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Nigel Williams

NIGEL WILLIAMS

  (1948 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Judy Daish Associates Ltd  

Novels includes the Wimbledon Poisoner and stage credits include Class Enemy, Country Dancing, Lord of the Flies adapted from William Golding's book and recently won a lot of emmys and golden globes for his Elizabeth I starring Helen Mirren.

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         Adventures of Jasper Ridley, The         As It Was         Breaking Up         Class Enemy         Consequences         Country Dancing         Deathwatch         Double Talk         Easy Street         Harry And Me         Last Romantics, The         Line 'em         Lord Of the Flies         Marbles         My Brother's Keeper         My Face         Nativity         Snowwhite Washes Whiter, and Deadwood         Square One         Sugar and Spice         Trial Run         WCPC
Adventures of Jasper Ridley, The

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1st Produced:
Hull     1982

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As It Was

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from book by Helen Thomas

1st Produced:
Edinburgh     1987

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Adaptation

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Breaking Up

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Faber and Faber, London, 1988   

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Class Enemy

Class Enemy
in a decrepit South London schoolroom a group of foul mouthed boys conduct grotesque lessons and generally vandalise as they await their teacher

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Eyre Methuen, London, 1978   

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Consequences

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Eight playwrights play consequences in the 21stC as a last gasp for Foco Novo, killed by the government and the Arts Council

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written with Brenton, Dunn, Griffiths, Ikoli, Sobol, Wilson, Wymark

1st Produced:
Croydon     1988

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Genre:
Colaboration

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Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Country Dancing

Country Dancing
explores old man's memories through music and dance and his life in the community during the Industrial revolution

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Faber and Faber, London, 1987   

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Genre:
Documentary Play Documentary

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Deathwatch

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Original Playwright - Jean Genet. UK Tour And Young Vic , London

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Foco Novo Theatre Company

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Adaptation. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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Double Talk

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London     1976

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Easy Street

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Bristol     1979

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Harry And Me

Harry And Me
the Harry Harod Show used to be top of the ratings but now it is on the slide and not even a third rate pop star is willing to appear

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Faber and Faber, London, 1996   

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Last Romantics, The

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Greenwich, London     1996

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Line 'em

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Eyre Methuen, London, 1980   

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Lord Of the Flies

Lord Of the Flies
Playwright and novelist Nigel Williams's stage adaptation of William Golding's story was first professionally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in July 1995. 'Remarkably true to the novel in spirit . . . the theatre lends itself particularly well to the ritualistic aspects of the story - chanting, dancing, marching, forming a circle round the victim, stamping out a fire . . . You end up feeling you have seen a fable of infinite implications enacted in a little room.' Sunday Telegraph

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by William Golding

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Faber and Faber, London, 1996   

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  13            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 11 Page 568

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Marbles

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by John Chapman, Tim Fywell And Nigel Williams

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My Brother's Keeper

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Greenwich, London     07 Feb 1985

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Faber and Faber, London, 1985   

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My Face

My Face
Susie decides to hold a party for all her internet friends - but things go disastrously wrong as the virtual people become real. . .Mark is in love with Susie - but Susie is more concerned with the fact that Lou is in love with Sam (which is why they are having a fight on the social networking site MyFace). But Sam (although he doesn't know it) is in love with Emma and - to make things even worse - Lou may be in love with Susie's brother Pete! Disaster! And what has all this got to with a fund raising event for the Israeli Army? Or the fact that Mark has put his cousin's photograph on his MyFace profile? A fast-paced comedy about identity.

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New Connections

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in New Connections 2008, Faber and Faber, London, 2008   

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Youth Audience

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Nativity

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Snowwhite Washes Whiter, and Deadwood

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Bristol     1977

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Square One

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Sugar and Spice

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Eyre Methuen, London, 1980   

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Trial Run

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1st Produced:
Playhouse, Oxford     1980

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Eyre Methuen, London, 1980   

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WCPC

WCPC
Fresh faced PC Simon is sent to in the Vice Squad. He discovers shocking things happening in public conveniences but when he tells his colleagues they hush it up. Turns out that they are all "one of them" - in fact one is writing a review of a Judy Garland book for "Gay News". Simon is sent undercover in a wedding dress that is wired-up to entrap men in a convenience

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1st Produced:
Half Moon, London     1982

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  9            Female:  -            Other:  -

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