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TOBY WHITHOUSE
Nationality: British
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Toby Whithouse's first play Jump Mr Malinoff, Jump won the 1998 Verity Bargate award. It was the opening production at Soho Theatre in 2000, and has since been adapted for radio. He has also written extensively for television, and devised the series No Angels.
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Blue Eyes And Heels Jump Mr Malinoff, JumpBlue Eyes And Heels
Synopsis:
I've even thought of a name for it. Delicious Agony. Coz that's what it is. the villain's pulling a fast one and the audience can only sit and watch. Do you know what I mean?' Duncan is an ambitious young TV producer, ready to do anything to find the next big hit. While planning to bring wrestling back to British TV screens, he meets Victor, aka the Count of Monte Cristo. Victor is one of the old guard, past his prime but desperate to reclaim his glory days - and he's a perfect pawn for Duncan to use in his climb to the top of the industry ladder.
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Oberon, London, 2005 -
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Play/Drama
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Synopsis:
It's a wonderfully funny, dark yet humane affair in which a visitor from the past provokes a series of revelations that leave the Malinoff family in tatters. But as Whithouse gradually reveals, the Malinoffs, Russian emigres who came to England in 1970, were always in tatters; they just never got around to admitting it. Dad went out to buy a paper in 1988 and never returned; Mum disappeared into a vodka bottle, leaving melancholy Uncle Pasha to watch over Nick, a car-salesman, and his schoolboy brother George. Set in a Southend cafe so effectively realised in Luke Hunt's design that you can almost smell the chips in the frier, the play builds up a poignant picture of a small town where everyone dreams of escape but few know how to achieve it. You hardly expect a piece based in a greasy spoon to have poetry and pathos, but there's something heart-rending about the restless, desperate way that Nick idolises Dougie, a small time criminal, Pasha pins his hopes on George, and George, infatuated with his leggy class mate Emily,reckons big brother Nick is the bee's knees.
Kate Stratton, Time Out
Kate Stratton, Time Out
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won the 1998 Verity Bargate Award
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Faber and Faber, London, 2000 -
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Comedy
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