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David T Hale

DAVID T HALE  

 Nationality:    British
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David's first play, THE ONE, was produced at The Finborough Theatre in august 2001. His last play, DOGS, received a reading at the Royal Court Theatre in 2002 directed by Dominic Cooke. David has just completed a new work, THE 136 - a 21st Century 'On The Buses' with a twist. He is also creating a series for television, CEMENT CITY, the story of a young gay man growing up and 'out' on a Liverpool housing estate during the 1980s. . .

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 136, The         Chair Women, The         Dogs         One, The

136, The

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a 21st Century 'On The Buses' with a twist.

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Chair Women, The

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Outside the auditorium, a notice informs the audience that they will be filmed during the performance. Inside, handheld cameras are trained on people through the darkness once the play begins. across the gloom, you think, they can't pick up much and the anxiety begins to subside. There is also the powerful distraction of the play within Scarlet Theatre's "reality theatre show", an adaptation of Werner Schwab's The Presidents, with a cracking translation by David Hale. Three women sit and watch television, swooning towards its horrors and its banalities in equal measure as they share their disappointments and fantasies. These two scenes - pulsating with Schwab's absurdist, cruel and deeply scatological world view, and acted with much relish for the grim material - are the production's impressive heart of darkness. - Elizabeth Mahoney, Guardian

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Original Playwright - Werner Schwab

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Scarlet Theatre

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Translation

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Dogs

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reading at the Royal Court Theatre, London    2002

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One, The

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Theatre Lab

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