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Duncan Sarkies

DUNCAN SARKIES

  
Nationality:    New Zealander
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Duncan Sarkies's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Blue Vein         Bystander         Conversation Pieces         Demolition of the Century, The         Instructions For Modern Living         Love Puke         Saving Grace         Snooze

Blue Vein

Synopsis:
Zac and cheese

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monolgue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Bystander

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Conversation Pieces

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
-

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Demolition of the Century, The

Synopsis:
a humorous and sometimes heartbreaking look at families, memories and the fragility of the human mind

Notes:
Created and Performed by Duncan Sarkies and Joe Blossom, stage adaptation of Sarkies' own novel, accompanied with live music by Joe Blossom

1st Produced:
New Zealand Festival    2014

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play with music

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=4282

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Instructions For Modern Living

Synopsis:
a time capsule offering an interpretation of what goes on behind closed doors in New Zealand homes'

Notes:
written by y Duncan Sarkies And Nic McGowan

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Love Puke

Synopsis:
neat, stylish satire about sexual relationships

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1993

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Bray, Errol (Ed.), Young Playwrights: Eleven New Plays" Currency Press, 1994   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Saving Grace

Synopsis:
this 'savingGrace' has its tongue firmly in its cheek as it charts the volatile relationship between tough New Zealand street girl, Grace, and Gerald, the jobless Scottish carpenter who befriends her. the signs were there if she'd cared to read them: the carpentry, excessive reading of the Bible, the altruistic tendencies, not to mention the beard potential.
Madeleine North, Time Out

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Jigsaw Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  voice

Further Reference:
-

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Snooze

Synopsis:
A man falls in love with his alarm clock. His heater develops a passion for the man

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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