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Dusty Hughes

DUSTY HUGHES

  (1947 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

Dusty Hughes (born 16 Sept 1947) is an English playwright and director, writing for both the theatre and television. In the early seventies he was Theatre Editor of Time Out and helped to establish that magazine's theatre coverage as an alternative voice. He then joined the Bush Theatre as Artistic Director and with Simon Stokes and Jenny Topper developed it as a venue for new writing and directed new plays by Snoo Wilson, Tony Bicat, Julia Kearsley, Kurt Vonnegut, Howard Barker, Ron Hutchinson and Ken Campbell. In 1980 his first play Commitments (which preceded the unrelated Roddy Doyle novel and subsequent film of the same name) won him the London Theatre Critics Most Promising Playwright Award. His subsequents plays have been seen at the National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and London, The Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre, The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, The Bush, the Donmar and in the West End as well as in Europe and America. He has worked extensively in television. He was joint winner of the Writer's Guild Award for Best Drama Series for Between The Lines and created The Brief for ITV as well as adapting Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent for BBC1. He has also written for many other series including Silent Witness and Lewis and most recently the BBC's The Musketeers (2015).  [Wiki]

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         Angelic Avengers, The         Bad Language         Breach Of the Peace         Commitments         From Cobbett's Urban Rides         Futurists         Grrr         Heaven And Hell         Helpless         In At the Death         Jenkin's Ear         Metropolis         Moliere; Or, The Union Of Hypocrites         Paradise         Philistines         Slip Of the Tongue, A
Angelic Avengers, The

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Bad Language

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Breach Of the Peace

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By Heathcote Williams, Gerard Mannixflynn, Jonathan Gems, Dusty Hughes, MarcElla evaristi And

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Commitments

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Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government

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BBC TV Play for Today 1981

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Modern history

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From Cobbett's Urban Rides

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in Breach of the Peace

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London     1982

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Futurists

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Grrr

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Heaven And Hell

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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh     1981

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.9285/24

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Helpless

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In At the Death

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Jenkin's Ear

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Metropolis

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Written with Susan Brooks; music by Joseph Brooks; lyrics by Joseph Brooks And Dusty Hughes; film Fritz Lang

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Piccadilly Theatre, London     1989

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Original cast recording: TeR (1168) 1989

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Moliere; Or, The Union Of Hypocrites

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Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov

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Stratford-On-Avon     1982

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Paradise

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Elite Homes: offering the Platinum Package in luxury retirement living. Old friends Roddy Meakin and Amanda Goose are enjoying their twilight years on their own terms - outrageous pranks and clandestine gins in the garden, adult magazines at the dinner table and a healthy disregard for the other residents. All is idyllic - until, that is, new management is brought in to restore order. . .

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Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3EU >>>    " 07 Dec 2018

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Philistines

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Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky; Written in collaboration with Tim Suter

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Stratford-On-Avon     1985

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Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1985   

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Slip Of the Tongue, A

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Chicago     1992

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