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Richard Cameron

RICHARD CAMERON

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Richard began writing whilst teaching Head of Drama in a Scunthorpe Comprehensive, wlnnlngthe SundayThnes Playwritingaward three times. His play Can't Stand Up for Falling Down won the Independent Theatre award 1990, and a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1991 he began writing full time and has written six plays for the Bush Theatre including the Gke Club (National tour & West end transfer 2003). He has also written for the Royal National Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Belgrade Theatre Coventry (Great Balls of Fire, Cambridge Theatre, West end 1998). Television includes Stone Scissors Paper (Dennis Potter Television Play of the Year award 1995). Radio Includes the Kon Tiki Two expedition (Mental Health In Media award 2003).

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

         All Of You Mine         Almost Grown         Can't Stand Up For Falling Down         Come to Where I am From         Evening With Elsie Parsons, An         Flannelettes, The         Flower Girls         Glee Club, The         Gong Donkeys         Great Balls Of Fire         Handle With Care         Horse Marines, The         In Bed With Billy Cotton         Moon's the Madonna, The         Mortal Ash, The         Not Fade Away         Pond Life         Roma And the Flannalettes: A Love Like Yours         Rotters' Club, The         Seven         Strugglers         Wakey Wakey! In Bed With Billy Cotton         With Every Beat

All Of You Mine

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captures exactly the unforgiving nature of family life with a powerful sense of community

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Almost Grown

Almost Grown
set in Yorkshire this is the story of how a tragic accident has affected the lives of three friends

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in Making Scenes Short Plays For Young actors 3, Methuen, London, 1995   978-0413698605

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Short Play One act

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Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

Synopsis:
Damage wrought on three women by one boorish, unthinking, man, who never appears in the play.

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National Student Drama Festival, Scunthorpe     1990

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Come to Where I am From

Synopsis:
Sixty one playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them. At 14 theatres from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays will be performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. Come To Where I'm From is a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home is really where the heart is.

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Sheffield Crucible Theatre - Forge Festival     26 May 2010

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Paines Plough

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Evening With Elsie Parsons, An

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Living proof of the dead! a psychic medium introduces his protege. But what comes across the great divide tonight is a ghost too close for comfort. By Richard Cameron. Starring Lorraine Chase and Mike Burns. --

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White Crow Theatre Company

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Flannelettes, The

Flannelettes, The
Delie is special and she's won a trophy for picking up litter from the mayor. Every summer she goes on her holidays to her Aunty Brenda who runs a women's domestic abuse refuge in a Yorkshire mining village. Delie and her Aunty Brenda and a pawnbroker called George who wears a dress are The Flannelettes - a Motown tribute band. Delie is in her twenties but with a mental age of ten; when she meets Roma - who used to live on the streets in Rotherham - the two become best friends, sharing each others' secrets. By the award-winning writer of The Glee Club, The Flanelettes is a tough, uncompromising play which looks at love and violence in a shattered community, all playing to a bittersweet soundtrack of Sixties soul.

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Flower Girls

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a red button. From a red coat. . . I collected them. From every coat of every new arrival at the orphanage, before they were sold to the rag man. and I would wait until they were at their homesick worst. a penny to hold it, a shilling to keep it' Flower Girls is the funny, beautifully observed and uplifting story of a group of disabled women who live and work at the Crippleage, edgware. Inspired by the personal testimony and reminiscences of real-life Flower Girls, the play shifts effortlessly between the unsettled early years of World War II and the seemingly more liberated world of 1965. their stories reveal an indomitable spirit and a fierce determination to find their place in the world, a world that prefers to keep them at a safe distance.

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Glee Club, The

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the Glee Club, made up of five hard working, hard drinking miners and a church organist is preparing for the local gala. Though they're established on the working men's club circuit, they aren't exactly at the vanguard of a musical revolution. This is the summer of 1962; music and much else is about to change - so too the lives of these six men. Nothing and no-one will ever be the same again.

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Gong Donkeys

Gong Donkeys
School's out, and David has been sent to spend the holidays with his aunt Deelie, Uncle Robert and cousin Charlene in the rough part of town. It's a summer of stories; In the shed, Uncle Robert prepares to impress the local history society with his revelations about Charles Dickens in Doncaster; On the allotment, Charlene acts out her favourite soaps; even Gobbo and Wink, Charlene's non-too-bright conspirators, have rich fantasy lives brimming with the thrills and importance their real lives lack. But when a child goes missing, accusations are thrown at David's new friends, and the line between fact and fiction becomes dangerously blurred.

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Methuen Drama    978-0413774941

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Great Balls Of Fire

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written with Todd William Ristau

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Cambridge, London     1999

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Handle With Care

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aka Haunted Flowers

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National Student Drama Festival, Scunthorpe     1985

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Horse Marines, The

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Celebrates the healing power of story-telling. It is set in a mental hospital that is both a haven and a prison for failed teacher Geoff, who has lost his wife and son, and for the three teenagers he has taken under his wing.
- Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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In Bed With Billy Cotton

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Moon's the Madonna, The

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National Student Drama Festival, Scunthorpe     1989

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Mortal Ash, The

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summer in a back yard and kitchen of a council house on an estate in a South Yorkshire town, small scale clash of the generations

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in "Plays 1" Methuen, London, 1998   -

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Genre:
Tragic Comedy Tragedy

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Not Fade Away

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Pond Life

Synopsis:
unemployed man in South Yorkshire spends his days fishing the he organises a Saturday night carp fishing expedition, it turns out to be a night none of them will forget

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Roma And the Flannalettes: A Love Like Yours

Synopsis:
set in a women's refuge in Yorkshire and filled with dark humour and sixties Motown karaoke

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Rotters' Club, The

Synopsis:
While Doug tries to shoehorn left-wing politics into the school newspaper and harbours dreams of writing for NME, Ben and Philip are more concerned with recruiting members for their prog-rock band and passing their A levels. Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing 1970's Birmingham, where factory strikes in Longbridge are on the rise and social tensions mount, the group advance through the minefield of typical teenage worries such as first dates, sports matches and exams. However, they are unable to avoid the impact of the unstable world around them, with tragedy bubbling beneath the surface. Adapted from Jonathan Coe's award-winning novel, and inspired by his own experiences of growing up in the West Midlands, The Rotters' Club is rebellious, earnest and heart-felt. Gwenda Hughes returns to The REP to direct the brilliantly talented young performers cast from our youth theatres. Re-live the music, the political events, the awkward encounters with the opposite sex and the dreaded moment when you forget your swimming trunks.

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Adapted from Jonathan Coes award-winning novel by Richard Cameron

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Seven

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Strugglers

Synopsis:
When Wendy has an epileptic fit in the kitchen and burns herself, her friends in their last term at a special school come up with a way to help. they set themselves a goal and spend their last days struggling to reach it.

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Strugglers won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award in 1988 At the National Student Drama Festival.

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National Student Drama Festival, Scunthorpe     1988

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young people's theatre Youth audience

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Wakey Wakey! In Bed With Billy Cotton

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With Every Beat

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Courtyard, West Yorkshire     1995

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