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Sandy Nelson

SANDY NELSON

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Lovett Logan Associates

Sandy Nelson is a writer, actor, musician and father from Glasgow now resident in Argyll. For Oran Mor he has written 4 plays (Metrosexual; The Glimmering Nymph ; Baltamire; Bite The Bullet with Keith Warwick), two adaptations (Pygmalion; The Taming Of The Shrew) and has appeared in 4 plays by others (Lie Down Comic; Sleeping Beauty; The Defecit Show; Between The Thinks Bubble & the Speech Balloon.) You will know his face as Chris The Postie in BBC Scotlands Still Game and will know is voice from many appearances on Radio Scotlands McAuley & Co and Call Kaye.

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

         Baltamire         Bite the Bullet         Classic Cuts: the taming Of the Shrew         Glimmering Nymph, The         Gospel Inquiry, The         Hooray for All Kinds of Things         Metrosexual         Pygmalion         Taming Of The Shrew, The         Yellow Wallpaper, The

Baltamire

Synopsis:
A metrocentric air traffic controller is sent to work on a tiny Nordic island with one airstrip and not a cappuccino for miles. He embarks on a hilarious voyage of self discovery and sees for the first time all his true flaws, fears, hypocrisies and desires.

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part of A Play, A Pie And A Pint

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short play

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Bite the Bullet

Synopsis:
Verse: In 1990 Glaswegian duo the Telltales had a minor UK hit. In Japan it went to number one for six weeks. they then quietly dissolved into one hit wonder obscurity. Twenty One years on they are asked to play a Japanese TV special. Chorus: As long as there's sex and drugs, who cares about the rock'n'roll.

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written by Sandy Nelson And Keith Warwick

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a Play, a Pie and a Pint

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short play

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Classic Cuts: the taming Of the Shrew

Synopsis:
Writer Sandy Nelson and Director Rosie Kellagher transpose Shakespeare's sharpest comedy to the 1950s: a time of teddy boys and tea dresses, beat poets and Sunday best, when the sexes readied themselves for revolution and lines were drawn on both sides of the sexual revolution. On the cusp of this time of change we find Petruchio and Katherina: the kind of couple who thrive on conflict. Will Petruchio pull his punches or can he tame his shrew? - See more at: http://oran-mor.co.uk/whats-on/classic-cuts-taming-shrew/?eID=5304#sthash.Vtae6CEm.dpuf

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Original Playwright - Shakespeare

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Glimmering Nymph, The

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Gospel Inquiry, The

Synopsis:
As the inquiry into journalistic standards continues, four men testify: Mark, Mathew, Luke and John? Well, they were the journalists of their time and what journalist is not prone to puffing up the truth or just lying.

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The Assembly Rooms " 54 George Street, EH2 2LR (Studio One) B0844 693 3008 V20 GD4 12, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     Aug 2015

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Comedy, Political

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Hooray for All Kinds of Things

Synopsis:
By early 2008 Iceland had grown so rich its assets were nine times greater than its entire economic output. But by October of that same year no Western country had crashed in peacetime as quickly and as badly. The people of Iceland were afraid. They needed guidance. They needed hope. One man stood up! Well, he was a stand up comedian. This is the story of Jon Gnarr and The Best Party of Rejkyavik!

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Genre:
Short play

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Metrosexual

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Pygmalion

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Notes:
from G B Shaw

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Genre:
adaptation

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Taming Of The Shrew, The

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from Sakespeare

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A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Genre:
adaptation

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Yellow Wallpaper, The

Synopsis:
I can't stand this room. I never saw a worse wallpaper in my life. The colour is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. I wish I could get well faster. This wallpaper looks at me as if it KNEW what a vicious influence it had.

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adapted from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic Gothic tale of misunderstood mental health and marriage transfers to the stage in a modern reworking, showing that the themes are all too relevant over 100 years on.

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a Play, a Pie and a Pint

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Genre:
short play

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