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DUNCAN MACMILLAN
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd
Duncan Macmillan is a writer and director. Plays include Platform (Old Vic Tunnels), Monster (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Most Humane Way to Kill a Lobster (Theatre 503), Sleeve Notes (various), I Wish To apologise For My Part In The apocalypse (BBC Radio 4). Formerly Writer-in-Residence at Paines Plough and the Royal Exchange. Currently writing plays for the Old Vic, Royal Exchange, National Theatre Studio and BBC Radio, and developing a new series for Hat Trick TV.
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Alarm Don Juan's Comes Back From The War Lungs Mistakes Have Been Made Monster Most Humane Way To Kill A Lobster, The Night With The Apathists, A Platform Satellite Sleeve NotesAlarm
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an alarm clock goes off and a girl wakes in the middle of the night. There is a boy in her room, he is covered in dirt. He tells her that her parents are missing but not to panic... What is security? a funny and revealing look at the story of "Girl", and what happens when her security and what she believes in begins to crumble.
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Top of PageDon Juan's Comes Back From The War
Don Juan's back from the War and he's got some catching up to do. Berlin is crumbling, but after years of abstinence, the Don is ready for more of the debauchery that once made his name. amidst political and economic upheaval, Don Juan finds himself increasingly at odds with the man he used to be. Is this notorious lothario about to experience a sudden change of heart? Odon von Horvath's startling tale of displacement and isolation in the aftermath of the Great War is presented in a bold new adaptation by award-winning playwright Duncan Macmillan.
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Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath. First performed in 1952 As Don Juan Returns At The Theatre of Courage in Vienna
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Oberon Books (2012) >>> 978-1849432542
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Top of PageLungs
I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.' In a time of global anxiety, terrorism, erratic weather and political unrest, a young couple want a child but are running out of time. If they over think it, they'll never do it. But if they rush, it could be a disaster.They want to have a child for the right reasons. Except, what exactly are the right reasons? and what will be the first to destruct - the planet or the relationship?
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rights:Gersh Agency, NY
1st Produced:
Studio Theatre, Washington DC 02 Oct 2011
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Paines Plough
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Oberon Books (2011) >>> 978-1849431453
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Top of PageMistakes Have Been Made
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one man show about a shady, smooth talking Manager whose rambling party speech told the story of an ailing company struggling with corruption throughout its ranks. Filled with office anecdotes of desk sabotage and mockery of other offices, the audience played the part of his employees, raising glasses and allowing him to interact, creating a far more solid office party experience. It ended with real sabotage as audience members bundled him into a back room for a beating:
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Cardiff Dec 2011
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Dirty protest
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Top of PageMonster
"He's got zero empathy. You could be having a conversation and start choking to death and he'd just think, 'Well, this conversation's over.'He'd probably just sit there and finish eating whatever you were choking on." an inexperienced teacher is given the job of saving a disturbed and violent fourteen-year-old boy from permanent exclusion. alone in the classroom, an intense battle of wills takes place. But what can be done when a child cares for no one and is afraid of nothing?
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second prize in the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition
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Manchester International Festival
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Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007 978-1840027594
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Top of PageMost Humane Way To Kill A Lobster, The
"You put it in the freezer, so when you transfer it to the boiling water it doesn't feel a thing. I suppose that this is how I've felt recently. I've been in some deep freeze and suddenly I can feel steam in my face, I'm falling headlong into scalding water." It's 2005, the sun is shining and Loretta is planning to make her daughter's favourite meal. But when Sophie stops talking to her, children start vanishing, and rooms begin to cry, Loretta can't help feeling that something is up and that she might have something to do with it. a play about one woman's journey back to her childhood, to stop her past flooding into the present.
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Theatre 503, London (Latchmere Theatre) >>> 01 Mar 2005
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Oberon Books, London >>>, 978-1840025590
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Top of PageNight With The Apathists, A
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Short play One act
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Top of PagePlatform
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PLaTFORM stars over 100 volunteer Londoners, with movement choreographed by Neil Bettles for renowned physical theatre company, Frantic assembly. a fantastical love story taking place in The Old Vic Tunnels - a vast series of vaults and chambers underneath Waterloo Station - PLaTFORM takes you on a journey to every corner of the city. From a broken down tube, to an East End bar, a City restaurant to a South London estate, the show reveals the hopes and dreams of the capital's citizens at the end of the first decade of the new millennium.
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written By Duncan Macmillan And Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
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Old Vic Tunnels, Waterloo, London 07 Nov 2010
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Old Vic New Voices
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Top of PageSatellite
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Lewis is falling through the air. Sonny is running away. Dinah can't move. This small town is changing fast.
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Top of PageSleeve Notes
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Part of Miniaturists 4 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today
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Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> 20 Aug 2006
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