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Mick Martin

MICK MARTIN

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Blake Friedmann  represented by Christine Glover

Mick Martin is working on a number of film and TV projects with director Marc Evans and Billy Elliott producer Jon Finn, and has just been commissioned by ITV to write the television adaptation of the Radio 4 show A SMALL TOWN MURDER, starring Meera Syal. Previous commissions include HARD KNOCKS, an original six part television series set in his native Bradford, for ITV Studios, and a police drama entitled BILATHI COP for the BBC. Mick also wrote episodes of BALLYKISSANGEL for World Productions.

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         Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape         Boat and the Ride         Broken Time         Cars in Water Quartet, The         Cars in Water Quintet, The         Celestial Crap         Cobbler's Last         Deep Sea Fish, The         England, Arise!         Flame-Haired Dynamo, The         Frog Man, The         Game For Johnno         Grammar School Girl's Lament         Hansel and Gretel         Immigrant Song, The         Life And Times Of Young Bob Scallion, The         Mosaics         On a Stone Bridge         Once Upon A Time In Wigan         Salesman's First, The         Stepper Joe's Wicked Beat         Ubu In Gloucestershire         Weekend in England, A         When Johnnie Comes Marching Home         Worlds Apart

Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape

Synopsis:
Short verse plays about life in Yorkshire. Includes The Cobbler's Last, The Salesman's First, The Boat and the Ride, The Grammar School Girl's Lament.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Wimbledon Studio, London    35835

Organisations:
Millstream Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Four Verse Plays

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Boat and the Ride

Synopsis:
verse play about life in Yorkshire

Notes:
part of "Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape"

1st Produced:
Wimbledon Studio, London    35835

Organisations:
Millstream Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
verse play

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Broken Time

Synopsis:
Broken hearts, broken bones and broken promises, the battle for rugby's soul is about to begin! Divided by class and united by passion; Broken Time is a gripping portrayal of how Rugby League burst painfully into life - a compelling story of one man's obsession with the spirit of amateurism and another man's determination to win at all costs. Set against the maelstrom of late nineteenth century industrial strife, this resonantly modern clash leaves a rugby star, the Beckham of his day, an unwitting pawn in a ferocious battle for control of a game. Sparkling with wit, sweat-soaked with passion Broken Time is an action packed epic on an industrial scale! With inspiration from SKY commentator and rugby league world cup winner Mike Stephenson and Professor Tony Collins, author of 1895 And All That, Mick Martin's play pays tribute to those who sacrificed everything for the future of their game.

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Organisations:
Three Stones Media

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Play/Drama

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Cars in Water Quartet, The

Synopsis:
Four lyrical stories telling of ordinary people struggling in extraordinary circumstances

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Organisations:
Nemesis Theatre Company

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Genre:
four stories

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Cars in Water Quintet, The

Synopsis:
A series of interwoven tales based on ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

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Genre:
stories

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Celestial Crap

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal (Le Ciel et La Merde)

1st Produced:
Arts Centre, University of warwick    1974

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Genre:
Translation

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Cobbler's Last

Synopsis:
verse play about life in Yorkshire

Notes:
part of "Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape"

1st Produced:
Wimbledon Studio, London    35835

Organisations:
Millstream Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
verse play

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Deep Sea Fish, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from der Tiefseeflsch by Marieluise Fleisser

1st Produced:
-    1981

Organisations:
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Genre:
Translation

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England, Arise!

Synopsis:
An uplifting and powerful story about the young men and women of Huddersfield who believed passionately in a better world. Motivated by the revolutionary art, music and literature of the times, they refuse to take arms against their fellow workers and fight in the First World War.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Huddersfield: Lawrence Batley Theatre    24 Oct 2014

Organisations:
Bent architect

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Flame-Haired Dynamo, The

Flame-Haired Dynamo, The
Go on, Titch; hit it! We're in injury time, and the chairman's dying wish was to win that cup. . . . . .GOOOOOOAAAAAAAAL!' When Chris McCann was thirteen his world seemed to be falling apart. His parents were splitting up, his granddad ill, and girls were a total mystery. . . but there was one man he could rely on to always be there - his favourite comic character, Titch McCreavie, aka the Flame-Haired Dynamo! Titch was constant; dependable. He never changed. Now Chris is fat, fed-up and forty-five. His kids don't understand him, his boss doesn't want to know  and his wife's at her wit's end. Rather than chuck himself off the Humber Bridge, however, he turns to the old Christmas annuals, the old stories. . . and Titch. But what if the stories started to change? What if Titch McCreavie's world of perfect goals, flared jeans and fondue parties suddenly became more than ink and paper?

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Genre:
Christmas Show

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Frog Man, The

Synopsis:
Kenny is a police frogman. He has fantasies about being a frog. He lives with Kelly his childhood sweetheart. there are flashbacks to when they were younger - such as the time they tormented Adrian because he was smelly.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival    2006

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Genre:
Drama

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Game For Johnno

Synopsis:
A macabre diversion is evolved by three adolescents in a punitive institution who find themselves unable to cope with the consequences

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Grammar School Girl's Lament

Synopsis:
verse play about life in Yorkshire

Notes:
part of "Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape"

1st Produced:
Wimbledon Studio, London    35835

Organisations:
Millstream Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
verse play

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Hansel and Gretel

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Genre:
TYA

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Immigrant Song, The

Synopsis:
Charts the trials and tribulations of a Pakistani family and an Irish family from their respective homelands in 1947 to living opposite each other in modern day Bradford.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Mainbrace

1st Published:
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Music:
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Life And Times Of Young Bob Scallion, The

Synopsis:
This play is a lollop through the mis-spent youth of playwright Mick Martin's central character. the name Scallion is resonant of scallywag and rapscallion. Young Bob is both of these. He is also bemused, lets life happen to him and is really rather thick.

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Organisations:
Mainbrace

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Mosaics

Synopsis:
A young man tries to come to terms with the guilt he feels at the death of his father.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1979

Organisations:
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Music:
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On a Stone Bridge

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ramshorn Theatre - Glasgow    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Once Upon A Time In Wigan

Synopsis:
the story of the clapped out ballroom, Wigan Casino, that became for eight years from 1973, the home of northern soul, and of some of the greatest all-night disco parties in the history of British pop.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Urban expansions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Salesman's First, The

Synopsis:
verse play about life in Yorkshire

Notes:
part of "Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape"

1st Produced:
Wimbledon Studio, London    35835

Organisations:
Millstream Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
verse play

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Stepper Joe's Wicked Beat

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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Organisations:
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Music:
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Play/Drama

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Ubu In Gloucestershire

Synopsis:
about a nasty man based on Jarry's trilogy

Notes:
written with others

1st Produced:
Cheltenham Arts Centre    1979

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Satire

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Weekend in England, A

Synopsis:
In Douglas and Philpa's house everything is suitably stylish and awfully Ikea. Douglas, a prominent local councillor, has his sights set on higher things, though his wife has slightly more unorthodox plans for raising the readies to keep them in the style to which they have become accustomed. All might have gone to plan were it not for the Hairy Canary Tribe who are squatting in the house next door. Sledge and Darius are eco-warriors whose alternative lifestyle is upset when Philipa is forced to go underground and become the third member of the Hairy Canaries. But is anyone who they really seem in this hilarious comedy of 90's Britain.

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Organisations:
Hull Truck

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When Johnnie Comes Marching Home

Synopsis:
concerns the return home of a young soldier after 3 years in Belfast

Notes:
winner of the john Birkhead Memorial prize for playwriting

1st Produced:
Bampton Arts centre for W. Oxfordshire Arts Association    1980

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Worlds Apart

Synopsis:
Sam is a normal 14 year old girl, with a gang of regular mates. But her family is special - they live together but exist quite separately. Worlds Apart is a beautifully touching, extraordinary new play about Sam, her family and her young half-brother, Adam, who to her is utterly normal, but to the rest of the world is utterly autistic.

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Organisations:
Red ladder

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