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Tom Kempinski

TOM KEMPINSKI

  (1938 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    The Sharland Organisation  

Tom Kempinski (born 24 March 1938) is an English playwright and actor. He is best known for his 1980 play Duet for One, which was a major success in Londonand New York and which has been much revived since. Kempinski also wrote the screenplay for the movie version of Duet for One. In addition, he made minor appearances on numerous British television shows including Dixon of Dock Green and Z-Cars. Kempinski was married to the actress Frances de la Tour who starred in the original London production for Duet for One; he was also married to the actressMargaret Nolan from 1963 to 1972. - Wiki

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         Addicted To Love         Ballad Of Robin Hood, The         Beautiful Part Of Myself, The         Chatterton         Dreyfus         Duet For One         English Civil War, The         Family         Flashpoint         Free Country, A         Garbo         Heinrich Heine Vs Nikolai Gogol         High Jumpers         Japanese Noh Plays         Life Of Karl Marx         Mayakovski         Moscow Trials         October         Pageant Of Labour History         Peasants Revolt, The         Penthesilea         Princess Of Wales, The         Salus Populi Suprema Lex         Self-Inflicted Wounds         Sell-Out (1931)         Separation         Sex Please, We're Italian         What A Bleedin' Liberty!         What About Borneo?         When the Past Is Still To Come         Workshop, The

Addicted To Love

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Controlling partners in relationships

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Ballad Of Robin Hood, The

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written with Roger Smith

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London    1973

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Beautiful Part Of Myself, The

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Chatterton

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A young poet, forced to teach to support his art, falls in love with his pupil the beautiful wife of an older man.

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In the Love and War Season

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Dreyfus

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Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg

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London    1982

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Duet For One

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an eminent violinist struck down with multiple sclerosis finds further problems under the guidance of her psychiatrist

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English Civil War, The

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Family

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The El Cid story retold in a Mafia setting.

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Love and War Season

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Flashpoint

Synopsis:
Set in an army barracks on the eve of an execution in which six young soldiers have been detailed to shoot one of their own for cowerdice

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written As Gerrard Thomas

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London    1978

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Free Country, A

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Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg

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Garbo

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Heinrich Heine Vs Nikolai Gogol

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One-man show based on the works of the Jewish poet and the Russian author.

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Solo Play/Drama

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High Jumpers

Synopsis:
Based on Xenophon's Anabasis, the epic struggle in which 10,000 Greek mercenaries walked and fought their way to the Euphrates.

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From Xenophon's Anabasis

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Pluto Productions Ltd

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Japanese Noh Plays

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Leicester    1979

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Life Of Karl Marx

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written with Roger Smith

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London    1984

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Mayakovski

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Original Playwright - Stefan Schutz

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London    1979

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Moscow Trials

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October

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written with Roger Smith

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London    1973

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Pageant Of Labour History

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4 Plays Historical

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Peasants Revolt, The

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essex    1971

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Penthesilea

Synopsis:
Set during the Trojan War era Penthisilea is the feisty Amazon Queen with love on her mind.

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Original Playwright - Heinrich von Kleist

1st Produced:
Mountview Theatre School, London    10 Jun 1998

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Pluto Productions

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Princess Of Wales, The

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Salus Populi Suprema Lex

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The play is set during Charles I's assault by Cromwell, and Kempinski livens up what could have been a dry textbook history lesson by having the entire saga seen through the eyes and lenses of a sharp-suited media, whose old-fashioned wet liberal matronliness is on the verge of state control. - Herald, Scotland

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Ramshorn Theatre - Glasgow    02 May 1996

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http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/sta/search/resultspd.cfm?NID=20809&EID=&DID=11101&AID=
Theatre Record Vol XVI (1996) Page 0772 - [Theatre: Ramshorn Theatre - Glasgow]

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Self-Inflicted Wounds

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Mold, Clwyd    1985

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Sell-Out (1931)

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written with Roger Smith

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London    1974

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Separation

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Sharp New York humour matches intelligent British wit in this tender and funny play. Tom Kempinski's bittersweet transAtlantic love story tells of two people, from very different backgrounds, facing very different barriers and challenges to overcome. Joe Green is an unsociable, unproductive, and phobia-ridden writer, whose one-hit play leads him to become friends over the phone with a New York actress who is keen to stage his play, but who is also suffering from a paralysing disease. When Sarah finally arrives in London to take their relationship a bit further, Joe's neurotic nature almost - but not quite - kills the love affair completely

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Sex Please, We're Italian

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What A Bleedin' Liberty!

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What About Borneo?

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London    1978

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When the Past Is Still To Come

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Workshop, The

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Set in the finishing room of a men's tailoring workshop in Paris after the last war. there is no plot as such; instead, the life ofthe workshop is shown gently unfolding over seven years from the immediate post-Liberation period through the rigours of rationing until 'reality' is restored-and it's business as usual. But the workshop's owner and one of his women employees are Jews, and underneath the cosy, bickering surface of workshop camaraderie the play powerfully depicts the tribulations of those Jews who have survived themselves but have lost loved ones: the process of leaming the meaning of the word 'deported: - Steve grant, Tinme Out

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Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg. Aka the Workroom

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Oxford Playhouse    1980

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Genre:
adaptation

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