DAVID RUDKIN (1936 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by David Rudkin
Afore Night Come |
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | 1960 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in New English Dramatists 7, Penguin, London | 1963 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: outsiders meet the establishment as a group of seasonal workers pick pears in an orchard not far from the industrialised Midlands | ||||
Ashes |
| 1st Produced: | Hamburg | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1974 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: This is a sensitive study of a childless couple and the various indignities they have to endure in the search to find out why they are childless after two years of trying for a family. Filled with much wry humour this is a delicate treatment of a difficult subject and as such is suitable for advanced societies, University and College groups. | ||||
Burglars |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Prompt Two", Hutchinson, London | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 6 characters | |||
Notes: 1972 Unicorn Theatre, London | ||||
Synopsis: Children burgle a house and find the owner spreading oil slicks on the road outside and revelling in the deaths he causes. They hunt and catch him, but what should they do then? | ||||
Cries from Casement as His Bones Are Brought to Dublin |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | BBC Publications, London | 1974 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||
Notes: written by David Rudkinand Paddy Scully. Adapted by Paddy Scully from David Rudkin's original radio play (BBC 1974) | ||||
Synopsis: Roger Casement's remains (or what purported to be Casement's remains) were exhumed from their previous location in a British prison and returned to Ireland in 1965 where they were granted a state funeral at Glasnevin Cemetery, instead of Casement's beloved Murlough Bay in Co. Antrim. The play focusses on the living Casement as he wrote his famous diaries and on the personification of his disembodied bones, and grapples with his ultimate dilemma, the divisions of identity between Ulsterman and Irishman, English Man and Irishman. | ||||
Deathwatch |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1987 | ||
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| 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 | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Genet | ||||
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Fifth Hunt, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1972 | ||
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| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: The activities of a self appointed Pornography Commission who ultimately, under the leadership of the Devil, join forces with their repressive allies, the pornographers themselves | ||||
Golem, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 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 | - |
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Notes: written with Peter Brook | ||||
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Grace of Todd, The |
| 1st Produced: | Aldeburgh, Suffolk | 1969 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Oxford University Press, London | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: music by Gordon Crosse | ||||
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Hansel and Gretel |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1980 | ||
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| 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: | Horror Show | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: For parents with children, children with parents, and all who have been children. Others need not apply | ||||
Hippolytos |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1978 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides | ||||
Synopsis: A thorough, as opposed to literal, translation. The Greek theological imagery re-expressed in moral and existential terms that are native to us. | ||||
Maids, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1987 | ||
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| 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 | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Genet | ||||
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Mary Whitehouse And The Emperor Of Byzantium |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | Gay Sweatshop | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Master And Margarita, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | National Youth Theatre | |||
| 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 | |||
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Synopsis: 16/17/1050 | ||||
Moses and Aaron |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1965 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Friends of Covent Garden, London | 1965 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: translation of the libretto, music by Schoenberg | ||||
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Mystery Of Jesus, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 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 | |||
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No Title |
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||
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| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A man rents a flat in a country house; but everyone else treats him as though he were the dangerous inmate of a mental institution. Every endeavour of his to establish his identity is valid only builds up the evidence against him | ||||
Peer Gynt |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||
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| 1st Published: | 1983 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | ||||
Synopsis: Symbolic satirical in verse based on Norwegian folklore. | ||||
Red Sun |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | AJTheatre Company Theatre 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 | 2 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: the tale of a prhistoric shaman creating an avnging zombie from clay. The zombie is called Adamu and the story draws on myths from Gilgamesh anf the Fall in the Bible, to Frankenstein and the Jewish golem - squeezing in the odd quotation from 'Hamlet' on the way. - Marmion, Time Out London | ||||
Rosmersholm |
| 1st Produced: | Wimbledon Studio, London | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Major Plays Three, oberon, London | 2006 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen,BBC 3, 1990 | ||||
Synopsis: unmasks the moral evasions which prevent us from being truly free | ||||
Saxon Shore, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1986 | |||
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| Genre: | Historical Play | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Sons of Light, The |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle upon Tyne | 1976 | ||
| Company: | Tyneside Theatre Co | |||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London | 1981 | ||
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| Genre: | Myth of Resurrection | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A cold Northern volcanic island; new pastor and anarchic sons; self repressed religious community; tomorrow's new glad slaves in an experimental 'pit' beneath the earth | ||||
Sovereignty Under Elizabeth |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: The Queen, on Eve of Jubilee, sleepwalks, tortured by personal guilt she feels for the diminution of her subjects' moral sovereignty during her reign; but by day bravely shoulders her duty to sacrementalise. | ||||
Space Invaders |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1984 | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Triumph of Death, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London | 1981 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A pagan subculture in a European forest is exterminated by a new religion. One world's baffled encounter with a more powerful one that cannot authenticate it. | ||||
When We Dead Awaken |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Absolute Press, Bath | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | ||||
Synopsis: in which a figure from the past rises to haunt an ageing artist | ||||
Will's Way |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-on-Avon | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Celandine Press, Stratford | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A solo in which Will Shakespeare gives a Saturday-morning talk to the audience at Stratford's old Other Place. It was created by Nick Woodeson, who has made it uniquely his own. The text is in print, in a beautifully-produced hardback edition, available from Stratford's Celandine Press | ||||