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RON PEARSON
Nationality: English
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Ron's working life was spent in advertising. Starting as office boy he saw service in Leeds, London and Bradford agencies before he became Managing Director and then Chairman of one of Yorkshire's most respected agencies. To ease the strain of this exacting work Ron joined his village Dramatic society. Several years later he auditioned and was accepted by the prestigious Bradford Playhouse. Billie Whitelaw, Edwar Petherbridge, Paul Whitson-Jones, Tom Bell, Rita Barlow, Duncan Preston, George Layton and quite a few more saw service at the Playhouse. In a lull from acting Ron wrote a one-act play that he thought was brilliant. A local adjudicator was not impressed. She was right. Ron then took a stab at a television script. At the time he was writing and directing a series of commercials for `Fisherman's Friend' featuring actor/writer/wrestler Brian Glover. He was not impressed. He did, however, give Ron three words of valuable advice re T.V. scripts - 'Watch the Slots'. On semi-retirement Ron enrolled on a playwriting course at the Swarthmore Centre in Leeds. One piece impressed the tutor (at last) and he encouraged Ron to open it out into a full-length script and to enter it into the Radio Times Drama Awards. Out of almost 900 entries it won first prize. It went out on BBC1 peak time Sunday. 'Harry's Kingdom' starred Timothy West and Peter Vaughan and was named `best single Drama' by the London Evening Standard. Repeats followed on BBC2 and UKGold and it went America, Canada and round the world. the BBC commissioned a series - with cash up front - and after various stops and stArts 14 x 1 hour long episodes were written before the project finally hit the dust. That's show business. After Harry's Kingdom Ron became flavour of the month. Hampstead Theatre Club invited him down `for a chat' and the Royal Court asked him to 'pop in'. Neither offered any money. Ron offered no scripts. A mite fed up with all this Ron concentrated on acting, directing and wielding a nifty paintbrush until he got the idea for 'the Last Reel'. Ron is grateful to Jasper for publishing this play, which he hopes will be popular throughout the U.K. Incidentally, at one time Ron held the world rights for a musical version of J. B. Priestley's classic comedy `When we are Married' but that's another story. He is currently working on another script due for completion early in 2008. Ron - a full member of the Writer's Guild of Great Britain for many years - is now a Life Member.
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Actor's Life for Me, An Last Reel, The Minerva - Queen Of The HandcuffsActor's Life for Me, An
Synopsis:
there's one in every Drama Group - a thoroughly likeable chap who is about as much use to Drama as good old QueenVictoria would be to nude bungee jumping. Such a man is Reg Horsfall, a dead keen thespian who is only 'phoned when the absolute final, final, final artiste has said 'no'. In this play we follow the exploits of the hapless, helpless and hopeless Reg from the magic moment when he is awarded the lead role of Bernard to the after play party and beyond. On the way we meet the 'professional' director, the rest of the cast and backstage crew not forgetting Reg's long-suffering but delightful wife Margaret. the whole proceedings are watched over and commented on by Arthur, the lugubrious caretaker and his more affable mate Walter - a sort of buy one get one free chorus. Throw in two or three dollops of slapstick and you have a happy and funny play about the people in amateur theatre.
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Jasper Publishing Ltd 2008
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Play - Full Length, Comedy
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Male: 7 Female: 7 Other: -
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Synopsis:
A killer diller comedy thriller by award winning television scriptwriter. Don't be put-off by the five male characters, two are quite small and the other three are the sort actors dream about. Two alternate stage settings provided, one simple and another more complex to suit all stage sizes. the plot . . . a gripping read. Completely original with a twist in the tail. An absolute must.
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Jasper Publishing Ltd 2007
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Comedy, Dark/Black Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: - Other: -
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Synopsis:
Minerva Vanno escapologist rival of Houdini - but a woman in a man's world
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Theatre Network, Edmonton
17 Jan 2019
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Ghost Writer Theatre
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Historical drama
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