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Steven Dykes

STEVEN DYKES

  (1963 - )
Nationality:    British
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Steven Dykes's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Happiness Compartment, The         Homestead         Kolonists         Light Gathering Of Dust, A         Spoils, The         Swing Left, The         Visitation

Happiness Compartment, The

Synopsis:
1962. In the final Dramatic hours of the Cuban Missile Crisis, eight ordinary citizens spend a wakeful night contemplating life, death and grocery lists - among them Lee Harvey Oswald and his young Russian bride, a Havana baseball star, and the ghost of Marilyn Monroe.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Soho Rep, New York    1998

Organisations:
Theater M

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Homestead

Synopsis:
Dykes relocates Lorca in the artiErican Deep South. Lilian Beckman is the new stick-wielding matriarch who keeps her five daughters locked away, here out of perverted Protestant principle rather than Iberian superstition Under her sway, the five young actresses playing the daughters combine in an ensemble performance quietly buzzing with the friction of female rivalry. as agnes preens herself for her wedding to the never-seen beautiful boy Hemandez, adele moons with the knowing grace of a girl whose thoughts are of night-time. the others circle fascinated, intuiting the disastrous truth even as they hope to avoid it.
Kieron Quirke, evening Standard

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Courtyard, London    2006

Organisations:
Shady Dolls Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Kolonists

Synopsis:
Set in newly independent estonia, the play explores the lives of the RUSAkov sisters - modern counterparts to Chekhov's doomed class.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Man In the Moon Theatre, London    1996

Organisations:
Nxt

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Light Gathering Of Dust, A

Synopsis:
erotic, darkly humorous study of the damage inflicted on lovers by a State which successfully institutionalized personal betrayal.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh    2001

Organisations:
Nxt

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Spoils, The

Synopsis:
a creepy encounter between victor and victim. In the aftermath of a lost war, even the regime's lowliest secretaries must be interrogated.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Shady Dolls

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Swing Left, The

Synopsis:
a returning POW journeys through an unrecognisable post-war London in search of a sense of 'victory'.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Workshop Theatre, Leeds    2002

Organisations:
Unlimited Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Visitation

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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Genre:
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Parts:
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