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Mike Cullen

MIKE CULLEN

  (1959 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  represented by Nick Marston

Mike Cullen left school at the age of sixteen to work in the coal mines as an apprentice electrician, with the goal of funding a future career as a rock star. He became a rock 'n' roll star has-been shortly after, went back into education and, in 1992, graduated from Edinburgh University with an Honours degree in Linguistics. In his final year at university, he wrote his hugely successful stage play the Cut, instead of attending classes. His writing career took off and, in 1996, Mike became writer-in-residence at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, under the Thames TV Bursary Scheme. He went on to write extensively for television, creating the hit crime series Donovan. His stage writing also continued apace, and he won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival in 1997 with his play, Anna Weiss. Mike plays guitar in various local bands and has been known to sing, if provoked. His hobbies include living like a rock star, beer and sewing.

Research:    http://www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk/playwrights/mike-cullen.aspx

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         Anna Weiss         Collection, The         Cut, The

Anna Weiss

Anna Weiss
Anna Weiss is a hypnotherapist, specialising in revealing 'lost' memories. Under her care, twenty-year-old Lynn has begun to 'remember' a long history of sexual abuse by her father. When Lynn confronts her father, David, he protests his innocence vehemently  so are Lynn's memories real or are they dark auto-suggestions? Anna Weiss prompts intense speculation on our need for faith in each other, as we watch three lives plummet into an abyss of mutual mistrust.

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Nick Hern Books, London, 1997   978-1854593887

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Collection, The

Synopsis:
Lawson is the best 'collector' in the business. Operating in the seedy world of debt collection, he is at the top of his profession. However when one of his clients commits suicide, Lawson's life is shattered. As the mystery deepens around the suicide, the noose tightens, the stakes are raised and Lawson and his colleagues are pushed into a deadly power game from which there can only be one winner.

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Cut, The

Synopsis:
good guys wore donkey jackets and had fly-away hair. they talked like a politbureau and hung around in picket lines. the baddies were just as easy to spot too. after all, there was no uglier mob than the Thatcherite hordes of capitalism then things changed, and who's side anyone was on became verb confusing indeed. Mike Cullen's first play charts the socio-political landscape between the eras, as Salter, imprisoned for murder during the 1984 miners' strike after a concrete slab was dropped from a bridge onto a carload of scab workers, returns to his old pit. awaiting him are former comrades who've either taken the path of least resistance or given up completely, as old scores are settled via the brutal extremes of working men's patois and simmering violence. Loyalties aren't so much divided as hi-jacked by Salter's old comrade Hessel, who'd double cross his own shadow if it bought him some power, especially as the truth of how Salter's Father died becomes clear. While the still recent historical context of the play is a timely reminder of how the unions were crushed, the Cut is essentially structured as a classic Western, as broody anti-hero Salter rides into town with revenge on his mind, only to be given the runaround by the posse he left behind.
Neil Cooper, Herald

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1st Produced:
Scottish Tour    1993

Organisations:
WiseGuise Productions

1st Published:
in "Made In Scotland: an anthology Of New Scottish Plays" Methuen, London, 1995   -

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Thriller

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