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CAROL ANN DUFFY (1955 - ) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd (agent: Peter Straus) |
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She has published six collections of poems for adults and has received many awards. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for best collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are Feminine Gospels and New Selected Poems
Plays by Carol Ann Duffy
Beasts And Beauties | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48395 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | retold by Carol Ann Duffy, adapted by Melly Still and Tim Supple. Includes the following dramatisations/stories: Blue Beard; The Husband Who Was to Mind the House; The Three Wishes; Beauty and the Beast;; The Emperor's New Clothes; Toby and the Wolf; The Juniper Tree; The Girl and the North Wind | |||||
Synopsis: | Children loved every minute of this show, either shivering with pleasurable terror, growning with pleasurable delight or laughing uproariously at disaster. They were treated to serial killing, cannibalism, decapitation, baby snatching, a naked bottom and the gratuitous ill treatment of a delightful pig. | |||||
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Beauty Of The Church, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133129 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is a response to the King James Bible book of Song Of Solomon | |||||
| The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. The voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient arts of writing and spoken performance | |||||
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Casanova | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70134 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 boy | |||||
Notes: | adapted by Carol Ann Duffy and Told By An Idiot | |||||
Synopsis: | The year is 1755 and a strange series of events has broken out across Europe. In Flanders, bakers' bread rises without yeast; in Padua, a church service is interrupted as the entire female congregation goes into labour; in Cirencester, several magistrates are seen cavorting naked on St Swithins Day. Could Casanova be the cause of these strange goings-on? | |||||
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Cavern Of Dreams | ||
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #134559 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | by Bill Morrison with Carol Ann Duffy | |||||
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Grimm Tales | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in collected Grimm Tales, Faber, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10209 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Carol Ann Duffy's adaptation plus the dramatization by Tim Supple and the Young Vic Company | |||||
Synopsis: | When did somebody last tell you a fairytale? This hour-long midday treat of selected Grimm Tales is quirky, imaginative, 3-dimensional storytelling at its best. A vibrant young cast present a living storybook for all ages. | |||||
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Lost Happy Endings, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | mac, Birmingham | 20 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | Red Earth Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121848 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Adapted and directed by Wendy Rouse & Amanda Wilde. | |||||
Synopsis: | A truly compelling, surprising and beautiful story for children of all ages by Award-Winning Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Jub's job is important and she is very proud of it. She collects and sends out the Happy Endings from all the stories in the world in time for everybody's bedtime. But one night she is caught by a wicked witch who steals all of the happy endings. . . What if the shoe didn't fit Cinderella? What if the prince's kiss didn't awaken Snow White? What if the big bad wolf gobbled up Little Red Riding Hood? Wiser and cleverer than the witch, Jub dreams up a perfect plan to outwit her, and like all good fairy tales, this one has a happy ending. This deeply imaginative and wonderfully inventive story by the nation's favourite writer and best-loved poet is brought to the stage by Red Earth Theatre and mac. Red Earth's trademark humour, energy and ingenuity promises a delightful show with puppets, music, dance and lots of surprises. | |||||
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More Grimm Tales | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in collected Grimm Tales, Faber, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10210 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Carol Ann Duffy's adaptation plus the dramatization by Tim Supple and the Young Vic Company | |||||
Synopsis: | 'Great theatre is as fleeting as it is thrilling. It exists in the spaces between actors and audience and is as elusive and silvery as the paths that wind through dark woods of fairy tales. The great thing about Carol Ann Duffy's re-telling of these Grimm tales is the generous energy with which it enfolds each in its own style. Duffy and director Tim Supple go the whole journey with the brothers Grimm into the bright, warped world of a child's imagination.' Guardian | |||||
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Worlds' Wife, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Assembly @ George Street (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) | Aug 2009 | ||||
Company: | Seabright productions and LMP | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106950 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adapted and performed by Linda marlowe from the poetry of Carol Ann duffy | |||||
Synopsis: | New adaptation of Carol Ann Duffy's poems imagining famous men from their wives' perspectives. From Frau Freud to Queen Kong, this darkly funny show slices through history and myth, casting an astute glance over the modern world. | |||||
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