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Nigel Moffatt

NIGEL MOFFATT

  (1954 - )
Nationality:    Jamaican
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Nigel began his writing career with poetry and songs which he performed in clubs in the West Midlands, where he still lives. He recorded PEACE LOVE & HARMONY with Paul Weller on his Respond Record label. He has been writer-in-residence at the National Theatre.

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

         Celebration         Lifetime         Mamma Decemba         Musical Youth         Niggers         Prime Time         Rhapsody 'n Black 'n White         Stop the Carnival         Tony         Walsall Boxed In
Celebration

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1st Produced:
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Lifetime

Synopsis:
Archie talks about his long and unhappy married life with the proud, controlling Marcy

Notes:
the script won A Giles Cooper Award As one of the best radio plays of 1987

1st Produced:
Bbc Radio 4     26 May 1987

Organisations:
BBC Radio

1st Published:
Methuen/BBC, 1988   

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Genre:
Dramatic monologue

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Mamma Decemba

Synopsis:
Mamma Decemba is a bittersweet play about an older Jamaican woman living in England who finds herself widowed, jobless, and deserted by her children. Her attempts to cope involving hauntingly honest, sometimes humorous and often painful reflections on her past, raising larger questions for all of us about the nature of life-long relationships

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1st Produced:
The Place, London     1986

Organisations:
Temba Theatre Company

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1987   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Musical Youth

Synopsis:
Nigel Moffatt's story of Birmingham's first boy band.

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Genre:
play with music

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Niggers

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NiggersA novella. It's origin is A one man stage play. And yes certainly polemic. If you require Anything specific please let me know. Personally I think it's the most important black work since Richard Wright's Native Son. But that's just my opinion.
Nigel Moffatt [member@moffatt75.freeserve.co.uk]

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1st Published:
Moffi Media, West Midlands. email moffimedia@mac.com, 2008   

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Genre:
Comedy

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Prime Time

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Rhapsody 'n Black 'n White

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1st Produced:
National Theatre Studio, London     1985

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Stop the Carnival

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1st Produced:
Cannon Hill Puppet Theatre     1991

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Tony

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1st Produced:
National Theatre Studio, London     1985

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Walsall Boxed In

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1st Produced:
-     1987

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