KEITH DEWHURST (1931 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Keith Dewhurst
Animals of Farthing Wood, The |
| 1st Produced: | Pleasance, London | 1998 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: From Colin Dann Books | ||||
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Batavia |
| 1st Produced: | Perth | 1984 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Black Snow |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Absolute Press, Bath | 1991 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Michael Bulgakov | ||||
Synopsis: This bitingly funny adaptation of Bulgakov's modern Russian classic novel of 1936 was premiered at the Royal National's Cottesloe Theatre in 1991. Set between 1924 and 1925 it is an hilarious send-up of Stanislavsky's famous 'Method' and the acting profession in general and was based on fact - the mutilation of Bulgakov's play Molière for which Bulgakov blamed Stanislavsky. `.. the funniest and cleverest new play I have seen for a very long time.' Financial Times . Sergei Maxudov is reluctantly working as a newspaper man and has written a novel everyone is sure will never pass the censors. In despair, Maxudov is about to commit suicide when he is interrupted by the mysterious Rudolfi, a publisher who wants to buy the novel. But after the novel's first instalment appears in print, Rudolfi unaccountably disappears, leaving Maxudov in the lurch. But Maxudov's bleak literary prospects are rescued once again, when a note is slipped under his door requesting him to come immediately for a talk with Ilchin, the holde | ||||
Bomb In Brewery Street, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
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| 1st Published: | in "War Plays", Oberon, London | - | ||
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Brecht In '26 |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Collage | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - |
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Candleford Green |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1979 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Lark Rise to Candleford", Hutchinson, London | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | with doubling | |||
Notes: works by Flora Thompson | ||||
Synopsis: audience and players mingle re-enacting a meeting of the local hunt in mid-winter | ||||
Corunna! |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||
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| 1st Published: | in "War Plays", Oberon, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | Ballad Musical | Musical | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: book and lyrics by Keith Dewhurst with Tim Hart, music by Steeleye Span | ||||
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Don Quixote |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford | 1982 | ||
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Notes: From Cervantes | ||||
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Kidnapped |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1972 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: novel by Stevenson | ||||
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King Arthur |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Shapeshifter and Berwick House Productions | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Synopsis: Keith Dewhurst's re-examination of man and myth is a long way from Camelot in every sense. Focusing on a Britain struggling to discover its national identity in the century following the fall of Rome and the departure of the Roman legions from these shores, Dewhurst offers a theatrical antidote to the romance of Mallory, instead painting a portrait of a cold, dark world where the flawed Artorius tries to do what's right without around table anywhere in sight. Mind you, his moody wife Guenhumara (that's Guinevere to us) does seem to have a hotline to the future via a mobile phone given to her by shape-shifting narrator Merlin, and Tennyson is to be found strolling around in the mists of time. Lyn Gardner | ||||
Lark Rise To Candleford |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Lark Rise to Candleford", Hutchinson, London | 1980 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: works by Flora Thompson | ||||
Synopsis: literary sampling of English village life in late Victorian Oxfordshire | ||||
Luggage |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Magic Island, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Miser, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1973 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Moliere | ||||
Synopsis: the miser loves his gold but decides to take a second wife, four lovers plot to save themselves, Period 1668 | ||||
One Short |
| 1st Produced: | Sheffield | 1976 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Pirates |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||
| Company: | Sunday night production without décor | |||
| 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: | large cast | |||
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Rafferty's Chant |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1967 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays of the Year 33", Elek, London | 1967 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Synopsis: Unsuccessful confidence trickster's attempts to sell non-running cars | ||||
San Salvador |
| 1st Produced: | 1979-80 | |||
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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: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: part of The American Project: a compendium of short plays | ||||
Synopsis: A debate relating to cannibalism and cultural prejudice | ||||
World Turned Upside Down, The |
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, London | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "War Plays", Oberon, London | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
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Notes: work by Christopher Hill | ||||
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