NICK DARKE (1948 - 2005)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Nick Darke
Antigone At Hell's Mouth |
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Company | 1992 | ||
| Company: | National Youth Theatre with Kneehigh Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Sophocles | ||||
Synopsis: set in post-apoclyptic dystopia with Cornish nationalists fighting for independence from England | ||||
Body, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||
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| 1st Published: | 1983 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Guy Woolfenden. Kate Polsky (Vancouver, Canada) has composed a score for "The Body",arranged for piano and voice; it is available through license agreement in conjunction with current productions of this play (visit www.katepolsky.com/theatre.html for further information). | ||||
Synopsis: An eccentric West Country community must contend with the presence of an American airforce base | ||||
Bogus, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | Kneehigh | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Bud |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle upon Tyne | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Ting Tang Mine and Other Plays", Methuen, London | 1987 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Campesinos |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Catch |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
| Company: | ESC | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Two fishermen, bedevilled by the EEC, cast their nets for a different kind of catch - cocaine. | ||||
Cider With Rosie |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: story by Laurie Lee | ||||
Synopsis: growing up in the idyllic English countryside between the two world wars | ||||
Danger My Ally |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | Kneehigh | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Dead Monkey, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Ting Tang Mine and Other Plays", Methuen, London | 1987 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A fifteen year old dead monkey keeps a Childless American couple's relationship going. | ||||
Earth Turned Inside Out, The |
| 1st Produced: | St. Austell, Cornwall | 1984 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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High Water |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle upon Tyne | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays Introduction", Faber, London | 1984 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: RSC and Plymouth Theatre Company | ||||
Synopsis: Set on a beach early one morning. Two men meet to go wrecking and discover they are father and son | ||||
King of Prussia The |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | Kneehigh | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Kissing The Pope |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1990 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
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Synopsis: Revolution in South America, "growing up to be a man in a violent world; having to decide why to kill before you know why to live". | ||||
Landmarks |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Set in the thirties, in rural England, when horse met the tractor for the first and last time. | ||||
Low Tide |
| 1st Produced: | Plymouth Theatre Company | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: about tourism set on a beach. | ||||
Lowestoft Man, The |
| 1st Produced: | Orchard Theatre Company | 1982 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Sequel to The Catch, a mysterious American arrives to claim his cocaine | ||||
Man With Green Hair, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Mother Goose |
| 1st Produced: | Stoke-on-Trent | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Never Say Rabbit In A Boat |
| 1st Produced: | Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Set in Cornwall about an ageing rabbit catcher and a beach seine net company | ||||
Oven Glove Murders, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Place Called Mars, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Riot, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
| Company: | Kneehigh | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Say Your Prayers |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
| Company: | Joint Stock Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music Andrew Dickson. Joint Stock TC | ||||
Synopsis: An atheist's interpretation of St Paul with the help of an American born again evangelist and Anglican priest. | ||||
Summer Trade |
| 1st Produced: | Ilfracombe, Devon | 1979 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Orchard Theatre Company | ||||
Synopsis: Takes place in a pub somewhere on the North Cornish Coast, the day after the ex-landlord's last night. The new landlord has plans to modernise. | ||||
Tickle On The River's Back, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Set on the Thames about a family of lightermen and the decline of the industry on the river over the last 20 years. | ||||
Ting Tang Mine |
| 1st Produced: | St. Austell, Cornwall | 1987 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Ting Tang Mine and Other Plays", Methuen, London | 1987 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: aka The Earth Turned Inside Out | ||||
Synopsis: The fate of two competing mining communities used as a parable for Prime Minister Thatcher's New Britain. | ||||