NICK HOGARTH   (1945 - )


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Plays by Nick Hogarth

NICK HOGARTH
Black Nightingale
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
Dual Control
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play with Music
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Music by Colin Sell, designs by Ralph Steadman. Production also toured UK. Could be produced with larger cast, as the original production included much doubling.
Synopsis: Based on The Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole in Many Lands by the African-Caribbean heroine of the Crimean War Mary Seacole. She tries to become one of Florence Nightingale's nurses, but is rejected. Instead, she sets up the British Hotel in the Crimea, where she serves officers and men with food and other products. She goes onto the battlefield to nurse the wounded and dying; and she is the first woman to enter Sebastapol after its seige. When war ends, she is bankrupted, but returns to London a national hero. Following Queen Victoria's intervention, a public subscription is opened for her; she is rescued from bankruptcy and given a pension.
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NICK HOGARTH
Grimaldi
1st Produced:
Epsom Playhouse
1986
Company:
Dual Control
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play with Music
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Toured twice (1986-7). Season at the Old Red Lion, London. Part-performed at Covent Garden in 1987 to mark the 150th anniversary of Grimaldi's death.
Synopsis: Based on The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Charles Dickens. Biographical play, in which Dickens and Grimaldi (who in real life did not meet) act out Grimaldi's life story.
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NICK HOGARTH
Mother Seacole
1st Produced:
Ethelburga Community Centre
2007
Company:
Theatre 503/Ethelburga Residents' Association
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play with Music
Parts:
Male
22
Female
10
Parts Other:
2
Notes: Performed as a community play. The numbers in the cast are an approximation; several parts may be doubled and some may be played by either sex.
Synopsis: The African-Caribbean nurse Mary Seacole wants to join Florence Nightingale's nurses but is rejected, so she goes to the Crimea anyway and goes out onto the battlefield where she tends the wounded and even serves tea amid the fighting. She sets up the British Hotel, but is bankrupted by peace. Returning to London, she finds herself a heroine and is rescued from poverty by a campaign on her behalf, launched by Queen Victoria. Based on Mary Seacole's autobiography The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands.
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NICK HOGARTH
Noah's Flood and The Second Shepherds' Pageant
1st Produced:
Rochester Cathedral
1996
Company:
Medway Little Theatre
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
translation & adaptation double bill
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
12
Female
7
Parts Other:
children as animals
Notes: These plays make up a full evening's entertainment. Small amount of singing. Translated into prose.
Synopsis: Noah is adapted from the Wakefield and Chester Mystery Cycles. The Second Shepherds' Pageant is from the Wakefield Mystery Cycle. They follow the Biblical stories, with the addition of conflict between Noah and his wife; the Second Shepherds' Pageant includes a parody of the Nativity in which Mak the Sheepstealer tries to pass of a lamb as a child.
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NICK HOGARTH
Ouch!
1st Produced:
The Barn, Allington Castle, near Maidstone
1988
Company:
Dual Control
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
childrens
Musical
Parts:
Male
3
Female
16
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Most parts can be played by either sex. Music by Colin Sell, designs by Ralph Steadman. Intended to be performed by senior schoolchildren to audiences of junior schoolchildren. Written as part of a youth arts campaign organised by TVS. Toured to other venues and revived in October at the Gulkbenkian Theatre in Canterbury and at the Theatre La Fontaine in Lille, France, as the first arts exchange between the Nord Pas de Calais and Kent, following the signing of a cultural agreeent between the two areas. Dur: 45"-55"
Synopsis: All is peaceful in Ouchville, home of the characters from a 50s comic called Ouch!, except that everyone is terrified of a child called The Brat. The Swot dresses as The Brat, is rejected by her own Swotgang and thrown out by her parents. The Zonkgang, from the rival comic Zonk, arrive in Ouchville to kidnap the Brat because her adventures are so popular that the children all read Ouch! not Zonk! They kidnap the Swot instead. In a battle, the Bratgang release the Swot, but beat up their editor by mistake.
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NICK HOGARTH
Vox Pop VIctoria
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
Dual Control
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
entertainment
Show
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Could be performed by up to 50 people. Also toured the UK twice 1985-6.
Synopsis: Based on London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew, a series of interviews with street-sellers, street performers and other poor people of Victorian London.
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