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Robert Holman

ROBERT HOLMAN   (1952 - )

Nationality:   British    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Robert Holman's plays include Making Noise Quietly, Bad Weather and Holes in the Skin. He has worked as resident dramatist at the National Theatre and RSC.

Plays by Robert Holman

ROBERT HOLMAN

Across Oka

1st Produced:

Stratford-on-Avon

1988

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1988

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

4

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

An epic journey of a young boy and his grandmother from the North of England to the depths of Siberia to return a set of rare eggs into the wild.

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Bad Weather

1st Produced:

Other Place Theatre, Stratford, UK

22 Apr 1998

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London, 1998

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1854593245

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Bad Weather

Following a fight at a local Chinese in Middlesborough in which a man is badly injured, one man is sent to prison. The other man involved goes free, but it is a freedom full of burden. Out of the blue, a figure from the family past arrives and another kind of escape is on offer. The emotional fluidity of Bad Weather's characters, their capacity for surprising - almost shocking - changes of direction, and their literacy in discussing how they feel, makes this sincere, absorbing play as contemporary as anything by the new nihilists.

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Being Friends

1st Produced:

Bush Theatre, London, EUR >>>

1986

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in Making Noise Quietly: Three Plays. Nick Hern Books, London

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1854594525

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

The first of the three plays that make up the trilogy Making Noise Quietly

Being Friends

WWII, Oliver is sunbathing in a field when he is joined by the very out and frank Eric (based on Denton Welch ??)

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Coal

1st Produced:

London

1973

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Emigres

1st Produced:

London

1978

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "New Review", London, 1979

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Slawomir Mrozek

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Estuary, The

1st Produced:

Bush Theatre, London >>>

1980

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

German Skerries

1st Produced:

Bush Theatre, London >>>

1977

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1977

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Grave Lovers, The

1st Produced:

Edinburgh

1972

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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ROBERT HOLMAN

Holes In The Skin

1st Produced:

Chichester: Minerva, England, EUR >>>

13 Jun 2003

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London, 2003

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0854599742

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

5

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Holes In The Skin

15-year-old Kerry and her mum have moved to a council estate. Kerry hates it. She hates her mum's new man too. But when she meets a boy in the playground and asks him to do something about it, she finds herself adrift in a landscape of physical brutality, drugs - and, eventually, love

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Jonah And Otto

1st Produced:

Manchester: Royal Exchange Theatre, England, EUR >>>

12 Mar 2008

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2008

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1854595546

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Jonah And Otto

A humane, funny and ultimately haunting exploration of what it is to be male and to be quintessentially English. A fleeting moment of connection between two very different men. Jonah, 26, has a chance encounter with Otto, 62, in a walled garden near the south coast of England on a warm summer's evening. The moon is full. On parting, neither will ever feel quite the same again.

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Lost

1st Produced:

Bush Theatre, London, EUR >>>

1986

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in Making Noise Quietly: Three Plays. Nick Hern Books, London

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1854594525

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

The second play in the trilogy of short plays, Making Noise Quietly

Lost

It is 1987. May Appleton, whose son is serving in the Falklands, receives the visit that every mother dreads.

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Making Noise Quietly

1st Produced:

Bush Theatre, London >>>

1986

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1987
in Making Noise Quietly: Three Plays. Nick Hern Books, London

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1854594525

Music:

-

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

The third in the trilogy of short plays, also called Making Noise Quietly

Making Noise Quietly

In 1986, in the Black Forest, a German businesswoman takes into her home a fugitive British private and his disturbed stepson.

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Mud

1st Produced:

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs Sunday Night, London >>>

1974

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Heinemann, London, 1977

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Natural Cause, The

1st Produced:

The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, London NW8 8EH >>>

1974

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Other Worlds

1st Produced:

Royal Court Theatre, London >>>

1983

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1983

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Outside The Whale

1st Produced:

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1976

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1991

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Outside The Whale

George Orwell in the 1930s. At his publishers, in a hen house, at an Essex doss house

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Overgrown Path, The

1st Produced:

Royal Court Theatre, London >>>

1985

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1985

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Progress In Unity

1st Produced:

Teesside

1972

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#16934

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Rafts And Dreams

1st Produced:

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

1990

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1991

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Rafts And Dreams

Hetty is a nervous compulsive - she has to wash whenever she touches anything and was the things she has touched. In the bathroom of her flat her husband Leo and next door neighbour Neil try to help her. Neil is training to be a doctor and he finally persuades her to touch the cistern by getting her to focus on a nice dream. Some time later Neil is sun bathing on the roof-space and Leo joins him and later Hetty too as she is becoming braver. Neil tells them of how as a teenager he ran away from home and drifted in to making gay porn films. One day the men making one of the films decided to turn it into a snuff movie and they tried to kill Neil. One of the men was traced, arrested and imprisoned. Leo gets Neil to help him remove a tree stump from the garden. As they succeed in doing this water starts bubbling up into the hole. There seems to be no way of stopping it. Soon London and the Home Counties are under water. Leo managed to detach the living room of his flat and using it as a raft the three of them float away. They pick up Jo who turns out to be the wife of the man imprisoned for making the snuff movie. She had been trying to get in touch with Neil to make amends as she had had no idea what her husband had been up to. They drift on. Europe is now under water. They see what appears to be part of an iceberg. Neil and Jo row over to it and they find Alex a teenage boy. Jo wants to stay behind but is persuaded to come back and the three of them row of to the raft. They discover what seems to be an island but it is high ground somewhere in Africa and had been a leper colony. Leo and Hetty decide to stay with the one survivor from the colony. Neil, Alex and Jo drift on they come to a much larger "island". They discover a mobile field hospital equipped to perform cataract operations and in the distance they can see lots of people they presume are patients. Alex tries to repair the engine. Neil goes on ahead but shoots himself.

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Rooting

1st Produced:

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1978

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, A

1st Produced:

Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, London, EUR >>>

07 May 2010

Company:

Lyric Hammersmith Production

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London (2010) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1408131466

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

7

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Written by David Eldridge, Robert Holman and Simon Stephens

Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, A

On a farm in the North East of England a family gathers. Five brothers and four generations feature in an epic play about hope, love, fear and the very end of time. A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky is a refreshingly subtle and compassionate vision of the world on the edge of apocalypse. Within a cosmological context, the focus is on a single family, their relations with each other and their unreconciled regrets, soon to become permanent. With an ensemble of strong, engaging characters, there are knotty, realistic family dynamics and a palimpsest of recent family history. The characters and dialogue are naturalistic but the serious themes are elucidated and alleviated with humour and quirky, surreal touches. The play represents a unique collboration between three of the UK's pre-eminent stage writers. The ambition of the partnership is matched by the ambition of the play's sweeping scope. Whilst the three voices collide, they also ring out individually without sacrificing the piece's coherent wholeness, and the play represents a rare, fascinating study in stage collaboration.

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ROBERT HOLMAN

Today

1st Produced:

Stratford-on-Avon

1984

Company:

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1985

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Parts:

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Notes:

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Synopsis:

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