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Andy Armitage

ANDY ARMITAGE  

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  


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

 Fit, Keen And Over 17,,,?         Hard Rain         Houdini - My Father Shook His Hand         Invaders         Johnny Oil         Johnny Oil Strikes Back         Marking Time         Rip Offheft         Too Much In The Sun

Fit, Keen And Over 17,,,?

Synopsis:
Four young, aspiring recruits go through a selection weekend with an SaS Territorial Unit. One of them is chosen - for peculiar reasons.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Venture at Tom allen Centre, London E15    1982

Organisations:
Theatre Vent

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Play/Drama

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Hard Rain

Synopsis:
a week in the lives of 5 urban terrorists in 1969 and ifs effect on the lives of their children in the 1990's.

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1st Produced:
Orpington College    1977

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Houdini - My Father Shook His Hand

Synopsis:
Escapologist the Great Verando, and his ravishing assistant, Natasha, arrive to play a northern club. Their dress rehearsal, in which they try out their latest illusion 'Escape from the Grave', does not run according to plan.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Written in collaboration with Arno Reinfrank

1st Produced:
Croydon Warehouse Theatre    1979

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Invaders

Synopsis:
IE. programme for secondary pupils; concerned with the conflict between a local council and residents on the one hand and a family of travellers on the other.

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1st Produced:
London Borough of Bromley Schools    1978

Organisations:
TIE

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Genre:
Youth Youth audience

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Johnny Oil

Synopsis:
On the evening of November 4th 1960. two ten year olds guard their bonfire which the local Elvis-worshipping hardcase has threatened to burn down.

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1st Produced:
Soho Poly Theatre, London    1982

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Johnny Oil Strikes Back

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1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London    1983

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Marking Time

Synopsis:
Two childhood friends teach in the same south London com-prehensive. They and the Head of the remedial department react differently to the fate of a new social studies teacher who has introduced a sex education programme.

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1st Produced:
Croydon Warehouse Theatre    1979

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Music:
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Rip Offheft

Synopsis:
T.I.E. programme for secondary pupils, an examination of different types of theft, different definitions of theft, and the morality of theft.

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1st Produced:
Orpington College    1978

Organisations:
TIE

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Music:
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Genre:
Youth Youth audience

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Too Much In The Sun

Synopsis:
3 couples meet on holiday on a newly commercialised Greek island, one of them disintegrating. Free Ouzo on the last night of the holiday fuels this process and prompts other revelations.

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1st Produced:
-    1980

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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