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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit Address: n/a |
FINE CHISEL are a multi award-winning theatre company and band based in Bristol, led by director Tom Spencer. We've hosted Shakespearean knees-ups in pubs, village halls, farms and railway arches (Midnight at the Boar's Head), flown a community choir through Yorkshire market towns (Icarus) and explored the story of the loneliest whale in the world in theatres across the UK and Ireland (Dumbstruck), amongst other adventures. And we've busked our way through scores of town centres and soggy fields.
World Premieres of Plays by Fine Chisel
Dumbstruck | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | Aug 2013 | ||||
Organisations: | Fine Chisel | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #163867 | |||
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Genre: | 95 min piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Award-winning play with songs, about the loneliest whale in the world. Fiona is losing her voice. Mal is losing his faith. Ted is losing his marbles. Somewhere in the North Pacific, a lonely whale sings. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXXIV (2014) Page 0697 - [Theatre: BAC (Battersea Arts Centre)] | |||||
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Firing Blanks | ||
| 1st Produced: | 31 Jul 2010 | |||||
Organisations: | Fine Chisel | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #163868 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written by Tom Spencer | |||||
Synopsis: | Having a baby is complicated. It's even tougher when you need another man's sperm. A truly touching and often funny new play by Tom Spencer, with live music. From the makers of Be My Eyes' - 'Excellent' (Scotsman). -- | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flying The Nest | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 0 | ||||
Organisations: | Fine Chisel | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #181418 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Working in collaboration with early years specialist Sarah Argent and drawing upon their own work as multi instrumentalist-performers FINE CHISEL's Tom Spencer and George Williams explore a playful, non-verbal world inspired by real bird behaviour and song. | |||||
Synopsis: | Flying The Nest is a squawking adventure that follows a young chick's frantic and funny journey towards independence, and his relationship with his fine-singing father. 3-6 year olds (and their big people) are invited to join the pair in the nest, where theyll learn birdsongs, perhaps share a worm supper, and get ready to take flight. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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written by Tom Spencer, Holly Beasley-Garrigan and George Williams | Icarus | |
| 1st Produced: | Pocklington, Yorkshire | 05 Apr 2014 | ||||
Organisations: | Fine Chisel | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #163870 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Notes: | written by Tom Spencer, Holly Beasley-Garrigan and George Williams and the wonderful community groups that joined the process: African drummers, volunteer electricians, a very special rocking-horse maker, vicars, teachers and a huge choir of singers (aged from 8 to 76). | |||||
Synopsis: | Icarus is a story about strapping on wings and taking flight. A story about what it means to be ambitious and a little bit reckless. A story about how small towns respond to big dreams. It's a story told by people and by communities, about the flights and the falls, the successes and the failures. The performance started in a church (dressed as a museum of flight by the residents of each town), paraded through the town centre as a samba band and culminated in a pub. Along the way there were flashmobs, candlelit laments, a hand-crafted pair of 25-foot wings, a live tawny owl and hundreds of local stories and flights of fancy. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Neither There Nor Here | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | Aug 2015 | ||||
Organisations: | Fine Chisel | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #181419 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Tom Spencer, George Williams and Andy Kelly | |||||
Synopsis: | Award-winning theatre company and band FINE CHISEL surprise and enchante audiences across the UK with their unique blend of playful storytelling and foot-stomping live music. Three travellers arrive, looking for a place to stay. As they settle by the fire, they tell the tale of their journey so far. We follow the unlikely trio across violent seas and frosty moors, through ancient forests and giant gorges, as they bring their adventure to life in front of us. Out of their rucksacks come an array of instruments, and the travellers' story erupts into song. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Midnight at the Boar's Head | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 20 May 2012 | ||||
Organisations: | Fine Chisel | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #163869 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Synopsis: | Every line you'll hear, spoken and sung, is Shakespeare's. The Boar's Head in London's Cheapside was Shakespeare's favourite pub. We've brought a range of characters to life to fill it. Some of them you'd expect to find there, propping up the bar. Others we've relocated from across the Complete Works. Grab yourself a glass and come join them. . . Expect foot-stomping live music, party-popper warfare, handmade puppetry and folk-fuelled storytelling. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Unplugged | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | Aug 2012 | ||||
Organisations: | Fine Chisel | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #163871 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Synopsis: | It's open mic night at The Bag o' Nails pub. The all-singing, all-drinking locals are ready to perform: foot-stomping folk, rousing rock'n'roll and hair-raising hip-hop. But tonight is no ordinary night in the bar. . . Fine Chisel's multi-instrumentalist storytellers ('charming, witty and ridiculously entertaining', Fringe Guru) blend the epic with the everyday in a tale of holding on to independence in the face of adversity. | |||||
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