DAVID PINNER
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by David Pinner
All Hallow's Eve |
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | cast of 5 | |||
Notes: Midsummer and All Hallows' Eve are the Summer and Autumn plays in David Pinner's Seasons Quarter. The comedy Lady Day (Winter) and the messianic parable Revelations (Spring) complete the quartet. | ||||
Synopsis: All Hallows' Eve is a psychological ghost story exploring one of the greatest taboos. Sisters Francesca and Lucinda are forced to face up to the erotic demons in their past; as they make this dark journey of discovery they will all but destroy each other along the way. When Arthur, a limping stranger with a sinister presence, opens Pandora's Box on All Hallows' Eve, the past is horrifically brought into the light. | ||||
Cartoon |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1973 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Alcoholic cartoonist at drying out clinic just up the road from his old drinking pub; a comedy about people competing with each other about misery. | ||||
Dickon |
| 1st Produced: | Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch | 1966 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "New English Dramatists Vol.10" Penguin, London | 1967 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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Drums Of Snow, The |
| 1st Produced: | Stanford Repertory Theatre, California | 1968 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "New English Dramatists Vol.13" Penguin, London, 1968 in Power Plays, Oberon Books, London, 2006 >>> | - | ||
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| Genre: | Political Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: televised 1968 | ||||
Synopsis: An epic play set in the 17th Century, The Drums of Snow focuses on the power struggle between Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, with John Lilburne, the Leveller, and the English people as their unwilling victims. The vicissitudes of the Civil War culminate in the royal despot's death and a Puritan dictatorship that changes the course of English history. | ||||
Evening With The GLC |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1974 | ||
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Synopsis: A Labour councillor and his wife are trapped by televised debate conducted by their son | ||||
Fanghorn |
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Penguin, London | 1966 | ||
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| Genre: | Purple Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: about a lesbian vampire | ||||
Hereward The Wake |
| 1st Produced: | Key Theatre, Peterborough | 1974 | ||
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Synopsis: Historical burning of the cakes written in the idiom | ||||
Lady Day |
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Notes: Midsummer and All Hallows' Eve are the Summer and Autumn plays in David Pinner's Seasons Quarter. The comedy Lady Day (Winter) and the messianic parable Revelations (Spring) complete the quartet. | ||||
Synopsis: In 'Lady Day', Katya discovers her husband is having an affair with her best friend so she hibernates to a derelict lake-side cottage to re-invent her life in the depths of winter, but none of her friends or family will leave her in peace. All the men in her life fall in love with her again. Comic mayhem ensues as the men duel to the death for the illusive Lady. | ||||
Last Englishman, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
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Lenin in Love |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
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Synopsis: Lenin, the Communist icon, believed that his secret life would die with him. The opening of the Soviet archives in the mid 1990s has proved otherwise. Lenin In Love is a comedy about a tragedy, which exposes the sexual troika and the sadistic proclivities of arguably the foremost political genius of the last century. Lenin was a passionate lover, Machiavellian strategist and a calculating murderer, and the frenzied paradoxes inherent in his life changed the course of history. | ||||
Lightning At A Funeral |
| 1st Produced: | Stanford University, California | 1970 | ||
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Synopsis: About a saint and a murderer being opposite sides of the same coin | ||||
Lucifer's Fair |
| 1st Produced: | Arts Theatre, London | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | Family Musical | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: involves a hockey stick witch, a punk vampire and continuous comic and real horror | ||||
Marriages |
| 1st Produced: | LAMDA, London | 1972 | ||
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Synopsis: About four brothers and their hectic marriages | ||||
Midsummer |
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | cast of 8 | |||
Notes: Midsummer and All Hallows' Eve are the Summer and Autumn plays in David Pinner's Seasons Quarter. The comedy Lady Day (Winter) and the messianic parable Revelations (Spring) complete the quartet. | ||||
Synopsis: In Midsummer, two pair of lovers believe they can transform themselves and each other, with the help of two mysterious strangers. But the Midsummer Night transformations effect others too, and the last Stalinist trades-unionist in England is turned into more than just an ass. When night falls in the wood it is nature which proves the greatest enchanter of all in this modern homage to A Midsummer Night's Dream. | ||||
Newton's Hooke |
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Potsdam Quartet, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Terra Nove, Leominster, Herefordshire | 1982 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - |
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Notes: new version Lyric, Hammersmith, 1980 | ||||
Synopsis: The Potsdam Quartet features four embittered musicians hired to entertain Stalin. Truman, Atlee and Churchill as they 'divide up the world' | ||||
Prince of Traitors |
| 1st Produced: | BBC | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | 2006 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: aka Talleyrand, Prince Of Traitors | ||||
Synopsis: Prince of Traitors is a sardonic comedy about the achievements of a witty, club-footed Anglophile Bishop who manages to outlive Robespierre. After becoming Napoleon's First Minister, Talleyrand helps bring about the Emperor's downfall, claiming that 'treachery is noble when its target is tyranny' | ||||
Revelations |
| 1st Produced: | Grinnell, Iowa | 1986 | ||
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Notes: Midsummer and All Hallows' Eve are the Summer and Autumn plays in David Pinner's Seasons Quarter. The comedy Lady Day (Winter) and the messianic parable Revelations (Spring) complete the quartet. | ||||
Synopsis: When a miraculous stranger comes to the aid of a desolate cliff-top village that is ravaged by devastating storms and erosion, he is proclaimed as the new Messiah, even though the stranger protests that he is atheist. 'In Revelations' he enjoys his power without accepting responsibility for his actions until he meets his spiritual nemesis in the storm of the century | ||||
Richelieu |
| 1st Produced: | BBC | 1976 | ||
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| 1st Published: | 2006 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Richelieu is an epic of the 17th Century, exploring the rise of the tormented Catholic Cardinal, who elevates Louis XIII to god-like status in order to pacify war-torn France. Richelieu sacrifices himself to a secure but repressive royal kingdom and unwittingly sows the seeds of the French Revolution. | ||||
Screwball |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||
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| Genre: | Farcical Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: proving that contrary to accepted opinion, Americans are merely eccentric whereas the British are absolutely crazy | ||||
Shakebag |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1976 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Green River Review", University Center, Michigan | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: about how people reveal themselves by their attitudes to performing Shakespeare | ||||
Sins of the Mother |
| 1st Produced: | Grace, London | 1996 | ||
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Skin Deep |
| 1st Produced: | Chester | 1989 | ||
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Teddy Bears Picnic |
| 1st Produced: | Chester | 1988 | ||
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Synopsis: an ironic comedy which shows Stalin playing relaxed host and bon viveur in his country retreat. His Politburo guests are somewhat less relaxed. | ||||