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Mark Healy

MARK HEALY

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by St John Donald

Mark Healy studied English and Drama at Hull University and the Welsh College of Music and Drama.

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below is a list of Mark Healy's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Collector, The         Dante's Dream         Dracula         Far From the Madding Crowd         French Lieutenant's Woman, The         Persuasion         Sense And Sensibility

Collector, The

Collector, The
John Fowles's classic story of possession, obsession and love is considered one of the great works in modern literature. Frederick Clegg appears to be an ordinary, slightly shabby clerk. Winning a fortune in the lottery he buys a remote country house, and goes about furnishing it with everything he thinks a beautiful woman could desire. He then abducts a girl he has worshiped from afar, imprisoning her in the cellar amid his butterfly collection with tragic, electrifying results.

Notes:
from the novel by John Fowles. Updated version where lottery winner buys himself a cottage, abducts his fantasy lady and locks her in the basement. Having abducted and imprisoned her in the cellar he soon finds the reality is far from his fantasy and their tense claustrophobic realtionship leads to a devastating climax

1st Produced:
Derby Playhouse, UK >>>    02 Oct 1998

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1st Published:
http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk/   978-0573016035

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dante's Dream

Synopsis:
Play about Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Genre:
biographical play

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Dracula

Synopsis:
In the spring of 1893 Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, visits Castle Dracula in Transylvania for what he believes to be a routine deal with the nobleman Count Dracula. Harker soon realises that he is not a visitor at all, instead a prisoner to the deadly Dracula, who sets off to find Mina, Harker's fiancee, and her sister Lucy. The more Harker investigates his confinement, the more he fears his deadly captor. Can someone stop Dracula before he unleashes his supernatural powers on his first victim? In this tragic tale of power and redemptive love, the lines between the sane and the insane become dangerously vague.

Notes:
from the book by Bram Stoker

1st Produced:
Derby Playhouse, UK >>>    11 Oct 2003

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Far From the Madding Crowd

Far From the Madding Crowd
Having inherited her father's farm, the spirited and feisty young Bathsheba everdene finds herself playing mistress in a man's world. She is pursued by three would-be lovers: the constant shepherd, Gabriel Oak; the obsessive landowner, William Boldwood; and the reckless Sergeant Troy. But are any of them a match for the headstrong and independent Bathsheba?

Notes:
From Novel By Thomas Hardy

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Organisations:
English Touring Theatre

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>    978-1848420274

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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French Lieutenant's Woman, The

Synopsis:
the woman stands alone on the edge of the Cobb in Lyme Regis, an isolated figure swathed in cloak and hood, staring out over an endless grey sea and sky. there is no getting away from the movie or from that iconic image of Meryl Streep in this, the first ever stage version of John Fowles' 1969 novel. His book works on many levels, filtering the 19th century novel though mid-2Oth century consciousness, and mixing romance with Darwin, Marx and Freud to tell the story of the poor but educated fallen woman Sarah Woodruff who becomes the erotic obsession of the fossil-hunting gentleman, Charles Smithson. For the film version screenwriter Harold Pinter solved the problem of how to Dramatise a novel whose inner life is largely in the footnotes, by creating a framing device of a story within a story; here adaptor Mark Healy matches Fowles' playfulness by cunningly embedding the writer as a major character in his own narrative.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

Notes:
from novel by John Fowles

1st Produced:
Fulton Theatre, Pennsylvania    2003

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  extras

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Persuasion

Persuasion
Sir Walter elliot demands advantageous love matches for his three daughters, and annes choice of the poor naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, simply wont do. Seven years later, their fathers arrogance has plunged the elliots into debt, and they are forced to rent out their beloved estate to admiral Croft  brother-in-law to the now-feted Captain Wentworth. afflicted by ill-health and agonised by memories of a lost love, Jane austen writes her final novel. But as she contemplates the bittersweet ending to her own story, can she bring herself to give anne and Wentworth a happy one?

Notes:
from novel by Jane Austen

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:   doubling, large cast possible (8f 9m)

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Sense And Sensibility

Sense And Sensibility
When John Dashwood and his snobbish wife Fanny inherit his father's estate, his stepmother, along with his half-sisters, are forced to leave their home and live on a reduced income. elinor bears the move with her usual stoicism, even though it cuts short her growing friendship with Fanny's brother, Edward Ferrars, while Marianne's grief seemingly knows no bounds. their new life, from the Devonshire countryside to London's high society - peopled by their eccentric host Sir John Middleton, the brooding Colonel Brandon, the dashing Willoughby and the simpering Lucy Steele - is set to test the sisters' sense and sensibilities to the limit.

Notes:
from the novel by Jane Austen

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  7            Other:  -

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