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Robert Bolt

ROBERT BOLT

  (1924 - 1995)
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Robert Oxton Bolt, CBe (15 August 1924  21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar winning screenwriter. He is most known for writing Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two which won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. - Wiki

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         Brother And Sister         Critic And the Heart, The         Flowering Cherry         Gentle Jack         Last Of the Wine, The         Man For All Seasons, A         State Of Revolution         Thwarting Of Baron Bolligrew, The         Tiger And the Horse, The         Vivat ! Vivat Regina !

Brother And Sister

Synopsis:
Rewritten version of "the Critic and the Heart"

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1st Produced:
Brighton     1967

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1st Published:
Margaret Ramsay Limited   -

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Genre:
play in two acts

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Critic And the Heart, The

Synopsis:
a middle aged spinster has her life ruined by an art critic.

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1st Produced:
Oxford Playhouse     1957

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1957   -

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Play/Drama

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Flowering Cherry

Flowering Cherry
Suburbia, 1957. Jim Cherry sells insurance, but wants to sell apples instead. He dreams of owning an orchard in Somerset and quitting the job he hates. But Cherry is a fantasist and his wife Isobel is at breaking point. As his dream begins to spiral out of control and the gulf between them widens, can she force him to face reality? Hailed at its premiere as the British Death of a Salesman, and from the writer of A Man for All Seasons and the screenplays of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, Flowering Cherry is the heart-breaking story of a man seduced by his own imagination.

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1st Produced:
Royal Court, Liverpool     14 Oct 1957

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1st Published:
Heinemann, London, 1958
Oberon Books (2015) >>>    978-1783193073

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Gentle Jack

Synopsis:
a banker is sent to the country. there he meets a "nature spirit" who gets him to turn his back on capitalistic ways and indulge in "nature" - sex and murder and generally misbehaving

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1st Produced:
Queens, London     28 Nov 1963

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1964   -

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Genre:
Modern Fantasy

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Last Of the Wine, The

Synopsis:
the reaction of ordinary people to an impending nuclear war

Notes:
broadcast 1955

1st Produced:
London     1956

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play

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Man For All Seasons, A

Synopsis:
This enduring modern classic Dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenacity in the face of ever-growing threats to his beliefs and family, earn him status as one of modern Drama's greatest tragic heroes.

Notes:
broadcast 1954.

1st Produced:
Oxford New Theatre     1960

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  3            Other:  -

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State Of Revolution

Synopsis:
tells the story of the Russian Revolution and its chief personalities through the life of Lenin

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1st Produced:
London     1977

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1st Published:
Heinemann, London, 1977   -

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Genre:
Political Drama

Parts:
Male:  20            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Thwarting Of Baron Bolligrew, The

Synopsis:
One of the last dragons in the world competes with the knights for attention

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1st Produced:
Aldwych, London     11 Dec 1965

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1st Published:
Heinemann, London, 1966   -

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  22            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tiger And the Horse, The

Synopsis:
machinations amongst the dons at an old english university

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1st Produced:
Brighton     01 Jul 1960

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1st Published:
Heinemann, London, 1961   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Vivat ! Vivat Regina !

Synopsis:
revised version of the battle between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart for the sovereignty

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1st Published:
Heinemann, London, 1971   -

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Genre:
Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  27            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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