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NICK HOGARTH (1945 - )
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Nick Hogarth formerly worked under the name Michael Bath. Educated: Manchester University; studied Drama under Stephen Joseph and Hugh Hunt. 1969-71: Editor, New Theatre Magazine. 1971-1973: Editor, Preview Magazine, Bristol. 1973-1979: Journalist, Western Daily Press. 1980-2005: News Producer, BBC Radio Kent. 1985, co-founder Dual Control Theatre Company (later Dual Control International). From then, maintained dual careers in radio and theatre. Radio includes: 1990-1995: directed six Radio Kent plays, including his own Human Conflict with Peter Cushing (1990) and Canterbury at War, which won a Sony award (1993). On Radio 4, directed Michael Hordern in Seventy Years a Showman and Maxine audley in Three Weeks (1992). Co-produced Radio Kent's breakfast programme, which won Silver Gillard award, 2003, and Gold Gillard award (2004). Theatre includes: 1985-2004:artistic Director, Dual Control International. 1987. Wrote South East Arts report on theatre in Lille, where he discovered Bleu d'Ecailles, which Dual Control toured twice (1990-1991). Translated several Continental children's plays. 1992: Directed Judi Dench in recorded narration of Mowgli-L'Enfant-Loup. 1999-2004: Worked with Chisinau National Opera on Tosca, MAdama Butterfly, aida, Nabucco and other operas, and with the National Opera of Odessa on La Traviata, The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto and MAdama Butterfly, which were toured by Dual Control/Opera and Ballet International to major theatres thropughout the UK. 2002: Directed Carmen, which was toured four times nationally. 2004: Directed aida for national tour. (Liverpool Evening Post Opera award). Sometimes works under the name Nick Hogarth.
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Black Nightingale Grimaldi Mother Seacole Noah's Flood And The Second Shepherds' Pageant Ouch! Vox Pop VictoriaBlack Nightingale
Synopsis:
Based on The Wonderful adventures of Mary Seacole in Many Lands by the African-Caribbean heroine of the Crimean War Mary Seacole. She tries to become one of Florence Nightingale's nurses, but is rejected. Instead, she sets up the British Hotel in the Crimea, where she serves officers and men with food and other products. She goes onto the battlefield to nurse the wounded and dying; and she is the first woman to enter Sebastapol after its Siege. When war ends, she is bankrupted, but returns to London a national hero. Following Queen Victoria's intervention, a public subscription is opened for her; she is rescued from bankruptcy and given a pension.
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Music by Colin Sell, designs by Ralph Steadman. Production Also toured UK. Could be produced with larger cast, As the original production included much doubling.
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Dual Control
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Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageGrimaldi
Synopsis:
Based on The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Charles Dickens. Biographical play, in which Dickens and Grimaldi (who in real life did not meet) act out Grimaldi's life story.
Notes:
Toured twice (1986-7). Season At the Old Red Lion, London. Part-performed At Covent Garden in 1987 to mark the 150th Anniversary of Grimaldi's death.
1st Produced:
Epsom Playhouse 1986
Organisations:
Dual Control
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageMother Seacole
Synopsis:
The African-Caribbean nurse Mary Seacole wants to join Florence Nightingale's nurses but is rejected, so she goes to the Crimea anyway and goes out onto the battlefield where she tends the wounded and even serves tea amid the fighting. She sets up the British Hotel, but is bankrupted by peace. Returning to London, she finds herself a heroine and is rescued from poverty by a campaign on her behalf, launched by Queen Victoria. Based on Mary Seacole's autobiography The Wonderful adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands.
Notes:
Performed As A community play. The numbers in the cast Are An Approximation; several parts may be doubled And some may be played by either sex.
1st Produced:
Ethelburga Community Centre 2007
Organisations:
Theatre 503/Ethelburga Residents' association
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Male: 22 Female: 10 Other: 2
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Top of PageNoah's Flood And The Second Shepherds' Pageant
Synopsis:
Noah is adapted from the Wakefield and Chester Mystery Cycles. The Second Shepherds' Pageant is from the Wakefield Mystery Cycle. They follow the Biblical stories, with the addition of conflict between Noah and his wife; the Second Shepherds' Pageant includes a parody of the Nativity in which Mak the Sheepstealer tries to pass of a lamb as a child.
Notes:
These plays make up A full evening's entertainment. Small Amount of singing. Translated into prose.
1st Produced:
Rochester Cathedral 1996
Organisations:
Medway Little Theatre
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Genre:
translation & adaptation double bill Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 12 Female: 7 Other: children as animals
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Top of PageOuch!
Synopsis:
all is peaceful in Ouchville, home of the characters from a 50s comic called Ouch!, except that everyone is terrified of a child called The Brat. The Swot dresses as The Brat, is rejected by her own Swotgang and thrown out by her parents. The Zonkgang, from the rival comic Zonk, arrive in Ouchville to kidnap the Brat because her adventures are so popular that the children all read Ouch! not Zonk! They kidnap the Swot instead. In a battle, the Bratgang release the Swot, but beat up their editor by mistake.
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Most parts can be played by either sex. Music by Colin Sell, designs by Ralph Steadman. Intended to be performed by senior schoolchildren to Audiences of junior schoolchildren. Written As part of A youth Arts campaign organised by TVS. Toured to other venues And revived in October At the Gulkbenkian Theatre in Canterbury And At the Theatre La Fontaine in Lille, France, As the first Arts exchange between the Nord Pas de Calais And Kent, following the signing of A cultural Agreeent between the two Areas. Dur: 45"-55"
1st Produced:
The Barn, allington Castle, near Maidstone 1988
Organisations:
Dual Control
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Genre:
childrens Musical
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 16 Other: -
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Top of PageVox Pop Victoria
Synopsis:
Based on London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew, a series of interviews with street-sellers, street performers and other poor people of Victorian London.
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Could be performed by up to 50 people. Also toured the UK twice 1985-6.
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Dual Control
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Genre:
entertainment Show
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Male: - Female: 2 Other: -
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