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Dick Curran

DICK CURRAN

  
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Dick Curran started writing for the stage when he moved back to Newcastle in 2000, after living in London, Brighton, Hull and Manchester. He was a student in Manchester in 1980's and he stayed on for a year living in a bedsit in Stretford, driving a delivery van and working on the Great Geordie Novel - sadly still unpublished. To back up his understanding of Theatre he has been involved in semi-professional and amateur productions in a wide range of capacities from acting to directing and set building. Last year he had a number of pieces given rehearsed readings at Live Theatre in Newcastle, culminating in Venice on Tyne as part of the Live Theatre/RSC co-production, Tyneside Stories. He was commissioned to write a monologue for Paines Plough's Come to Where I'm From tour, and his play, therapy, will receive its first professional production at Live Theatre in October. He has had full-scale professional productions of plays at the Customs House in South Shields and the Octagon, Yeovil, and many other pieces have been produced at venues ranging from pubs to medieval castles (well, one). awards won include the Drama association of Wales Short Play, and the Yeovil Octagon. therapy was runner-up for the BBC Radio Alfred Bradley in 2005 and his novel, almost Persuaded, is being republished by Red Squirrel Press later in 2010.

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

         Come to Where I am From         Company         Islanders         It Works For Us         Keep It Simple         thearapy         Upstairs In the Hotspur

Come to Where I am From

Synopsis:
Sixty one playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them. At 14 theatres from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays will be performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. Come To Where I'm From is a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home is really where the heart is.

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Paines Plough

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short play

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Company

Synopsis:
about the disasters that befall a couple when a work colleague is invited round for drinks

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1st Produced:
Low Lights On North Shields Fish Quay    28 May 2012

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Cloud Nine

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Genre:
one act comedy

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Islanders

Synopsis:
set on a bird reserve on the Farne Islands, follows the interwoven relationship between Peter, Nicola and ellen

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began life As A reading At Live theatre in 2009, And had its first full production At Manchester's 24:7 festival

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It Works For Us

Synopsis:
Dawn and Mike are a long-established, married couple with children. Ross and Sacha are unconventional, reckless and in conflict. What happens when Mike, unwisely, brings them together? a comedy about relationships and how codes of behaviour alter depending on who is in the room.

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part of Write Now Festival

1st Produced:
The Actor Studio, Seel Street, Liverpool    16 Apr 2011

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Farnes Productions

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Genre:
one act black comedy 55 min

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Keep It Simple

Synopsis:
Comedy from the writer of 2010's award-winning Islanders. Kate is an agony-aunt with problems of her own. a weekend in a Cumbrian cottage on the eve of her daughter's wedding sounds idyllic. Less so when she's there with a failed poet and an insecure chiropodist - her husbands past and present.

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Manchester 24:7 theatre Festival

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Midland Hotel, Manchester    24 Jul 2011

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Fames Productions

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55 min Drama comedy

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thearapy

Synopsis:
therapy is an engaging comedy about a driving instructor who is busy trying to negotiate his way between his wife, his therapist and his libido, whilst giving away as little as possible.

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Upstairs In the Hotspur

Synopsis:
the Northumbrian Nationalist Party plan to bring the Lindisfarne Gospels back home..a funny and provoking play about regional identity and relationships
http://www.arts-archive.co.uk/index.php?pg=12&action=work&genre=P&gname=Play&wid=S0457766734

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