Nick Dear
Nick Dear | |
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Born | (1955-06-11) 11 June 1955 (age 68) Portsmouth, England |
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Playwright, screenwriter |
Nick Dear (born 11 June 1955) is an English writer for stage, screen and radio. He received a BAFTA for his first screenwriting credit, a film adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Education
Dear graduated with a degree in Comparative European Literature from the University of Essex in 1977.
Career
Dear's plays include Power and The Villains' Opera at the National Theatre; The Art of Success, Zenobia and Pure Science for the RSC; In the Ruins at Bristol Old Vic and Royal Court, London (1990); and Food of Love at the Almeida. Adaptations include Gorky's Summerfolk and Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme at the National; Tirso de Molina's The Last Days of Don Juan at the Royal Shakespeare Company; Arbuzov's The Promise at the Tricycle; Henry James' The Turn of the Screw at Bristol Old Vic; and Ostrovsky's A Family Affair for Cheek by Jowl. Dear's screenplays include Persuasion, The Gambler, The Turn of the Screw, Cinderella, Byron, Eroica and Agatha Christie's Poirot. Opera libretti include The Palace in the Sky at Hackney Empire and Siren Song at the Almeida.
In 2005, Lunch in Venice appeared at the Shell Connections festival at the National Theatre. His plays Power (2003), and Summerfolk (1999) both premiered at the same venue. Power deals with the intrigue and tension of the court of the young Louis XIV of France. It has been produced at theatres in Portugal, Poland and Hungary, as well as the Finnish National Theatre (Kansallisteatteri).
His play The Art of Success premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 in a production starring Penny Downie and Michael Kitchen, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. The plot revolves around William Hogarth and the political manipulation of art, the corruption of politics and treatment of women. It was subsequently produced at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1989, with Tim Curry playing Hogarth.[1]
Dear's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 2011, in a production directed by Danny Boyle.[2]
In November 2012 The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, his biographical play about Edward Thomas, opened at the Almeida Theatre, in a production directed by Richard Eyre.[3]
References
- ^ Rich, Frank (21 December 1989) "Review/Theater; 'Art of Success' Makes Hogarth The Warhol of the 18th Century" The New York Times
- ^ Details of Danny Boyle's production of Nick Dear's Frankenstein "Director Danny Boyle Returns with Frankenstein, Opening at London's National Theatre - Playbill.com". Archived from the original on 23 February 2011. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ^ "The Dark Earth and the Light Sky".
External links
- Nick Dear at IMDb
- Michael Kitchen in The Art of Success
- The Portuguese Production of Power
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- Tom Stoppard for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Wole Soyinka for The Interpreters (shared) (1967)
- Peter Nichols for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967)
- Peter Barnes for The Ruling Class and Edward Bond for Narrow Road to the Deep North (shared) (1968)
- Howard Brenton for Christie in Love (1969)
- Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) for Freehold on Antigone (1970)
- Mustapha Matura for As Time Goes By (1971)
- Heathcote Williams for AC/DC (1972)
- John Arden (1973)
- David Rudkin (1974)
- David Edgar for Destiny (1975)
- David Lan for The Winter Dancers (1976)
- David Halliwell and Snoo Wilson for The Glad Hand (shared) (1978)
- Stephen Bill (1979)
- David Pownall for Beef (1981)
- Karim Alrawi for Migrations (1982)
- Peter Flannery for Our Friends in the North (1983)
- Ron Hutchinson for The Rat in the Skull (1984)
- Guy Hibbert for On the Edge and Heidi Thomas for Shamrocks & Crocodiles (shared) (1985)
- Nick Dear for The Art of Success (1986)
- Iain Heggie for American Bagpipes (1988)
- Billy Roche for A Handful of Stars (1989)
- Lucy Gannon for Keeping Tom Nice (1990)
- Terry Johnson for Imagine Drowning (1991)
- Rod Wooden for Your Home in the West (1992)
- Martin Crimp for The Treatment and Helen Edmundson for The Clearing (shared) (1993)
- Jonathan Harvey for Beautiful Thing (1994)
- Joe Penhall for Some Voices (1995)
- Ayub Khan-Din for East is East (1996)
- Ann Coburn for Get Up and Tie Your Fingers (1997)
- Roy Williams for Starstruck (1998/9)
- David Greig for The Cosmonaut's Last Message ... and Tanika Gupta for The Waiting Room (shared) (2000)
- Zinnie Harris for Further than the Furthest Thing (2001)
- Peter Rumney for Jumping on my Shadow (2002)
- Rona Munro for Iron (2003)
- Owen McCafferty for Scenes from the Big Picture (2004)
- Fin Kennedy for How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (2005)
- James Philips for The Rubenstein Kiss and Fraser Grace for Breakfast with Mugabe (shared) (2006)
- Dennis Kelly for Taking Care of Baby (2007)
- Bryony Lavery for Stockholm (2008)
- Alexi Kaye Campbell for The Pride (2009)
- Tim Crouch for The Author and Lucy Kirkwood for It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First but It Is Alright Now (shared) (2010)