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Keith Dewhurst

KEITH DEWHURST

  (1931 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Alexandra Cann Representation  

Keith Dewhurst's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Animals Of Farthing Wood, The         Batavia         Black Snow         Bomb In Brewery Street, The         Brecht In '26         Candleford Green         Corunna!         Don Quixote         Kidnapped         King Arthur         Lark Rise To Candleford         Luggage         Magic Island, The         Miser, The         One Short         Pirates         Rafferty's Chant         San Salvador         World Turned Upside Down, The
Animals Of Farthing Wood, The

Synopsis:
Developers pave over Farthing Wood and the animals must find somewhere else to live

Notes:
From Colin Dann Books

1st Produced:
Pleasance, London     1998

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Batavia

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Perth     1984

Organisations:
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Music:
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Black Snow

Synopsis:
This bitingly funny adaptation of Bulgakov's modern Russian classic novel of 1936 was premiered at the Royal National's Cottesloe theatre in 1991. Set between 1924 and 1925 it is an hilarious send-up of Stanislavsky's famous 'method' and the acting profession in general and was based on fact - the mutilation of Bulgakov's play Moliere for which Bulgakov blamed Stanislavsky. `.. the funniest and cleverest new play I have seen for a very long time.' Financial Times . Sergei Maxudov is reluctantly working as a newspaper man and has written a novel everyone is sure will never pass the censors. In despair, Maxudov is about to commit suicide when he is interrupted by the mysterious Rudolfi, a publisher who wants to buy the novel. But after the novel's first instalment appears in print, Rudolfi unaccountably disappears, leaving Maxudov in the lurch. But Maxudov's bleak literary prospects are rescued once again, when a note is slipped under his door requesting him to come immediately for a talk with Ilchin, the holde

Notes:
Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov

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1st Published:
Absolute Press, Bath, 1991   

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Bomb In Brewery Street, The

Synopsis:
About the British army in Ulster

Notes:
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1st Published:
in "War Plays", Oberon, London,    

Music:
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Brecht In '26

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Genre:
Collage

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Candleford Green

Synopsis:
audience and players mingle re-enacting a meeting of the local hunt in mid-winter

Notes:
works by Flora Thompson

1st Produced:
London     1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Lark Rise to Candleford", Hutchinson, London, 1980   

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  6            Other:  with doubling

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Corunna!

Synopsis:
Ballad opera about the people from Corunna

Notes:
book And lyrics by Keith Dewhurst with Tim Hart, music by Steeleye Span

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "War Plays", Oberon, London,    

Music:
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Genre:
Ballad Musical Musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote
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Notes:
From Cervantes

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1982   

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Kidnapped

Synopsis:
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Notes:
novel by Stevenson

1st Produced:
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh     1972

Organisations:
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Music:
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adaptation

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King Arthur

Synopsis:
Keith Dewhurst's re-examination of man and myth is a long way from Camelot in every sense. Focusing on a Britain struggling to discover its national identity in the century following the fall of Rome and the departure of the Roman legions from these shores, Dewhurst offers a theatrical antidote to the romance of Mallory, instead painting a portrait of a cold, dark world where the flawed artorius tries to do what's right without around table anywhere in sight. Mind you, his moody wife Guenhumara (that's Guinevere to us) does seem to have a hotline to the future via a mobile phone given to her by shape-shifting narrator Merlin, and Tennyson is to be found strolling around in the mists of time.
Lyn Gardner

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Shapeshifter and Berwick House Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Lark Rise To Candleford

Synopsis:
literary sampling of english village life in late Victorian Oxfordshire

Notes:
works by Flora Thompson

1st Produced:
London     1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Lark Rise to Candleford", Hutchinson, London, 1980   

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Luggage

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
London     1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Magic Island, The

Synopsis:
Re-Working with rock music of Arthurian legend

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Miser, The

Synopsis:
the miser loves his gold but decides to take a second wife, four lovers plot to save themselves, Period 1668

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere adaptation into Scots

1st Produced:
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh     1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  3            Other:  -

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One Short

Synopsis:
written as basis for irnprovisation by Theatre Machine

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Sheffield Crucible Studio     1976

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Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Pirates

Synopsis:
Seventeenth century pirates found an ideal communistic state.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Sunday night production without decor

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Rafferty's Chant

Rafferty's Chant
Unsuccessful confidence trickster's attempts to sell non-running cars

Notes:
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1st Produced:
London     1967

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Plays of the Year 33", elek, London, 1967   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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San Salvador

Synopsis:
a debate relating to cannibalism and cultural prejudice

Notes:
part of the American Project: A compendium of short plays

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short Play One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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World Turned Upside Down, The

World Turned Upside Down, The
This epic drama tells how individuals like stubborn King Charles 1, visionaries like Gerald Winstanley and politicians like Oliver Cromwell dealt with the climax of the English Civil War.

Notes:
work by Christopher Hill

1st Produced:
National Theatre, London     1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "War Plays", Oberon, London,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

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