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Nick Darke

NICK DARKE   (1948 - 2005)

Nationality:   British    Email:   Click here to contact    Website:   Click here to visit

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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:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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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

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Body, The

1st Produced:

Royal Shakespeare Company, Pit, UK >>>

1983

Company:

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1983

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

18

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

music Guy Woolfenden. Kate MacColl (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 http://katemaccoll.com/ for further information).

Synopsis:

An eccentric West Country community must contend with the presence of an American airforce base

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Bogus, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

Kneehigh

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#51977

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Bud

1st Produced:

Newcastle upon Tyne

1985

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Ting Tang Mine and Other Plays", Methuen, London, 1987

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

short play

Parts:

Male

1

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Bud by the late Cornish playwright (and filmmaker, lobsterman and wrecker) Nick Darke, is a ferociously atmospheric one-man play in which Bud, a fifty-year-old farmer, maps how "the acid drops scorchin holes in the starched napkin of our marriage" leads to a shocking disaster

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-


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NICK DARKE

Campesinos

1st Produced:

Stratford-on-Avon

1989

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Catch

1st Produced:

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

1981

Company:

ESC

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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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.

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Cider With Rosie

1st Produced:

Contact Theatre, Manchester >>>

1981

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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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

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Danger My Ally

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

Kneehigh

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#51976

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Dead Monkey, The

1st Produced:

The Pit, London

1986

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Ting Tang Mine and Other Plays", Methuen, London, 1987

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A fifteen year old dead monkey keeps a Childless American couple's relationship going.

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Earth Turned Inside Out, The

1st Produced:

St. Austell, Cornwall

1984

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

High Water

1st Produced:

Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

29 Feb 1980

Company:

RSC

1st Published:

in "Plays Introduction", Faber, London, 1984

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Set on a beach early one morning. Two men meet to go wrecking and discover they are father and son

Further Reference:

RSC ref HIH198002


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NICK DARKE

King of Prussia The

1st Produced:

Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London >>>

1996

Company:

Kneehigh

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Kissing The Pope

1st Produced:

Almeida Theatre, London >>>

1989

Company:

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London, 1990

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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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".

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Landmarks

1st Produced:

Lyric Studio Theatre, Hammersmith, London >>>

1979

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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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.

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Low Tide

1st Produced:

Plymouth Theatre Company

1977

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

about tourism set on a beach.

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Lowestoft Man, The

1st Produced:

Orchard Theatre Company

1982

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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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

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Man With Green Hair, The

1st Produced:

Theatre Royal, Bristol, UK >>>

1997

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Mother Goose

1st Produced:

Stoke-on-Trent

1977

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Pantomime

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Never Say Rabbit In A Boat

1st Produced:

Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent

1977

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#8797

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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

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Oven Glove Murders, The

1st Produced:

Bush Theatre, London >>>

1986

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#8798

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Place Called Mars, A

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#51975

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Riot, The

1st Produced:

Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

1999

Company:

Kneehigh

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Say Your Prayers

1st Produced:

Riverside, London >>>

03 Feb 1981

Company:

Joint Stock Theatre Company

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#8800

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

4

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

music Andrew Dickson

Synopsis:

An atheist's interpretation of St Paul with the help of an American born again evangelist and Anglican priest.

Further Reference:

Theatre Record Volume I Issue 03 Page 54


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NICK DARKE

Summer Trade

1st Produced:

Ilfracombe, Devon

1979

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#8801

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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.

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Tickle On The River's Back, A

1st Produced:

Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London >>>

1979

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#8802

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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.

Further Reference:

-


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NICK DARKE

Ting Tang Mine

1st Produced:

St. Austell, Cornwall

1987

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Ting Tang Mine and Other Plays", Methuen, London, 1987

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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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.

Further Reference:

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