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Carol Ann Duffy

CAROL ANN DUFFY

  (1955 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd  (agent: Peter Straus)

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She has published six collections of poems for adults and has received many awards. She won the 1993 Whitbread award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for best collection for Mean Time. the World's Wife received the E. M. Forster award in America. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are Feminine Gospels and New Selected Poems

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         Beasts And Beauties         Beauty Of the Church, The         Casanova         Cavern Of Dreams         Everyman         Grimm Tales         Lost Happy Endings, The         More Grimm Tales         Rapunzel         Rats' Tales         Tear Thief, The         Worlds' Wife, The

Beasts And Beauties

Synopsis:
Children loved every minute of this show, either shivering with pleasurable terror, growning with pleasurable delight or laughing uproariously at disaster. they were treated to serial killing, cannibalism, decapitation, baby snatching, a naked bottom and the gratuitous ill treatment of a delightful pig.
Charles Spencer, daily Telegraph

Notes:
retold by Carol Ann Duffy, Adapted by Melly Still And Tim Supple. Includes the following Dramatisations/stories: Blue Beard; the Husband Who Was to Mind the House; the Three Wishes; Beauty And the Beast;; the emperor's New Clothes; Toby And the Wolf; the Juniper Tree; the Girl And the North Wind

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Faber and Faber, London, 2004   -

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adaptation

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Beauty Of the Church, The

Beauty Of the Church, The
the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the english language. the KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken english.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. the curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, Drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. the voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. all the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush theatre and Westminster abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient Arts of writing and spoken performance

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Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is A response to the King James Bible book of Song Of Solomon

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849432276

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Casanova

Synopsis:
the year is 1755 and a strange series of events has broken out across europe. In Flanders, bakers' bread rises without yeast; in Padua, a church service is interrupted as the entire female congregation goes into labour; in Cirencester, several magistrates are seen cavorting naked on St Swithins Day. Could Casanova be the cause of these strange goings-on?

Notes:
adapted by Carol Ann Duffy And Told By An Idiot

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Told By An Idiot

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adaptation

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Cavern Of Dreams

Synopsis:
by Bill Morrison with Carol ann Duffy

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1st Produced:
Liverpool    1984

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Everyman

Everyman
Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, and time is running out. One of the great primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death that we can understand our lives. A cornerstone of English drama since the 15th Century, it now explodes onto the stage in a startling production with words by Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate, and movement by Javier De Frutos. .

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Grimm Tales

Synopsis:
When did somebody last tell you a fairytale? This hour-long midday treat of selected Grimm Tales is quirky, imaginative, 3-dimensional storytelling at its best. a vibrant young cast present a living storybook for all ages.

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Carol Ann Duffy's Adaptation plus the Dramatization by Tim Supple And the Young Vic Company

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in collected Grimm Tales, Faber, London, 2003   -

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Lost Happy Endings, The

Synopsis:
a truly compelling, surprising and beautiful story for children of all ages by award-Winning Poet Laureate, Carol ann Duffy. Jub's job is important and she is very proud of it. She collects and sends out the Happy endings from all the stories in the world in time for everybody's bedtime. But one night she is caught by a wicked witch who steals all of the happy endings. . . What if the shoe didn't fit Cinderella? What if the prince's kiss didn't awaken Snow White? What if the big bad wolf gobbled up Little Red Riding Hood? Wiser and cleverer than the witch, Jub dreams up a perfect plan to outwit her, and like all good fairy tales, this one has a happy ending. This deeply imaginative and wonderfully inventive story by the nation's favourite writer and best-loved poet is brought to the stage by Red earth theatre and mac. Red earth's trademark humour, energy and ingenuity promises a delightful show with puppets, music, dance and lots of surprises.

Notes:
adapted And directed by Wendy Rouse & Amanda Wilde.

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Mac, Birmingham    20 Nov 2010

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Red earth Theatre

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More Grimm Tales

Synopsis:
Great theatre is as fleeting as it is thrilling. It exists in the spaces between actors and audience and is as elusive and silvery as the paths that wind through dark woods of fairy tales. the great thing about Carol ann Duffy's re-telling of these Grimm tales is the generous energy with which it enfolds each in its own style. Duffy and director Tim Supple go the whole journey with the brothers Grimm into the bright, warped world of a child's imagination.' Guardian

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Carol Ann Duffy's Adaptation plus the Dramatization by Tim Supple And the Young Vic Company

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in collected Grimm Tales, Faber, London, 2004   -

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Rapunzel

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A dance theatre adaptation of the classic fairytale Rapunzel, written by Carol Ann Duffy with music from Doctor Who composer Murray Gold.

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Rats' Tales

Synopsis:
Rats' Tales brings together a dark and magical cycle of folk tales from around the world, to create an unforgettable evening for everyone with an imagination aged 8 - 108. Packed with thrills, laughs, loves and more than a bit of magic, Rats' Tales explores the power of storytelling to create a theatrical event, which can be enjoyed by the whole family.

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by Carol Ann Duffy, Dramatised by Melly Still

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Genre:
storytelling

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Tear Thief, The

Synopsis:
each night, in the hours between supper and bedtime, the Tear Thief carries her waterproof, silvery sack as she steals the tears of every child who cries. But what does she do with all those tears?

Notes:
based on the story by Carol Ann duffy

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Genre:
Piece 45 min

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Worlds' Wife, The

Synopsis:
New adaptation of Carol ann Duffy's poems imagining famous men from their wives' perspectives. From Frau Freud to Queen Kong, this darkly funny show slices through history and myth, casting an astute glance over the modern world.

Notes:
adapted And performed by Linda marlowe from the poetry of Carol Ann duffy

1st Produced:
Assembly @ George Street (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)    Aug 2009

Organisations:
Seabright productions and LMP

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