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David Selbourne

DAVID SELBOURNE

  (1937 - )
Nationality:    British
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David Selbourne (born 4 June 1937) is a British political philosopher, social commentator and historian of ideas. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied Jurisprudence, held the Winter Williams Law Scholarship, and was awarded a Paton Studentship and the Jenkins Law Prize. He was thereafter a British Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, and in 1960 was called to the bar of the Inner Temple where he was student scholar, but did not practise law. He is the father of Raphael Selbourne, winner of the 2009 Costa First Book Award. (Wiki)

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         Alison Mary Fagan         Class Play         Damned, The         Dorabella         Gehenna         Parky's Death and Other Short Plays For Children         Play Of William Cooper And Edmund Dew-Nevett, The         Samson         Sunday Times         Think Of A Story, Quickly!         Three Class Plays         Tragedy Of Miss Rosie Rose         Trial Of Mrs Gandhi, The         Two-Backed Beast, The         What's Acting?         Woman's Trial, A
Alison Mary Fagan

Synopsis:
An actress tells of her struggle for expression and survival, and her dreams and terrors

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1st Published:
Playscript 47, Calder and Boyars, London, 1971   

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Play/Drama

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Class Play

Synopsis:
Short play for three adolescents on anger, frustration and rebellion

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two more plays produced in 1975 under same title make up the trilogy

1st Produced:
London     1973

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1st Published:
in "Second Playbill 3", Hutchinson, London, 1973   

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Genre:
Schhol Play Youth Audience

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Damned, The

Synopsis:
characters all aware with mirth, pity and anguish of the ebbing of their various hopes in life, offer each other consolation and despair by turns

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1st Produced:
Amateur     1971

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Dorabella

Synopsis:
A play of the exploitation of the young by the old, the old by the young, and the young by each other

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Gehenna

Synopsis:
A play of the relations between the tormentors and the tormented, the exploiter and the exploited, the assailant and the victim

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Parky's Death and Other Short Plays For Children

Synopsis:
six short plays for eleven to fourteen year olds

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-     1979

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Play Of William Cooper And Edmund Dew-Nevett, The

Synopsis:
A play of innocence, corrupted by experience

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1st Produced:
Northcott Theatre, Fxeter     1968

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Play/Drama

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Samson

Synopsis:
A play of a son's efforts to emancipate himself from his father.

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1st Produced:
Le Metro Club, New Compton Street, London     Jun 1970

Organisations:
Soho Theatre

1st Published:
Playscript 47, Calder and Boyars, London, 1971   

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Play/Drama

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Sunday Times

Synopsis:
A domestic play of personal and political confrontation, of sexual combat, and of women's search for identity and liberation

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Play/Drama

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Think Of A Story, Quickly!

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1st Produced:
London     1973

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1st Published:
Arnold, London, 1977   

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Three Class Plays

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1st Produced:
London     1973

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Tragedy Of Miss Rosie Rose

Synopsis:
A play of the antagonism between a progressive dilettante and a reactionary proletarian, in which both exploit the same woman

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Play/Drama

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Trial Of Mrs Gandhi, The

Synopsis:
About the events of the Indian Fmergency of 1975-77

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1st Produced:
People's Little Theatre, Calcutta     1982

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Genre:
Dramatisation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

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Two-Backed Beast, The

Synopsis:
A play of the struggle for family power and of partying

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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What's Acting?

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1st Produced:
London     1973

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1st Published:
Arnold, London, 1977   

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Woman's Trial, A

Synopsis:
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produced in Bengali As Shrimatir Bichar

1st Produced:
Calcutta     1982

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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