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DAVID WALTER HALL (1983 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Brought up in Belfast, David studied philosophy at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from where he graduated in 2005. It was while at university that he first began to write for the stage. Cross Road Blues, his first play, was first performed at Cambridge's historic ADC theatre in 2003. Along with The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady it was presented at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival fringe, receiving five-star reviews and sell-out audiences. The following year he received further five-star acclaim in Edinburgh with Meslier, the true story of a French Catholic priest who was a closet atheist. Following the success of Cross Road Blues, he was commissioned to write a musical, Voodoo Blues, exploring similar, dark, Faustian themes. Voodoo Blues, with an international cast and music by Russ Blaber of Helium Soul, will debut in 2008 with a national tour and plans are in place to take the Edinburgh Festival by storm. Meanwhile Cross Road Blues is soon to see its American premiere in New York and will feature the music of Sophie Solomon (Fiddler on the Roof, Savoy Theatre). The Last Priest, an extended version of Meslier, was performed at London's King's Head theatre in June 2007.
Plays by David Walter Hall
Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Corpus Playroom, Cambridge | 2005 | ||||
Company: | CUADC | |||||
| 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 | #73317 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A woman is brought money and sex that she has never asked for. Dwelling on a passing sweetness and descending into dark demanding self-investigation, through warmth and sentimentality, flirting and lying and admitting the truth, we are shown in this play an image of romance that is inextricably linked to human wrongfulness, irrationality and self deceit - ugly, naked, a sickness that is uniquely human looking us shamefully in the eye, indiscernible from rape, from prostitution, asking no questions, giving us no answers. | |||||
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Cross Road Blues | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | REDS | |||||
| 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 | #73318 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Cross Road Blues enacts the legends surrounding Robert Johnson, the 1930's Delta Blues singer. Robert Johnson died at the age of twenty-six, poisoned in a bar, leaving behind him a legacy of a few recordings, and a Faustian legend that has come to define the essence of the Blues. | |||||
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Last Priest, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Abreaction | |||||
| 1st Published: | www.lulu.com, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69792 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Last Priest explores the life of Jean Meslier (1664-1729), a French Catholic priest and the author of a bitter atheistic testament. He was a little-known hero of the Enlightenment, and an instigator of the socialist ideals of the French Revolution. | |||||
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Meslier | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Abreaction | |||||
| 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 | #73316 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A short, one act version of The Last Priest. Written with the Edinburgh fringe in mind as a place to try out the story before putting together the full version. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Misterioso | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Oct 2009 | |||||
Company: | Theatralia | |||||
| 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 | #107306 | |||
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Genre: | Multi media show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | A Journey Into the Silence of Thelonious monk by Stefano Benni. Pannonica's Monologues by David Walter hall | |||||
Synopsis: | climbs inside the head of one of the most singular geniuses of bebop, who, having taken up residence with the "Jazz Baroness", Pannonica Rothschild, spent the last seven years of his life in a deeply enigmatic silence. | |||||
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Now Is The Hour | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Crossroads Music and 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 | #84885 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 6 non-speaking males | |||||
Notes: | A true story. Some characters and names are fictitious | |||||
Synopsis: | An epic survival story based on accounts of victims and survivors of the sinking of the troopship Laconia by a German U-Boat in the mid-Atlantic in 1942. Left adrift, one lifeboat spent 28 excruciating days at sea. | |||||
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Violent Acts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Close Knit | |||||
| 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 | #73315 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | A collaboration with writer James Topham and a group of Cambridge University actors, produced as part of the Close Knit writers' project. The play follows the intertwining lives of eight people on the day of a young man's university graduation. | |||||
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