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Dean Parker

DEAN PARKER

  
Nationality:    New Zealander
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Dean Parker's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Baghdad, Baby!         Great Expectations         Greek Fire         Man That Lovelock Couldn't Beat, The         Midnight in Moscow         Other People's Wars         Perfumed Garden, The         Polo         Share the Dream         Slouching Toward Bethlehem         Smack         Tigers Of Wrath, The         Tonight Lets All Make Love In London         Trial, The

Baghdad, Baby!

Synopsis:
set in occupied Iraq

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Great Expectations

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on the book by Charles Dickens

1st Produced:
-     1988

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Greek Fire

Synopsis:
A New Zealander in Greece during World War Two

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1st Produced:
-     2000

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Man That Lovelock Couldn't Beat, The

Synopsis:
Two young runners in New Zealand. One has all the privileges of life and goes on to represent New Zealand at the pre War Berlin Olympics. the other is forced to leave school at 13 to support his adoptive family

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Circa Two, Wellington     05 Apr 2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Midnight in Moscow

Synopsis:
Midnignt in Moscow, a Drama that follows a group of New Zealanders working in the NZ Embassy in Moscow in 1947, who must question their loyalty to self, loyalty to friends and loyalty to country when suspicion arises that someone is leaking classified information.
- http://www.theatreview.org.nz

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1st Produced:
Court One, Christchurch     19 Feb 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Other People's Wars

Synopsis:
"Killing Taliban is my business, and business is good!" the so-called 'War on Terror' has been the longest foreign war in NZ history, yet most New Zealanders know almost nothing about our part in it. Since the 9/11 attacks the NZ military have successfully duped both public and government over the true nature of our involvement in America's illegal invasion of Afghanistan, hiding behind a cloud of bogus PR tales of 'peacekeeping' and 'humanitarian aid'. As much as John Key wants to dismiss Hager's book as a work of fiction , the fact is throughout history whenever America calls, the NZ military answers, regardless of public opinion, morality or even the express commands of government.
- www.theatreview.org.nz

Notes:
Adapted by Dean Parker from the book by Nicky Hager

1st Produced:
Bats, Wellington     17 Apr 2012

Organisations:
the Bacchanals

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  with doubling

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Perfumed Garden, The

Synopsis:
an epic story that moves from the time of the Garden of Eden through several occupations of Afghani soil, culminating in the modern occupation by peacekeeping forces including New Zealand troops. the play draws its title from the Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight, an erotic Arabic text written in the fifteenth century.
- theatreview.org.nz

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1st Produced:
The Forge At The Court Theatre, Christchurch     16 Jul 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Polo

Synopsis:
Waiter Matiu works at the polo club. He wants to get on and embarks on a series of sexual exploits with members wives

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Sky City, Auckland    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Share the Dream

Synopsis:
the management place productivity above the welfare of the workers

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Synopsis:
"Life is ugly, brutish and short . . . like me." the true story of New Zealand's most evil prime minister ever! He turned the NZ National Party into an outfit dominated by a single leader bent on imposing regulation that wouldn't have looked out of place in Eastern Europe under Stalin, but Robert Muldoon believed without a shadow of a doubt that if he needed to know what the average Kiwi felt, all he had to do was look into his own heart.
- www.theatreview.org.nz

Notes:
A Life Story of Robert Muldoon

1st Produced:
Bats, Wellington     31 Aug 2011

Organisations:
the Bacchanals

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
biographical Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Smack

Synopsis:
A man knowing that his bank manager's son died of an overdose tries to get him to finance a drug deal

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Genre:
One act Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tigers Of Wrath, The

Synopsis:
Set in Beijing in 1974 - Trish and Pauline are Maoists on a New Zealand Students' Association trip to Red China. Also on the trip is Oliver, a radical would-be writer. Twenty years later Trish is a second term Labour MP, plotting the dumping of Labour Party leader, Mike Moore. Fifteen years after that Pauline and Oliver meet by chance in a pub at Mangere Bridge in Auckland and look back on the choices they've made and the paths their lives have followed. the Tiger's of Wrath is an intriguing play about the strange twists of fate, about hopes and dreams, about a developing and then disintegrating relationship, about how one comes to terms with life. In the background run two astonishing political trajectories: the People's Republic of China and the New Zealand Labour Party
- http://www.theatreview.org.nz

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1st Produced:
Circa Two, Wellington     03 Nov 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tonight Lets All Make Love In London

Synopsis:
Flower Power in a Ladbroke Grove bedsit

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Trial, The

Synopsis:
Josef K awakens one morning and finds he's being arrested - no one, however, will reveal what his crime is.

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Organisations:
Playmarket, Downstage and Downstage Theatre Society

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
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