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LES CLARKE |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Although I've always loved the theatre, I've only been writing and directing plays for about eight years. I have however, been very fortunate to have had some wonderful companies perform my work culminating in many awards. On the writing side, I have won my share of awards as well! 2002: N.D.F.A. National Drama Festival Association: George Taylor Memorial Award: "Green" & Runner-up the same year with "Cold." 2006: D.A.W.S. Drama Association of Wales: Open Section: "Watching the Magpies." 2006: S.C.D.A. Scottish Community Drama Association: "Watching the Magpies." 2007: S.C.D.A. Scottish Community Drama Association: Geoffrey Whitworth Trophy: Best Original Play in the All England One-Act Play Festival. "The people that live in boxes." 2007: Bognor Regis Drama Club: "Sling yer hook!" Somerset Fellowship of Drama One-Act Playwriting Competition: 2001: "Green" & "Cold." 2003: The Reluctant Witnesses." 2006: The people that live in boxes." 2007: "You're in room eight." & "When we were full of hope." I have to date completed almost 60 plays. "Watching the Magpies" being my most successful. This play is published by Drama Association of Wales, and has been translated into Welsh and won it's place in the Final of the All Wales One-Act Play Festival in 2008 missing out on a place in the British Final by the narrowest of margins! It has appeared all over England, been very successful in Scotland and has been produced in Spain and New Zealand. Other plays of mine are available from Spotlight Publications www.spotlightpublications.com or from me www.lesclarkeplays.co.uk
Plays by Les Clarke
Close To The Edge | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Creaky Coach Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #32274 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama 60 min One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Simon arrives at his special place high on a remote cliff-top and is surprised to see somebody already there - Hannah. He is even more surprised when she attempts to throw herself over the edge! This is a moving, one-act play about two strangers who affect each others lives in their time of need. | |||||
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Watching The Magpie | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Creaky Coach Theatre Company | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #82638 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama 60 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the Open Section of the DAW Playwriting Competition 2006 and the Scottish Community Drama Association 'Play on Words' Competition 2006. | |||||
Synopsis: | Dottie, although not a qualified carer looks after her friend Rose. They live together in a home which has recently been sold for redevelopment, and they've been told that they must move out. Rose's illness is becoming worse and the council are having difficulties trying to rehouse them together. Rose is adamant she won't move if she can't be with Dottie and time is running out. A poignant and moving piece which is perhaps a tale of our times. . .Winner of the Open Section of the DAW Playwriting Competition 2006 and the Scottish Community Drama Association 'Play on Words' Competition 2006. | |||||
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