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David Storey

DAVID STOREY

  (1933 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Nicki Stoddart

David Storey: unique in his generation of writers, David Storey's achievements are divided equally between his work as as novelist and as a playwright. Born in 1933, the son of a mineworker, he went to the Slade School of Fine Art in London and had various jobs, ranging from farm labouring and showground tent-erecting to professional rugby league football and schoolteaching. Among his novels are This Sporting Life, which won the Macmillan Fiction Award in 1960 and was filmed, .Flight Into Camden, which won the John Ucwelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Radcliffe, which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1963. Later novels include Pasmore, a Booker finalist and winner of the Faber Memorial Prize, Savzlle, winner of the Booker Prize in 1976, and most recently, A Serious Man.

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

         Caring         Changing Room, The         Contractor, The         Cromwell         Early Days         Farm, The         Home         In Celebration         Life Class         March On Russia, The         Mother's Day         Phoenix         Restoration of Arnold Middleton, The         Sisters         Stages         Stomp

Caring

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1st Produced:
-    1992

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1st Published:
in "Plays I", Methuen, London, 1992   -

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Changing Room, The

Synopsis:
It's about exactly what it is: Storey offers us, with an unforced tenderness, the shifting moods of everyday experience - the scene is busy, purposeful and exhilarating. You'd never imagine realism could be this theatrical - the Changing Room takes you into its world in a way few plays achieve.'
Indpendent on Sunday

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Cape, London, 1971   -

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Contractor, The

Synopsis:
erection, decoration and dismantling of a tent as a poetic parable for a wedding and the bizarre collection of misfits at the breakfast

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Cape, London, 1970   -

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Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Cromwell

Synopsis:
An exploration of the vices and virtues of the English Puritan instinct using the historical associations of the Cromwellian period. On top of that it is also an impressive piece of poetic Drama employing a spare, flinty, concrete language that seems to be hewn out of rock -Storey manages to make the work both specific and allusive - its primal conflicts between principle and expediency, the individual and the community are perennially relevant - a rich and complex play.'
Guardian

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Cape, London, 1973   -

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Male:  9            Female:  -            Other:  extras

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Early Days

Synopsis:
Early Days is an intrinsically poignant lament on loneliness and abandonment. Desolate yet full of gentle humour, the play is an astute study on the realizations of old age by one of England's greatest contemporary writers, David Storey. Kitchen, a retired MP, is placed in the care of his daughter and son-in-law for his own safety. Paranoia and fear set in as his isolation forces him to reflect on his life, the passing of time, loss and remembered love. All the while his family and the people around him lose patience and faith in his ability to speak truth.

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1st Produced:
Brighton    1980

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Penguin, London, 1980   -

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Farm, The

Synopsis:
hard drinking, hard working farmer rules the roost, three daughters and his easy going wife, then his son, the aimless poet returns home and the family reaction is considerable

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Cape, London, 1973   -

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Home

Home
One works. One looks around. One meets people. But very little communication takes place . . . That is the nature of this little island. As five apparently unrelated characters meet in a seemingly insignificant garden, the autumnal sun shines overhead and everybody waits for rain. What they discuss is superficially anything that can pass the time. What is portrayed is the very essence of England, Englishness, class, unfulfilled ambition, loves lost and homes that no longer exist. Storey's timeless play is a beautiful, compassionate, tragic and darkly funny study of the human mind and a once-great nation coming to terms with its new place in the world.

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Cape, London (Plays & Players 1970), 1970
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In Celebration

In Celebration
When three brothers return home to their northern roots for a reunion, long-held grievances and family issues intrude on the party atmosphere. David Storey's modern classic explores family love and how the best intentions can threaten to destroy hopes and dreams.

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Cape, London, 1969   -

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Life Class

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I have just had in the theatre an experience so remarkable that I doubt if I shall ever forget it - its portrait of a man, dangerous, controlled, and wounded, who brings down his whole career in one enormous gesture signifying that all we hold of good from the past is now incapable of renewal and irrelevant to our present needs - Life Class is not merely a very good play. It is a blazing masterpiece - it is a tremendous experience and its glare lights up the sky.'
Sunday Times

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Cape, London, 1975   -

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Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  -

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March On Russia, The

Synopsis:
elderly couple find that only by incanting memories can they come to terms with their barren present and terrifying future

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National Theatre, London

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1989   -

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Mother's Day

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Cape, London, 1977   -

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Phoenix

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London    1984

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Restoration of Arnold Middleton, The

Synopsis:
cramped quarters shared by couple and mother in law lead to problems after a night of drunkenness

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Cape, London, 1967   -

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Sisters

Synopsis:
two sisters meet after a long separation, one unbeknown to the other has escaped from a psychiatric hospital

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Penguin, London, 1980   -

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Stages

Synopsis:
artist, suffering a mental breakdown, is visited by four women, daughter, ex wife, neighbour and psychiatrist to whom he relates his past life

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National Theatre, London

1st Published:
in "Plays I", Methuen, London, 1992   -

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Stomp

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part of Festopia. Utopia or Dystopia? Playwrights imagine the future in a festival of new plays. From over 250 submissions, 19 plays from emerging and more established playwrights staged across five days this January.

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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