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KEN DUNCUM (1959 - ) |
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Nationality: New Zealander Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Playmarket Inc |
2010 New Zealand Post Katherine Mansfield Prize winner Ken Duncum is a leading New Zealand playwright and screenwriter. His scripts have won awards in theatre and television. His plays CHERISH and TRICK OF THE LIGHT won best new New Zealand Play at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards in 2003 and 2004. His script for television drama series COVER STORY won Best Script for Drama at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards and Best Writer - Comedy for WILLY NILLY in 2002. Duncum's plays have toured New Zealand as well as internationally.
Plays by Ken Duncum
Cherish | ||
| 1st Produced: | Abingdon Theater Company, 312 W. 36th Street , Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10018-7570 >>> | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Nicu's Spoon | |||||
| 1st Published: | Victoria University Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 978--0864734938 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54895 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | US Premiere | |||||
| follows the dramatic reverberations of a surrogacy dispute between a gay couple and a lesbian couple, whose parental instincts threaten to tear them apart. | |||||
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Flipside | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Zealand | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Plays One: Small Towns And Sea" published by Victoria University Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 978--0864734945 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112454 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for "Production of the Year" | |||||
| The capsizing of the Rose-Noelle has been part of New Zealand folklore for over twenty years; John Glennie, James Nalepka, Rick Hellriegel and Phil Hoffman embarked on what should have been a long-yet-fortuitus journey to Tonga only to be hit by a storm, tipping the boat upside down and stranding them in the Pacific Sea for a then record 119 days. What riddled their story with unintentional comedic tragedy were the series of errors that took place throughout the ill-fated venture - a lack of experience on the boat, lack of a license to operate a CB radio and their final true whereabouts having spent four months in close confines. However Flipside is not all about their sea adventure, it also transports the audience forward to the bedside of Rick Hellriegel as he suffers the recurrence of cancer. It shows the love and support and care he got from fellow shipmate James Nalepka. Flipside isn't simply a tale of boys and their gung-ho, testosterone driven account of survival. Instead the work is an exploration into the deconstruction of the male psyche in terms of its sensitivity and how men bond together during moments of crisis. | |||||
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Flybaby | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
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 | #116119 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Ken Duncum and Rebecca Rodden | |||||
Synopsis: | Much to their surprise an unemployable couple have a baby - the new Messiah | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Great Gatsby, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Court Theatre, Christchurch, New Zealand | - - - | ||||
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 | #117593 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||||
Synopsis: | Over a shimmering summer in a rented bungalow on Long Island, New York, Nick Carraway enters the restless world of feverish excitement, excessive self-indulgence and elegant romance populated by the bright young poisonous things of the Jazz Age. Entangled in the fatal attraction of beautiful Daisy Buchanan and the mysterious Jay Gatsby, Nick finds himself drawn further and further into the dazzling decadence of the Roaring Twenties, until his final devastating discovery explodes the glamorous facade of the American Dream. | |||||
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Horseplay | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 May 2010 | |||||
Company: | Auckland Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Plays One: Small Towns And Sea" published by Victoria University Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 978--0864734945 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114499 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Two great mavericks of New Zealand literature, James K Baxter and Ronald Hugh Morrieson, clash over booze, horses, women and the nature of the creative act in Ken Duncum's inspired comedy HORSEPLAY at the Maidment Theatre. Starring Tim Balme and John Leigh as the wildly different but equally eccentric men of letters, HORSEPLAY is Duncums hilarious imagining of the two crossing paths in Hawera, 1972. The absurdities pile up as the two find themselves sharing the stage with the rear end of a horse and enduring the interruptions of a dotty aunt and would-be girlfriend, Wilma. | |||||
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Jism | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #116120 | |||
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John, I'm Only Dancing | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1974 | ||||
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 | #116121 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A passionate affair between the music teacher and the head prefect at a boys school | |||||
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Panic | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1993 | ||||
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 | #116122 | |||
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Genre: | Monolgue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Written by Ken Duncum, Rebecca Rodden and Petra Massey | |||||
Synopsis: | Sex, death and shoplifting | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Picture Perfect | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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 | #57750 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Polythene Pam | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1993 | ||||
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 | #116123 | |||
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Genre: | Monolgue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Written by Ken Duncum and Rebecca Rodden | |||||
Synopsis: | If the world is not perfect all is lost | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Temptations Of St Max | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1993 | ||||
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 | #116124 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Father Maximillian Kolbe who volunteered to be exchanged for an Auschwitz inmate | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Trick Of Light | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Plays One: Small Towns And Sea" published by Victoria University Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 978--0864734945 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114500 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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| A brother and sister take their mother's ashes to a motel room where something life changing happened to her thirty years previously | |||||
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