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ALASTAIR CORDING |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Tennyson Agency |
A respected stage and television actor, and author of numerous literary adaptations, Alastair has achieved repeated success with his 1993 version of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic SUNSET SONG, revived by Prime Productions in 2001 and 2002 for national tours of Alastair's native Scotland, and now available from Nick Hern Books. Amongst the stage pieces now available, following initial commission and production by TAG Theatre and Eastern Angles T.C., are CLOUD HOWE and GREY GRANITE (second and third in the SCOTS QUAIR trilogy); LANARK; and NO NAME. In 1998, MRS O'S SATURDAY NIGHT was produced at the Covent Garden Festival (revived 2000); while Alastair's acclaimed version of Dickens' DAVID COPPERFIELD for a cast of eight (revived for a national tour by Eastern Angles in Spring 2003) is the foremost stage adaptation available, widely performed on the non-professional stage. The original thriller FATALE was premiered at the Horseshoe Theatre, Basingstoke in 2001. Eastern Angles' Spring 2002 tour of a touching Norfolk-set tale, The WALSINGHAM ORGAN, played to enthusiastic audiences across East Anglia, and was followed by MARGARET DOWN UNDER, seen on a UK regional tour in the autumn of 2004. It is to be followed by an adaptation of John Buchan's WITCH WOOD for RCB Productions, and a further work for Eastern Angles exploring the life of St Edmund the Martyr, scheduled for 2010. There has meanwhile been a successful revival an dsubsequent tour of SUNSET SONG by His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, in the autumn of 2008.
Plays by Alastair Cording
Cloud Howe | ||
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David Copperfield | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eastern Angles Theatre Company | 26 Sep 1995 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848420229 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #109950 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | large cast possible | |||||
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| One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording. All Dickens's marvellous creations are here: Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mrs Peggotty, Murdstone, Steerforth and Betsey Trotwood. Weaving through the colourful maze of the storyline is David's hopeless infatuation with Emily - and eventual salvation in the arms of the long-suffering Agnes. Alastair Cording's stage adaptation skilfully concentrates on the essentials of the story while maintaining the colour, humour and drama of the book. Most notable is its fluidity, with each scene flowing into the next without the need for cumbersome scene changes - or much scenery at all. Performable by a cast of eight, if necessary, but equally offering good roles to thirty or more | |||||
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Fatale | ||
| 1st Produced: | Horseshoe Theatre, Basingstoke | 2001 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
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Grey Granite | ||
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Lanark | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
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Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Alastair Cording - Acc.11295 | |||||
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Margaret Catchpole | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #140067 | |||
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Synopsis: | Margaret is desperate to see her lover and takes a horse to get to him quickly. They meet but tragedy strikes and he is shot and killed. | |||||
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Margaret Down Under | ||
| 1st Produced: | UK tour | 2004 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
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Synopsis: | The sequel to "Margaret Catchpole". Margaret is arrested for stealing a horse - convicted and sent to Australia. She is befriended by two women Rose and Lizzie. The voyage takes a year and the women are at the mercy of the sailors on the ship | |||||
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Mrs O's Saturday Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | Covent Garden Festival, London | 1998 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
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No Name | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eastern Angles Theatre Company | 25 Sep 1997 | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #110117 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | from Wilkie Collins | |||||
Synopsis: | High-spirited Magdalen Vanstone hasn't a care in the world. Then her life crashes into the buffers, just like the new railway that was carrying her parents on urgent family business to London. Due to her father's past, she's robbed of her future, her inheritance, even her name. Worse still, the law deposits her family's wealth in the hands of her unscrupulous cousin Noel. Flying in the face of Victorian propriety, Maddie sets off on a singl-minded mission of revenge. She uses disguise, deceit and master of roguery Captain Wragge to hunt down her prey with a ruthless determination. When she ensnares him in a sleepy coastal resort, it's only the start of her troubles. . . | |||||
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Sunset Song | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854597724 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7863 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-35) published Sunset Song in 1932 | |||||
| Along with the two subsequent parts of what became a trilogy, it tells the story of Chris Guthrie through her country childhood and marriages before and after the First World War. The distinguishing feature of the books - and this dramatisation - is the use of the rhythms and vocabulary of Scots to tell the story. The theme of Sunset Song is how rural and city life fit together - or, rather, often don't. It tells how it feels to be a girl growing up on a farm in Scotland in the early-20th century, how it feels to be in love and in lust, how it feels to be a young mother on her own and how it feels to lose you lover in war. | |||||
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Walsingham Organ, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | East Anglia | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Eastern Angles 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 | #110122 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
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Synopsis: | 1860 Walsingham. The vicar the Reverend Septimus Lee Warner and his brother - the Squire- have ordered an organ for the church.. The organ is installed but this means the church band is redundant. On Bonfire Night the organ blows up | |||||
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Witch Wood | ||
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Company: | RCB Productions | |||||
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Notes: | an adaptation of John Buchan | |||||
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