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David Walter Hall

DAVID WALTER HALL  (1983 - )

 Nationality:    Irish
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Brought up in Belfast, David studied philosophy at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from where he graduated in 2005. It was while at university that he first began to write for the stage. Cross Road Blues, his first play, was first performed at Cambridge's historic aDC theatre in 2003. along with The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady it was presented at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival fringe, receiving five-star reviews and sell-out audiences. The following year he received further five-star acclaim in Edinburgh with Meslier, the true story of a French Catholic priest who was a closet atheist. Following the success of Cross Road Blues, he was commissioned to write a musical, Voodoo Blues, exploring similar, dark, Faustian themes. Voodoo Blues, with an international cast and music by Russ Blaber of Helium Soul, will debut in 2008 with a national tour and plans are in place to take the Edinburgh Festival by storm. Meanwhile Cross Road Blues is soon to see its American premiere in New York and will feature the music of Sophie Solomon (Fiddler on the Roof, Savoy Theatre). The Last Priest, an extended version of Meslier, was performed at London's King's Head theatre in June 2007.

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below is a list of David Walter Hall's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Black Saint And The Sinner Lady, The         Cross Road Blues         Last Priest, The         Meslier         Misterioso         Now Is The Hour         Violent Acts

Black Saint And The Sinner Lady, The

Synopsis:
a woman is brought money and sex that she has never asked for. Dwelling on a passing sweetness and descending into dark demanding self-investigation, through warmth and sentimentality, flirting and lying and admitting the truth, we are shown in this play an image of romance that is inextricably linked to human wrongfulness, irrationality and self deceit - ugly, naked, a sickness that is uniquely human looking us shamefully in the eye, indiscernible from rape, from prostitution, asking no questions, giving us no answers.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Corpus Playroom, Cambridge    2005

Organisations:
CUaDC

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cross Road Blues

Synopsis:
Cross Road Blues enacts the legends surrounding Robert Johnson, the 1930's Delta Blues singer. Robert Johnson died at the age of twenty-six, poisoned in a bar, leaving behind him a legacy of a few recordings, and a Faustian legend that has come to define the essence of the Blues.

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Organisations:
REDS

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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Last Priest, The

Synopsis:
The Last Priest explores the life of Jean Meslier (1664-1729), a French Catholic priest and the author of a bitter atheistic testament. He was a little-known hero of the Enlightenment, and an instigator of the socialist ideals of the French Revolution.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
abreaction

1st Published:
www.lulu.com,    -

Music:
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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Meslier

Synopsis:
a short, one act version of The Last Priest. Written with the Edinburgh fringe in mind as a place to try out the story before putting together the full version.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
abreaction

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Misterioso

Synopsis:
climbs inside the head of one of the most singular geniuses of bebop, who, having taken up residence with the "Jazz Baroness", Pannonica Rothschild, spent the last seven years of his life in a deeply enigmatic silence.
- Robert Shore, Time Out London

Notes:
a Journey Into the Silence of Thelonious monk by Stefano Benni. Pannonica's Monologues by David Walter hall

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theatralia

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Multi media show

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Now Is The Hour

Synopsis:
an epic survival story based on accounts of victims and survivors of the sinking of the troopship Laconia by a German U-Boat in the mid-atlantic in 1942. Left adrift, one lifeboat spent 28 excruciating days at sea.

Notes:
a true story. Some characters And names Are fictitious

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Organisations:
Crossroads Music and Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  6 non-speaking males

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Violent Acts

Synopsis:
a collaboration with writer James Topham and a group of Cambridge University actors, produced as part of the Close Knit writers' project. The play follows the intertwining lives of eight people on the day of a young man's university graduation.

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Organisations:
Close Knit

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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