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Paul Lucas

PAUL LUCAS  

 Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  


Paul's first play Swamp City was produced by the Birmingham Rep in 1996. The Birmingham Rep also commissioned adn mounted all That Trouble That We Had (May 1999) and The Slight Witch (2000), both directed by anthony Clark at The Door. His most recent play, The Dice House, was mounted at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in 2001. He has also written The Iguanodon, a three part series for Radio 4 (broadcast in 1997). He was born in Coventry and curently lives in Cardiff.

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

 All That Trouble That We Had         Beuatiful Short Sighted Eyes         Dice House, The         How To Tell The Monsters From The Misfits         Slight Witch, The         Star Throwers, The         Swamp City

All That Trouble That We Had

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Beuatiful Short Sighted Eyes

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Dice House, The

Paul Lucas
a play by Paul Lucas, inspired by Luke Rhinehart's novel 'The Dice Man'. The Dice House unfolds in a commune run by maverick psychiatrist Dr. Ratner where the patients are encouraged to surrender all their decisions to the roll of the dice. When Ratner's rival Dr Drabble hurls one of his own patients into the clinic to kidnap an inmate - his wife - a comic romp of Pythonesque proportions ensues. The Dice House is a glorious glimpse of how insane life could be if determined by the dice - and how ordinary it can be if it isn't!

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Black Comedy Comedy

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How To Tell The Monsters From The Misfits

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Two dead dentists covered in lipstick - quite a week for the bumbling Detective Edwards. He gathers together a crack team of police minds to help him solve a case that seems to strike at the very heart of Middle England. But as more and more bodies show up in ever more bizarre circumstances, it's not too long before the crack team begins to, well. . .crack.

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Slight Witch, The

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Star Throwers, The

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Life is going to be simple for Tom and Jess from now on - just the two of them rescuing starfish washed up by the tides and strictly no human contact. Then the mysterious Slippy inconveniently, and most inconsiderately, decides to die on their doorstep. The couple struggle to continue their misanthropic existence as Slippy fights for survival - but can life be the same after his arrival?

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Swamp City

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