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Nigel Charnock

NIGEL CHARNOCK

  
Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Nigel Charnock's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Asylum         Frank         Gorgeous         Gymnast, The         Hell Bent         How to Live         Human Being         L.O.V.E.         Macbeth - Director's Cut         Message, The         My Sex, Our Dance         Room, The         Second Coming         Still         Watch My Lips

Asylum

Synopsis:
Cynicism meets joy as Nigel Charnock presents a musical - as you've never imagined it. Revelling in an uncensored mix of dance, song and speech, this is a monstrous act of total theatre, stamped with the unmistakable Charnock hallmarks of morbid irony, subversive comedy, self-inflicted anguish, outrageous entertainment and more. Asylum takes a harrowing and hilarious look at youth and beauty, ageing and the mid-life crisis. This production may contain language or scenes of an adult nature that some people may find offensive.

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1st Produced:
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London    06 Mar 2001

Organisations:
Nigel Charnock and Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Frank

Synopsis:
Frank which was originally commissioned by the Venice Biennale. Frank is a fiercely comic blend of improvised monologue, song and dance, unashamedly honest, daringly physical and very entertaining.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
http://www.greenroomarts.org/    2009

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Piece

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Gorgeous

Synopsis:
Gorgeous is the first intimate collaboration between Nigel and Adrian and combines their wit, energy and unpretentious avant-garde joy. Falling firmly between two stools and a rock and a hard place, Gorgeous is a part-written, part-improvised collection of scenes forged from the depths of depression and the giddy heights of love. In this two-hander Howells and Charnock bicker and snap their way through ugly scenes of gentle obscenity and playful horror.

Notes:
written by Adrian Howells and Nigel Charnock

1st Produced:
RADA Studios (formely Drill Hall Arts Centre), London    19 May 2007

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Music:
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Genre:
Gay performance piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Gymnast, The

Synopsis:
1975: the West danced to 'Bye Bye Baby'; Nixon bellowed drunken orders; Cambodia went dark. Physical, beautiful, unflinching theatre telling of the time of the Khmer Rouge and lessons still unlearned. Co-directors Jane arnfield and Nigel Charnock. www.theemptyspace.org.uk

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
the empty Space and Jane arnfield in association With Northern Stage, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dance & Physical theatre

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hell Bent

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How to Live

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Volcano Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Human Being

Synopsis:
Challenging physical solo reflecting on the nature of faith as millennium approaches.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Nigel Charnock and Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dance theatre

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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L.O.V.E.

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Volcano Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Macbeth - Director's Cut

Synopsis:
Macbeth is disturbing. Murder always is. This is not a classical representation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, it is an interpretation of the play informed by the terrors that impinge on our daily lives in which evil goes on to take new and different forms.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Purcell Room, London    27 Jul 1999

Organisations:
Volcano Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Message, The

Synopsis:
Messengers abound in human history, all the way from Hermes to CNN. We rely on them to tell us the truth, but should we?

Notes:
adapted by Nigel Charnock from Tony Harrison

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Volcano Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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My Sex, Our Dance

Synopsis:
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Notes:
devised And created collaboratively by Lloyd Newson And Nigel Charnock

1st Produced:

Organisations:
DV8

1st Published:
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Music:
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Room, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Greenwich Dance Academy, London    1999

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Music:
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Genre:
Dance theatre

Parts:
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Second Coming

Synopsis:
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Still

Synopsis:
In Still, hedonist Nigel Charnock (DV8 founding member) takes the dancers and audience into a world of love and loss, lust, addictions and obsessions. A chaotic, wild and humorous piece using a unique blend of morbid irony and black comedy.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Southbank Centre, London    24 Feb 2009

Organisations:
Candoco Dance Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dance theatre

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Watch My Lips

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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