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Nick Ward

NICK WARD

  (1962 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Nick Ward was born in Geelong, Australia, in 1962. His first plays as writer/director won three Fringe First Awards at the Edinburgh Festival. He won the George Devine Award in 1988 for Apart From George (National Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, Royal Court, a national tour and New York). He subsequently wrote the Strangeness of Others (National Theatre), Trouble Sleeping (National Theatre Studio and Warehouse Theatre Croydon), Splendid Isolation (National Theatre Studio), an adaptation of the Decameron (National Theatre Studio), Eastwood (Man In the Moon Theatre -Time Out Award, 1986), the Cenci (commissioned by Almeida Opera) and a translation of A Doll's House (Leicester Haymarket). His radio work includes Trouble Sleeping with Jim Broadbent and Patricia Routledge (BBC Radio 3). He has also written and directed two films, Dakota Road (Channel 4) and Look Me in the Eye (BBC). the Cock Tavern Theatre in Kilburn has appointed Nick Ward as its first Playwright in Residence, Nov 2009.

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

         Apart From George         Danny Rule         Decameron the         Eastwood         Mike & Virginia         Present, The         Splendid Isolation         Strangeness Of Others, The         Trouble Sleeping

Apart From George

Synopsis:
scrubbing the floor unscrambles and amplifies woman's reaction to the frustrated sexuality and potential violence that surrounds her

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1st Produced:
National Theatre Studio, London    1987

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 1988   -

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Danny Rule

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aka the Present

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Decameron the

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From Boccaccio

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Eastwood

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From B H Lawrence' Early Work

1st Produced:
Man In the Moon Theatre, London    1985

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Mike & Virginia

Synopsis:
Mike and Virginia. Both single. Both competitive. Both lecturers in film studies. Her specialty is romantic comedy, his is monster movies. She thinks he's an arrogant knuckle-dragger, he thinks she's a bitter, uptight cow. And he's not far wrong. So of course the very worst thing they could do is fall in love. Aaah . . .
- www.theatreview.org.nz

Notes:
Written By Kathryn Burnett & Nick Ward

1st Produced:
Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre, the Edge, Auckland    30 Apr 2011

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New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2011. BrainStorm in association with STAMP at the EDGE

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comedy

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Present, The

Synopsis:
Danny is deeply confused. Its December 1980, and the English eighteen year old has woken up in the middle of melbourne's unhinged modern art scene. the music of the newly dead John lennon forms a soundtrack, to which Danny may have just raped and murdered a stranger called lizzie. then again, he may just have enjoyed his first 'rough route' in OZ. One thing is clear: it won't be his last.
Lucy Powell, Time Out London.

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aka Danny Rule (Royal Court, London 18/10/93

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Splendid Isolation

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-    1986

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Strangeness Of Others, The

Synopsis:
panorama of contemporary London in which a range of individuals - rich, poor, young, old - are locked in a network of shifting relationships

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Oberon Books, London, 1988   -

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Trouble Sleeping

Synopsis:
satiric look at Prime Minister John A. MacDonald and his four hapless Tory successors as they bumble their way through a crisis with parallels to today's obsessions on language, race and politics

Notes:
developed At National theatre Studio, London

1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    1995

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in "Plays: One" Faber, London, 1995   -

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