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Michael Kingsbury

MICHAEL KINGSBURY

  
Nationality:    British
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Michael Kingsbury's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         All Manner Of Means         Contact.com         Seduced

All Manner Of Means

Synopsis:
a fast and furious comedy centring on the Tory Party Conference and the moral implications of the english breakfast
- http://www.arts-archive.co.uk/index.php?pg=12&action=work&genre=P&gname=Play&wid=S2267

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1st Produced:
BAC 2, London >>>    24 Sep 1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Contact.com

Synopsis:
different couples. Professional Islington-based couple seek young couple for shared pleasures. He 46. She 42. Can accommodate. Young sexy South London couple. He 29. She 27. Seek older couple for nights of pleasure and fulfilment. Will travel. Middle-aged Matthew and his long-suffering wife Naomi await the arrival of the youthful Ryan and Kelly to their elegant North London home. They'll meet for one night of unlimited pleasure, then part. That's the agreement, that's the plan - but can they stick to it? Ryan and Kelly have a different agenda. . .Contact.com is a delicious combination of caustic wit, powerful drama and social observation.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Spellbound Productions

1st Published:
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (15 Jan. 2015)   978-1474237895

Music:
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Genre:
erotic comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Seduced

Synopsis:
a deft social comedy that suggests partner-swapping may be fun on the night but inevitably leads to problems the morning after. Matthew and Naomi are a childless, middle-aged north London couple nervously awaiting the arrival of their advertised younger dates. they turn out to be Ryan, a bullish east end chancer, and his sexy wife, Kelly. Immediately Kingsbury sets up a good situation in which class intersects with desire. there's a particularly funny pre-coital dinner in which Ryan wanly reflects that they have tried to do supper parties down his way, "but they normally end in hatred and recrimination". It soon becomes clear, however, that Kingsbury is writing about something more than the etiquette of urban swinging. His target is middle-class hypocrisy: Matthew is an earnest industrial psychiatrist who preaches shared values and cooperation in the workplace but finds them harder to cope with at home.
Michael Billington, Guardian

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
jobari Productions Ltd

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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