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Paul Allen

PAUL ALLEN

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    David Higham Associates Ltd  represented by Alice Williams

Paul Allen was born in Kent and brought up in cold country vicarages. In 1976 he was the first regional journalist to be named Critic of the Year in the British Press Awards, for television and radio reviewing. In the 1980s he began a long association with the BBC Radio 4 arts magazine Kaleidoscope. He wrote and presented the Kaleidoscope feature The Leaf and the Figwhich won the last BP Arts Journalism Award for radio in 1993. Two dozen of his plays have been produced, on radio and theatres across the country. Most recently his adaptation of Brassed Off opened in Sheffield and subsequently transferred to the National Theatre. He has presented Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 since May 1998. His biography of Alan Ayckbourn, Grinning at the Edge, was published by Methuen in 2001. A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays was published in 2004.

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

         Big Shot         Brassed Off         Herod the Great         How Did We Get Here From there?         Jokers         Jokers Ii         Tchaikovsky         Who Cares?         Yorick
Big Shot

Synopsis:
Using American gangster story to show if you treat immigrants badly they behave badly.

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1st Produced:
Bubble Theatre, London     1980

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Play for 7 - 11 year olds

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Brassed Off

Synopsis:
Grimley Colliery is set to close as the accountants say there's more money in it shut than open, even after redundancy payments. It means 1200 job losses, a dying town and the loss of its brass band. But under the leadership of Danny, coughing with coal-dusted lungs, the band is somehow transformed into British champions with local lass Gloria whipping up the money needed to get them to the albert Hall.

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from the screenplay by Mark Herman

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Play/Drama

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Herod the Great

Synopsis:
about killing babies for good political reasons

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How Did We Get Here From there?

Synopsis:
about the way things don't turn out as planned for the generation of a disillusioned motor industry craftsman

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1st Produced:
Second City, Birmingham     1979

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Community Play

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Jokers

Synopsis:
community play commissioned for South Yorkshire tour plus theatre production

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written with Rony Robinson

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agressive Soap Opera

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Jokers Ii

Synopsis:
sequel to the comic soap opera by popular demand, set round the Christmas it was playing through

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written with Rony Robinson

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Comic soap opera

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Tchaikovsky

Synopsis:
the last nine days in the life of the composer, from the first performance of the Pathetique to the death imposed on him by old school mates to avoid the scandal of his private life

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Theatre Royal, York     1981

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Who Cares?

Synopsis:
about a do gooder in a world where it's a term of abuse

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1st Produced:
Second City, Birmingham     1980

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Genre:
Short Community Play One act

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Yorick

Synopsis:
Late night one-act for comedian and ventriloquist's dummy in their final act

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Theatre Royal, York    

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Genre:
One act

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