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David Lan

DAVID LAN  (1952 - )

 Nationality:    South African and British
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Literary Agent:    Judy Daish Associates Ltd  

David Lan was born in Cape Town where he trained as an actor. He moved to London in 1972, and has been artistic director of the Young Vic since 2000. He won an Olivier award for the 2004 Young Vic season. Other awards include the John Whiting award, the George Orwell award and the Zurich International TV Prize.

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         Bird Child         Chain Play, The         Cherry Orchard, The         Desire         Ends Of the Earth, The         Flight         Ghetto         Hippolytos         Homage To Been Soup         Ion         La Lupa         Mouthful Of Birds, A         Not In Norwich         Painting A Wall         Paradise         Red Earth         Sereant Ola And His Followers         She Wolf         Tobias And the Angel         Uncle Vanya         Winter Dancers, The

Bird Child

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1st Produced:
London    1974

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Chain Play, The

Synopsis:
One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National theatre's 25th anniversary. a scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night

Notes:
Written By Terry Johnson, Philip Ridley, Charlotte Jones, Lee Hall, Sebastian Barry, Zinnie Harris, Kevin elyot, Nick Dear, Tanika Gupta, Frank McGuinness, Nick Stafford, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Teevan, Patrick Marber, David Lan, Sarah Daniels, Martin She

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Conceived and commissioned by angus Mackenchnie

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Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Cherry Orchard, The

Synopsis:
by the end, as the extended family of Madame Ranaveskaya tearfully depart the ancestral home and the axes begin to fall on the beloved cherry orchard they've been forced to sell, tragedy is the overriding feeling.
Ben Sloan, Metro London

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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Royal National Theatre Company

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Samuel French, London,    -

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adaptation

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Desire

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in Desire and Other Plays", Faber, London, 1990   -

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Ends Of the Earth, The

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Faber and Faber, London, 1996   -

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Flight

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1st Produced:
Stratford-on-avon    1986

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Ghetto

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written with Jeremy Sams, play by Joshua Sobol

1st Produced:
London    1989

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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1989   -

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Hippolytos

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Original Playwright - euripides

1st Produced:
Almeida Theatre, London    1991

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1st Published:
almeida Theatre Scripts, London, 1991   -

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Translation

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Homage To Been Soup

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1st Produced:
London    1975

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Ion

Ion
A young man who had been a foundling meets the Queen of Athens. they have an instant rapport. the Queen tells how she was seduced by Apollo and became pregnant and had to abandon her baby son

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Original Playwright - Euripides. Music by Param Vir, lyrics by David Lan

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Almeida Aldeburgh Opera

1st Published:
Methuen 1994   978-0413693303

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adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  8            Other:  -

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La Lupa

Synopsis:
the piece concerns good, honest, in touch with the earth peasantry. mother, a daughter and their love hurtle towards tragedy in Verga''s passionate Italian Drama, first performed in 1894

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Original Playwright - Giovanni Verga

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100 min adaptation

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Mouthful Of Birds, A

Mouthful Of Birds, A
a collaborative piece written with David Lan, combining words and dance. Inspired by euripides' Bacchae, the play explores modern experiences of 'possession, violence and other states where people feel beside themselves' (Caryl Churchill, from her introduction to the published volume).

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written by Caryl Churchill And David Lan - Psychic Attack; Baron Sunday; Dancing; Pig; Herculine Barbin; Gold Shoes; Hot Summer

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Genre:
Dance Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  doubling (large cast possible)

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Not In Norwich

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1st Produced:
London    1977

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Painting A Wall

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Short political allegory. Four "Cape Coloured" men paint a wall: the conditions of labour in South Africa under apartheid. end of play, the walls painted

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1st Produced:
Almost Free Theatre, London    1974

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1st Published:
Pluto Press, London, 1979   -

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Paradise

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London    1975

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Red Earth

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1st Produced:
London    1978

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1st Published:
in "Plays 1", Methuen, London, 1999   -

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Sereant Ola And His Followers

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1st Produced:
London    1979

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She Wolf

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1st Produced:
Citizens' Stalls Studio - Glasgow    1995

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adaptation

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Tobias And the Angel

Synopsis:
at a time of turmoil, wise Tobit is struck blind. Suddenly penniless, he sends his son Tobias to reclaim an old debt. Tobias is afraid but a stranger arrives and offers to guide him . . . an orchestra, a company of singers, a choir and two choruses drawn from Lambeth and Southwark accompany Tobias across mountains towards love and self-knowledge in this joyous musical tale.

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Music by Jonathan Dove, libretto by David Lan

1st Produced:
Christ Church Highbury Fields, London    07 Jul 1999

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Genre:
Libretto

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  men and choruses

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Uncle Vanya

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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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Royal Shakespeare Company

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Genre:
translation

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Winter Dancers, The

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1st Produced:
London    1977

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1st Published:
in Desire and Other Plays", Faber, London, 1990   -

Music:
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