as a tutor to the Rothschilds, the world of BBC drama inthe great days of the Wednesday Play, filming in New York with Coppola, working in the explosion of fringe theatre in the sixties, assistant to Trevor Nunn at the RSC, commissioning editor making movies at Channel 4, and running the Book At Bedtime for BBC Radio. He interviewed Judy Garland, and attended an academic orgy in San Francisco. He chatted up the Rolling Stones, whom he had failed to recognise, and gave a party for Tom Jones's first golden disc. Paul McCartney came to his party and chatted up his auntie. He was a tour-guide in London, and the director of the first Amnesty Celebrity concerts. He directed almost every actor of note, from Gielgud to the prickly Berkoff, from O'Toole to Ralph Fiennes, and his dog was responsible for Judi Dench getting married. He had his portrait painted by John Bratby, who mistakenly thought him 'one of the great thinkers of the 20th Century' and sat between Susan George and Olivia Newton-John at the cinema. This is a book with something to entertain and enrage just about everybody. Its final controversial chapter deals with the last two years during which he has been teaching drama to the posh girls at Putney High School.
Plays by David Benedictus
Angels (over your grave) And Geese (over mine) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||||
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 | #2794 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Exploring, light-heartedly, the bleakness of casual relationships | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 5/10 | |||||
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Betjemania! | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
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: | ter-1002 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: TER (1002) 1976 | doollee no | #2795 | |||
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Genre: | Musical entertainment | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by John Gould; lyrics by John Betjeman; book by David Benedictus and John Gould | |||||
| Entertainment based on the poems of the Poet Laureate | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XVI (1996) Page 0039 | |||||
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Dromedary | ||
| 1st Produced: | People's Theatre, Newcastle | 1969 | ||||
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 | #2796 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | from his own novel 'Hump' | |||||
Synopsis: | A hunchback circus performer at large in a world of London Savagery | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dylan Thomas By Himself And His Friends | ||
| 1st Produced: | Little Theatre, Bristol | 1968 | ||||
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 | #46930 | |||
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Genre: | Compilation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | for 4 voices | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Esprit De Corps | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - - - | ||||
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 | #2797 | |||
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Genre: | Saga | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 8 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Follows the sexual adventures of a family whose head has invented a trombone slide and whose fortune is made by military bands. A hymn to bi-sexuality. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fortune And The Fishmonger | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 4 | - - - | ||||
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 | #2798 | |||
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Genre: | radio play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The last days in the life of Crockford, the celebrated 19th century bookmaker and club owner | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fourth Of June, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1964 | ||||
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 | #2799 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from his own novel | |||||
Synopsis: | Dramatisation of Public School life | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Golden Key | ||
| 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 | #2800 | |||
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Genre: | Musical play Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Keth Amos | |||||
Synopsis: | incorporating nine Grimm's fairy stories in a modern setting in the mind of an adolescent girl recovering from a road accident | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Happy Hypocrite, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - - - | ||||
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 | #2801 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | based on story by Max Beerbohm | |||||
Synopsis: | Romantic and concerned with masks | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What A Way To Run A Revolution | ||
| 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 | #2802 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Guy Woolfenden | |||||
Synopsis: | Investigation of the General Strike of 1926. The action is set in the House of Commons, the miners tunnelling under the table, the audience choosing to sit either on Tory or Labour benches | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record VolV (1985) Page 0331 | |||||
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