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Nick Grosso

NICK GROSSO  (1968 - )

 Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Judy Daish Associates Ltd  


Nick Grosso emerged through the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme as one of the UK's most talked about playwrights. His monologue Mama Don't (1993) was produced by the Royal Court and staged at the Commonwealth Institute. His subsequent plays include his debut, Peaches (later made into a film), Sweetheart, Real Classy affair and Kosher Harry.

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 Book Of Knowledge         Cartoon         Ingredient X         Killing Paul Mccartney         Kosher Harry         Mama Don't         Peaches         Real Classy Affair         Screwing With People Big Time         Sweetheart

Book Of Knowledge

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Hampstead Theatre, London    2003

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Cartoon

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Rehearsed reading at The Old Vic Theatre, London    06 Jun 2004

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Ingredient X

Nick Grosso
"I've always said I'll stop just as soon as The X Factor stops. The X Factor stops I stop that's the deal." It's Saturday night and the judges are gathering for their prime-time slot, feeding the nation their weekly fix. Except the harshest critics are sitting on your sofa and the mute button doesn't seem to work. Frank, a recovering drug addict, Katie, his long-suffering wife and Rosanna, their next-door neighbour and X Factor addict, gather for tv and dinner on a Saturday night. The evening begins with football and banter but it soon descends into arguments and revelations. While Frank is a newly recovered addict battling with both his recovery and the suspicions of others, Rosanna festers in resentment against her husband who prioritised cocaine over family, Deanne is an alcoholic, and Katie is simply addicted to addicts themselves. Written by Nick Grosso, the author of hit plays including Kosher Harry and Real Classy affair, this character-driven play is full of piercing, dark humour and veils uncompromising truths behind quick fire banter. Portraying the devastating effects of addiction on lives and relationships, the characters must try to cope and carry on in the face of addictive lures. Ingredient X is a tough, abrasive new comedy exploring the dynamics of different types of addiction in modern life, from The X Factor

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Methuen Drama    978-1408132159

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Comedy

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Killing Paul Mccartney

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Writer Nick Grosso wrote this monologue for actor Jake Wood, who plays Tommy Kay, a daft, crude, flash Cockney having a bit of a dabble at stand-up. But it ain't stand-up: it isn't organic, doesn't feed off the crowd, and lacks an actual limelight-hungry comic. and as a piece of theatre, who is this character Kay and what's the point, please? But, as Kay says in one of his typically twisted pieces of reasoning: "What's the point? The point is you're too busy wondering what the point is to see the point." Putting the red pen away, it is very funny, a rhapsody in non-sequitur, bigoted inanity, self-serving nonsense. It's an a-Z of geezerish tic and flourish: nah, yer, know wha' ah mean, innit, dawlin'. Kay spits and fumes, gets into all manner of logical tangles and then blames us. To the title: "Everyone's second-favourite alive Beatle" features little, other than to enrage Kay, who hears him on the radio exhorting all not to drink milk, and a ghastly Let It Be cover. - Scotsman

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assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival    2004

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Monologue Play/Drama

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Kosher Harry

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Gathered in a kosher bar in North London are a foulmouthed cabbie, who can't stop blubbing, an old woman in a wheelchair, who hears only what she chooses to, and the world's worst waitress, wearing nothing but her smalls. Joining them is a man with no name who takes them on at their own game. Combining the restraint of Beckett's dialogue with the grotesque world of a Berkoff, Grosso's new play is a sustained black comedy that pushes stereotypes to the absolute limit, and then brings them back to reality again

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Surreal Comedy Comedy

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Mama Don't

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Peaches

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in "Coming on Strong" Faber, London, 1995   -

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Real Classy Affair

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shock as best mate opens new restaurant and does not invite him to celebratory party causes investigation

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Faber and Faber, London, 1998   -

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Screwing With People Big Time

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Hampstead Theatre, London    2003

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Sweetheart

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Charlie is twenty something, he's got big plans, he's just not sure what they are. . .

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Faber and Faber, London, 1996   -

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Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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