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Tom Paulin

TOM PAULIN

  (1949 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Faith Evans Associates  

Tom Paulin is a poet, critic, lecturer, broadcaster and playwright, who was raised in Belfast. He was educated at Hull University and Lincoln College, Oxford. He lectured in English at the University of Nottingham, University of Reading and at Oxford. He was a director of Field Day Theatre Company. His collections of poetry include A State of Justice (1977), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; the Strange Museum (1980), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Liberty Tree (1983) and the acclaimed Fivemiletown (1987). Later collections include Walking a Line (1994) and the Wind Dog (1999), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His radio play, 'All the Way to the Empire Room', was broadcast by the BBC in 1994.

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

         Hillsborough, The Script         Medea         Riot Act, The         Seize the Fire

Hillsborough, The Script

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1st Produced:
-    1987

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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1987   -

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Genre:
Dramatic satire Satire

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Medea

Medea
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

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Original Playwright - Euripides

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Northern Broadsides

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  3-5            Female:  2            Other:  chorus

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Riot Act, The

Synopsis:
thebes has endured a ruinous civil war as a result of the rivalry between two brothers - Polyneices and Eteocles. Each sought absolute power at the other's expense and each found death at his brother's hand. Creon, ruler and uncle of the two dead warlords, issues an edict that Eteocles be buried with military honours and that Polyneices be denied a final resting place. He makes a proclamation that anyone found burying Polyneices will be put to death. Antigone, sister of the two dead brothers, is prepared to pay that price. She is caught red-handed and sentenced to death by live entombment. She takes her own life and Haemon, her lover, crazed by her death, falls on his sword beside her.

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1st Produced:
Guildhall, Derry, Ireland    1984

Organisations:
Field Day Theatre Company

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1985   -

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Genre:
adaptation One Act

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  chorus

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Seize the Fire

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Faber and Faber, London, 1990   -

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