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CAMPBELL KAY
Nationality: British
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Campbell Kay is a poet, playwright, and theatre director who has spent most of his professional life working as an arts educationalist in comprehensive, grammar and independent schools and who, for several years, was Head of English, Drama and Communications at one of the largest sixth form colleges in England. The recipient of an Arts Council Writer's grant, and winner of the Winifred Riley Award for poetry, his poems have appeared in anthologies and literary magazines and been published in the collections Graffiti In A Narrow Room and The Waste Remains by Aquila! The Phaeton Press_ His most recent publication is Devils' Wine a collection of new and selected poems. He has performed his poetry at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as well as giving readings in colleges, community centres, libraries, pubs, schools and universities; and as a visiting poet, has participated in creative writing sessions at a maximum security prison. Campbell is available for poetry reading, please contact While a member of the Director's Guild of Great Britain, Campbell Kay directed over one hundred productions including musicals, music halls, operas, pantomimes, plays and revues . Amongst these productions were Abigail 's Party (Mike Leigh), A Doll's House (Ibsen), Agnes of God ( John Pielmeier), Can 't Pay, Wo n' t Pa)' (Dario Fo), Communicating Doors (Alan Ayckbourn). Dr Faustus ( Marlowe). Endgame(Samuel Beckett) The Dumb Waiter (Pinter), The Lesson (Ionesco), The Lion in Winter (James Goldman), The Pocket Dream (Elly Brewer and Sandy Toksvig), Rumours (Neil Simon), Sexual Perversity in Chicago (David Mamet), Skirmishes (Catherine Hayes), Straight and Narrow (Jimmy Chinn), Tons 01 Money (Evans, Valentine and Ayckbourn): Aladdin, Babes in the Wood, Cinderella; The Boy Friend (Sandy Wilson), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Lloyd Webber and Rice), Pal Joey (Rodgers and Hart) and Trial by Jury (Gilbert and Sullivan). He has also written over thirty full length and one act plays, many of which have been performed by youth and community drama groups Of his plays for the professional theatre, Phoenix Rising, which premiered at Nottingham Playhouse, has twice toured nationally and was presented at the 2011 Adelaide Festival, whilst Fatal Friendship and Divine Mountebank, both of which premiered at Nottingham Arts Theatre, have toured the midlands. A CD recording of Phoenix Rising directed by John Tams, was produced to accompany the 2011-12 tour and a film version Inside the Mind of Mr Lawrence directed by Armand Attard, was released in 2013.
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And My Poor Fool is Hang'd Charleston Follies Phoenix Rising: D. H. Lawrence - Son & LoverAnd My Poor Fool is Hang'd
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Here's a riddle! Take a Fool and a King - which one's the fool? If the king is Lear - the answer may seem obvious. A mixture of Shakespeare's King Lear, Nahum Tate's Restoration version and the old chronicle play King Lear, And My Poor Fool is Hang'd steps outside the familiar, tortured tale and lets Lear and the Fool view it as outsiders, considering the wisdom the story contains, while the Fool tries to lead Lear to a better understanding of himself.
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Top of PageCharleston Follies
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Specially written for the Arts Theatre by local playwright Campbell Kay, this 'all-new', 'all-singing', 'all-dancing' 1920's musical revue recaptures those halcyon days when hair was bobbed, flappers were unflappable and sizzling syncopation was the sound track of life. Featured as part of the programme is the world premier of the musical comedy 'Anyone for Tennis' which recounts the romantic tale of how Lydia Lovebody finds life long happiness with Nicky Pinkerton, a young man of great wealth but little intellect. With music by Richard Rodgers, Noel Coward and Cole Porter, it remains a mystery why this show was never produced in the era for which it was so clearly intended
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Top of PagePhoenix Rising: D. H. Lawrence - Son & Lover
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In 1928 D. H. Lawrence is a very ill man. as he presents the personalities and events which shaped his early years, a portrait emerges of a man able to view his life with a mixture of pathos and good humour not the serious persona implied in his writings nor the puritan sage of his biographers. at odds with his background and education, Lawrence was a man of song with a gift for mimicry and story-telling, who challenged the sexual traditions of his generation in works such as Lady Chatterley's Lover and Women in Love. Powerful, literary and moving, this is a colourful portrayal of an extraordinary artist at full throttle!
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Darlington Arts centre, Devon, UK 08 Sep 2011
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