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Tom Kempinski

TOM KEMPINSKI  (1938 - )

 Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    The Sharland Organisation  


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 Addicted To Love     Ballad Of Robin Hood, The     Beautiful Part Of Myself, The     Chatterton     Dreyfus     Duet For One     English Civil War, The     Family     Flashpoint     Free Country, A     Garbo     Heinrich Heine Vs Nikolai Gogol     High Jumpers     Japanese Noh Plays     Life Of Karl Marx     Mayakovski     Moscow Trials     October     Pageant Of Labour History     Peasants Revolt, The     Penthesilea     Princess Of Wales, The     Self-Inflicted Wounds     Sell-Out (1931)     Separation     Sex Please, We're Italian     What A Bleedin' Liberty!     What About Borneo?     When The Past Is Still To Come     Workshop, The

Addicted To Love

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Controlling partners in relationships

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Ballad Of Robin Hood, The

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written with Roger Smith

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London    1973

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Beautiful Part Of Myself, The

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Chatterton

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In the Love and War Season

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Play/Drama

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Dreyfus

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Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg

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London    1982

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adaptation

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Duet For One

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an eminent violinist struck down with multiple sclerosis finds further problems under the guidance of her psychiatrist

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Samuel French, London, 1981   -

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English Civil War, The

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Family

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Love and War Season

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Flashpoint

Synopsis:
Set in an army barracks on the eve of an execution in which six young soldiers have been detailed to shoot one of their own for cowerdice

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written As Gerrard Thomas

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London    1978

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Free Country, A

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Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg

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Garbo

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Heinrich Heine Vs Nikolai Gogol

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Solo Play/Drama

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High Jumpers

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From Xenophon's Anabasis

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Pluto Productions Ltd

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Japanese Noh Plays

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Leicester    1979

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Childrens Youth audience

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Life Of Karl Marx

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written with Roger Smith

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London    1984

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Mayakovski

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Original Playwright - Stefan Schutz

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London    1979

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Translation

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Moscow Trials

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London    1972

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October

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written with Roger Smith

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London    1973

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Pageant Of Labour History

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London    1973

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4 Plays Historical

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Peasants Revolt, The

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Essex    1971

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Penthesilea

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Original Playwright - Heinrich von Kleist

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Pluto Productions

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Princess Of Wales, The

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Self-Inflicted Wounds

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Mold, Clwyd    1985

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Sell-Out (1931)

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written with Roger Smith

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London    1974

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Separation

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Sharp New York humour matches intelligent British wit in this tender and funny play. Tom Kempinski's bittersweet transatlantic love story tells of two people, from very different backgrounds, facing very different barriers and challenges to overcome. Joe Green is an unsociable, unproductive, and phobia-ridden writer, whose one-hit play leads him to become friends over the phone with a New York actress who is keen to stage his play, but who is also suffering from a paralysing disease. When Sarah finally arrives in London to take their relationship a bit further, Joe's neurotic nature almost - but not quite - kills the love affair completely

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Sex Please, We're Italian

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What A Bleedin' Liberty!

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What About Borneo?

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London    1978

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When The Past Is Still To Come

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Workshop, The

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Set in the finishing room of a men's tailoring workshop in Paris after the last war. There is no plot as such; instead, the life ofthe workshop is shown gently unfolding over seven years from the immediate post-Liberation period through the rigours of rationing until 'reality' is restored-and it's business as usual. But the workshop's owner and one of his women employees are Jews, and underneath the cosy, bickering surface of workshop camaraderie the play powerfully depicts the tribulations of those Jews who have survived themselves but have lost loved ones: the process of leaming the meaning of the word 'deported: - Steve grant, Tinme Out

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Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg. Aka The Workroom

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Oxford Playhouse    1980

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Genre:
adaptation

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