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CARL MILLER |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
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Plays by Carl Miller |
Birthday of the Infanta, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Trestle Art Base, St Albans | 02 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Trestle Unmasked | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126422 | |||
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Genre: | 70 min Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from short story by Oscar Wilde | |||||
Synopsis: | The Birthday of the Infanta is a short story by Oscar Wilde, which tells of the events arranged to entertain the princess, culminating in a performance by a deformed, ugly boy, and the way in which their meeting affects both their lives forever. The Birthday of the Infanta is about a transitional moment of choice, when the heart could melt or freeze - should the princess run wild in the forest or deny her true emotions to survive at court? | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 313 | |||||
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Black Eyed Susan | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Restoring the Repertoire | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74483 | |||
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Genre: | Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Revival of play by Douglas Jerrold in a new version by Carl Miller | |||||
Synopsis: | Douglas Jerrold's nautical melodrama Black Eyed Susan (1829), a big bit in its day for an author who worked prodigiously for Punch magazine, had a strong social conscience, and had Dickens and Thackeray among his pallbearers when he died in 1857. It would be unwise to make any great claims for the piece, in which the eponymous Susan suffers the aftentions of both a rapacious uncle and an over-amorous sea captain, while her sailor husband is sentenced to death by court martial merely for defending her honour. The tone ranges from the comic to the maudlin, accompanied by jolly hornpipe music, occasional songs, and a resilient hero who faces the gallows with great sang-froid. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Descent | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Mar 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24179 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | see notes | |||||
Notes: | includes masque sequence which may involve 3+ additional performers (originally Birmingham Rep youth theatre) | |||||
Synopsis: | A sister and brother - brilliant scientists creating a BraveNew World of genetic perfection. But revenge, irrational sexual desireand drug-fuelled hallucination threaten to destroy them on the way. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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England Arise | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gay Sweatshop Times Ten Festival | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93471 | |||
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Genre: | Gay, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hansel and Gretel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93472 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Janet and Jane | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93473 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Journey to the River Sea | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Centre - Shoreditch, Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old Street, London EC1V 9LT >>> | 09 Feb 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93474 | |||
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Genre: | TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
Notes: | Based on the novel by Eva Ibbotson | |||||
Synopsis: | Amazon rhythms beat and the colours of Brazil explode in a vibrant new adaptation of this modern children's classic. Live music and dance thread through the thrill packed journey of orphan Maia, adrift on the world's greatest river, forging new friendships amidst life-changing adventures. Packed with colourful characters, laughter and action, this is a tale of children who lead big lives. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last Enemy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
Company: | Gay Sweatshop | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24180 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A group of schoolfriends discover love, sex and death. Years later, the choices they made come back to haunt them. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little India | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Rondo, Bath | 09 Mar 2007 | ||||
Company: | Trestle Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115463 | |||
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Genre: | dramaturg | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 performers | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A tale of love and loss, mischief and mayhem. Trestle is back with sumptuous storytelling theatre, vibrant visuals, and powerful physical action. Influenced by South Indian traditions of Kalaripayattu (martial art), Konokol (rhythmic patterns) and mudras (hand gestures), Trestle re-imagines the classical story of Shakuntala for a contemporary time; combining ancient arts with modern words, and inspirational music from India. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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London Eye Mystery, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, More London, Southwark, London SE1 2HZ >>> | 10 Mar 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112436 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adapted from the book by Siobham Dowd | |||||
Synopsis: | This play opens with a lad in school uniform telling the audience he doesn't like theatre and why: (1) because there are crowds and he doesn't like crowds; (2) because people pretend to be other people and that's like lying and (3) because it's often metaphorical - you talk about one thing as though its something else and he finds it sometimes difficult to know what people mean. It's a pretty risky opening for an audience of children who probably don't have much, if any experience of theatre going. But Ted, it seems, does like two plays: Shakespeare's The Tempest (the relevance of which you find out later) and this one | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Master Betty | ||
| 1st Produced: | Man In The Moon Theatre, London | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24181 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | William Betty was the child star of the early nineteenth century stage. In this gothic extravaganza he encounters Lord Byron for the performance of his career. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ostrich Boys | ||
| 1st Produced: | The REP @ The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham | 13 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company presents a Young REP production | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120162 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on the award winning novel by Keith Gray | |||||
Synopsis: | Kenny, Sim and Blake have hatched a plan to kidnap their best friend Ross. But its not a ransom theyre after. And its not a proper kidnapping anyway because Ross is already dead, run over while travelling on his bike to school. So the boys are determined to fulfill a wish that their friend had when he was alive to visit the place that bears his name, Ross in Southern Scotland. Clutching Ross in his urn, the boys set off from Cleethorpes by train to Scotland to begin an action packed and emotional journey, little realising the affect that Ross had on them during his life and how much he still means to them. Combining dark humour with tragedy, this is a wonderfully poignant story about the trials of growing up, which touches on loss, sorrow, hope and the meaning of friendship. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Princess | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24182 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A wry one-woman interpretation of the Cinderella story. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Red Fortress | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Oct 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91658 | |||
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Genre: | Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | It is 1491 and the Red Fortress of Carl Miller's ambitious play is the Alhambra in Granada - Qal'at al-Hamra - still a centre of Islamic culture but about to be overtaken by the Catholic crusade of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile sweeps into Andalucia. A Genoese who believes the world is round is lobbying those Catholic Monarchs to finance a voyage to Japan by sailing out across the Atlantic. In the beautiful gardens of the Alhambra to the sound of fountains and rippling water a court that believes in tolerance, science and beauty still flourishes and in the town outside the fortress walls are three young people: Rabia (Gehane Strehler), Muslim daughter of a female book and paper seller, Luis (Jack Blumenau), son of a Jewish pharmacist, and Iago (John Cockerill) the refugee son of a Christian farmer who has been driven off his land by the invaders. There is a Muslim Emir in disguise, negotiating surrender, a female jongleur, a Spanish grandee, who buys the little cannon Luis has made and so accelerates the war, all of whom the three encounter on the expedition they set out on to the Catholics' Holy Faith fort and back. This is not literal history but a story that takes the historical facts as a starting point and touches on a whole range of issues: sectarianism, monarchic power, cultural values, sexual equality and sexual orientation and reflects many of the preoccupations of our modern world from the global economy to the cult of shopping. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Return | ||
| 1st Produced: | Watford Palace Theatre | 16 Mar 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93475 | |||
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Genre: | Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A gritty and disturbing modern day mystery of friendship and revenge. Nothing will be the same after this. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sherlock Holmes: The Athenaeum Ghoul | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45539 | |||
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Genre: | Murder Mystery, full length. - - Gay, theme/character full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Dr Watson has turned one of his Sherlock Holmes stories into a play and during a performance someone is actually murdered. The real Sherlock Holmes does live at 221b Baker Street but the rooms are not as Dr Watson has described them - being extremely sparsely furnished and there is no Mrs Hudson. Holmes is attended by a teenage boy who had been a "renter". Holmes is even more reliant on cocaine and Billy - the young man who looks after him has a very difficult time looking after. Holmes is bored with all the requests he gets for help due to Watson's stories and now the West End play. Even an envelope that only contains a theatre ticket with holes punched in it fails to intrigue him. Watson arrives from the theatre to tell Holmes of the murder in the hopes that he will find it interesting and it will help him snap out of his drug dependancy. Watson has a clue that he has kept to himself when the dead woman collapsed on stage she was holding a copy of "Macbeth". A mysterious visitor arrives a heavily veiled woman who asks for Sherlock Holmes help in tracking down the murderer of her sister - the woman killed at the theatre. She tells of a "Ghoul" who haunts the theatre and who had previously tried to kill her. But Holmes is less than kind to her and she goes - but something has sparked Holmes interest. He arranges to meet Harry Bell, the actor who is portraying him at his Hampstead home but this is a ruse to try and see Elena Bell Harry's wife who is now a virtual recluse. Hamstead is being terrorised by awful screams and moans thought to be the Ghoul. Harry Bell leaves to go to the theatre and Holmes and Watson manage to see Elena. They hear the Ghoul approaching the house. Harry Bell arrives back - claiming he was summoned back. Holmes goes to investigate but is attacked by the Ghoul - his headless body is found in the garden. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tempest, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, More London, Southwark, London SE1 2HZ >>> | 20 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115464 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Shakespeare | |||||
Synopsis: | An enchanted island. A magician's daughter. A shipwrecked prince. Shakespeare's much-loved tale of romance, comedy and magic storms onto the Unicorn stage. Miranda has grown up with only her father Prospero and the strange islander Caliban for company. But her sheltered world is changed forever as a mighty storm brings ashore her father's greatest enemy, a handsome stranger and two drunken rascals with plans of their own. A powerful, physical production, performed by the Unicorn's acting ensemble, brings classic characters to life. Music and sound combine with Shakespeare's words to create a world of enchantment and adventure. Exploring the perspectives of the play's young characters, this ideal first experience of The Tempest will also reveal an extraordinary play afresh to everyone. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Three Musketeers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, More London, Southwark, London SE1 2HZ >>> | 02 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126916 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adapted by Carl Miller from the novel by Alexandre Dumas | |||||
Synopsis: | You're a boy who wants to be a man. But the struggle to become one might just kill you. You're a girl on the run. But you're brilliant, you're beautiful and show no fear. Two lives collide in one of the world's best loved stories of romance, treachery, intrigue and adventure. All for one and one for all, as the saying goes! Often hilarious and always thrilling, this explosive tale of kings and queens, diamonds and swords is full of romantic heroes and swashbuckling heroines. But the life of a Musketeer can be more brutal than you think. Enter a world where the most dangerous player is a mysterious female with all the cards in her hand and where outsider D'Artagnan has nothing to show for himself but courage and an open heart. He will do anything to prove himself her equal. But at what price? | |||||
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