MIKE POULTON   


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Plays by Mike Poulton

MIKE POULTON
Canterbury Tales, The
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
RSC
1st Published:
2005
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
15
Female
5
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: adapted from Chaucer
Synopsis: "Befell that in that season on that day/ In Southwark at The Tabard - as I lay/ Ready to wenden on my pilgrimage/ To Canterb'ry with full devout courage -/ At night was come into that hostelry/ Well nine-and-twenty in a company/ Of sundry folk, by aventure yfall/ In fellowship - And pilgrims were they all/ That toward Canterbry would ride -."
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MIKE POULTON
Cherry Orchard, The
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
2008
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis: For Madame Ranevskaya, her cherry orchard is more than just land; it is her childhood, her memories and her life. Returning for the first time since her young son drowned there, she must come to terms with the fact that in order to free her family of debt the cherry orchard must be sold, the trees must be cleared and she and her family must prepare for life beyond the orchard. This touching and often hilarious play exercises the perfect balance of comedy and tragedy, through the characters, relationships and observations of society
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MIKE POULTON
Dance Of Death
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg
Synopsis:
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MIKE POULTON
Don Carlos
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
11
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller
Synopsis: soaring 1787 drama of passion and power politics amidst the holy terrors of 16th century imperial Spain
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MIKE POULTON
Father, The
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg
Synopsis: Strindberg's gripping psychological drama about the battle of the sexes, in a spiky new version by Mike Poulton. The Father is about a marriage wrecked by the parents' need to claim exclusive rights to their daughter's love, and to determine her future. By turns comic and deeply tragic, it shows an affable, scholarly father fall victim to a once loving wife who will stop at nothing to do what she thinks is right for her child. The only possible outcome is a grim, yet thrilling fight to the death in circumstances of almost unbearable tension.
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MIKE POULTON
Fortune's Fool
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
2002
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Ivan Turgenev (Alien Bread)
Synopsis: This new, acclaimed, adaptation of Turgenev's classic comedy explores the delicious paradox of humour and despair to be found in the casual infliction of cruelty. The homecoming of Olga Petrovna and her husband, Yeletsky, to her deceased parents' country manor should be a happy affair for the house's resident penniless gentleman, Kuzovkin. His friend Ivanov is less optimistic, fearing for Kuzovkin's fate. All begins well but is cut short by the arrival of a rich neighbour, Tropatchov, whose favourite pastime is humiliating all he considers inferior. In no time the "gentlemen" are plying Kuzovkin with drink, exposing his pathetic history layer by layer. When Kuzovkin breaks in a drunken rage, he reveals a family secret that is set to challenge their very identity. In a moving denouement Kuzovkin wins back what has been his all along but cannot reclaim his honour.
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MIKE POULTON
Ghosts
1st Produced:
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
Synopsis:
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MIKE POULTON
Hedda Gabler
1st Produced:
Leeds, WYP Quarry
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
Synopsis: The general's daughter marries a mediocre academic and, bored by the banalaties of bourgeois life, amuses herself by manipulating the people around her.
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MIKE POULTON
Ion
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides
Synopsis: concerns the protracted reunion of Creusa, the Queen of Athens, and her abandoned son, a humble sweeper-up at Delphi.
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MIKE POULTON
Lady From The Sea, The
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
Synopsis: juxtaposes the earthly with the supernatural, practicality with desire, duty with fre. Its heroine, Ellida Wangel, yearning for the open sea but confined to her marital home in a small holiday town beside a fjord is drowning on dry land.
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MIKE POULTON
Rosmersholm
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
2008
To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
Synopsis: A portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism, considered by many to be Ibsen's dramatic masterpiece. Johannes Rosmer has resigned as parish priest following the suicide of his wife. But his increasingly liberal ideas make him an object of suspicion to the local worthies, who also disapprove of the presence in his house of a much younger woman, Rebecca West, formerly his wife's companion. As their relationship deepens and their isolation builds, the increasing moral pressures they face force them inexorably towards their fate. . .
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MIKE POULTON
Seagull, The
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
2005
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis: no minor characters here - a new balance to the play
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MIKE POULTON
St Erkenwald
1st Produced:
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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MIKE POULTON
Three Sisters
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
2006
To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis:
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MIKE POULTON
Uncle Vanya
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis:
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MIKE POULTON
York Millennium Mysteries
1st Produced:
York Minster
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
large cast
Notes: -
Synopsis: The Devil in the pulpit at York Minster? The word "bollocks" intoned with unmistakable clarityin the nave? There are~ you'd have thought, safer places in which to tempt fate. The last time the Almighty allegedly showed his hand as a reviewer (over an ecclesiastical appointment up north), it left this particular cathedral with a smoking transept and a hefty restoration bill. But if the divine Number One String isn't smitten with Gregory Dorans spectacular staging of the York Mystery Plays, He certainly managed to keep His displeasure to Himself during the opening performances. This community event, which involves hundreds of local people, comes round every four years. Mirroring the way in which God humbled himself by becoming man, one professional actor traditionally slums itas Jesus among the hoards of amateurs.
Paul Taylor, Independant
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