GRAHAM PADDEN   (1948 - )


Graham Padden
   Nationality:
British
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Plays by Graham Padden

GRAHAM PADDEN
Deeds Not Words
1st Produced:
All Saints' Church, Farley, Wiltshire
1989
Company:
Farley Community Play
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
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Community Play
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
large cast
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The play recreates the turbulent history of Stephen Fox, a Farley child, Civil War soldier, Royalist exile, Restoration Paymaster General, and patron of Chelsea Hospital. It was performed in the church he had built in Farley, designed by Christopher Wren.
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GRAHAM PADDEN
In Living Memory
1st Produced:
Northamptonshire tour
1990
Company:
Lifeblood Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Reminiscence theatre
Historical
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Adapted for the BBC as a Radio feature, 1990. Currently developing a youth theatre version
Synopsis:
A picture of life in 1930s Northampton, from oral reminiscences
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GRAHAM PADDEN
Wrong End of The World, The
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
Salisbury Playhouse
1st Published:
Playwright, 2004
ISBN
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Genre:
Drama documentary with traditional music.
Documentary
Parts:
Male
11
Female
3
Parts Other:
6c
Notes:
This is a large-scale epic play with traditional music. In the professional production we had the cast as above plus an ensemble of 35. There are actually 53 speaking roles, 42M, 5F (who do a lot of singing).
Synopsis:
The story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, early trade union pioneers, and their families. Following rural unrest in the 1830s, the men of Tolpuddle form a union branch. Six men are arrested and transported to Australia, leaving their families destitute. Pardoned after extensive personal and political campaigning, the families resettle in Essex, and in the face of continued victimisation, emigrate to Canada. It is a story of the triumph of the human spirit over oppression.
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