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Nick Leather

NICK LEATHER  

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Julia Tyrell Management  

Nick Leather was Playwright-in-Residence at Manchester's Royal exchange Theatre in 2005/05, having won a Pearson Playwright Bursary for his play 'Drinks with Sammy Baloo'. He is also an associate Writer of the Liverpool everyman and Playhouse. He had previously won a New Playwrights award at the Royal exchange and a Development award from the BBC. He is a graduate of the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme and the BBC's Sparks Writers Scheme. 'all the Ordinary angels' won the Pearson award for Best New Play 2004.

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below is a list of Nick Leather's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         All the Ordinary Angels         Billy Wonderful         Danny Bollocks         Drinks With Sammy Baloo         How Sweet the Water Was

All the Ordinary Angels

Synopsis:
When Ice Cream Man Giuseppe Raffa decides it's finally time to come in from the cold and retire, he sets his two sons in competition with each other. Over the next twelve months - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the fall of Thatcher - Rocco and Lino will compete to see who can sell the most ice cream. the winner will gain the family business, the loser will be left with nothing

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winner of the 2004 Pearson Award for Best Play

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Billy Wonderful

Billy Wonderful
BILLY WONDeRFUL is about fathers, sons, and football. ". . .there is one thing. One thing I believe in. One thing you can. I think . . . I really think . . . there is a thing. I believe . . . are yer listenin'? I do believe. I believe. In football." as one-time boy wonder Billy Walters relives his debut in a Merseyside 'derby' match at the age of nineteen, ninety minutes cuts across twenty-two years and fellow players becomes family and friends, enemies and lovers. Can Billy achieve his lifelong ambition of scoring the winner in the derby, and is there really such a thing as life after football? Nick Leather, one of the North-West's most prominent young playwrights, brings us a fast-paced coming of age story pulsing with all the excitement and physicality of Match Day.

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Liverpool everyman and Playhouse

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Methuen Drama    978-1408115619

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Danny Bollocks

Synopsis:
about Danny Barlow, a legendary teller of tall tales, who decides to win friends and influence people by inventing the girlfriend to end all girlfriends, his plan works better than he could ever have imagined.

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Part of Miniaturists 26 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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Cornerstone Festival, Liverpool    Nov 2010

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Drinks With Sammy Baloo

Synopsis:
"To have drinks with Sammy Baloo was to be someone. But now - well, it just aint so no more.". the legendary former-wrestler King Sammy Baloo has fallen on hard-times: money and friends have all deserted him and the notorious loan shark Blueface has decided its time to call in his debts. accompanied by his loyal one-time manager Muhammad ali and his on-off mistress Honey Moon, will Sammy be able to save himself before it's too late?"

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1st Produced:
reading Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester    2003

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Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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How Sweet the Water Was

Synopsis:
Five moments to fall in love. Five moments to break up. and forty years in-between

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1st Produced:
reading everyman Theatre, Liverpool    2004

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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