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DOMINIC COOKE (1968 - )
Nationality: Britishemail: n/a Website: n/a
Literary Agent: Sally Hope Associates
Dominic Cooke adapted and directed Noughts & Crosses for the RSC in 2007. He also adapted and directed arabian Nights for the Young Vic in 1998, which was followed by both national and international tours. His directing work for the Royal Court includes Rhinoceros, The Pain and the itch, Other People, Fireface, Spinning into Butter, Redundant, Fucking Games, Plasticine, The People are Friendly, This is a Chair, and identical Twins. Other directing work in the theatre includes Pericles, The Winter's Tale, The Crucible, Postcards from America, as You Like It, Macbeth, Cymbeline, The Malcontent (RSC); By the Bog of Cats (Wyndham's); The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Gate, Dublin); The Weavers, Hunting Scenes From Lower Bavaria (Gate); The Bullet (Donmar); afore Night Come, Entertaining Mr Sloane (Ciwyd); The importance of Being Earnest (atlantic Theatre Festival, Canada); Caravan (National Theatre of Norway); My Mother Said 1 Never Should (Oxford Stage Co/Young Vic); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Bolton Octagon); Of Mice and Men (Nottingham Playhouse); and autogeddon (assembly Rooms). awards include Laurence Olivier awards for Best Director and Best Revival 2006 for The Crucible; TMa award 2000 for arabian Nights; Fringe First award 1991 for autogeddon; Manchester Evening News award 1990 for The Marriage of Figaro. Dominic was associate Director of the Royal Court 1999-2002 and associate Director of the RSC 2002-2006, and is currently the artistic Director of the Royal Court.
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Arabian Nights Noughts And CrossesArabian Nights
First staged at the Young Vic over Christmas 1998, a simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the arabian Nights. It is wedding night in the palace of King Shahrayar. By morning the new Queen Shahrazad is to be put to death, like a thousand young brides before her. But she has one gift that could save her -the gift of storytelling. Can the young Queen transport the vengeful King to the mystical land of her stories? On her side she has a rich array of characters including ali Baba, Es-Sinbad the Sailor and Princess Parizade - adventurers in strange and magical worlds populated by giant beasts, talking birds and crafty thieves. Will her silver-tongued storytelling save her life? The Young Vic's Christmas shows have become a sure-fire source of the finest plays for young audiences.
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Young Vic Theatre, London >>> 16 Nov 1998
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Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 1999 978-1854594617
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Childrens Youth audience
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an electrifying, bittersweet love story with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, set in a society divided by racial bigotry and a world rocked by terrorism. Sephy (a Cross) is the daughter of the Deputy Prime Minister. Callum is the son of a Nought agitator. United by a shared sense of injustice as children, and separated by intolerance as they grow up, their desire to be together begins to eclipse all family loyalty - sparking a political crisis of unimaginable proportions. 'I wanted to turn society as we know it on its head, with new names for the major divisions, i.e. Noughts (the underclass) and Crosses (the majority, ruling society)' Malorie Blackman
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adapted from Malorie Blackman's best-selling novels.
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Royal Shakespeare Company
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Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2007 978-0198326946
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adaptation
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Male: 8 Female: 8 Other: with doubling
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