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The Glee Club Richard Cameron

The Glee Club By Richard Cameron

The Glee Club by Richard Cameron


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Summary

The Glee Club, made up of five hard-working, hard-drinking miners and a church organist, is preparing for the local gala. This is the summer of 1962; music and much else is about to change - so too the lives of these six men. Nothing and no-one will ever be the same again.

The Glee Club Summary

The Glee Club by Richard Cameron

A brilliant new play by one of the UK's most established contemporary playwrights The Glee Club, made up of five hard working, hard drinking miners and a church organist is preparing for the local gala. Though they're established on the working men's club circuit, they aren't exactly at the vanguard of a musical revolution. This is the summer of 1962; music and much else is about to change - so too the lives of these six men. Nothing and no-one will ever be the same again.Splendidly warm, sad, funny Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph A right cracker Michael Billington, Guardian Dramatic dynamite Rachel Halliburton, Evening Standard The Glee Club premiered at the Bush Theatre, London in February 2002.

About Richard Cameron

Richard Cameron was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. He taught for many years, was Director of Scunthorpe Youth Theatre from 1979 to 1988 and Head of Drama at the Thomas Sumpter School in Scunthorpe until 1991, then gave up teaching in order to write full-time. His plays include Haunted Flowers, now retitled Handle with Care (National Student Drama Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1985) which won the 1985 Sunday Times Playwriting Award; Strugglers (Battersea Arts Centre, 1988), which won the 1988 Sunday Times Playwriting Award; The Moon's the Madonna (NSDF, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Battersea Arts Centre, 1989) which was shortlisted for the Independent Theatre Award and won the 1989 Company Award at the NSDF and Can't Stand Up for Falling Down (Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Hampstead Theatre, London) for which he won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award for a record third time in 1990, as well as a Scotsman Fringe First and the 1990 Independent Theatre Award. Pond Life (Bush Theatre, London, 1992), Not Fade Away (Bush Theatre, 1993), The Mortal Ash (Bush Theatre), Almost Grown (National Theatre) and Seven (Birmingham Rep) were all performed in 1994. Other plays include The Glee Club (2002) and Gong Donkeys (2004). His first television play Stone Scissors Paper won the inaugural BBC Television Dennis Potter Play of the Year Award in 1995.

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GOR003150928
9780413772497
0413772497
The Glee Club by Richard Cameron
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20020218
108
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