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Tim Luscombe

TIM LUSCOMBE

  (1960 - )
Nationality:    British
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Tim Luscombe has written plays that have been produced in the West End, including EuroVision (Drill Hall & Vaudeville) and The One You Love (Royal Court & Barracke, Berlin), as well as The Death of Gogol and the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest (Drill Hall), The Schuman Plan (Hampstead), Hungry Ghosts (Orange Tree), and adaptations of Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Mansfield Park which have played all over the UK and toured. Recently, Tim has written plays for RADA (The Quickest Light), Mountview (Kimalia) and LAMDA (The Second World). He's currently working on a new play for LAMDA and a musical. He originally trained as a director at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the 1980s, and his directing credits include: The Merchant of Venice & Volpone (Lyric Hammersmith & World Tour), Artist Descending A Staircase (Helen Hayes New York & Duke of York's London), When She Danced (Kings Head London & Playwrights' Horizons New York & RADA), Easy Virtue (Garrick), Snow Orchid and Salvation (both at the Gate London), The Browning Version & Harlequinade (Royalty) and Intimate Exchanges (Stephen Joseph in Scarborough & 59E59 New York).

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         Amateur Rites         Bubi Doll - the Education of Adolf H         Death Of Gogol And the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, The         Dirty Shorts         Douze Points!         Emma         Eurovision         Fairyland (re-written as The Quickest Light)         God's Daughter         Hungry Ghosts         Mansfield Park         Map Of the Region, A         Naked Joke, The         Northanger Abbey         One You Love, The         Persuasion         Pig         Quickest Light, The         Richer Dust, A         Schuman Plan, The         Second World, The         Silas Marner - the Immigrant         Stay

Amateur Rites

Synopsis:
a fast-paced, hilarious comedy of modern manners - set in a Home Counties community centre. What could be more unsurprising than a suburban amDram company staging a Jane austen adaptation? But the ambitions and neuroses of the members of Pogchurch Valley amateur Dramatic Society come to a perilous and uproarious climax in the white heat of the rehearsal process for their production of Northanger abbey. alternately laugh-out-loud-funny and tender, this is a Stepping Out for the twenty first century.

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Comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Bubi Doll - the Education of Adolf H

Synopsis:
Blending queer fantasy and taut historical investigation, 'the Education of Hitler' provocatively asks, 'What if Hitler had in fact been hiding his true sexuality - and was gay?' From this audacious starting point, Tim Luscombe's darkly comic new play is a breathtaking exploration of power, politics, violence, gay sexuality, and what it means to be a man in the twentieth century.

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East 15 Acting School - East 15 BA & MFA Acting showcases as "The Education of Hitler"

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Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Death Of Gogol And the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, The

Synopsis:
Stuart has written a book about Gogol. Now all he has to do is post it. Held back by fantasies and trapped by agoraphobia, Stuart's problems compound one another. Lenny, the sweet but ruthless singer-songwriter from the Netherlands, leads him constantly back towards the 1969 eurovision Song Contest, where Laurita Venezuela, the cheeky and sexy Spanish TV hostess, is waiting for him. Possessed and pursued by the spirits of Gogol and some of his characters, including aksenty, hero of Dairy of a Madman, Stuart faces an uncertain future. . .

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Drill Hall, London >>>     18 May 2005

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Genre:
Musical Comedy Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, musical

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 0638

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Dirty Shorts

Synopsis:
This is a collection of short plays. Some deal with cotemporary situations. Some are timeless. Some are 'funny and smart'. Some are 'scary and sick and wonderful'. Some shock, some move you. Overall they're 'disturbing and delicious'.

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Collection of short plays. - - Gay, one acts

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Male:  at least 3            Female:  at least 2            Other:  Could be played by up to 29 actors

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Douze Points!

Synopsis:
Kevin loves Paul and Anna. Paul loves Anna. Anna used to love Paul. Paul is struggling to establish his career as a singer. His main problem is that he only wants to sing Eurovision songs - in their original language. A Mamma Mia style juke-box musical using Eurovision music to tell a love story set in London and Paris. 20 iconic Eurovision favourites tell the story of Paul's efforts to pursue his dream to fame, and what he has to sacrifice along the way to get it. A witty and fast-paced piece of musical theatre that manages to be a celebration of Eurovision and at the same time tell a love story with the inevitable happy ending.

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  band

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Emma

Synopsis:
Emma, 21, bright and beautiful, is an imaginist. Devoutly convinced that she'll never marry, she lives to marry off everyone else. When we meet her, she's putting all her efforts into getting her young friend Harriet Smith partnered to the handsome but ghastly vicar, Mr Elton. Hearing that Emma has no intention to marry, Mr Frank Churchill becomes intrigued and begins to pay her attentions, complicating Emma's plans horribly, while Emma's friendship with Mr Knightley provides her with plenty of wit and warmth. Will she realise that Mr Churchill's intentions are not straightforward? Will her schemes for Harriet's future make her the architect of her own downfall? Will Mr Knightley ever get his girl? This stage adaptation locates the action in early 19th century Epsom, a village 16 miles from London. It's seen brighter days as a successful spa town and is now home to a society of gossiping women with little do but make matches and mischief.

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1st Produced:
Leatherhead Theatre     25 may 2017

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The Production Exchange

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Genre:
Adaptation, Period Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Eurovision

Synopsis:
Gary, box office clerk, is a eurovision freak. Kevin, air steward and Gary's best friend, is a eurovision cynic. Gary takes them both off to Rome to see the eurovision Song Contest itself. Kevin's resistance is tempered by the idea of a weekend in Rome and the possibility of meeting some hot men. In Rome, and armed with journalist's access-all-areas passes that Gary has stolen, they meet Katia europa, the nervous and histrionic hostess of the contest, and, through her, several of the wild and wacky european entries. Not to mention the ghosts of the emperor Hadrian and his lover antinous. Oh, and the Spirit of europe itself! a madcap, crazy farce involving gay men and gay ghosts and mostly set backstage at the eurovision Song Contest. [Music by Jason Carr]

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the London Gay Theatre Co

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  9            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XII (1992) Page 0650; http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XIII (1993) Page 1308

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Fairyland (re-written as The Quickest Light)

Synopsis:
Fairyland tells the story of Sir Walter Raleigh's attempt to bring back the gold from 'Guiana' (present day Venezuela). Incarcerated for treason by James I, Raleigh promised the King that he knew where the gold lay and could bring him back enough to pay off his debts and get him out from under the boot of Spain. But Raleigh didn't know, and returned to england to face certain death. Why did he come back? Loyalty? Family? Duty? Home? Did he possibly think he could talk his way out of it?

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Written for 13 2nd year students At RADA 2012. Fairyland has been renamed The Quickest Light.

1st Produced:
Gielgud Theatre, Rada, London     01 Feb 2012

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RADA

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Drama

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Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

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God's Daughter

Synopsis:
Annie Besant, a Nineteenth Century Anglo-Irish Londoner, is driven to change the world. A devout Christian, she marries Frank a vicar, only to discover he likes hitting her. Losing her faith in marriage, she leaves Frank and, when her two-year-old daughter, Mabel, nearly dies of TB, she loses her faith in God too. A newly-born atheist, she joins the Free Thought movement and begins her lecturing career. Seeing more opportunities for action in socialism, and after meeting George Bernard Shaw, Annie leaves the Free Thought movement for the socialist cause. Through direct action, strikes, campaigning, lecturing and pamphleteering, Annie does indeed change the world, but when Frank sues for custody of Mabel (on the grounds that Annie is an unfit mother, being a socialist campaigner) she turns back to spirituality and in particular Theosophy. Moving to India, to lead the Indian Independence Movement, Annie becomes a megalomaniacal tyrant. Then Gandhi steps into her life.

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Genre:
Historical Drama about Annie Besant

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Hungry Ghosts

Synopsis:
Top British racing driver Tyler Jones arrives in Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix. His life is airports, hotels, racetracks, corporate events and brolly dollies. For Tyler, Shanghai is no different from Bahrain or Melbourne. He's happy to toe the corporate party line as long as he can do what he lives to do: race cars. But when he meets and falls for Chinese dissident Pin-de, their worlds collide. Racing ambition seems suddenly futile set against Pin-de's struggle for survival in authoritarian China. How can he square his newfound awareness about the reality of life and death in China, and help Pin-de, without losing everything he has?

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXX (2010) Page 1290

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Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park
there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.' Unceremoniously uprooted from her humble family home, intelligent young Fanny Price is dropped into the bustling, aristocratic household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, where she finds herself buffeted from one crisis to the next. Yet, throughout this turmoil one thing remains a constant  her love for the generous, worthy and steadfast edmund Bertram. But will this love be her salvation? Or will she be forced to marry the charismatic Henry Crawford for connections and wealth alone?

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from novel by Jane Austen

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Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849434843

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Map Of the Region, A

Synopsis:
the Baltics in the late 1980s. When Piret's husband, Mihkel, is taken by the security forces, she starts to uncover his political connections. She's torn between her desire to get involved in the underground work in which he was involved and her desire to look after her teenage son and increasingly senile mother. after a night out, Piret unwisely invites a Russian home with her. the next morning he refuses to leave. as their individual stories unwind, the history of the european fight for freedom in 1989 is told, and a map of the geography of this complex region is drawn. Interweaving with Piret's story is that of Tonu, her son. Now aged 33, he is faced with the new realpolitik of the Baltic States - from the presence of the Russian Mafia to the challenges faced in the pursuit of individual freedom.

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shortlist for Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2011

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Naked Joke, The

Synopsis:
a hilarious and moving gay re-imagining of Chekhov's Three Sisters. a large, old house in the Lake District. Three out-of-fashion gay performers have gone to a gay artistic commune in Cumbria to lick their wounds after failing to come up with a follow up to their Off-Broadway hit 'Naked Men Telling Jokes'. there they meet a bunch of weary BBC actors on location work. the motivations Chekhov's characters have for theorising, yearning for the unattainable and ignoring each other, find precise parallels for gay under-employed actors with addiction issues or new age bents and spiritual yearnings; men who love their profession and the idea of success more than each other, and who pontificate about their impact on the future, while remaining childless. the play seems to be particularly current through some of the characters' sense of imminent global meltdown, and the alternative ways to avert the situation, ranging from organic farming to high-speed spiritual evolution. By bringing Chekhov's play into the twenty-first century, the comedic aspect shines brightly.

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  11            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland, who comes from the comfortable family of a village clergyman, is invited to Bath for the season by her wealthy friends, Mr. and Mrs. allen. In Bath she meets the Thorpes, IsabElla and her persistent brother John. IsabElla encourages Catherine's interest in romantic fantasies and "horrid" fictions. Until Mr Henry Tilney comes along. a rare gem: a shrewd psychological exploration of morals and motives, and a sensational glimpse of a colourful and dangerous lost word.

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from novel by Jane Austem

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Theatre Royal, York     24 May 2004

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Genre:
comedy Drama adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  Playable from cast size of 8 - 80

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 0730; http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVII (2007) Page 1020

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One You Love, The

Synopsis:
Your stomach is so precious. I love damaging it. even on the outside it looks delicate. White skin. Like a child's. Milky bag holding in your entrails; a poem wrapped round an explosion. What's it like inside? It's so vulnerable. But you'll let me pummel you. You'll yield and take it. I don't want to lose you. It's about wanting it, dying for it, getting it, living with it.

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Play/Drama. - - AIDS, full length

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Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Persuasion

Persuasion
Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with a handsome young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, at the age of nineteen. But because he had neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, anne's mentor and friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her to break off the engagement. eight years later, anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Frederick  and when he returns from sea a Captain, she can only watch as every eligible young woman falls at his feet. Can the pair rekindle a love that was lost but not forgotten?

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from novel by Jane Austen

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849431934

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adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXXI (2011) Page 1210

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Pig

Synopsis:
Taylor and Luc chat each other up on the Internet. Stevie and Joe tie the knot in a Civil Partnership. Pig and Knife are two rent boys who specialise in S/M. the tree stories interweave and coalesce. Who is who? Who is telling whose story? What is real and what is fantasy? a dark Drama about fantasy and death wish, bug chasing and gift giving, sexual violence and violent sex.

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Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Toronto     14 Sep 2013

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Play/Drama. - - AIDS, full length

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Quickest Light, The

Synopsis:
Walter Ralegh marries Bess. As a result, they're both banished from Queen Elizabeth's court. Robert Cecil plots against Walter, and King James persecutes him, driving him to undertake 'ignoble deeds'. He lands in the Tower, found guilty of treason against James. Despite this, a friendship grows with James' wife, Queen Anna, and Prince Henry, the heir to the throne, but Walter's dream of gold and freedom becomes less and less achievable, while his marriage comes under increasing strain. The only hope is to get out of the Tower and sail to El Dorado where the gold is. That will solve everything. The Quickest Light is a fast paced historical tale that examines love, family, duty and home.

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The Quickest Light was originally produced as "Fairyland"

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Drama

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Richer Dust, A

Synopsis:
Los Angeles, 1940. Movie star couple Morgan Kent and Lenore Fingal live in alcohol- and sun-soaked luxury in the Hollywood Hills. But when Morgan's sailor-brother Sid arrives uninvited, Morgan's life is turned on its head. Sid's on leave. He's humble, loving, good-humoured, and fighting for Britain. He unwittingly brings with him all the stories about Morgan's ignoble origins, for Morgan Kent is really Leslie Booker from Southsea. Lenore revels in the ammunition this gives her against her husband, with whom she has become less and less enchanted. Good-looking and good with women, Morgan (Les)'s life, until Sid's visit, was full of enchantment - a handsome face, broad shoulders and luck swiftly raising him to fame and fortune - but he's always been aware that he's lucky whereas Sid is actually good. When a seductive gossip columnist traps Sid into dishing the dirt, Les' career, along with his piece of mind, is under attack. Away from gilded, make-believe Hollywood, Sid boldly continues to protect democracy and save the Empire, while Morgan is reduced to making movies about it. His guilt is so great, he becomes ill. His publicist works overtime to salvage the situation and make the best of his star's declining fortunes. While Lenore sues for divorce, a final family reunion back in Southsea rams home the difference between the two men, and provokes the final humiliation for Morgan.

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an adaptation of Noel Coward's short story A Richer Dust

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Genre:
one act play

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  The play can be performed by more than 5 actors, as there are twice that many characters.

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Schuman Plan, The

Schuman Plan, The
1970. Bill's believes in europe, works for Ted Heath and is in love with the girl from the Ministry. What could possibly go wrong? the Schuman Plan is named after the French foreign minister who began the process of Union in europe. the play moves deftly through the history of post-war Britain, via the story of Bill, constantly rooting itself in the ordinary lives of its citizens, showing how the personal is almost always political, and vice versa.

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Hampstead Theatre, London >>>     02 Feb 2006

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVI (2006) Page 0131

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Second World, The

Synopsis:
1989. the Trade Union Solidarity changes the face of politics in Poland, the peace movement challenges old communism in east Germany, in Hungary they're tearing down the electric fence which separates them from austria. But in Romania nothing shifts. Ceausescu is re-elected supreme leader and speaks to his people, receiving thirty-four 'spontaneous' standing ovations. But Toma has a plan. If he can outwit the Securitate and keep his girlfriend onside, he believes he can change the world.

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Written for the leaving post-grad students At LaMDa 2012

1st Produced:
Lindbury Studio, Lamda     01 Jul 2012

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Lamda

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  10            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Silas Marner - the Immigrant

Synopsis:
At the beginning of the Nineteenth Century in Manchester, Silas is framed for stealing the church funds. Proclaimed guilty, and heartbroken after his fiancee's rejection of him, he leaves home behind, and heads south to the Midlands. He lives as a linen weaver and a recluse, hoarding the gold coins he earns, only to have them stolen from him. One night, a child, abandoned by her dying, opium-addicted mother in the snow, wanders into Silas' house. Deciding to keep the child, his life completely alters. He's been robbed of his gold, but it's returned to him in the form of golden-haired Eppie. However, when Eppie grows to be a teenager, a fight for paternity ensues between the rich local landowner and Silas. She chooses Silas over wealth and privilege, and helps him integrate into village society. Never able to clear up the details of the initial robbery, caring for Eppie provides joy for her, for Silas and everyone in the village. This adaptation of George Eliot's third novel is a sophisticated examination of migration, community, religion, class and money - and of one man's value and morality.

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based on 'silas Marner - the Weaver of Raveloe' by George Eliot

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Stay

Synopsis:
Asylum claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity have been recognised in the UK since 1999. However, having the right to seek refugee status, and actually gaining asylum on this basis, have proved to be two very different things. Through farcical comedy and hard-hitting raw conflict, Stay pitches Ade, a Karundian refugee, against Vincent, the border guard with a prejudice. This urgent, contemporary tale exposes the endemic corruption and prejudice at the heart of the Home Office's immigration strategy, and aims to question all of our attitudes to race, gender and nationality.

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1st Produced:
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London     01 Jan 2013

Organisations:
Commissioned by Mountview Theatre School

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