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Dominic Cavendish

DOMINIC CAVENDISH

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  

Dominic Cavendish is deputy Theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph and also its comedy critic. He has previously written extensively on Theatre and the Arts for the Independent, Time Out and the Big Issue magazine. He is the founding editor of Theatrevoice.com, the biggest online resource for audio material about British Theatre, now managed by the V&a museum.For 2009, he conceived and developed Urban Scrawl, a major new online Drama series co-produced by Theatre5o3 and Rose Bruford College.

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         Coming Up For Air         Hacked         Orwell: A Celebration         True Blue

Coming Up For Air

Synopsis:
as the world stands on the brink of war, one man goes in search of his past. a gripping new adaptation of George Orwell's classic 1939 novel about an insurance salesman who flees suburbia for the countryside of his childhood.

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part of Fest! the best of the festival season, seen first At 503. From book by George Orwell

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adaptation

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Hacked

Synopsis:
all across London, phones are being hacked. Only now it's playwrights stealing the stories of brave volunteers. Will they score a scoop, or will they have to use a little artistic licence? and which will make the better story: the facts or the fiction?

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Playwrights: Ben ellis, Marcelo Dos Santos, Dominic Cavendish, Dawn King, Anna Jordan, Matt Hartley. Curated by Derek Bond And Lisa Cagnacci

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collaborative piece

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Orwell: A Celebration

Orwell: A Celebration
This celebration of George Orwell is made up of material drawn from his novel Coming Up for air, two essays based on his experience as a colonial police officer in Burma and the Ministry of Love interrogation episode in 1984.

Notes:
adaptation by Dominic Cavendish of "Coming Up For Air" plus extracts

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Oberon Books (2009) >>>    978-1840029314

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True Blue

Synopsis:
Loved. Loathed. Lastingly influential. She gave us the right to buy, whilst taking our children's milk; marched some proudly to war, whilst driving others to riot; was honoured by the pomp and regalia of a ceremonial funeral whilst mocked as a burning effigy on the pyre. the Iron Lady who wasnt for turning continues to divide the nation's hearts and minds like no other figure in living memory.

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part of A Festival of Plays Inspired by Margaret Thatcher. In response to the national conversation surrounding Thatcher's death, theatre503 has invited a broad spectrum of writers to write a series of short plays looking back at Margaret Thatcher - the woman, the politics and her legacy.

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short play

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