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David Pownall

DAVID POWNALL

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Johnson and Alcock  

David Pownall was born in Liverpool and he is a graduate of Keele University. He was Dramatist in residence with the Century and Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster and co-founder of Paines Plough Theatre Company with John Adams. His internationally-performed plays include Music to Murder By, An Audience Called Edouard, Beef, Livingstone an Sechele and Master Class. Her most recent new play was Getting the Picture at the Lyric, Belfast. Theatre awards include the John Whiting Prize for Beef, the New York Theatre Yearbook, the LS Directors' Award for Livingstone and Sechele, and many others. He has published ten novels and a collection of short stories.

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         All the World Should Be Taxed         As We Lie         Audience Called Edouard, An         Barricade         Beauty And the Beast         Beef         Black Star         Buck Ruxton         Crates On Barrels         Death of a Faun         Dinner Dance         Dream Of Chief Crazy Horse, The         Edge, The         Elgar's Rondo         Elgar's Third         Gaunt         Getting the Picture         Hot Hello, The         How Does the Cukoo Learn To Fly?         How To Grow A Guerrilla         Human Cartoon Show, The         Innocent Screams         King John's Jewel         Ladybird, Ladybird         Last Of the Wizards, The         Later         Lile Jimmy Williamson         Lions And Lambs         Livingstone And Sechele         Master Class         Motocar         Music To Murder By         My Father's House         Nijinsky: Death Of A Faun         Pride And Prejudice         Pro, The         Q         Richard III, Part Two         Rousseau's Tale         Seconds At the Fight For Madrid         Seven Foot High In America         Spare Tree, The         Tale Of Two Town Halls, A         Three Musketeers, The         Unfathomable Grass, The         Viewing, The         Watch For the Morning
All the World Should Be Taxed

Synopsis:
A political rendering of the Nativity story

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As We Lie

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1st Produced:
Nkana-Kitwe Arts Society, Zambia     1969

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Nkana-Kitwe, Zambia, 1969   

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Audience Called Edouard, An

Synopsis:
A Manet painting provides the stylised setting for a Marxist discussion

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Faber and Faber, London, 1979   

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Barricade

Synopsis:
Spanish anarchists attempt the political education of an Englishman on a cycling holiday

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1st Produced:
On Tour     1978

Organisations:
Paines Plough

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Beauty And the Beast

Synopsis:
beauty falls for beast etc

Notes:
music by Stephen Boxer

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Childrens Youth Audience

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Beef

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Notes:
winner of the John Whiting Award

1st Produced:
-     1981

Organisations:
Paines Plough

1st Published:
in "Best Radio Plays of 1981", Methuen, London, 1982   

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One Act

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Black Star

Synopsis:
the story of a black American actor, Ira Aldridge, touring Shakespeare in Poland in middle of 19th century

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in Plays Two, Oberon Books, London,    

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Genre:
Historical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 actors

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Buck Ruxton

Synopsis:
Buck Ruxton is an imperial tragedy of 1936, a nororious double murder by a successful Indian doctor driven mad by the scandal of his Scottish wife's infidelity

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Play/Drama

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Male:  10            Female:  3            Other:  doubling, extras

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Crates On Barrels

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1st Produced:
On Lancashire Tour     1974

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1st Published:
in "Plays for One Person", Oberon, London, 1997   

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Death of a Faun

Synopsis:
The dancer is at the Bellevue Sariatorium where he has been confined since becoming insane. He has just learned of the death of Diaghilev this sparks off a torrent of memories and twisted feelings about the impresario.

Notes:
Nijinsky's Requiem For Diaghilev

1st Produced:
Wickham Theatre, Bristol University     1991

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Dinner Dance

Synopsis:
Machinations based around a kitchen theme. Two guppies (gay yuppies) and a builder and nurse fail to balance the demands of their work and their emotions, while a born-again Christian convinces his glitzy girl-friend of the virtues of an evening at home.
Michael Arditti, Evening Standard

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1st Produced:
Leicester     1991

Organisations:
the Kosh

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Genre:
Dance play

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dream Of Chief Crazy Horse, The

Dream Of Chief Crazy Horse, The
Covers ten thousand years of Red Indian history

Notes:
written for schools

1st Produced:
Fleetwood, Lancashire     1973

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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1975   

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Edge, The

Synopsis:
Monologue for a mother estranged from her daughter

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1st Produced:
London     1987

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Genre:
Danceplay

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Elgar's Rondo

Elgar's Rondo
captures the depths of the great composers despair as he wrestles with growing feelings of artistic failure

Notes:
part of Composer Plays

1st Produced:
Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon     1993

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1st Published:
in "the Composer Plays", Oberon, London, 1993   

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Elgar's Third

Elgar's Third
composers final, losing battle to write a third symphony in the face of impending death

Notes:
part of Composer Plays

1st Produced:
Bbc3     1994

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1st Published:
in "the Composer {lays", Oberon, London, 1993   

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Genre:
Radio Play

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Gaunt

Synopsis:
focus on the myth and reality of power surrounding a local legend.

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Getting the Picture

Synopsis:
the Hermitage, Jackson's home near Nashville, Tennessee, and Carrickfergus. 1845. Former US president Andrew Jackson is nearing the end of his days. He is visited by Mathew Brady, a celebrated photographer from New York, and by a young Belfast woman who challenges him to lend his name to an insurrection of United Irishmen.

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Oberon, London, 1998   

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Hot Hello, The

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.9830/30

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How Does the Cukoo Learn To Fly?

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1st Produced:
On Tour     1970

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How To Grow A Guerrilla

Synopsis:
Soldiers, gangsters and a moronic youth play in an overgrown English garden

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1st Produced:
Preston, Lancashire     1971

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Genre:
Fantasy

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Human Cartoon Show, The

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Genre:
Youth Audience

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Innocent Screams

Innocent Screams
Dawn, Coronation Day 1953. the artist Francis Bacon works on his portrait of Pope Innocent X, inspired by Velazquez' masterpiece and his own deep absorption in human carnality. the chaotic studio is populated by characters possessing the power of change, who come to life in a satirical interplay of art, history, sex and politics.

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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King John's Jewel

Synopsis:
presents a radically different John, · a devastatingly ana Iytic thinker; a man who doesn't believe in the system and whose vituperative contempt for his father has profoundly influenced his kingship.

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ladybird, Ladybird

Synopsis:
A war widow returns to Liverpool after 50 years in the USA to complex relationships with her grandchildren

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh     1976

Organisations:
Paines Plough

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Last Of the Wizards, The

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1st Produced:
Lakes Comprehensive School     1970

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Later

Synopsis:
A middle aged Russian woman who died in 1921 has returned from the dead 16 years later to talk about her family and why she abandoned them

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Organisations:
Paines Plough

1st Published:
in "Plays for One Person", Oberon, London, 1997   

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Genre:
One Act

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Lile Jimmy Williamson

Synopsis:
Capitalist millionaire linoleum manufacturer exploits Lancastrian workers at the turn of the twentieth century

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Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  doubling, extras

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Lions And Lambs

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1st Produced:
On Lancashire Tour     1973

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Livingstone And Sechele

Synopsis:
the young missionary explorer has to confront his own faith after converting a local chief in South Africa

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Master Class

Master Class
the loyal composer Shostakovich and outsider Prokofiev are confronted by Stalin in 1948 Russia

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part of Composer Plays

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Faber and Faber, London, 1983   

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Motocar

Synopsis:
A mental hospital run by whites for blacks in pre-independence Rhodesia provides a backdrop for black experience of oppression.

Notes:
music by Stephen Boxer

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Organisations:
Paines Plough

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1979   

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Music To Murder By

Music To Murder By
Two ghosts are conjured up by a Californian woman musicologist to demonstrate creativity and violence

Notes:
part of Composer Plays

1st Produced:
University Of Kent, Canterbury     1976

Organisations:
Paines Plough

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1978   

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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My Father's House

Synopsis:
the story of the Chamberlain family and their extraordinary rise to power and wealth during the latter half of Victoria's reign

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in Plays Two, Oberon Books, London,    

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Nijinsky: Death Of A Faun

Synopsis:
Set on the day of Diaghilev's death and records Nijinsky's reactions

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1st Produced:
Physicians' Hall, Edinburgh Fringe festival     28 Aug 1991

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 1997   

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Genre:
Danceplay. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Pride And Prejudice

Synopsis:
Period early 19C, worldly ambitions of silly woman, tenderness of her husband and matrimonial ambition of the three pretty daughters contrast with the three suitors

Notes:
from novel by Jane Austen

1st Produced:
Leicester     1983

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  11            Other:  -

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Pro, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Little Theatre Club, London     1975

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Q

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1st Produced:
Chingola Arts Society, Zambia     1965

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Richard III, Part Two

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A board game uses George Orwell, 1984, And Richard III, 1484, to demonstrate marketing for success

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Organisations:
Paines Plough

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1979   

Music:
-

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-

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Rousseau's Tale

Synopsis:
Takes the form of a lecture given by the exiled philosopher onthe subject of his sexuality. Selfawareness, self-esteem, and self-loathing combine as he describes his loves, lusts ,frustrations and, most painfully, the debauchery of a child.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Not the RSC Festival

1st Published:
in "Plays for One Person", Oberon, London, 1997   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Seconds At the Fight For Madrid

Synopsis:
People of diverse nationalities, real and imagined, discuss the Spanish Civil war

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Bristol University Drama Department     1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Fantasy Drama Play/Drama

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Further Reference:
-

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Seven Foot High In America

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Chingola Arts Society, Zambia     1966

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Spare Tree, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Nkana-Kitwe Arts Society, Zambia     1967

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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One Act

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-

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Tale Of Two Town Halls, A

Synopsis:
A Tale of Two Town Halls is a political satire, a comedy cartoon on the IMF crisis in the mid-Seventies.

Notes:
-

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
-

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Three Musketeers, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
adapted from novel by Alexandre Dumas

1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Bristol     15 Dec 1988

Organisations:
Bristol Old Vic Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Pantomime

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  4            Other:  -

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-

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Unfathomable Grass, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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-

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 55/5

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Viewing, The

Synopsis:
a family buy a house which is haunted by God

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Plays Two, Oberon Books, London,    

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 actors

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Watch For the Morning

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Nkana-Kitwe Arts Society, Zambia     1968

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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