MICHAEL HASTINGS (1938 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Michael Hastings
Blue As His Eyes The Tin Helmet He Wore |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1966 | ||
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Notes: Granada TV 1967 | ||||
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Calico |
| 1st Produced: | Duke of York's, London | 2004 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon, London | 2004 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: 1928: The Paris apartment of James Joyce and his family. A world of secret lives and secret dreamsA young student named Samuel Beckett arrives and an unusual love begins. Calico is a fictional story inspired by fact. It is a captivating and exuberant play about a family in crisis. Scrupulously researched, Calico mixes sadness and great compassion to explore love almost to the brink of insanity. | ||||
Carnival War |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1979 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Penguin, London | 1981 | ||
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Notes: aka Carnival War a Go Hot | ||||
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Cutting Of The Cloth, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Synopsis: Autobiographical play | ||||
Dance of the American Rattlesnake, The |
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| 1st Published: | Oberon, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: maps the extraordinary life of the art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929), who assembled in Hamburg the last great private library of the 20th century. During the rise of the Nazis in Germany, Warburg suffered mental collapses and was sent to the Kreuzlingen Asylum. Using visual metaphor and dance, Hastings reveals the unique contribution Warburg made to the history of visual thought and ideas. | ||||
Death And The Maiden |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1991 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1991 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: Playwright - Ariel Dorfman | ||||
Synopsis: when dictatorships crumble right and left and the victims, the living dead, emerge from the shadows and present their accounts" Sunday Times | ||||
Don't Destroy Me |
| 1st Produced: | New Lindsay, London | 1956 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Nimbus, London | 1956 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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Dream Of People, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Emperor, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Penguin, London | 1988 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 5 characters | |||
Notes: written with Jonathan Miller, novel by Ryszard Kapuscinski | ||||
Synopsis: the last remaining servants at the Royal palace describe events leading up to the Emperor Haile Selassie's from power in Ethiopia | ||||
For The West (Congo) |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1966 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Notes: BBC TV 1964 | ||||
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For The West (Uganda) |
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||
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| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", Penguin, London | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: examines the British involvement with Idi Amin's lawless rule, portrays the irrationality and brutality of a man who was ruled by his dreams, and suggests the fascism in East Africa is a malign child of imperialist venture | ||||
Full Frontal |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1979 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", Penguin, London | 1980 | ||
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Gloo Joo |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||
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| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", Penguin, London | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: won the Evening Standard Best comedy Award and was adapted for the screen in 1979 | ||||
Synopsis: about colour prejudice which raised controversy within the black community | ||||
Going To A Party |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1984 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Lee Harvey Oswald: A Far Mean Streak Of Indepence Brought On By Negleck |
| 1st Produced: | 1966 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Penguin, London | 1966 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: aka The Silence of Lee Harvey Oswald | ||||
Synopsis: if Oswald was in any way involved in Kennedy's death it could only have been as part of a wider conspiracy, it is possible that a nations desire to apportion blame has turned history into fiction | ||||
Midnite At The Starlit |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Penguin, London | 1981 | ||
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Notes: York TV 1980 | ||||
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Miser, The |
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge | 1982 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Moliere | ||||
Synopsis: the miser loves his gold but decides to take a second wife, four lovers plot to save themselves, Period 1668 | ||||
Murder Rap |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1980 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: BBC TV 1980 | ||||
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Silence Of Saint-Just, The |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1971 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London | 1970 | ||
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Stars Of The Roller State Disco |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1984 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Tom And Viv |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Royal Court Theatre, London, 1984 (Oberon Books, London, 2000 >>> ) | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Biographical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: TS Eliots wife, Vivien, suffered from a severe hormonal imbalance during their seventeen years together. Their pained private life was the source of some of Eliots finest work. Despite the complex nature of their relationship, he spoke of her as someone who gave him everything he wanted, and to whom he owed everything. Thoroughly researched, with new biographical information, the play attempts to move Eliot away from the doctrine of impersonal modernsim. Here he is portayed as a deeply subjective poet. Tom and Viv received its premiere at the Royal Court in 1984, and subsequently transferred to the West End. It has been made into a major motion picture starring Willem Dafoe and Miranda Richardson. | ||||
Two Fish In The Sky |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1982 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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Unfinished Business |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
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World's Baby, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1965 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", W.H. Allen, London | 1966 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 26 | Female | 6 |
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Yes, And After |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1957 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", W.H. Allen, London | 1966 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Modern Drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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