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KEITH DEWHURST (1931 - )
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Animals Of Farthing Wood, The
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From Colin Dann Books
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Pleasance, London 1998
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Batavia
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Perth 1984
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Black Snow
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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 Moliere 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
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Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov
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Male: 10 Female: 5 Other: extras
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Bomb In Brewery Street, The
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in "War Plays", Oberon, London, -
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Brecht In '26
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Genre:
Collage
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Male: 6 Female: - Other: -
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Candleford Green
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audience and players mingle re-enacting a meeting of the local hunt in mid-winter
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works by Flora Thompson
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London 1979
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in "Lark Rise to Candleford", Hutchinson, London, 1980 -
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adaptation
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Male: 12 Female: 6 Other: with doubling
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Corunna!
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book And lyrics by Keith Dewhurst with Tim Hart, music by Steeleye Span
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in "War Plays", Oberon, London, -
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Genre:
Ballad Musical Musical
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Don Quixote
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From Cervantes
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amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1982 -
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Kidnapped
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novel by Stevenson
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Edinburgh 1972
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King Arthur
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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.
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Shapeshifter and Berwick House Productions
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Play/Drama
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Male: 6 Female: 4 Other: extras
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Lark Rise To Candleford
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literary sampling of English village life in late Victorian Oxfordshire
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works by Flora Thompson
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London 1978
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in "Lark Rise to Candleford", Hutchinson, London, 1980 -
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Luggage
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London 1977
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Magic Island, The
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Miser, The
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the miser loves his gold but decides to take a second wife, four lovers plot to save themselves, Period 1668
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Original Playwright - Moliere
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Edinburgh 1973
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One Short
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Sheffield 1976
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Pirates
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Sunday night production without decor
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Male: - Female: - Other: large cast
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Rafferty's Chant
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Unsuccessful confidence trickster's attempts to sell non-running cars
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London 1967
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in "Plays of the Year 33", Elek, London, 1967 -
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Comedy
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Male: 10 Female: 2 Other: extras
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San Salvador
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a debate relating to cannibalism and cultural prejudice
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part of The American Project: A compendium of short plays
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Short Play One act
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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World Turned Upside Down, The
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work by Christopher Hill
1st Produced:
National Theatre, London 1978
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in "War Plays", Oberon, London, -
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