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Ken Whitmore

KEN WHITMORE

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

He has won the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Plays of the Year, the Arnold Bennett Short Story Prize and the Times/Jonathan Cape Children's Story Competition. His work is included in various school and university textbooks and literary anthologies.

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

         Bolshie Vita, La         Caucasian In the Woodpile         Final Twist, The         Jump for Your Life         Jump!         Pen-Friends         Turn Of the Screw, The
Bolshie Vita, La

Synopsis:
Osip, a fervent young Patty member, is confused with Ivan, a Jewish dissident poet. Ivan is en route for Siberia and imprisonment, while Osip is travelling there to inspire the residents of Poshlost to heroic efforts. Anton, the local Party Secretary, has just returned from a trip to the West with his suitcase loaded with forbidden luxuries, and together with the other local party officials, is thrown into a panic at the prospect of the arrival of a keen Communist. Yet in the ensuing hilarious confusion the dissident Ivan achieves quite remarkable results . . .

Notes:
Suggested by the Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol

1st Produced:
-     1986

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1986   

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Caucasian In the Woodpile

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Final Twist, The

Final Twist, The
A playwright is approached by an actor to write a play for him. It has to be one that has a perfect murder and alibi. the actor says it is a surprise for his wife

Notes:
Written by Alfred Bradley And Ken Whitmore

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1st Published:
Samuel French Ltd   

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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Jump for Your Life

Jump for Your Life
Frederick must persuade the government and the television news programmers that the only way to save the planet is for everyone to jump up and down at the same time

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Samuel French, London, 1980   

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Jump!

Jump!
A mole and a boy must convince the world they must jump up and down on May 5th to save the planet

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1st Published:
in "Bradley, A. (Ed.), Out Of the Air" Longman, London, 1978   

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Genre:
Fable

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Pen-Friends

Synopsis:
kind hearted couple bring two vulnerable pen-friends together for a weekend in their country house

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Samuel French, London, 1982   

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Turn Of the Screw, The

Turn Of the Screw, The
Enigmatic ghost story where the doubts are not resolved

Notes:
adaptation of the Henry James novella

1st Produced:
Lichfield Festival, George Hotel     15 Jul 2011

Organisations:
Intimate Theatre

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1983   

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  1g 1b

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