NICHOLAS WRIGHT   (1940 - )


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Plays by Nicholas Wright

NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Changing Lines
1st Produced:
London
1968
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Cressida
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
Almeida Theatre
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
2000
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Genre:
Comedy of Manners
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Parts:
Male
8
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
John Shank is an actor, talent-scout and trainer of boy players in the seedily glamorous world of London theatre in the 1630s. Women are still not seen on stage, their roles being taken by precocious boys. Up to his eyes in debt, Shank's only hope of escaping destitiution is an unpromising 14-year-old would-be, Stephen Hammerton. Can he train up Stephen to be the new star of the London stage? With its characters drawn from real life, Cressida has about it the authentic smell of greasepaint.
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Crimes of Vautrin, The
1st Produced:
Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham
1983
Company:
Joint Stock
1st Published:
Joint Stock, London
1983
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
from novel by Balzac
Synopsis:
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Custom of the Country, The
1st Produced:
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
1983
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Based on the Jacobean play of the same title but set in Johannesburg
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Desert Air, The
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
1985
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
16
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The setting is Cairo 1942. Colonel Gore (known as the Hippo) is a self-confessed sweaty little thug in charge of a Secret Service unit known as Dangerous Operations Groundforce. His overriding aim is to send a military mission into a Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in support of the royalist chetniks. . . His private dream, however, is to avenge himself on the officer-caste by wangling his own promotion to major General. . . A brilliant comedy about the opportunism, dishonesty and sheer incompetence engendered by war'
Guardian
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Gorky Brigade, The
1st Produced:
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
His Dark Materials
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
1st Published:
2004
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes:
from Philip Pullman's Trilogy. The trilogy - comprising Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass - is already acknowledged as a contemporary classic, delighting readers of all ages throughout the world with its cunning blend of traditional
Synopsis:
six hour anti church rant
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
John Gabriel Borkman
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
1996
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen, translated by Charlotte Barslund
Synopsis:
John Gabriel Borkman, a former 'pillar of the community', has been in voluntary seclusion in an upstairs room since enduring a prison sentence for embezzlement. His wife, her twin sister, his son and even Borkman himself are all trapped in the suffocating atmosphere of this claustrophobic household.
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Lulu
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
Kennedy Center, Washington
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes:
Original Playwright - Frank Wedekind; Translated by Wes Williams
Synopsis:
Lulu follows the decline and fall of a young woman possessed of a fatal combination of sexuality and innocence. She passes from German and Parisian high society to the streets of Jack the Ripper's London  destroying, and ultimately destroyed by, her lovers. Frank Wedekind originally wrote his extraordinary 'monster tragedy' a full twenty years before the First World War. Finding no-one prepared to stage it on account of its sexual candour, he toned it down and rewrote it as two full-length dramas, which is how The Lulu Plays were published and produced throughout most of the twentieth century. Nicholas Wright's new version, based on Wedekind's original text, restores the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Mrs Klein
1st Produced:
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
1988
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
The son of Britain's most controversial psycho-analyst, is reported killed in a climbing accident provoking a competitive display by the rest of the family.
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Naked
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
1998
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello (Vestire gli ignudi)
Synopsis:
A nanny, whose charge died in her care, attempts suicide but fails. She is taken in by a lustful novelist who tries to discover her real story as men from her past turn up to claim different versions of the truth.
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
One Fine Day
1st Produced:
London
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
2000
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Reporter, The
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
National Theatre Company
1st Published:
2007
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Based on the remarkable life of the star BBC correspondent James Mossman during his last years, 1963 to 1971, The Reporter searches for the truth behind his bewildering suicide. What lies beneath the surface? Or is the surface ultimately all there is?
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Six Characters In Search of an Author
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
11
Female
6
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello
Synopsis:
the illusion of a rehearsal for a play is interrupted by the arrival of six people in search of an author
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Slave Island
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Marvaux, Pierre De, Plays" Methuen, London
1988
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Genre:
Marivaux
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Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Therese Raquin
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
from novel by Emile Zola
Synopsis:
Stifled by an oppressive mother-in-law and a sickly husband, Thérèse Raquin falls passionately for another man. Their feverish affair drives the lovers to an act of terrible desperation, which catapults them headlong into a world more claustrophobic than the one they sought to destroy.
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Three Sisters
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
2003
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
12
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis:
Nicholas Wright's version of Chekhov's masterpiece, in which four young people are left stranded in a provincial backwater following the death of their father. They focus their dreams on returning to Moscow, a city remembered through the eyes of childhood as a place where happiness may just be possible.
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Treetops
1st Produced:
London
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
2000
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Set in Cape Town in 1952, Treetops offers an arresting view of Nicholas Wright's own rebellious boyhood in his native South Africa
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NICHOLAS WRIGHT
Vincent In Brixton
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play 2002
Synopsis:
Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman renets a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he returns to Europe on the first step of a journey which will end in breakdown, death and immortality.
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