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David Tushingham

DAVID TUSHINGHAM

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Rosica Colin Ltd  

David Tushingham works as a Dramaturg in London, Stuttgart and ViennA. He has translated plays by David Gieselmenn, Rainald Goetz, Dea Loher, Klaus Pohl and Einar Schleef.

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         Actors, The         Adam Geist         Animal Kingdom         Arabian Nights         Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant         Farm, The         Final Fire, The         Four Points of the Compass, The         Golden Dragon, The         Haroun And the Sea Of Stories         Holy Mothers         Idomeneus         Innocence         Jeff Koons         Karate Billy Comes Home         Land Without Words         Mr Kolpert         Nordost         Olga's Room         Parrots' Lies         Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God         Splinters         State of Emergency         Stranger' House         Under Ice         Waiting Room Germany         Warweser         Winter Solstice         Woman Before, The

Actors, The

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Adam Geist

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Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom
The Animal Kingdom depicts the unremitting battle for human survival in a merciless environment: the theatre.

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Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig. Das Reich der Tiere world premiere at Deutsches Theater Berlin on 01 Sep 2007. This translation commissioned by The English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, London

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Oberon Books (2014) >>>    978-1783190959

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Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights
Based in a run-down high-rise somewhere in contemporary Germany, Arabian Night takes us into the lives, dreams and fantasies of five unique individuals on one enchanted summer's evening. Hans, the inquisitive caretaker, can't work out why the water has run dry above floor eight; he's gone to investigate - Fatima the sensitive lodger anxiously awaits her lover, Kalil, who is mysteriously trapped between floors in an elevator - Franziska, the dreamy amnesiac falls asleep each night and forgets her day every day - And Peter, the romantic voyeur, trespasses through unlocked doors least of all expecting what he finds - All of their lives cross on this fateful humid night: an Arabian Night for the modern age.

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Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig

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aTheatre Company, London

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Oberon Books, 2002   978-1840022988

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Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

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minutely charts the doomed passion of Petra, a divorced, highly acclaimed fashion designer, for an indolent,predatory beauty, Karen who sweeps into her life.
Michael Billington, Guardian

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Original Playwright - Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1st Produced:
Southwark Playhouse, London     2007

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Farm, The

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A group of slackers live in a house owned by a pop star and grow marijuana in the back yard. She suddenly returns and discovers the house is due to be auctioned to pay debts.

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Original Playwright - David Gieselmann

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Final Fire, The

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Original Playwright - Dea Loher (Das letzte Feuer)

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Four Points of the Compass, The

Four Points of the Compass, The
A small narrative piece, The Four Points of the Compass is an urban fable of crossed destinies and uncanny coincidences and a compelling contemporary tale of lust for life and the fragility of existence.

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Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig

1st Produced:
Landestheater, Salzburg     37/2011

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Oberon Books (2014) >>>    978-1783190959

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Translation

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Golden Dragon, The

Golden Dragon, The
Number 6: Thai soup with chicken, coconut milk, Thai ginger, tomatoes, button mushrooms, lemon grass and lemon leaves (hot). On a typical evening, anywhere in Europe, you walk into your local Thai/Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant, and the whole world is there. Everyone connected to everyone else, through this one place. . . the Golden Dragon is a funny and theatrical fable of modern life and migration, whisking you from your local takeaway to East Asia and back, revealing what really goes into that bowl of spicy soup. Are you hungry yet?

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Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig. World premiere Burgtheater, Vienna on 05 Sep 2009. English language premiere At the Drum.

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ATC and Drum Theatre Production

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849431248

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Haroun And the Sea Of Stories

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written with Tim Supple, from Salman Rushdie's Haroun And the Sea Of Stories

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Faber and Faber, London, 1998   -

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Holy Mothers

Holy Mothers
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Original Playwright - Werner Schwab

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Contained in: "German Plays Two" published by Nick Hern 1999   978-1854594792

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Idomeneus

Idomeneus
King Idomeneus has killed his son - or has he? Perhaps he killed an imposter. Or is his son hiding? Or maybe the son has turned into a She-Monster

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Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig

1st Produced:
Chicago Storefront Dca Theater     18 Aug 2012

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Oberon Books (2014) >>>    978-1783190959

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Innocence

Innocence
Two illegal dock workers witness a woman drowning. Afraid of involving the police, they do not save her. Guilty or innocent? A nocturnal city teams with social rejects, lost and disaffected human beings: an undertaker; a blind pole dancer; an embittered philosopher; the mother of a serial killer. Loosely connected stories from the edge of society mysteriously interweave to create a lyrical and darkly comic passion play for our times. Disturbing, poignant but ultimately hopeful, Innocence asks unanswerable questions about conscience and compassion in a disfigured world.

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Original Playwright - Dea Loher

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Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons is a wonderfully playful assemblage of language, rhythmic and hypnotic, comic and profound. It travels from the nightclub to the bedroom to the artist's studio to the street and beyond. It's full of arresting contradictions; about being in the crowd and being alone, about casual sex and enduring love and about making something simple that has a lasting meaning. Ultimately, for me, it's about making connections, how we reach one another, get through to each other, or not, whether through sex or love or art or commerce or noise or silence or whatever.
Gordon Andersen, director of Jeff Koons, Actors Touring Company

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Original Playwright - Rainald Goetz

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ICA, London >>>     2004

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Oberon, London,    978-1840025033

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Karate Billy Comes Home

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Original Playwright - Klaus Pohl

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Land Without Words

Land Without Words
War meets art in this intimate parable. Lucy Ellinson performs this one woman show, the first full UK production of a work by Dea Loher. She takes the role of a painter seeking the perfect artistic image, until experiencing the horrors of war leads her to reconsider the value of any artistic activity, as well as the awkward relationship of Western preconceptions with current Eastern war zones. In the end she can only ask: what about joy? Land Without Words is a work of poetic realism, drawing on interviews with the abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, and Loher's own reflections about her experiences of Kabul.

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Original Playwright - Dea Loher

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Just The Tonic @ The Caves (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)     03 Aug 2009

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50 min Translation

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Mr Kolpert

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murdering your boss might be the best thing you ever do

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Original Playwright - David Gieselmann

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Nick Hern Books, London, 2000   -

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Nordost

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A story about the extremes we will go to for the people we care most about. An extraordinary and moving play about the 2002 Moscow theatre siege. It's 23 October 2002: Olga and her daughter are settling into their seats at the Dubrovka theatre in Moscow. they're about to watch Nordost - a family musical, a song-and-dance spectacular about the glories of Russian soldiers. Across town, Zura, a young Chechan widow, sits in a van. Around her are other young widows who have loved and lost before their twentieth birthday. Outside a hospital, Tamara, a doctor, is taking a break from ambulance duty when a call comes over the radio: Chechan militants have laid siege to the Dubrovka theatre. This extraordinary, multi award-winning play presents the experiences of three women willing to sacrifice their lives for the people they love. In this UK premiere three outstanding actresses combine with a silent chorus' of young people from Stage '65, the Playhouse's Youth theatre. This is a play about hate, but it is also a play about love.

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Original Playwright - Torsten Buchsteiner

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Company of Angels

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Olga's Room

Olga's Room
Communist. Jew. Revolutionary. Lover. Mother. Olga Benario's story is a searing tale of survival as alongside her fellow prisoners she struggles to hold onto her disintegrating sense of self. Based on real events of the 1930s-40s, Dea Loher's gripping first play spans Brazilian revolution and Nazi dictatorship.

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Original Playwright - Dea Loher. Olgas Raum had its premiere at the Ernst-Deutsch Theater, Hamburg on 07 Aug 1992

1st Produced:
[This Translation] Centre Culturel De Recontre Abbaye De Neumunster, Luxembourg     07 Nov 2012

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2013) >>>    978-1849434294

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Parrots' Lies

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the Author has written a play for the Actor. the play is called "A Piece of Shit" and the title role is playing a piece of shit.

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Original Playwright - Andreas Marber

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Contained in: " German Plays Two - Plays from a Changing Country" published by Nick Hern Books, 1999   -

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Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God

Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God
Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God has been likened to a post-colonial Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Here two doctors who have returned from Africa reveal the true cost of their failure to combat a terrible and frightening disease.

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Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig

1st Produced:
Fleck Dance Theatre, Toronto     15 Jun 2010

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Oberon Books (2014) >>>    978-1783190959

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Splinters

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Radio

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State of Emergency

State of Emergency
Despite echoes of Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill and overwhelmingly 1984, State of Emergency has all of the hallmarks of a German existentialist dirge. It shows a family in the deepest dystopian depression during some post-apocalyptic, totalitarian era.
- Philip Fisher, British theatre Guide

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Original Playwright - Falk Richter

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Oberon Books, London >>>    978-1840028966

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80 min play Translation

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Stranger' House

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Under Ice

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Paul Niemand is frozen in time. Too old to start again and too young to retire. An employee in a leading consulting firm, Niemand's inability to operate 'outside the box' is confirmed by his unconvincing rendition of highlights from the Lion King at the firm's Christmas party. Now unemployed, Paul Niemand simply ceases to exist. Under Ice rips into the slick and systematic world of global corporate absurdities; where spin-doctors spin out of control and human emotion, reason and life are redundant.

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Original Playwright - Falk Richter

1st Produced:
Sbw Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, Nsw Au     2009

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Waiting Room Germany

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Klaus Pohl was commissioned in 1994 by Der Spiegel to test the mood of Germany after reunification. He fashioned the resultant mass of material into a piece of raw and honest verbatim theatre where a vast range of people tell their stories of gain and loss direct to the audience. Ordinary men and women from East and West come forward to give voice to their personal experiences and feelings since the wall came down. First performed at the Royal Court in 1995. 'A fascinating eye and ear-opener' Independent

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Original Playwright - Klaus Pohl

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Nick Hern Books, London, 1995   -

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Warweser

Warweser
Warweser tells the story of a homosexual love affair between a Jew and a Nazi in late 1930s Berlin

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Original Playwright - Katharina Gericke

1st Produced:
Heidelberg     1996

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Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice
Christmas Eve. Bettina and her husband Albert aren't happy. Bettina's mother is staying for the holidays. Which is awkward. Not least because Bettina's mother met a man on the train. And now she's invited him around for drinks... Family, betrayal and the inescapable presence of the past reverberate through the UK premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig's razor-sharp comedy.

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Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-1786820563

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Woman Before, The

Woman Before, The
You swore that you'd love me for ever'. Frank doesn't recognise the woman at the door. She's come to remind him of a promise he made twenty years before. A darkly humorous study of modern relationships and the things we say that may come back to haunt us.

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Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig

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1st Published:
Oberon, London, 2005   978- 1840025729

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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