NICK DARKE   (1948 - 2005)


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Plays by Nick Darke

NICK DARKE
Antigone At Hell's Mouth
1st Produced:
Royal Shakespeare Company
1992
Company:
National Youth Theatre with Kneehigh Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles
Synopsis:
set in post-apoclyptic dystopia with Cornish nationalists fighting for independence from England
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NICK DARKE
Body, The
1st Produced:
1983
Company:
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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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
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NICK DARKE
Bogus, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
Kneehigh
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DARKE
Bud
1st Produced:
Newcastle upon Tyne
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Ting Tang Mine and Other Plays", Methuen, London, 1987
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DARKE
Campesinos
1st Produced:
Stratford-on-Avon
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DARKE
Catch
1st Produced:
1981
Company:
ESC
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Two fishermen, bedevilled by the EEC, cast their nets for a different kind of catch - cocaine.
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NICK DARKE
Cider With Rosie
1st Produced:
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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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
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NICK DARKE
Danger My Ally
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
Kneehigh
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DARKE
Dead Monkey, The
1st Produced:
The Pit, London
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Ting Tang Mine and Other Plays", Methuen, London, 1987
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A fifteen year old dead monkey keeps a Childless American couple's relationship going.
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NICK DARKE
Earth Turned Inside Out, The
1st Produced:
St. Austell, Cornwall
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DARKE
High Water
1st Produced:
Newcastle upon Tyne
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays Introduction", Faber, London, 1984
ISBN
-
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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
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NICK DARKE
King of Prussia The
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
Kneehigh
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DARKE
Kissing The Pope
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1990
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
-
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".
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NICK DARKE
Landmarks
1st Produced:
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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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.
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NICK DARKE
Low Tide
1st Produced:
Plymouth Theatre Company
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
about tourism set on a beach.
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NICK DARKE
Lowestoft Man, The
1st Produced:
Orchard Theatre Company
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Sequel to The Catch, a mysterious American arrives to claim his cocaine
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NICK DARKE
Man With Green Hair, The
1st Produced:
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DARKE
Mother Goose
1st Produced:
Stoke-on-Trent
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
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Pantomime
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DARKE
Never Say Rabbit In A Boat
1st Produced:
Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in Cornwall about an ageing rabbit catcher and a beach seine net company
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NICK DARKE
Oven Glove Murders, The
1st Produced:
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DARKE
Place Called Mars, A
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DARKE
Riot, The
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
Kneehigh
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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NICK DARKE
Say Your Prayers
1st Produced:
1981
Company:
Joint Stock Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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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.
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NICK DARKE
Summer Trade
1st Produced:
Ilfracombe, Devon
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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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.
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NICK DARKE
Tickle On The River's Back, A
1st Produced:
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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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.
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NICK DARKE
Ting Tang Mine
1st Produced:
St. Austell, Cornwall
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Ting Tang Mine and Other Plays", Methuen, London, 1987
ISBN
-
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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.
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