HUGH WHITEMORE   (1936 - )


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Plays by Hugh Whitemore

HUGH WHITEMORE
As You Desire Me
1st Produced:
Playhouse, London
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
6
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello
Synopsis:
Elma is a singer in a sleazy 1930s Berlin nighclub. Having suffered an appalling assault during the First World War, she has no memory of her former life. A man appears and tells her that she is, in fact, the wife of an Italian aristocrat, and a new life awaits her. But when she goes to Italy to pursue this dream, she is greeted only by problems and disappointments. Pirandello uses this story to explore the mysteries of identity and memory, themes that preoccupied him throughout his life.
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HUGH WHITEMORE
Best of Friends, The
1st Produced:
London
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1988
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Adapted From the Letters and Writings of Dame Laurentia Mclachlan, Sir Sydney Cockerel and George Bernard Shaw
Synopsis:
In 1924, when George Bernard Shaw was 68, his friend Sydney Cockerell, then Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, introduced him to a Benedictine nun at Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire. Dame Laurentia McLachlan, later to be elected Abbess, enjoyed a lively friendship with both Shaw and Cockerell for over twenty-five years.
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HUGH WHITEMORE
Breaking the Code
1st Produced:
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1987
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
from Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence by Andrew Hodges
Synopsis:
This compassionate play is the story of Alan Turing, who broke the code in two ways: He cracked the German Enigma code during World War II (for which he was decorated by Churchill) and also shattered the English code of sexual discretion with his homosexuality (for which he was arrested on a charge of gross indecency). Whitemore's play, shifting back and forth in time, seeks to find a connection between the two events.
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HUGH WHITEMORE
Disposing Of The Body
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London,
ISBN
-
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Play/Drama
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Female
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Notes:
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HUGH WHITEMORE
God Only Knows
1st Produced:
Richmond/tour
2000
Company:
Triumph Entertainment
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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HUGH WHITEMORE
It's Ralph
1st Produced:
Comedy, London
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1991
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
frustrated couple spend weekend in country cottage which, like their marriage, is in need of repair
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HUGH WHITEMORE
Last Cigarette, The
1st Produced:
2009
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London (2009)
ISBN
9780571244096
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Genre:
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Biographical
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
by Simon Gray and Hugh Whitemore, from Grays The Smoking Diaries
Last Cigarette, The
Based on the critically acclaimed diaries of late playwright Simon Gray - Fat Chance, Enter A Fox, The Smoking Diaries and Coda - The Last Cigarette was completed just before Gray's death from cancer last year and shows the playwright facing life - and death - with unflinching courage and defiant humanity. Sardonic, humane, intelligent and witty, The Last Cigarette shows that even when writing about his own mortality, Gray did not lose his prodigious talent to entertain.
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HUGH WHITEMORE
Letter Of Resignation, A
1st Produced:
Comedy, London
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1997
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Documentary Play
Documentary
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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HUGH WHITEMORE
My Darling Clemmie
1st Produced:
Assembly @ George St (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)
2009
Company:
Indigo Entertainments
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Winston Churchill said, 'My most brilliant achievement was to persuade my wife to marry me.' This is the highly entertaining story of Clementine Churchill described by Lord Halifax as, 'The guardian angel of our country's guardian.'
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HUGH WHITEMORE
Pack of Lies
1st Produced:
Brighton
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1983
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Events leading up to the arrest of the Krogers, two Americans spying for the Russians, in London in 1961.
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HUGH WHITEMORE
Stevie
1st Produced:
Richmond, Surrey
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1977
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A play from the life and work of Stevie Smith
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HUGH WHITEMORE
Towers of Trebizond, The
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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