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Ivan Cutting

IVAN CUTTING

  
Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Ivan Cutting's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Beyond the Breakers         Bone Harvest         Boudicca's Babes         Brontes of Dunwich Heath, The . . . and Cliff         Days of Plenty         Ferry Cross the Waveney         Getting Here         On the Home Front         Oysters         Private Resistance         Reapers Year, The         Return To Akenfield         Time Lords of Tacket Street         Tithe War!         When the Boats Came In         Wuffings, The

Beyond the Breakers

Synopsis:
The election of a lifeboat coxswain by his crew may only occur a few times in a century, but besides questioning seamanship, judgment and courage, it often pitches brother against brother or father against son. What other emergency service has to contend with forces as unpredictable as the sea or as unruthless as the family? Beyond the Breakers is based on the real life experiences and words of the lifeboat crews in North Norfolk across the years.

Notes:
Music by Roger Eno and Pat Whymark

1st Produced:
Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft    02 Mar 2005

Organisations:
eastern angles Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Bone Harvest

Synopsis:
Bone Harvest is a story of love among the corn shocks, of the legend of the horseman's frog's bone, and of a family through the last century. It is a story that ranges from the quiet of the stable to the horrors of the trenches in Flanders, from the sweep of the Canadian prairies to the nooks of a Suffolk cornfield, and from an old lady's 100th birthday to the first knowledge of the secret she has harboured for eighty years.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Civic Theatre, Chelmsford    09 Oct 2003

Organisations:
eastern angles Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Boudicca's Babes

Synopsis:
Agrestes, the Iceni King, despairs for his daughter, Boudicca. She is the leader of the Iceni Gang and displays all the outrageous irreverence of a young Madonna. In rebellion, she sets daughter against daughter, only to be reunited with her mother as they face the final, fateful battle against the Romans.

Notes:
music by Pat Whymark

1st Produced:
Brentwood: Brentwood Theatre    24 Oct 2002

Organisations:
eastern angles Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Brontes of Dunwich Heath, The . . . and Cliff

Synopsis:
You know about the talented literary Bronte sisters of North Yorkshire right? Well, meet their lesser-known southern cousins from Suffolk  Mad Cath and Plain Jane  familiar names but with a totes different attitude. Prepare for love, laughs, a total ledge of a leading man, confusion, a rapidly crumbling coastline and a whole lot of wacky wuthering! In true Eastern Angles style, there will be live music and songs (from Parkway Dreams composer extraordinaire Simon Egerton), multiple character changes, crazily ingenious staging and lots of laughs in this latest production. Expect a general air of anarchy and much mayhem in this mondo bizarro alternative to the traditional Christmas panto.

Notes:
written by Ivan Cutting and Eileen Ryan; Music & Lyrics by Simon Egerton

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Organisations:
eastern angles Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
spoof

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  with doubling

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Days of Plenty

Synopsis:
A sequel to 'The Reaper's Year', 'Days of Plenty' moves on thirty years to 1968 and a world where the horse has been replaced by the combine harvester and the horseman's magic by a safety manual. As the hopes of one generation meet the fears of another, what is left to cling to when the roaring sixties blasts away everything in its path?

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
eastern angles Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Ferry Cross the Waveney

Synopsis:
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Notes:
music by Pat Whymark

1st Produced:
Sir John Wilson Town Hall, Airdrie    10 Dec 1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Getting Here

Synopsis:
the pain and strain of emigrating to Britain.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ipswich, Isaac's Bar / Touring    02 Jul 2009

Organisations:
eastern angles

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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On the Home Front

On the Home Front
the period 1939-45 saw the east of england bracing itself against the threat of invasion and transforming itself to meet the demands of a nation at war. as everyone became swept up in the preparations many found themselves in fresh occupations or strange parts of the country. It was a time for new friends, new responsibilities and new experiences. above all it was a time for music: from singing in the shelter to whistling in the dark; from dance bands in the local hall to Workers Playtime. ON the HOMe FRONT clocks up over 100 performances, and it becomes our most successful show so far. It also gives us our first review in the Guardian.

Notes:
written by Ivan Cutting (Research And editing)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
eastern angles Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   eatc8

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Oysters

Synopsis:
Oysters is a tale of sex, boat building and bivalve molluscs. Mo has just turned fifty and busy restoring a oyster dredger recovered from a Essex riverbed. Helping him bring the boat back to life is Kasey, a young intern with a chip on her shoulder. When a piece of Mo's beloved dredger goes missing their lives are up-ended and the past floats to the surface.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Chelmsford: Civic Theatre    23 Mar 2015

Organisations:
eastern angles Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Private Resistance

Synopsis:
An emotional wartime drama focusing on the lives of one East Anglian Family. The play is an intriguing ?what-if' scenario exploring how Britain would have coped with an enemy invasion. It's summer 1940. Britain is at war with Germany and the on-going conflict has thrown Diane Bowles's life into turmoil. With her husband behind bars in a POW camp, Diane is left in charge of her teenage nephew Wilf, a keen boy scout eager to get one over on ?Jerry'. Out in the fields Diane's brother-in-law has more ambitious ideas. His plan? To build a secret underground bunker manned by a small unit of men ready to wage guerrilla warfare in the event of enemy invasion. His first port of call. . . Frank Evans, a gamekeeper with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the local landscape. When 19-year-old Prue, a recent recruit to the Auxiliary Territorial Service comes looking for lodgings, Diane welcomes the spirited young woman into her home. Soon the five villagers find themselves dealing with events and emotions they never thought they would have to face. . .

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Key Theatre, Peterborough    23 Mar 2012

Organisations:
eastern angles Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Reapers Year, The

Reapers Year, The
the ReaPeRS YeaR celebrates the harvest and recreating the characters and customs of a bygone world - all drawn from the accounts of the men and women that did the work. But behind the rural mask lies another story: the long and painful struggle of the farmworker to improve his condition and take his place in the modern world. and 100 years ago this autumn the agricultural labourer won the right to vote, so it's time for a double celebration at the village 'frolic', 'horkey' or 'supper' - call it what you will - just come along and join in the fun.

Notes:
Ivan Cutting, the farmworkers, And the Company, music by Pat Whymark

1st Produced:

Organisations:
eastern angles Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   eatc6

Music:
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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  musicians

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Return To Akenfield

Synopsis:
reveals the changes to a fictitious Suffolk village

Notes:
adaptation By Ivan Cutting, Naomi Jones And Craig Taylor from Craig tTaylor

1st Produced:
Lowestoft, Seagull    2009

Organisations:
eastern angles

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Time Lords of Tacket Street

Synopsis:
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Notes:
music by Pat Whymark

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Organisations:
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Tithe War!

Synopsis:
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Notes:
music by Pat Whymark

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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Music:
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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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When the Boats Came In

When the Boats Came In
a musical celebration of the great Lowestoft Herring Fishery. the result of thorough research the show is based on the reminiscences of the driftermen themselves, and using music both new and traditional, it captures the living spirit of the fishing port and the men and women who worked it.

Notes:
written And composed by Ivan Cutting And Pat Whymark. http://www.easternangles.co.uk/show/WTBCI/notes.php

1st Produced:

Organisations:
eastern angles Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   eatc1

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  musician

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Wuffings, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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