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Mark Norfolk

MARK NORFOLK  

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    PFD  

Mark Norfolk has worked as an actor, reporter and sports journalist. He worked on documentary programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky, and has made a number of short films which have been screened at festivals around the world. He recently completed his debut feature 'Love Is Not Enough', which has received critical acclaim.

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

         Blair's Children         Buy Your Leave         Fair As the Dark Get         Fess Up         Knock Down Ginger         Naked Soldiers         Where the Flowers Grow         Wrong Place

Blair's Children

Synopsis:
a young black offender

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part of "Blair's Children" a critical perspective on our own recent history and Labour's mantra that "things can only get better"

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Genre:
short monologue

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Buy Your Leave

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Albany Theatre, London    1998

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part of its Black History Month

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Fair As the Dark Get

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short listed for 1998 Alfred Fagon Award

1st Produced:
Albany Theatre, London    1997

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part of its Black History Month

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Fess Up

Synopsis:
Two people on the run hide out together in an English town. One an African asylum seeker - the other a racist murderer

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new play commissioned by the Menagerie theatre Company As part of its Eastern New Writing Pipeline scheme.

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New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk    2004

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Knock Down Ginger

Synopsis:
Luke is 15 and looking for respect. Growing up on a council estate isn't easy, especially when your mother's got a new man in her life. A place where fast cars and fast money are the ultimate status, Luke befriends Nelson who wants to teach him that fear breeds respect. Charlie, an old friend of the family, is on to Nelson's game. Armed with a lifetime of 'been there and done that', how can he persuade Luke to give up and play straight? Or is Luke too far gone to call game over?

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short listed for 2000 Verity Bargate Award And 2001 International Playwriting Festival

1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    Jun 2003

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1840023794

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Play/Drama

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Naked Soldiers

Naked Soldiers
tells the story of Jamal an African refugee who is on the run and hiding in a burnt out attic. But as fate would have it he finds himself sharing his 'precious' space with Tony a 17-year-old racist who is also on the run after stabbing a young black boy.

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1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    21 May 2010

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Oberon Books, London >>>    978-1849430197

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Play/Drama

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Where the Flowers Grow

Where the Flowers Grow
To all intents and purposes Vernon has fulfilled his ambitions.He has a good job and a suburban lifestyle with his wife and teenage son. But things change when austerity measures put his job under threat and soon Vernon begins to neglect his family whilst fighting redundancy. When a tragedy at work forces him to look closer to home, he discovers that communicating with loved ones in a postmodern technological age is not as easy as he thinks.

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1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    03 Jun 2011

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Oberon Books ('Jul 2011) >>>    978-1849430463

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Wrong Place

Wrong Place
Trevor's in trouble with the law - again. But this time it's serious. He faces twelve years behind bars. Roddy, Trevor's dad, came to Britain in the Sixties and did the right thing  worked seven days a week to put food on the table and a roof over his family's head. But now things have changed. Not only is he about to lose his son, but also his job and his marriage. And just when things couldn't get much worse, Trevor's uncle Monty shows up. Wrong Place 'Whether a man innocent or guilty, a black man is guilty by virtue of the colour of his skin. I learn that a long time ago. That's how the white man see it. That's how it stay.'

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1st Produced:
Soho theatre    Oct 2003

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Oberon Books ('Oct 2003) >>>    978-1840024005

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