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Clive Francis

CLIVE FRANCIS

  (1946 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Alan Brodie Representation Ltd  

Clive Francis was born in eastbourne, Sussex on 26 June 1946 and trained at RADA. His father, Raymond Francis, played one of england's most famous detectives during the 50s and 60s, when he appeared as Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart in the long-running television series No Hiding Place. His mother, Margaret Towner, is still performing - well into her 80s. She appeared as Jira in Star Wars: the Phantom Menace. Clive began adapting for the stage in 2000 when he created a one-man show of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL. In 2002 Clive was commissioned along with Paul Minett and Brian Leveson to adapt the old ealing film comedy the LAVeNDeR HILL MOB for the stage. Clive directed it as well as performing the Alec Guinness role. In 2004 he was commissioned by Nottingham and Salisbury Playhouses to adapt Arthur Conan Doyle's the HOUND OF the BASKeRVILLeS, in which he worked alongside Tim Bird (who created an ingenious projection design) and the director Richard Baron, with whom he has now formed a production company called Strange Bedfellows. In 2006 Ian Fricker presented Clive's adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome's THRee MeN IN A BOAT which, along with the HOUND OF the BASKeRVILLeS, toured successfully during 2007 and 2008. His adaptation of Graham Greene's OUR MAN IN HAVANA toured in 2009/10. He is currently working on a stage adaptation of an evelyn Waugh novel.

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below is a list of Clive Francis's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Christmas Carol, A         Hound Of the Baskervilles, The         Lavender Hill Mob, The         Our Man In Havana         Small Hand, The         Thark         There is Nothing Like a Dane         Three Men In A Boat

Christmas Carol, A

Synopsis:
A Christmas Carol is the most famous book Charles Dickens ever wrote and one of the most daring. As the Ghosts spirit Scrooge from his past to his present to his future, Dickens plunges the reader cinematically from the miser's dank and creaking house in the City to riotous festivities, from cozy hearths to graveyards. And all the time the author's voice, tender, savage, magisterial, is present. Clive Francis returns with his highly acclaimed and hugely popular RSC performance as the misanthropic Ebenezer Scrooge. Bringing to life a whole host of Dickensian characters from the spectral Jacob Marley to the warm and loving Bob Cratchit and his son Tiny Tim, not forgetting, of course, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Notes:
from novel by Charles Dickens

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Hound Of the Baskervilles, The

Hound Of the Baskervilles, The
a modern adaptation of the hound on the moor. an eerie, bloodcurdling howl is heard across the moors. a blanket of images and sounds envelop the audience bringing the atmosphEric terror of Dartmoor, the eerie gothic hall and the ghostly vicious hound to life as you have never seen before!

Notes:
from novel by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Playhouse, Nottingham     04 Sep 2004

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2013) >>>    978-1849434119

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Lavender Hill Mob, The

Synopsis:
Take a step back in time to the golden era of British Film with this ludicrous tale of a humble bank clerk who masterminds the gold bullion heist of the century! Add a party of boisterous schoolgirls and far too many Eiffel Towers and you know that this latest translation from screen to stage promises a night of unadulterated nostalgia and old-fashioned Ealing comedy fun.

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Our Man In Havana

Our Man In Havana
Graham Green's original novel was a very witty send-up of the life of a secret agent in 1950's Cuba - a world which was very familiar to him having, in the early nineteen forties, played the spying game himself as agent 59200, - and although seemingly farcical was reputedly based on some sort of truth. Clive Francis' version takes the original concept and sends it up so far it practically goes into orbit.
- Sheila Connor, British theatre Guide

Notes:
from Graham Greene's spy story

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Oberon Books, London >>>    978-1840029055

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Small Hand, The

Synopsis:
Bookseller Adam Snow stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house having taken a wrong turn. Compelled to take a closer look he approaches the front door, only to feel the eerie sensation of a small cold hand reaching for his own. He tries to put this chilling experience behind him but soon becomes overwhelmed by repeated nightmares. In a desperate attempt to put this behind him and move on, he tries to find out more about the house and its occupants. But something has other ideas, and is determined to keep him close to hand. . .

Notes:
adapted from book by Susan Hill

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Thark

Synopsis:
London, 1927. Things are not going well for Hector Benbow. His secret liaison with a shop girl is scuppered by his wife's early arrival home. What's more, there are reports that Thark  the family home  is haunted. Hector, his plucky nephew Ronny, and the rest of the family set out to the house to prove the rumours wrong. But Thark promises to live up to its spine-chilling reputation. . .

Notes:
adapted from farce by Ben travers

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Snapdragon Productions with Damian Arnold

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Oberon Books, London   -

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There is Nothing Like a Dane

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An affectionate compilation of mostly funny, sometimes serious paraphernalia concerning Hamlet, illustrated by Clive Francis's brilliant caricatures.

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Three Men In A Boat

Synopsis:
about a yarny, middle aged trio floating amicably along the Thames, doing not very much save chew the fat and indulge a pet dog called Montmorency.
Quentin Letts, Daily Mail

Notes:
from the book by Jerome K Jerome

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Ian Fricker

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