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Lance Nielsen

LANCE NIELSEN

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Johnston & Mathers Associates  

Lance Nielsen's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         East End Of Chicago, The         Eleven Years Down the River         Fragile         Hello I'm Vince         In Denial         Making Time         Signing On         Sticks and Stones         Those Who Trespass Against Us         Tribunal         Twelve Very Angry Women         Victoria Climbie Inquiry, The         Waiting For Hillsborough

East End Of Chicago, The

Synopsis:
Story of four women from the East End of London who travel to Chicago and run a club of Al Capones in the 1930's. Features song and dance though not strictly a muscial as songs are performed in the context of them being sung at the club.

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1st Produced:
Stratford Circus    2003

Organisations:
Gutted Film And Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama/Muscial Comedy

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  16            Other:  8 Muscians

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Eleven Years Down the River

Synopsis:
In August 1989, 51 people died on the river Thames when the Dredger Bowbelle collided with the pleasure cruiser Marchioness. Now, eleven years later the truth has finally been revealed how this terrible tragedy came about. How and why did both the shipping companies become so lax in their safety procedures? Why were crews allowed to operate 1470 ton vessels under the influence of alcohol? Why did the authorities allow such a dangerous vessel to ply the Thames at all? Whey were hands removed from the bodies of the victims? Based on the revealing transcripts of the recent Public Investigation, the play dramatically reconstructs these hearings, with testimony from all the key witnesses involved, in a powerful and informative piece of theatre.

Notes:
the Marchioness Inquiry

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Gutted Film And Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Documentary

Parts:
Male:  16            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Fragile

Synopsis:
Angela wants her friend Stephen to help her write a book. She has not seen her family in twenty five years and wants everyone to understand why. Stephen is adopted and recently met his biological mother for the first time - it was not what he was expecting and he now feels his adoption may have impacted on him as an individual far more than he previously thought. How much of where we came from determines who we are later in life? Is blood really thicker than water? As Stephen and Angela begin explore the past events of both their lives, what is truth and what is fiction?

Notes:
written by Lance Nielsen And Angela Thomas. Music by the late Kelly Groucutt of the Electric Light Orchestra.

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Organisations:
Gutted Film and Theatre Company in association with Giant Olive Theatre Company

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hello I'm Vince

Synopsis:
Vince, a struggling independent film critic who is rapidly approaching 30, discovers he is HIV positive. As his world falls apart, his illness opens up a number of unexpected friendships, with people he never would have met. His story is juxtaposed by a dramatised re-telling of the factual events that lead to the virus becoming so widespread in the 1980's, and the desperate efforts of the doctors who tried to stop it.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Gutted Film and Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
AIDS, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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In Denial

Synopsis:
based on the case of the murder of 13 year old Louise Allen who was savagely beaten to death by a group of young girls at a fair in Corby, Northants in 1995. the play examines the relationship between the parents of children who have gone onto to commit serious crimes

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  12            Other:  -

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Making Time

Synopsis:
Alternating a male and female cast on different nights with the same script. Three friends meet on different ocasions over ten years, realising too late that they haven't spent enough time with each other. Winner of the Peter Brook writing award

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Gutted Film And Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Signing On

Synopsis:
Robert Carling is an unhappy man. Due to clerical error he's been pushed around all the Job Centres in London. All he wants is some money he's entitled to, but no-one will let him have it. Frustrated, he returns to the office where he began his search - armed with common sense in one hand and a gun in the other. Carling takes everyone hostage, and forces the staff to solve his and everyone else's problems immediately, in his own 'proper and logical fashion' - at gun point. But Mr Webb, the manager thinks Carling is a thug, and intends to prove his point. With the police waiting outside, the tension begins to mount&

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Gutted Film And Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Sticks and Stones

Synopsis:
Told over three decades it tells the story of three families whose lives become irrevocably intertwined by events in Northern Ireland. The play is set in Derry, Surrey and Belfast and begins in 1972. Against the backdrop of historical events we see how the characters lives are changed forever. It is these events which show how the individuals come to feel the way they feel and the play makes no judgements as to who is right or wrong.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Those Who Trespass Against Us

Synopsis:
In February 2000 Victoria Climbie died as a result of one of the worse child abuse cases this country has ever seen. She was only eight years old. The following year Marie-Therese Kouao and Carl Manning were convicted of her murder. The full story of the abuse that Victoria suffered at their hands became public knowledge. How Victoria died became widely documented, how she had been failed by the public agencies whose job it was to protect her was not so well reported. The play highlights what went wrong, examining the role played by the four Social Service Agencies, two Police Child Protection Teams and two hospitals that would see Victoria's life slip through their fingers.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Gutted Film and Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Documentary

Parts:
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Tribunal

Synopsis:
Based on a true story, this play follows the industrial tribunal of an individual who took a retail giant to court for wrongful dismissal. the play looks closely at the implications of bullying in the workplace

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Organisations:
Gutted Film And Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Twelve Very Angry Women

Synopsis:
London 2012, one month before the Olympics and a scandal of suppressed crime statistics has rocked the nations capital forcing the re-introduction of Capital Punishment on the citys streets as an attempt at reducing crime before the games commence. A young Polish girl stands trial for murdering her black foster mother, 12 women sit on the jury, and eleven of them are ready to send her to her death. Only one dissenting voice stands alone. With the press and the public calling for blood whose voice will prevail?

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Gutted Film and Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Victoria Climbie Inquiry, The

Synopsis:
Reconstruction of the public inquiry into Britains worse child abuse case, focusing on the roles of the NHS, Social Services and the Police - Critics Choice in Time Out

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1st Produced:
Hackney Empire    2002

Organisations:
Gutted Film And Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama Documentary

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  15            Other:  1 Child

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Waiting For Hillsborough

Synopsis:
Two families wait for news of their loved ones on the day of the Hillsborough Football Disaster

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Gutted Film And Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama/Documentary

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  6            Other:  -

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