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Dennis Potter

DENNIS POTTER   (1935 - 1994)

Nationality:   English    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  Judy Daish Associates Ltd  (Estate of)

Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.

Plays by Dennis Potter

Blue Remembered Hills

1st Produced:

Man In The Moon Theatre, London >>>

1991

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Faber and Faber, London
1990 Samuel French, London (acting edition) - click here to order >>>, 1984

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#28368

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

5

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

This apparently simple tale relates the activities of seven-year-olds on a summer afternoon during World War II. The children (all played by adult actors) and their world become a microcosm of adult interaction. Willie tags along as burly Peter bullies Raymond and is challenged by fairminded John. Audrey is over-shadowed by Angela's prettiness and wreaks her angry frustrations on the boys. All of them gang up on the terrified `Donald Duck' who, abused by his mother and ridiculed by his peers, plays his own dangerous game of pyromania which ends in tragedy.

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Brimstone And Treacle

1st Produced:

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield >>>

1977

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Eyre Methuen, London, 1978

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#28369

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Controversy as a young man infiltrates a families live and space.

Further Reference:

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Only Make Believe

1st Produced:

Harlow, Essex

1974

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

#28370

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

televised 1963

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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Singing Detective, The

1st Produced:

BBC

1986

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Faber and Faber, London, 1986

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Screenplay

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

Large Cast

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

This is the unabridged original text of Dennis Potter's acclaimed six-part television serial. The narrative counterpoints life in a hospital ward of a writer crippled by a horrific skin disease with the plot of his atmospheric thriller to the point where fantasy and reality seem to exchange places. The result is the most painful and disturbing screen drama of the 1980s.

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Son Of Man

1st Produced:

Phoenix Theatre, Leicester

1969

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Deutsch, London, 1970

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#28372

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

15

Female

2

Parts other:

extras

Notes:

televised 1969

Synopsis:

Jesus portrayed as a man agonised by the feeling of divinity within him, and all with a man's capacity for suffering and pain

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Sufficient Carbohydrate

1st Produced:

Hampstead Theatre, London >>>

1983

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Faber and Faber, London, 1983

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#28373

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Vitriolic attacks on sodium monoglutamate as drama unwinds on a Greek Island

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Vote Vote Vote For Nigel Barton

1st Produced:

Bristol

1968

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "The Nigel Barton Plays", Penguin, London, 1968

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#28374

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

20

Female

9

Parts other:

-

Notes:

televised 1965

Synopsis:

Idealistic Labour candidate standing in un-winnable by-election realises that compromise is all

Further Reference:

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Waiting For The Boat

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Faber and Faber, London, 1984

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

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Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

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Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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