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William Ivory

WILLIAM IVORY  

 Nationality:    English
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below is a list of William Ivory's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Bomber's Moon         Diary of a Football Nobody         Retirement Of Tom Stevens

Bomber's Moon

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Bomber's Moon is a love story. Told through the unflinching eyes of an octogenarian misanthrope, it unravels a war time miracle and a modern day tragedy, to reveal the true nature of Faith. Bomber's Moon was presented as a rehearsed reading in June 2009 and has since been developed into a full Lakeside production.

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Diary of a Football Nobody

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Full of down-to-earth comedy and tales of boozing, bust-ups and the unique style of the legendary Jimmy Sirrel, Diary of a Football Nobody takes audiences on a light-hearted journey to a bygone age of football, marking Notts Countys 150th anniversary.

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Diary of a Football Nobody is based on former Notts County player David McVays hilarious memoir Steak&Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody.

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Retirement Of Tom Stevens

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The Retirement of Tom Stevens is Screenwriter William Ivory's debut stage play. a darkly comical examination of family, filial duty and genetics. It charts the events which surround the retirement party of the fiercely patriarchal Tom and the subsequent Christmas he spends in Southwell, Nottinghamshire with his son Richard, a successful sports journalist now living in London and David, his second child, a manager for a small chain of hotels based in the East Midlands. across three days, Richard and David and the two women in their lives, Mary, David's wife and Richard's new ( and much younger) girlfriend, Susan become embroiled in a gradual uncovering of the past and a revealing of the truth which binds them all together.

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Apart from very popular and world touring productions, many performing arts events are largely forgotten about in a matter of months. Traces may remain in various collections, but few collecting agencies, such as libraries, catalogue each flyer or program individually. Hence, unless one knows that an event took place at a certain time in a certain place, tracking down such an event as part of a research project is often a matter of chance. Where research needs to be carried out on high profile and well-documented productions only, this is not a problem. However, both the historian and the analyst will attest that the cultural, political, or sociological context in which a performing arts event takes place is also of major importance, as are the other events that took place in close proximity, either in place or time. A good overview of such productions provides us with a 'social document' that can greatly enhance cultural studies in ways that extend far beyond the narrow confines of theatre history. For instance, data such as this can be used to monitor the health of communities, particularly when used in association with data obtained from other social science disciplines. When one researches a particular playwright one might want to know about all the productions of plays by that author; if one wants to investigate what choices a particular audience had over a period of history and compare this to, say, an ethnic breakdown of the population, one would need to know broadly all the events that took place during that time. If one wanted to do a statistical analysis on the shift in popularity of a genre over one or more generations, it is important to have knowledge of most of the relevant major and minor performance events that took place. In this context, issues of aesthetic quality and the professionalism of a production - which will of course have an impact on such studies - are not the determining factors when deciding to include or exclude events, since all events are the raw material for such research.