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David Lodge

DAVID LODGE  (1935 - )

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  


David Lodge is one of the UKs foremost writers whose astonishing career has spanned more than fifty years. He has won countless awards, including Royal Television Society's award for Best Drama (Nice Work) and the Whitbread Book of the Year (How Far Can You Go?). David Lodge is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Chairman of the Judges for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989. He was awarded the CBE for his services to literature in 1998 and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize on two occasions. Secret Thoughts is adapted from his acclaimed novel Thinks. . .

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

 Between These Four Walls         Home Truths         Secret Thoughts         Writing Game, The

Between These Four Walls

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written with David lodge, Malcolm Baradbury And Jim Duckett

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Revue Show

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Home Truths

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adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the a-level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path, with his wife Eleanor. Their old university friend Sam Sharp, now a hugely successful screenwriter, drops in on the way to Los angles, fuming over a vicious profile of himself by Rottweiler interviewer Fanny Tarrant in a Sunday newspaper. Together the two men decide to take take revenge on the journalist, though adrian is risking what he values most: his privacy. Examines the conflict between the solitary act of writing and the demands of the media circus. Significantly, the action takes place in summer 1997

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The play was subsequently Adapted to fiction form As A novella

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playtext published by Secker & Warburg 1998 novella version Secker & Warburg 1999,    -

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Play/Drama

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Secret Thoughts

David Lodge
David Lodge's Secret Thoughts; a dazzling and witty exploration of love and deception, and the connection between the brain and the heart. Married University professor Ralph Messenger has a reputation as a ground-breaking cognitive scientist and a notorious philanderer. When he meets the recently bereaved novelist Helen Reed, sparks fly and battle commences. It's science against art and morality against indulgence. But as their passionate and argumentative relationship develops into sexual attraction, their intellectual foreplay looks like it could become a fully blown affair of the body and mind.

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based on the Playwright's novel Thinks. . .

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Harvill Secker (5 May 2011)   978-1846555534

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 10 Page 545

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Writing Game, The

Synopsis:
a famous writer writes a play about writing

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Secker & Warburg, 1991   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  voice

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