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GILES COLE |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Giles Cole is a former actor and has written seven plays for BBC Radio 4 (Afternoon Play); The Art of Concealment (Brighton Festival Fringe, 2011, Jermyn Street Theatre and Riverside Studios, 2012) is another of his stage plays. He has served on the reading panels for the Croydon Warehouse Theatre, the former BBC TV Script Unit, and currently for the new writing organisation, Writers Avenue. From 1987 to 2008 he was a producer and scriptwriter specialising in awards ceremonies, writing over 500 scripts for celebrity presenters. He is currently the editor of the newsletter for the Terence Rattigan Society and in 2011 completed a postgraduate Masters degree in Creative Writing (Plays and Screenplays) at City University, London
Plays by Giles Cole
Art of Concealment, The: The Life of Terence Rattigan | ||
| 1st Produced: | Iambic Arts Theatre, Brighton Festival Fringe | 06 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849434164 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136035 | |||
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Genre: | biographical drama - - Gay, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
Notes: | Music by Matt Gray Music | |||||
| Terence Rattigan was one of the most acclaimed playwrights and screenwriters of his generation. His fall from critical favour marked a turning point in modern British theatre. Terence Rattigan wore a carefully constructed mask of respectable, suave gentility in order to conceal his true nature. But who was the man behind the mask? Who was the real Terence Rattigan? The Art of Concealment is a play not only about the demons that haunted one of our great playwrights but about the creative process itself, and the process of ageing, of loss, and the pain of love - with the ironic twist that we know Rattigan to be more honoured now than he would ever have expected in his lifetime. | |||||
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Beck | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spice of Life, Cambridge Circus | 1982 | ||||
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 | #139650 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | To a certain extent, we all live within a world of our own creation. Beck is an elderly reclusive man, once a doctor, who attempts to create around him the family that he never had. | |||||
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Benevolence, or, The Antiquarian | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (Dec 2002) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840943795 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117851 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Gerald, an antiquarian by profession, is a decent chap. He puts up with Trevor. He accommodates Daphne. Then he meets Julia. And Pauline. And Ken. And Gerald loses his reasonable, middle-aged, academic cool. Will his world, as he knows it, crumble? Or should he have lost his cool a decade or two ago? Can love play a part in his life, or is he doomed to spend one day a week with a cleaning lady who steals things and a cat who comes and goes like a ghost? His houseplants have a story to tell as well. | |||||
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Eccentric Redskin | ||
| 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 | #139649 | |||
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Genre: | TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | sequel to Wilderness Man | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Frail Blood | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Venture Theatre, Brighton Fringe Festival | 09 Feb 2002 | ||||
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 | #139653 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama 2 acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of NVT's HotBed presenting seven new one-act plays in an innovative format. All pieces performed for one night only, script-in-hand, with a short audience discussion afterwards. | |||||
Synopsis: | Love can be a dangerous business. FRAIL BLOOD is an erotic thriller in which four people are drawn into a terrifying spiral of deception, sexual entanglement and violent death. Stephen is an orthopaedic surgeon with political aspirations. Georgina is a publishing company executive, obsessed with social advancement. Their aim is simplicity itself to fulfil all their ambitions and desires, whatever it takes to do so. Meanwhile Helen is going quietly mad for lack of affection, and Annie finds herself accused of a crime she didnt commit. | |||||
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Going Astray | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe Festival | 1989 | ||||
Company: | Outlook 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 | #139652 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by David Baird | |||||
Synopsis: | Her husband has left her for another parishioner, her daughter has gone missing. Evelyn throws off the shackles of a very respectable but deeply flawed marriage and embarks on her own voyage of discovery through the shadier streets of South-east London, searching both for her daughter and her own youthful ideals. She meets streetwise charmer Nick in a launderette in New Cross. Is he her Youthful Ideal, or a wolf in sheeps clothing? Are good and evil mutually exclusive? And just what is going on in the bedsit over the road? | |||||
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Living With Linda | ||
| 1st Produced: | Elephant Theatre | 1988 | ||||
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 | #139651 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Toby is an is an earnest young man eager to gather the trappings of adulthood about him. Linda is the girl who bewitches him, with devastating consequences. LIVING WITH LINDA is a play about an obsessional love affair begun in the summer of 1975 and recounted, with the benefit of hindsight, thirteen years later. | |||||
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Old Schoolboys | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse Theatre Croydon, Dingwall Road Croydon CR0 2NF >>> | 1979 | ||||
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 | #139647 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Geoffrey Gibson is a retired schoolmaster down on his luck. He lives with his step-daughter Barbara, who is finding life with him a strain, but cant quite bring herself to desert him completely. An old pupil of Gibsons turns up out of the blue, and this courtesy visit turns into a very different scenario as he begins to claim recompense from his old teacher for an indiscretion in the past. | |||||
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Romance Of The Century, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Jul 2010 | |||||
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 | #139656 | |||
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Genre: | ten min play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | first performed in a showcase production with four other plays at the Rosemary Branch Theatre, Islington | |||||
Synopsis: | An elderly couple live in elegant surroundings with little to do but relive their past glories and infidelities, and wait for an important visitor who may or may not be the Queen - to come to tea. Are they deluded, mad, or two people who were once the most glamorous couple in the world? | |||||
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Secrets | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057312235-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7443 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| How much does one necessarily know about ones wife or husband? Or best friend? SECRETS examines the nightmare scenario that befalls a woman whose husband works for the government and who disappears one day. Is Hannahs husband a traitor to his country? A spy? Can those emotive words really apply to someone so apparently close to her? Can she survive her own ordeal at the hands of the courteous and delicately mannered Felix Bennett, who appears out of the blue on her doorstep? Will she see her husband again? And if so, will he now be the same person she said goodbye to a few short weeks ago when he set off for a conference in Germany? SECRETS looks at human trust and love when placed on a precipice. | |||||
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Suspects | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
Company: | Present Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd in 1991 and the text revised in 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7444 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama 2 acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | People can be deceived by life, and by death. And most especially by love. Ellen Stacey is deceived by all three. SUSPECTS is a taut, claustrophobic, erotic thriller set in and around South London. Corruption lies just below the surface, offset by a vein of bleak humour. Ellen is consumed with a passion for Mike. She is also an accomplice to murder. Mike appears to have betrayed her completely, and DI Tindall seems to be using the investigation to seduce her himself. Ellen only has one person to turn to. And that person has an agenda of her own. | |||||
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Wilderness Man, or, The Broken Circle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Farnham, UK | 1979 | ||||
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 | #139648 | |||
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Genre: | TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | It subsequently led to another play about Grey Owl, Eccentric Redskin | |||||
Synopsis: | Commissioned by the Redgrave Theatre, Farnham, for touring in local schools, this play examines the nature of identity through the real life character, Grey Owl, famous in the 1930s for his conservation work and lectures on Indian life in the wilds of North America, but who was subsequently revealed to have been born as Archie Belaney in Hastings, who emigrated to Canada in 1906. It also examined wider aspects of American history, as personified by Yellow Wolf and other American Indians, and recounted by such authors as Dee Brown, John Collier, TC McLuhan and Robert Claiborne. | |||||
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