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Nick Warburton

NICK WARBURTON

  (1955 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    David Higham Associates Ltd  represented by Nicky Lund

NW has written scripts for stage and television as well as more than fifty scripts for radio, broadcast on Radios 3, 4, 5 and BBC7. Seven novels for children have been published, as have short stories and stage plays. In 2004, a stage play, For Starters, had a successful run at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. Purvis is to appear there in 2006. He has run courses on creative writing both here (GB) and abroad. He is a member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, was on the judging panel for their children's book award in 1994, and chaired the same panel in 1995. Among his radio plays are Conversations from the Engine Room (joint-winner of the BBC/Radio Times Drama Award in 1985), A Grove of Straight Trees (short-listed for the BBC/Radio Times Drama Award in 1993), and A Soldier's Debt (short-listed for the 1999 Prix Italia). Television includes scripts for Doctors, EastEnders, Born and Bred and Holby City.

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         Babushka         Cover Her Feet         Critical Condition         David Copperfield         Dickens' Children         Distracted Globe         Domby-Dom         Don't Blame It On the Boots         Droitwich Discovery, The         Easy Stages         Farmer Giles Of Ham         Fly in the Ointment         For Starters         Garlic And Lavender         Ghost Writer         Keeping Secrets         Last Bread Pudding, The         Loophole, The         Melons At the Parsonage         Moonstone, The         Music Lovers         Nativity Letters, The         Not Bobby         Office Song         Old Curiosity Shop, The         Purvis         Receive This Light         Round the World With Class Six         Smoking Gun: Cover Her Feet/Fly in the Ointment         Sour Grapes And Ashes         Tales of the Country         Three Men In a Boat         Touch Wood         Waiting For Nesbit         Zartan

Babushka

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Cover Her Feet

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Critical Condition

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A challenge to our ideas about theatre; audiences, critics and performers.

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Cambridge Drama Centre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire    08 Jul 1991

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David Copperfield

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David has a doting mother. When he grows up he marries her image, the ditsy Dora. This is his tragedy. Even Peggotty's extended family on Yarmouth beach cannot escape the effects. But his tragedy is also our comedy as Uriah Heep and Mr Micawber, Aunt Betsey and Mr Dick, Steerforth and Traddlles, all criss-cross David's wayward path towards his Agnes, his true soul mate.
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from the book by Charles Dickens

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ADC Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire    11 Dec 2007

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Dickens' Children

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This play opened successfully at the Edinburgh Fringe and deals with some of the most memorable scenes of childhood from Dickens' novels. Episodes from Great Expectations, Bleak House, David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby are Dramatised for a cast of seven. Dickens himself guides us through these senes and plays the central child in each. Thus he is Pip, Jo the crossing-sweeper, David Copperfield, Smike and others. He also links the stories to events in his own childhood.

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Distracted Globe

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This is the third part of a comic trilogy about a Drama group's production of Hamlet. (the others are Don't Blame It On the Boots and Easy Stages). In this play, the highly efficient stage manager (Gerry) and his inept assistant (Patsy) are preparing for the after show party. the problems they have with this task are exacerbated by their also having to return a valuable prop (the globe) to its owner.

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Domby-Dom

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A play with character opportunities for a large group of children. Some children are putting on a play but can't decide whether it should be about football, space, or adventure, so they agree to include elements of each. they attempt to present Indian Smith and the Temple of Doom, or the Return of the Tedi. Toy cars and a model of Wembley Stadium are brought into play in a struggle between good and evil.

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Don't Blame It On the Boots

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This is the first part of a comic trilogy about a Drama group's production of Hamlet. (the others are Distracted Globe and Easy Stages). In this play, self-regarding actor Eric is to play the ghost of Hamlet's father. His girlfriend (Liz) insists that he wears her father's old boots to play the role. the director has trouble keeping the peace. the question then is - did a real ghost walk during the performance of the play?

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Droitwich Discovery, The

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Four thespian enthusiasts find themselves in a dusty attic in Droitwich. their guide explains that Shakespeare, aged ten, lived there. then there emerges a Tudor-looking man, the ghost of Terry Shakespeare, embittered by his brother William's literary thievery. To prove his point, he puts the visitors in a trance, making them perform scenes from the plays he has written.

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Easy Stages

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This is an amusing, subtle parody of the backstage goings-on of an amateur Dramatic society. While N.J. Warburton's play Don't Blame It On the Boots centred on the onstage difficulties of the amateur Dramatic society's production of Hamlet, here we see the stage crew struggling to play their part against all the odds.

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Farmer Giles Of Ham

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from book by Tolkien

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toured East Anglia    2002

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Fly in the Ointment

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For Starters

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Daisy has recently been employed as a waitress at an hotel restaurant and as a result Roland, a regular and rather particular customer, is getting more than he ordered. From polite conversation to an outright invasion of privacy, Daisy attends to Roland in her unique and inquisitive way. As their friendship grows they realize they have something to learn from each other - Daisy needs to be less nosy and Roland has to learn how to accept change.

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Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough    08 Jun 2004

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Garlic And Lavender

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Dolly and Clara arrive at Castle Drackenberg, unaware that danger lurks behind every corner, for the castle's owner, Count Drackenburg, is a vampire! This play combines every traditional element of the vampire horror genre - including a sinister henchman, surly villagers and doughty vampire expert - with a strong measure of daft comedy, to hilarious effect!

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Ghost Writer

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Jeffrey and Belinda are just about to type the last word of their new play when a full range of characters come to life and start to enact parts the authors can no longer control. A ghost writer lends a hand. As the play draws to a close, the writers find themselves totally embroiled in the action and only the ghost's ironical laughter is left for a grand finale!

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Keeping Secrets

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Last Bread Pudding, The

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the committee of an amateur Drama group is meeting to discuss a new play. We notice that, strangely, the presentation of the meeting to us is reflecting the ideas put forward by the committee, making the play a demonstration as well as a discussion of those ideas. A clever and entertaining piece, ideal for festivals.

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Mumford Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire    11 Apr 1997

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Loophole, The

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Mr Overall, the Junior Under Minister for Justice, has a special knack for finding legal loopholes. When Prisoner 604 is sentenced to death all his talent is brought to bear. Aided by the prison chaplain, he finds a way, only to be defeated by his officious assistant and the prison officer. But Overall is not quite convinced that the game is over.

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Melons At the Parsonage

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Two amateur Drama groups become joint winners of a play festival. A tie-break involves the groups performing an extract from their own entry and then an excerpt from the opposing team's play, but the pieces are very different. they compete again with hilarious results but the outcome is still a tie. This time a rugby scrum will decide the winner!

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Moonstone, The

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In 1799 a mysterious yellow diamond is looted from an Indian temple by John Herncastle of the British Army. He then bequeaths it to his niece, Rachel Verinder. But the Moonstone carries a curse with it, and the malicious Herncastle intends to bring harm to his sister's family with this gift. On the very night Rachel receives the diamond, it is stolen. So begins a classic tale of deception, intrigue and murder. Mr Bruff, the family solicitor, has called together the servants of the Verinder household to help him tell the story. By playing out the roles of all the characters who were ensnared by the diamond, they begin to unravel the mystery. Guiding them through the twists and turns is Sergeant Cuff, first of the Great Detectives. He steers them towards the solution to the riddle - who stole the Moonstone, and how?

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from the book by Wilkie Collins

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Mumford Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire    09 Dec 2003

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Music Lovers

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Nativity Letters, The

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Not Bobby

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Anxious to complete yesterday's newspaper crossword, Frank finds the page missing. His mother, Pam, confesses to using it in the newly acquired rabbit's cage. Extracting the page Frank is astonished to find the crossword is now complete. Could the rabbit, Bobby, be responsible . . . ? A quirky, well-observed satire from the author of Don't Blame It on the Boots.

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Office Song

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Brian is attempting to escape his firm's Christmas party when he is waylaid in the cloakroom by Claire, who soon discovers a secret about her unassuming colleague: at home, he likes to sing Doris Day songs. Claire tries to persuade Brian to take part in a talent contest; with her friend Wendy she sets about training Brian to sing in public.

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Mumford Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire    12 Apr 1997

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Old Curiosity Shop, The

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ADC Theatre, Cambridge    10 Dec 2013

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Purvis

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Life-changing meetings can happen in the oddest of places: in this case, the vestry of a C of E church is the scene. Uptight, down-trodden Rachel, the vicar's wife, chats to recently-widowed Mr Purvis there and is rather cornered into offering him the post of the church's Health and Safety Officer. the consequences are unexpected: Purvis is keen but, frankly, causes more problems than he solves, the vicar being the prime victim of his misguided attempts to make things safer, and Rachel, though exasperated and embarrassed by Purvis, grows in self-confidence as their friendship deepens. Funny, touching and wry, this play for two actors is an example of comedy writing at its very best.

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Receive This Light

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A modern morality play wherein Michael and Tom, petty thieves, are interrogated by a Man and and a Woman who wish to be rid of a certain man. they send the thieves to spy on him but Michael runs away rather than betray him. Tom informs but later regrets his action. Both are taken out to die on either side of the man.

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Round the World With Class Six

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Class 6 are well-behaved, hard-working . . . and bored. Every day is much the same - and then Mr Parker, the supply teacher, sets them an interesting project: to re-enact Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the world in 1577. Within minutes the room is transformed into an Elizabethan sailing ship and the brave adventurers set sail!

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Smoking Gun: Cover Her Feet/Fly in the Ointment

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the plays offer quite different, and mutually exclusive, possibilities, as if they are taking place in parallel universes: while Cover Her Feet begins with Bobby accidentally shooting his wife, and ends with Lexi accidentally shooting her boss, Fly in the Ointment begins with Lexi accidentally shooting her boss, and ends with Bobby accidentally shooting his wife (I hope you're following me). And while in the first play Bobby and Lexi have already met, and are 'working together' as man and life coach, at the beginning of the second play they meet for the first time.
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Sour Grapes And Ashes

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Bernard is fulfilling his dead father's wishes to scatter his ashes over his favourite fell. After a trail of misunderstandings and clashes in the family's relationships Bernard realizes the part his Father has played and some sort of understanding is reached; Father, of course, has the last word.

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Tales of the Country

Synopsis:
Nearly eight years ago, as Independent readers will know, Brian Viner and his family left Crouch End for Docklow Grange, a Victorian manor in Hereford-shire. No-one forced them out of north London; it was merely a bad dose of what he drolly calls "metropause". Out of this exodus came the column "Country Life" and a book, Tales of the Country. Viner - with a townie's experience of country dwelling - found inspiration flowing even when the septic tank was blocked. Now, on a tiny set and with a large bundle of props, a handful of costumes and a babble of sound effects, life chez Viner is vividly Dramatised by the resourceful Pentabus theatre. In which other venue except homely Shifnal Village Hall, by the way, could local produce on stage be supplemented by coffee and homemade cake for the audience?
- Lynne Walker, the Independant

Notes:
from the book by Brian Viner

1st Produced:
Shifnal Village Hall    20 Apr 2010

Organisations:
Pentabus Theatre Company

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Three Men In a Boat

Synopsis:
Let's go up the River.' Thus saying Jay, George and Harris (to say nothing of the Dog) as the trio set sail up the River Thames and into an hilarious comedy classic of quintessentially English charm.

Notes:
from the book by Jerome K Jerome

1st Produced:
ADC Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire    08 Dec 2009

Organisations:
BAWDS (in association with Combined Actors of Cambridge)

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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

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Touch Wood

Synopsis:
Terence Munro is a successful businessman, the king of the Munro Empire. Nothing could possibly knock him off his throne. Or could it? Margaret is a woman on a mission and she's not leaving until she's given Terence far more than he bargained for. It's money versus morality. With a exciting twist in the tale, this play examines family, friendships and how your past actions can return to haunt you. Terence may have to pay a much bigger price than he ever imagined.

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Waiting For Nesbit

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Genre:
One Act

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Zartan

Synopsis:
Lord Greycoat lost his son when the boy's carrycot dropped from a plane over the African jungle. An expedition is mounted to find the adult Zartan, who suffers from a split personality and doubts about his extraordinary size in comparison to his ant 'parents'. Through Greycoat's secretary, Jane, Zartan discovers his true identity - and love.

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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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