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Peter Kerry

PETER KERRY

  (1964 - )
Nationality:    English
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    David Higham Associates Ltd  represented by Nicky Lund

Peter Kerry's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Banal Encounter         Great War, A         Icarus Descending         Just Sayin'         Mammon Calling         My Poor Fool Is Hang'd         Quickfire         Triptych         Truncheons And Blackberries         Zeros And Ones
Banal Encounter

Synopsis:
two commuters on a railway station

Notes:
part of B Shorts 2, Another mini-festival of short plays by TV writers

1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks Pub, Manchester     06 Oct 2009

Organisations:
Real Life Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Great War, A

Synopsis:
August 1914. And it's War! How will 'steam News' cope with the triumphs and disasters?

Notes:
Written by Peter Kerry & James Quinn. Part of JB Shorts 11 an evening of six more bite-sized 15 minute World Premieres by Top TV Writers

1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, 106 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6Ng     01 Apr 2014

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Icarus Descending

Synopsis:
whisks us back to Vienna in 1787 to where Beethoven travelled in the hope of studying with Mozart. It is not known whether the two men metBeethoven returned home to Bonn after two weeks as his mother was illbut the play imagines the young composer arriving at the Maestro's house where he is regarded with contempt. However Constanza, Mozart's wife, insists that they need the money that a new pupil will bring. - http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/jb-shorts-10-joshua-brooks-9617

Notes:
part of JB Shorts 10

1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, Manchester     01 Nov 2013

Organisations:
Reallife Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min play

Parts:
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Just Sayin'

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Written with James Quinn

1st Produced:
53two, Manchester     Nov 2017

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mammon Calling

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of JB Shorts One

1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, Manchester     24 Mar 2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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My Poor Fool Is Hang'd

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of JB Shorts Five

1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, Manchester     01 Mar 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min play

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Quickfire

Synopsis:
a big-time stand-up comedienne with a big chip on the shoulder, now he's going to see just how far he can pushes material.

Notes:
part of JB Shorts

1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, Manchester     23/2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Triptych

Synopsis:
a reporter on a road paved with good intentions. We all know where that leads

Notes:
part of JB Shorts 6

1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, Manchester     11 Oct 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min play

Parts:
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Truncheons And Blackberries

Synopsis:
looked at the issue of arming the police. It was a farce where what Hitchcock would have called the McGuffin or motivating factor was that there was a gun in the police station which had to be concealed at all costs from the senior woman Deputy Chief Constable and a subsequent woman journalist
- andrew Edwards, British theatre Guide

Notes:
Part of: JB Shorts 3 is the third in An ongoing series of short plays which take place in the Joshua Brooks pub in central Manchester. It Attracts top local Actors And writers, many of whom have cut their writing teeth in television And, in particular, in soap operas. This batch of six is made up of comedies of which some have A more Dramatic premise but All of which evoked much laughter from the packed cellar bar which has been transformed into A tiny playing Area. there is minimal staging but Adroit use of Appropriate props.

1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks Pub, Manchester     01 Mar 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
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Zeros And Ones

Synopsis:
Life as we know it. Alan's mad as hell and he can't take it anymore. . .

Notes:
Part of JB Shorts 9

1st Produced:
Manchester: Joshua Brooks     12 Mar 2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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