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Dennis Potter

DENNIS POTTER

  (1935 - 1994)
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Judy Daish Associates Ltd  (Estate of)

Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed Dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), the Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.

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

         Blue Remembered Hills         Brimstone And Treacle         Only Make Believe         Singing Detective, The         Son Of Man         Sufficient Carbohydrate         Vote Vote Vote For Nigel Barton         Waiting For the Boat

Blue Remembered Hills

Synopsis:
This apparently simple tale relates the activities of seven-year-olds on a summer afternoon during World War II. the children (all played by adult actors) and their world become a microcosm of adult interaction. Willie tags along as burly Peter bullies Raymond and is challenged by fairminded John. Audrey is over-shadowed by Angela's prettiness and wreaks her angry frustrations on the boys. All of them gang up on the terrified `Donald Duck' who, abused by his mother and ridiculed by his peers, plays his own dangerous game of pyromania which ends in tragedy.

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1st Produced:
Man In the Moon Theatre, London    1991

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Brimstone And Treacle

Synopsis:
Controversy as a young man infiltrates a families live and space.

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Eyre Methuen, London, 1978   -

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Only Make Believe

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televised 1963

1st Produced:
Harlow, Essex    1974

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Singing Detective, The

Synopsis:
This is the unabridged original text of Dennis Potter's acclaimed six-part television serial. the narrative counterpoints life in a hospital ward of a writer crippled by a horrific skin disease with the plot of his atmosphEric thriller to the point where fantasy and reality seem to exchange places. the result is the most painful and disturbing screen Drama of the 1980s.

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1st Produced:
BBC    1986

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Faber and Faber, London, 1986   -

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Genre:
Screenplay

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

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Son Of Man

Synopsis:
Jesus portrayed as a man agonised by the feeling of divinity within him, and all with a man's capacity for suffering and pain

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televised 1969

1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, Leicester    1969

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Deutsch, London, 1970   -

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Male:  15            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Sufficient Carbohydrate

Synopsis:
Vitriolic attacks on sodium monoglutamate as Drama unwinds on a Greek Island

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Faber and Faber, London, 1983   -

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Vote Vote Vote For Nigel Barton

Synopsis:
Idealistic Labour candidate standing in un-winnable by-election realises that compromise is all

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televised 1965

1st Produced:
Bristol    1968

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1st Published:
in "the Nigel Barton Plays", Penguin, London, 1968   -

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Male:  20            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Waiting For the Boat

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Faber and Faber, London, 1984   -

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