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Michael Arditti

MICHAEL ARDITTI

  
Nationality:    British
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Michael Arditti was born in Cheshire and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has written plays for the stage and radio and theatre criticism and book reviews for national newspapers. He has contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography, theCity Secrets series, and theatrical anthologies. Michael is the author of nine novels and a collection of short stories: The Celibate(1993); Pagan and Her Parents (first published in 1996 but reissued by Arcadia in 2011; published as Pagan's Father in the US, where it was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award); Easter (2000; winner of the first Waterstone's Mardi Gras Award and shortlisted for the Creative Freedom Award); Good Clean Fun (stories, 2004); Unity (2005; shortlisted for the 2006 Wingate Jewish Quarterly award); A Sea Change (2006); The Enemy of the Good (2009); Jubilate (2011); The Breath of Night(2013); and Widows and Orphans (forthcoming, 2015). Arditti was awarded a Harold Hyam Wingate scholarship in 2000, a Royal Literary Fund fellowship in 2001, an Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Award in 2003, and an Arts Council Award in 2004. He lives in London.

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         Ceremony Of Innocence, The         Freshman, The         Romancer, The         Volunteer, The

Ceremony Of Innocence, The

Synopsis:
alec, his cousin alice and the gardener's son Trevor meet in the grounds alec's grandfather. they play but as time goes on their games become more and more sinister

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Workshop at Liverpool Playhouse    32540

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Freshman, The

Synopsis:
Christopher a working class boy arrives in Cambridge. at first he is a shy and naive young man but over three terms he slides into decadence; is sent down and arrested for fraud

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival    1984

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National Student Theatre Company

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Romancer, The

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Volunteer, The

Synopsis:
after graduating Martin volunteers to work in an assessment centre for teenage boys. encounters with two of the boys ends in disaster

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Shaw Theatre, London    14 Apr 1980

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