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Simon Corble

SIMON CORBLE

  (1961 - )
Nationality:    British
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Simon Corble (born 15 Feb 1961) is best known in the North of England for his daring work in wild places throughout the 1990's with Midsommer Actors' Company. His adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel The Woodlanders took the company into the forest at Hardcastle Crags, West Yorkshire and his production of The Hound of the Baskervilles began life on the moorlands at Brimham Rocks, near Harrogate. His First World War adaptation of the Of Mice and Men story, set on an English working farm, won a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award.. Simon collaborated with the Library Theatre, Manchester in 1994 to write and direct The Wonderland Adventures of Alice, which toured Victorian parks all over the country. He has also written and directed for London Bubble, Lancaster Duke's Playhouse; Harrogate Theatre and Nobby Dimon's North Country Theatre, based in Richmond. His and Nobby's The 39 Steps, has gone on to have a very long life in theatres large and small and, (in a re-adapted form) won an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy 2007. In 2005 / 6, Simon's version of Oscar Wilde's The Fisherman and his Soul, (with found THEATRE), was received to great acclaim, while he has also adapted of Charles Dickens' ghost story, The Signalman, also for found. THEATRE. Simon's play, OPERATION MINCEMEAT, had its world premiere at the Adelaide Festival in Australia, February 2010. It deals with the remarkable true story of The Man Who Never Was. There is a UK production currently in the pipeline with a Derby-based company. He won a commission to write a play "SWARD!" for Blaize in 2011 which toured all over the North of England, educating audiences about upland hay meadows.

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

         Hound of the Baskervilles, The         Thirty-Nine Steps, The

Hound of the Baskervilles, The

Synopsis:
Laughter, intrigue and suspense are evoked in equal measure by this fast-paced dramatisation of the classic Sherlock Holmes mystery. Originally scripted for open-air performance, the action kicks off with an amusing, rustic, Victorian melodrama; but thereafter the brooding presence of Dartmoor is at its dark centre. Over the purple heather, granite tors and sucking bog of Grimpen Mire, comes a parade of colourful characters to confuse the courageous soul of Doctor Watson. Are any of them implicated in the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville? Fresh-faced from Canada, the new baronet, Sir Henry, is having none of the superstition surrounding the ancient curse on his family; yet it slowly becomes apparent, that a very real threat haunts Baskerville Moor. And, what is more, it leaves footprints&

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Royden Park, Wirral    01 Aug 1995

Organisations:
Midsommer Actors' Co.

1st Published:
MX Publishing (Sep 2012)   978-1780922768

Music:
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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Thirty-Nine Steps, The

Synopsis:
the classic spy thriller adapted into a hilarious spoof of the book and the Hitchcock film.

Notes:
by Simon Corble And Nobby Dimon

1st Produced:
Perth    1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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