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Tim Firth

TIM FIRTH

  (1964 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Alan Brodie Representation Ltd  represented by Alan Brodie

Tim Firth's Theatre credits include NeVILLe's ISLAND (Nominated for Best Comedy - evening Standard & Olivier Awards 1994, winner Beat Play MeN Awards 2006), the SAFARI PARTY, the musical OUR HOUSe (Olivier Award for Best New Musical 2002), the FLINT STReeT NATIVITY (record- breaking productions two years running at the Liverpool Playhouse and then at Edinburgh Festival Theatre under the title the CORSTORPHINe ROAD NATIVITY) and SIGN OF the TIMeS. Tim's stage adaptation of CALeNDAR GIRLS, produced by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers Ltd, has broken all British box office records for a play and is currently on tour in the UK and worldwide. It was nominated for an Olivier and won the 2010 Whatsonstage Best Comedy Award. Film credits include BLACK BALL, CALeNDAR GIRLS (British Comedy Awards, Best Comedy Film 1993) and KINKY BOOTS (Sundance Selection, Best International Feature, Florida Film Festival) Television credits include MONeY FOR NOTHING (Writer's Guild Awards - Best Television Film), the ROTTeNTROLLS 4 series (BAFTA Award, Best Children's entertainment 1997), CRUISe OF the GODS, the FLINT STReeT NATIVITY, PReSTON FRONT (3 series Writer's Guild of Great Britain Best Original Series; Comedy Awards, Best Comedy Drama, RTS Awards Best Series, BAFTA nominated Best Drama Series). Recently Tim co-wrote a tour of words and original songs with Willy Russell called the SINGING PLAYWRIGHTS. Currently Tim is working on a new film and a new play.

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

         Absolutely Frank         Calendar Girls, The         Cardboard City         Corstorphine Road Nativity         End Of the Food Chain, The         Flint Street Nativity, The         Girls, The         Love Songs For Shopkeepers         Man Of Letters, A         Neville's Island         Our House         Safari Party, The         Sign Of the Times         This Is My Family

Absolutely Frank

Synopsis:
Frank puts up signs for shops and office buildings. He longs to be a novelist - to write about spies and espionage. One day when he turns up at work it looks like his fantasy book is coming to life

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Based on "a Man Of Letters" by Tim Firth

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Comedy

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Calendar Girls, The

Calendar Girls, The
When annie's husband John dies of leukaemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. they manage to persuade four fellow WI members to pose nude with them for an "alternative" calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. the news of the women's charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales. gets around, and soon hordes of press have descended on the small Yorkshire village of Knapeley. the calendar is a success, but Chris and annie's friendship is put to the test under the strain of their new-found fame. Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls opened at the Chichester Festival theatre and has since become the fastest selling play in British theatre history.

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from the Miramax film, Based On Screenplay By Firth And Juliette Towhidi

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Samuel French, London >>>   978-0573110672

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adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Cardboard City

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Soho Poly, London     1989

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Corstorphine Road Nativity

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see entry for the Flint Street Nativity

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End Of the Food Chain, The

End Of the Food Chain, The
Welcome to the "animal shift" at Kale Moor grocery distribution depot. Under the imaginative guidance of Bruce "the Gamesmaster", work here is an endless round of food sports (sprout tag, Smartie-and-flan-base tiddlywinks, frozen fish swordfighting . . .), sarcasm and juvinile humour, much enjoyed by the all-male night-shift workers. But a major change is due, for their new colleague is not a born games player but is - even worse - a woman, who can see through the childish antics of the men to the insecurities, and weaknesses beneath. at first, relations are reasonably civilized, but the gloves come off when the cerebral challenge of murder-mystery role-playing is presented to the team . . .. and there are surprises in store for all of them..

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Samuel French, London, 1995   978-0573017551

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Genre:
Comedy

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Flint Street Nativity, The

Flint Street Nativity, The
adapted from his own television play the Flint Street Nativity is a family comedy for any child who's ever been in a nativity - or any adult who's watched one through their fingers.

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aka the Corstorphine Road Nativity

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Southwold Theatre, Southwold     07 Dec 2006

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Christmas Comedy with music Youth audience

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Girls, The

Synopsis:
Inspired by the story of the Calendar Girls, THE GIRLS shows life in their Yorkshire village, how it happened, the effect on husbands, sons and daughters and how a group of ordinary ladies achieved something extraordinary.

Notes:
Twelve years after its release as a film, and seven years since its debut as a stage play, writer Tim Firth has turned Calendar Girls into a musical with Take That's Gary Barlow. Except this time it's just called The Girls.

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Genre:
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Male:  9            Female:  14            Other:  -

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Love Songs For Shopkeepers

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Man Of Letters, A

Man Of Letters, A
a truly outstanding, genuinely funny play, with a wry twist at the end, first seen at the Stephen Joseph theatre in the Round Studio, Scarborough. Frank has erected signs for a commercial letterer for twenty-five years. With trainee alan, he attempts to spell 'Forshaw's' - the letters collectively forming the play's third 'character'. He is nonplussed when the right letters do not appear and then realization dawns

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Southwold Theatre, Southwold     14 Aug 1998

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Samuel French Ltd, London,    978-0573042270

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One act

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Neville's Island

Neville's Island
a comedic exploration of the benefits of the business outward bound course and how relationships can be changed forever by a weekend away in the country. Four out-of-condition, middle-aged businessmen sent off on a team building exercise in the Lake District succeed in being the first people ever to get shipwrecked on an island on Derwentwater. Bound in fog, menaced by wildlife and cut off from the world, this perfunctory middle-class exercise turns into a carnival of recreminations, French cricket and sausages. What should have been a bonding process for Gordon, angus, Roy and Neville turns into a muddy, bloody fight for survival. Because when night settles in, strange things happen out in the wilds. and what took place on Neville's Island that foggy November weekend none of this particular middle-management team would ever forget.

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Our House

Synopsis:
This musical set in Camden, is a fast moving romantic comedy, which tells the story of Joe Casey, his mates, his girlfriend Sarah and the night he commits a petty crime to impress her. Following the two courses his life would have taken had he stayed to face the music when the police appear on the scene or bunked the law and made a run for it.

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music by Madness

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Genre:
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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Safari Party, The

Safari Party, The
Three households in Cheshire have agreed to hold a "safari party" - a dinner party, each course of which is served in a different house. the hors d'oeuvres are served by Daniel and adam, young brothers whose abusive Father was recently shot dead, the entrees by Lol and esther, upwardly-mobile and vulgar, and deserts by Inga, a seemingly benign antiques dealer. the three housleholds are linked not just socially, however: there's the whole question of the table . . . the brothers sold it to Inga, inventing a slightly colourful history for it to increase its value, and she then re-sold it at a staggering profit - with even more elaborate storytelling - to Lol and esther. as the evening progresses, the many layers of truth about the table, some shocking, are revealed and violence flares.

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Sign Of the Times

Sign Of the Times
Frank is an aspiring spy novelist and Head of Installation at Forshaws, a commercial lettering factory. Alan is his reluctant teenage trainee, more interested in listening to music and designing album artwork for his band Lizard than Franks beloved bracketing systems. as they attempt to install the company name in giant letters on the side of its building, it soon becomes clear that the letters are supposed to read For Sale instead of Forshaws  the company is relocating and Frank will be out of a job. In the second act, three years have passed and Alan is a jaded manager at an electrical goods store to which Frank has been sent for work experience as part of a benefit scheme. their roles have been reversed, but when a burnt pitta bread triggers a fire alert, Frank and Alan find themselves back in familiar territory and holding the key to each others salvation. Sign of the Times is a full-length comedy based on the authors one-act play a Man of Letters. It starred Matthew Kelly as Frank at Londons Duchess theatre in March 2011.

Notes:
Play By Tim Firth, expanded From His Play A Man Of Letters. Aka Absolutely Frank

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Samuel French, London >>>   978-0573140136

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Genre:
comedy

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This Is My Family

Synopsis:
Imagine you entered a magazine competition to describe your family. Imagine you came first and won a dream holiday for the lot of you, anywhere in the world. then imagine you're thirteen and what you'd written was a load of lies 'cause actually you feel your family is on the verge of splitting up. Is there any place on earth you could take them that might make a difference?

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Genre:
musical comedy

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