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Nick Fisher

NICK FISHER

  
Nationality:    British
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    Linda Seifert Management Ltd  represented by edward Hughes

During his varied writing career. BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and author Nick Fisher has written episodes of hit TV shows New Tricks, Hustle, Diamond Geezer, Cruso (NBC Network - usa, Moving Story and is a core-writer on BBC's Holby City. He has enjoyed a distinguished career in freelance journalism  he was the Sun, film critic for five years and the Just Seventeen agony uncle for nearly two decades, and has written for various other publications, including Men, Health and Country Life. Nick has published many books including a number of informative teenage boys' guides to growing up such as Living with o Willy. Boys about Boys. the Complete Guide to Kissing and Your Pocket Guide to Sex. apart from writing books about sex. Nick is a qualified commercial fisherman and has written books on fishing and fish cookery, including co-authoring the River Cottage Book of Fish with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and the River Cottage Sea Fishing Handbook. He has also acted as a media consultant for many firms and television programmes. Basket Cose is his first play.

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

         Basket Case         Bloody English Garden, A         Julie What Is Wrong?         Line One         Live And Get By         Magic Book, The         Sherlock Holmes & The Hound Of The Baskervilles         Vox Humana         Wide Eye's Kingdom
Basket Case

Basket Case
Dependable Miranda and her ex-husband, the smooth-talking, charming and utterly unreliable Guy are thrown together in distressing circumstances when their faithful aging family pet takes a turn for the worse. Reunited over the dog basket, Guy and Miranda soon discover they haven't 'moved on' quite as smoothly as they'd imagined. When they are joined by their family friend James, who rarely sees a stick without getting the wrong end of it, and Martin, the vet and a long time admirer of Miranda, the scene is set for some startling home-truths as this rapid-fire foursome mines laughter and touching observations in equal measure. Will this be the end of Guy's hopes of a reunion with Miranda, or the beginning of an unlikely romance? and has Guy really discovered a love for his old dog that he failed to find during his marriage?

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bloody English Garden, A

Synopsis:
The plot. Three skins do a bit of vandalism. One gets caught and ends up having to do some 'fucking community service '- in this case cleaning up the dishevelled garden of old age pensioner Maisie Knight.

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1st Produced:
Bristol Old Vic     14 May 1985

Organisations:
Bristol Express in association with Bristol Old Vic Trust Ltd

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  with doubling

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Julie What Is Wrong?

Synopsis:
Julie has been feeling left out and unloved ever since baby Freddie hit the scene. So has the family dog cum-commentator Uncle Bruno. The Lovejoy household is truly manic: Mum - a shade too shrewish at times is either fussing over baby or rowing with Dad, Julie, Bruno and Julie's admittedly aggravating) friend and shutting herself up in the loo. Dad is obsessed with his new home movie kit and thinks nothing of all but torturing his progeny in order to get the right effect

Notes:
A play by Jorg Friedrich and Thomas Ahrens. Translated by Peter Gilbert (book), Nick Fisher (lyrics)

1st Produced:
Shaw, London     05 Jun 1987

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Genre:
translation of play

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Line One

Synopsis:
the show tells the story of a naive, provincial teeny bopper princess who arrives in Berlin seeking her magical prince.

Notes:
book and lyrics by Volker Ludwig, music by Birger Heymann and No Ticket. Translated by Peter Gilbert (book), David Beer and Nick Fisher (lyrics)

1st Produced:
Shaw, London     08 Oct 1986

Organisations:
Grips Theater, Berlin in association with the Goethe Institut

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Genre:
rock musical

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Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Live And Get By

Synopsis:
This week out of the darkness sprang Live And Get By a musical play about three disaffected youths trying to cope with the monotony of their underprivileged backgrounds. Oh yes, we've heard It all before, It's called urban alienation - but this production brings some dramatic new blood to the tired old theme. It's imaginative, Inventive, economic, extremely well written creating powerful verbal images to parallel the visual ones and Intensely moving.

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1st Produced:
Gallery, Bristol     27 Mar 1982

Organisations:
Bristol Express in association with Wimbledon School of Art

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Magic Book, The

Synopsis:
a musical play and modern fairy tale where princes, wolves and genies come alive from the pages of a magical book to help a young girl, Ricki, obtain her wishes.

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music by Andrew Dodge

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action Transport Theatre.

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Genre:
TYA

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Sherlock Holmes & The Hound Of The Baskervilles

Synopsis:
presents at least a three-pipe problem.

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adapted from the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1st Produced:
Playhouse, Salisbury     07 Nov 1991

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  with doubling

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Vox Humana

Synopsis:
a play in which Greta Harpo conducts in live radio broadcast of an operation to adjust her vocal chords and create the perfect voice.

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Organisations:
BBC Radio Drama Unit.

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Wide Eye's Kingdom

Synopsis:
Wide-Eyes Is a young Asian sleeping rough on the Embankment. who embarks on a quest to meet Prince Charles.

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1st Produced:
BAC , London >>>     12 May 1988

Organisations:
Bristol express

1st Published:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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