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PLAYS
Dracula - A new adaptation written by Tim Dalgleish and Sally Luff for Carabosse Theatre Company. Dracula was premiered in November 2023 at Stantonbury Theatre in Milton Keynes. An immersive sensory experience, featuring illusions designed by magician David Penn. This is an adaptation of the classic horror story by Bram Stoker which brings characters such as the madman Renfield back into focus and emphasizes Stoker's themes of the East clashing with the West, secularism being challenged by superstition and embraces the idea that Dracula, a creature hundreds of years old, is a shapeshifter in many senses of the word. The drama also plays with notions of gender with Van Helsing cast as a female and one of Dracula's 'brides' being male.
The Last Days of Adam: The True Story of Adam Czerniakow (2015) Based on the true story of Adam Czerniakow, head of the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat, during World War Two. Adam is a morally conflicted figure torn between between the need to ameliorate the worse excesses of the Nazi's and the danger of being manipulated into becoming a collaborator. Faced with the growing realisation of what happens to those Jews sent 'East' Adam is forced to make a final tragic decision.
'Effectively brings us emotionally to the story which we know will only get worse for Adam and the Jews of Europe... Extremely well written... it engages us well in moral questions... Excellent the way Tim Dalgleish united the historical with the emotional within a short play - very effective.'
'Reader's Favorite'
Five Star review
Gormenghast (2014) The first major stage adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Penguin Classic. Officially endorsed by Fabian Peake and the Mervyn Peake estate. Tim Dalgleish was a co-writer (and actor) on this ambitious project for Carabosse Theatre. Peake's book is a cult classic with many extreme, odd and amusing characters: Steerpike, Swelter, Fuschia, Lord and Lady Groan and the Prunesquallors.
'The set was itself a tour de force... An excellent performance... from a company that needs no encouragement ... an inspired cast'
MK Pulse Magazine
'...a marvellous evening... a wonderful and impressive show'
Fabian Peake
Fragile Fire (2013) A true story from the Second World War based on the events of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the resistance leader Mordechai Anielewicz. Tim Dalgleish was a co-writer (and actor) on this play for Voices of the Holocaust Theatre Company and international and UK touring company dedicated teaching the history of the holocaust.
'Sensitively acted and produced'☆☆☆☆
playstosee.com
The Life and Theatre of Antonin Artaud (1999) The life of the tortured French playwright, actor and theatre theorist who ended his life in a series of asylums having once been a star of early cinema and one of the strongest voices in French Theatre. His Theatre of Cruelty deeply influenced theatre theory and his ideas are still taught around the world. Produced by the physical theatre company Bare Bones.
The Collector(1997) Adapted from the novel by John Fowles. Frederick Clegg collects butterflies but his desire to collect has moved on to a young woman Miranda Gray, a student art The Slade School of Fine Art. Frederick drugs and kidnaps Miranda and keeps her prisoner in his cellar. Miranda comes to see Frederick is not driven by sexual motives and compares him and his obsession to that of Caliban from The Tempest. This two character play is dark and psychologically tense. Co-written with Caz Tricks, produced by Bare Bones Theatre with set design by the artist Shelly Wyn-de-Bank, official permission from the John Fowles estate.
Stride: a musical (1986) A school musical (with music by Graham Blowes) set in an imaginary repressive country which follows a group on a quest to overthrow the status quo.
Devised and Collaborative Plays
2013 Bench Marks – Carabosse Theatre, Creed Street
2013 Real Ale and Drama Shots - Carabosse Theatre, Creed Street
1997 Down to the Marrow - Bare Bones Theatre Company, Milton Keynes
1997 Malfi – Adapted from Webster, Bare Bones Theatre Company Milton Keynes
1995 Stab in the Dark - Bare Bones Theatre Company, Milton Keynes
1994 After Liverpool – Bare Bones Theatre Company, Milton Keynes
1994 A Shot in the Dark - Bare Bones Theatre Company, Milton Keynes
1989 A Fist Full of Fingers – Flash Idiots Theatre Company, Linford Arts Centre
1988 Concrete Cowgirls - Flash Idiots Theatre Company, Linford Arts Centre
1986 Ode to Freedom – Stantonbury Theatre, Milton Keynes
1984 Princess – Stantonbury Theatre, national tour, Edinburgh Fringe
1983 Day Trip to Troy – RAT Theatre Company, Milton Keynes
Dracula - A new adaptation written by Tim Dalgleish and Sally Luff for Carabosse Theatre Company. Dracula was premiered in November 2023 at Stantonbury Theatre in Milton Keynes. An immersive sensory experience, featuring illusions designed by magician David Penn. This is an adaptation of the classic horror story by Bram Stoker which brings characters such as the madman Renfield back into focus and emphasizes Stoker's themes of the East clashing with the West, secularism being challenged by superstition and embraces the idea that Dracula, a creature hundreds of years old, is a shapeshifter in many senses of the word. The drama also plays with notions of gender with Van Helsing cast as a female and one of Dracula's 'brides' being male.
The Last Days of Adam: The True Story of Adam Czerniakow (2015) Based on the true story of Adam Czerniakow, head of the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat, during World War Two. Adam is a morally conflicted figure torn between between the need to ameliorate the worse excesses of the Nazi's and the danger of being manipulated into becoming a collaborator. Faced with the growing realisation of what happens to those Jews sent 'East' Adam is forced to make a final tragic decision.
'Effectively brings us emotionally to the story which we know will only get worse for Adam and the Jews of Europe... Extremely well written... it engages us well in moral questions... Excellent the way Tim Dalgleish united the historical with the emotional within a short play - very effective.'
'Reader's Favorite'
Five Star review
Gormenghast (2014) The first major stage adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Penguin Classic. Officially endorsed by Fabian Peake and the Mervyn Peake estate. Tim Dalgleish was a co-writer (and actor) on this ambitious project for Carabosse Theatre. Peake's book is a cult classic with many extreme, odd and amusing characters: Steerpike, Swelter, Fuschia, Lord and Lady Groan and the Prunesquallors.
'The set was itself a tour de force... An excellent performance... from a company that needs no encouragement ... an inspired cast'
MK Pulse Magazine
'...a marvellous evening... a wonderful and impressive show'
Fabian Peake
Fragile Fire (2013) A true story from the Second World War based on the events of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the resistance leader Mordechai Anielewicz. Tim Dalgleish was a co-writer (and actor) on this play for Voices of the Holocaust Theatre Company and international and UK touring company dedicated teaching the history of the holocaust.
'Sensitively acted and produced'☆☆☆☆
playstosee.com
The Life and Theatre of Antonin Artaud (1999) The life of the tortured French playwright, actor and theatre theorist who ended his life in a series of asylums having once been a star of early cinema and one of the strongest voices in French Theatre. His Theatre of Cruelty deeply influenced theatre theory and his ideas are still taught around the world. Produced by the physical theatre company Bare Bones.
The Collector(1997) Adapted from the novel by John Fowles. Frederick Clegg collects butterflies but his desire to collect has moved on to a young woman Miranda Gray, a student art The Slade School of Fine Art. Frederick drugs and kidnaps Miranda and keeps her prisoner in his cellar. Miranda comes to see Frederick is not driven by sexual motives and compares him and his obsession to that of Caliban from The Tempest. This two character play is dark and psychologically tense. Co-written with Caz Tricks, produced by Bare Bones Theatre with set design by the artist Shelly Wyn-de-Bank, official permission from the John Fowles estate.
Stride: a musical (1986) A school musical (with music by Graham Blowes) set in an imaginary repressive country which follows a group on a quest to overthrow the status quo.
Devised and Collaborative Plays
2013 Bench Marks – Carabosse Theatre, Creed Street
2013 Real Ale and Drama Shots - Carabosse Theatre, Creed Street
1997 Down to the Marrow - Bare Bones Theatre Company, Milton Keynes
1997 Malfi – Adapted from Webster, Bare Bones Theatre Company Milton Keynes
1995 Stab in the Dark - Bare Bones Theatre Company, Milton Keynes
1994 After Liverpool – Bare Bones Theatre Company, Milton Keynes
1994 A Shot in the Dark - Bare Bones Theatre Company, Milton Keynes
1989 A Fist Full of Fingers – Flash Idiots Theatre Company, Linford Arts Centre
1988 Concrete Cowgirls - Flash Idiots Theatre Company, Linford Arts Centre
1986 Ode to Freedom – Stantonbury Theatre, Milton Keynes
1984 Princess – Stantonbury Theatre, national tour, Edinburgh Fringe
1983 Day Trip to Troy – RAT Theatre Company, Milton Keynes
