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Robin Hawdon

ROBIN HAWDON

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Laurence Fitch Ltd  

Robin Hawdon is a British playwright especially known for the popularity of his comedies. Mr. Hawdons plays are amongst the most frequently produced around the world  his name is as well known abroad as in his native Great Britain. At any one moment there are likely to be a dozen or so productions of various titles, old and new, running in various countries. Many of his plays are published by Samuel French. Over recent years his plays have appeared in mainstream theatres in the UK, New York, Paris, Moscow, Warsaw, Krakow, Bonn, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Tel Aviv, Italy, Ukraine, South Africa, Australia, and in hundreds of smaller theatres across every continent. Their popularity, amongst professional and amateur companies alike, is due to the fast pace and comic complexity of their plotlines, combined with an essential humanity and reality in their characterisation. www.robinhawdon.com

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

         As Long As It's Warm         Barn Dance         Birthday Suite         Don't Dress For Dinner         Don't Rock the Boat         God And Stephen Hawking         I Do, I Do, I Do         Mating Game, The         Night In Provence, A         Old Devils, The         Perfect Wedding         Revenge         Secret, The         Shady Business

As Long As It's Warm

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Bromley    1967

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Barn Dance

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1st Produced:
London    1964

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Birthday Suite

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Geoff Tippet has arranged a special birthday treat for his old friend, Bob. the treat is a hotel room for the night, a double-bed which folds up into the wall and an attractive girl called Mimi. add a shy Kate who anxiously awaits her computer agency date - Dick, who has been shown into the wrong room; Bob's wife Liz, who believes she is dining with Geoff, and a connecting door between the two rooms and you have the recipe for a fast-moving and hilarious comedy.

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1st Produced:
Redgrave - Farnham    1983

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Samuel French, London, 1984   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Don't Dress For Dinner

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a web of marital treachery which accelerates with classic symmetry to an all star denouement

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Original Playwright - Marc Camoletti

1st Produced:
Apollo Theatre, London    1991

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Samuel French, London, 1992   -

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adaptation

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Don't Rock the Boat

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1st Produced:
Redgrave, Farnham    1992

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Warner Chappell Plays, London, 1992   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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God And Stephen Hawking

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religion v science the unauthorised biography of the great scientist Professor Stephen Hawking

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Theatre Royal, Bath

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  doubling

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I Do, I Do, I Do

I Do, I Do, I Do
Diana has it all. Beautiful, intelligent, sweet natured. the sort of rare girl that all men swoon over. Whats more she is the daughter of that most reviled of species, a wealthy banker. the three men in her life are Jamie, the much envied man to whom she is officially betrothed; Tom, the attractive boyfriend of Jamies sister; and Geoff, the oldest friend who is to be best man. Dianas insurmountable problem is that, during the course of the longest weekend of her life, she finds herself having promised marriage to all three! How can she decide? What matters most - familiarity, suitability, sexual passion? Can she make up her mind in time for the big society wedding arranged in a months time? Bewildered bankers wife, Ann, finds herself having to act as negotiator, counselor, traffic controller, legal adviser, judge, jury, and fortune teller to an entire household of distraught people. And it isnt discovered until the final curtain who it is that Diana chooses.

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1st Produced:
Bonn, Germany, at the Contra Kreis Teatr    2011

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90 min romantic comedy

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Mating Game, The

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television personality's bachelor pad where every time he scores something happens like the ceiling falls in

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english Theatre Guild, London, 1974   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Night In Provence, A

Night In Provence, A
ah Provence! the French Riviera. Where the well-to-do rent luxury villas for exorbitant sums in order to get their annual fix of sun, sea, and haute cuisine. However, imagine the crisis if one such sumptuous place was double booked. Worse - imagine it triple booked! By a French couple, an english couple, and heaven forbid, an Irish/American couple. Marriages have foundered on less. add the ingredients of copious champagne, heightened sexual impulses, and ingrained cultural differences, and the european Union could well implode!

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1st Produced:
Mill at sonning Dinner theater    Oct 2007

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Comedy

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Old Devils, The

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A television celebrity returns with his wife to his Welsh home town. they meet all their old friend. the husband decides to take the male friends on a gigantic pub crawl around Wales

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Based on the book "the Old Devils" by Kingsley Amis

1st Produced:
Theatr Clwyd - Mold    1989

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Adaptation

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Perfect Wedding

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Perfect Wedding is a hilarious bedroom farce about a bridegroom who wakes up on his wedding morning in his honeymoon suite to find a gorgeous-and naked-girl in bed beside him! In post-bachelor party hangover, he can't remotely remember her, and the bride is about to arrive at any moment. the chaos that ensues reaches nuclear proportions, creating a play that is both riotous comedy and touching love story
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Genre:
Farce

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Revenge

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1st Produced:
Redgrave Farnham    1991

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Secret, The

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directed by Braham Murray

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Kings Lynn Festival    1965

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Shady Business

Shady Business
Mandy and Tania are sexy but struggling nightclub dancers living in the heart of London's Soho nightlife, and they face a crisis. Will possessive club owner Big Mack find out about Mandy's affair with Gerry and set his sidekicks on them? Will he discover that he is owed money that was borrowed from the club's till, gambled and lost on the club's roulette table and then stolen from the day's take? Will Gerry be discovered hiding in Mandy's bathroom? Will Terry be caught delivering dinner? Will Terry reveal that he is really Gerry and that Gerry is Terry? Will anyone figure out what is going on, and will they all survive until the curtain comes down? the action doesn't slow down from beginning to end in this madcap comedy by the author of Don't Dress for Dinner and Perfect Wedding.

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Samuel French, London >>>   978-0-57362257-1

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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