PETER GILL   (1939 - )


Peter Gill
   Nationality:
Welsh
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Plays by Peter Gill

PETER GILL
As I Lay Dying
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: novel by Faulkner
Synopsis: The play is difficult to follow, as the book is difficult to read. But it is worth the effort and, like the best of all Peter Gill's work, it is instinct with gestural scrupulousness and a sort of throbbing, humourless integrity. Faulkner's jocularity, anyway, was never seen to best advantage in this novel, but I feel it a shame that we end on a reverse filial pieta rather than on the news that old Bundren (Robert Hamilton) finds not only a new wife, but also new teeth, as his grim mission is accomplished. The adaptation, for all its merits, is more concerned with mothers and sons than with Faulkner's wild descriptive landscape.
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PETER GILL
Cardiff East
1st Produced:
1997
Company:
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1997
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
8
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Set in Cardiff's east side, Peter Gill's new play offers a vivid portrait of a community the Tories thought they'd got rid of, and New Labour would prefer to forget. Cardiff East raises essential questions: What is family value? What does it feel like to be an immigrant in your own country? And most importantly, why don't the Welsh reach for the Armalite? Uncompromising and desperately real, with an undercurrent of ironic humour, Cardiff East builds towards an inexorable climax, which combines hope and tragedy in equal parts.
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PETER GILL
Certain Young Men
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
Almeida Theatre Company
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1999
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
8
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: What are two grown men doing living together, faking all the stupidities of a fake straight relationship? A sharp and poignant comedy of contemporary manners, explores the lives and loves of Stewart and Michael, David and Christopher, Andrew and Tony, and Robert and Terry.
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PETER GILL
Cherry Orchard, The
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London
1995
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
9
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov; literal translation by Ted Braun
Synopsis: Chekhov's characteristic genius and feeling for a society transition are most fully expressed in his last great play, The Cherry Orchard. It is a comedy in a form peculiar to Chekhov and not easily defined, showing as it does fifteen widely differentiated characters in situations that are by turn farcical, tragic and romantic. Written in 1903, the year before he died, the play tells of an old family estate up for auction and how, with the sale, a whole way of life comes to an end.
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PETER GILL
Eclipse
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nelson Thornes, UK
1999
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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PETER GILL
Friendly Fire
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
BT National Connections
1st Published:
in New Connections 99, Faber, London
1999
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
10 m/f
Notes: -
Synopsis: the story of nine young people and a statue of a private soldier in the First World War. At its heart is a trio of people - each in love with the other, but in the wrong order. Adie likes Gary, but Gary likes Shelley, who likes Adie. None of this is simple, as the three discover as they struggle to understand and cope with the hand life and love have dealt them and 'sort out what they can put up with, and what they can't'. Insightful, tough and moving, this is an important new play offering outstanding roles.
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PETER GILL
In The Blue
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon, Birmingham
1987
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Genre:
40 min
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: part of Five Play Bill
Synopsis: It is perhaps not a play at all, but a slow moving graphic panorama of unrelieved woe In The Spotlight" is the third book of acting scripts for young people and follows the format of its predecessors, ACTING YOUNG and CENTRE STAGE. Schools and Drama Schools have found the self-contained nature of the pieces means that their pupils have a better understanding of the subjects and therefore greater empathy with them. Once again the subjects range from the serious to the absurd, but always looked at through the eyes of a young person.
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PETER GILL
Kick For Touch
1st Produced:
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
Boyars, London
1985
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: about two mothers and two sons: their attachments and emotional complexity: the endeavour of the two sons to make sense of their complicated inheritance and their adolescent friendship later in life
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PETER GILL
Look Across The Eyes
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London
1997
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Genre:
Radio Play
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: looks back to family life in the 1940's
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PETER GILL
Lovely Evening
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in The York Realist, Faber, London
2001
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: conveys a powerful sense of a fledgling love affair in fifties working class Cardiff and a rich impresssion of an almost vanished society, its manners and mores, its hopes and disappointments.
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PETER GILL
Mean Tears
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays International", London, August
1987
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Genre:
Romantic drama
-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: There was once an old woman. Her only son was made a soldier and sent to war. When he was killed his body was sent back to her. She was sitting in her garden when it was carried in on a stretcher.
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PETER GILL
Merry-Go-Round, The
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Theatreprint, London
1973
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Playwright - D H Lawrence
Synopsis: Lawrence's second play, written in 1910 when he was 25. It is a romantic comedy set against the background of colliery and countryside that dominated all his work. The emotional content is as intense as you would expect from Lawrence, and the inevitable struggles between mother and son, and lover and lover, are drawn with his characteristic power and acuity. The play is as human as its characters, and like them it is wayward, tender and full of fun.
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PETER GILL
Original Sin
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
Peter Gill Festival
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
2002
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Frank Wedekind
Synopsis: Angel, a spell-bindingly beautiful boy is plucked from the streets to be the plaything of a wealthy newspaper proprietor. This street-boy turned socialite moves with ease between the worlds of privilege and poverty in 1890's Paris and London. Angel's rapid success turns as swiftly in to self destruction as he is caught in a downward spiral of obsession, money, murder, suicide and white slavery.
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PETER GILL
Over Gardens Out
1st Produced:
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playscript 44, Calder and Boyars, London (Plays & Players Jan 1970)
1970
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: 1st production 05/08/68, there was a second production at Royal Court on 29/07/69
Synopsis: Depicts relationship between two young men who fell that there is no escape from their surroundings
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PETER GILL
Provincial Life, A
1st Produced:
1966
Company:
The English Stage Society
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
12
Female
7
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov (My Life)
Synopsis: Chekhov's long story My Life, upon which this play is based, was written in 1896 during the period of his maturity as a story writer. His work of this time is a powerful reflection of contemporary Russian life. The story Ward 6 for example, set in a decrepit provincial hospital, with one terrible ward for the mentally sick, is such a strong image of the Russian intellectual's dilemma, that the young Lenin was reported after reading it 'to have been seized with such a horror that he could not bear to stay in his room. He went out to find someone to talk to; but it was too late: they had all gone to bed. "I had absolutely the feeling", he told his sister the next day, "that I was shut up in Ward 6 myself"'.
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PETER GILL
Seagull, The
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
1st Published:
Oberon, Birmingham
2000
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis: Chekhovs great play, written in 1896, bursts into the 21st century with the burdens of the past bearing witness to the freedoms of the future.
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PETER GILL
Sleepers Den, The
1st Produced:
1965
Company:
The English Stage Society
1st Published:
Playscript 44, Calder and Boyars, London (Plays & Players Jan 1970)
1970
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: revised version Royal Court 1969
Synopsis: Depicts poor working class family and their struggle to make ends meet and stay together.
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PETER GILL
Small Change
1st Produced:
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1976
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: study of relationship between two boys with each other and their respective mothers
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PETER GILL
Touch And Go
1st Produced:
-
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Playwright - D H Lawrence
Synopsis:
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PETER GILL
York Realist, The
1st Produced:
The Lowry, Salford Keys
2001
Company:
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
2001
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: When farm labourer George is cast in an amateur revival of the York Mystery Plays he meets Assistant Director John. Their relationship develops and soon John wants him to move to London with him. This finely drawn love-story explores class allegiances, the family and the origins and ownership of art
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