| DAVID PINNER
18 Leconfield Ave London SW13 OLD |
DAVID PINNER was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1959-61, after which he appeared on stage as Gawaine in R.C. Sherriff s THE LONG SUNSET at the Mermaid; Bassanio in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE with Michael Aldridge; Laertes in HAMLET with Emrys James; and Edmund in LEAR with Joseph O'Conor at the North East Festival; Firk in THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY and the Dauphin in THE LARK with Anne Stallybrass at the Theatre Royal, Sheffeld; Billy in BILLY LIAR with Janet Suzman at the Theatre Royal, Windsor; and the leading role in THE MOUSETRAP at the Ambassador's Theatre in the West End of London. In television he has appeared in many roles on the BBC, including as Joseph in HOUSE OF STRANGERS with Margaret Lockwood; Williams in HENRY V with Derek Jacobi; the Duke of Clarence in THE PRINCE REGENT with Peter Egan and Susanna York; Oscar Wilde in FATHER BROWN with Kenneth More; Rollings in Orwell's COMING UP FOR AIR with Colin Blakely; Darby in FAME IS THE SPUR with Tim Piggottt Smith; Kardek in AUTO STOP with David Hemmings; and Lord Harrington, with John Hurt, in ACQUIT OR HANG. While he was playing the lead in THE MOUSE TRAP in the West End, he wrote his first novel RITUAL (Hutchinson/Arrow), upon which the cult movie THE WICKER MAN was based. He has written two other novels WITH MY BODY (Weidenfeld and Nicholson/Corgi) and THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND (Anthony Blonde). However for most of his career he has concentrated on writing plays which include FANGHORN, starring Glenda Jackson, at the Fortune Theatre, London; LUCIFER'S FAIR at the Arts Theatre, London; and THE POTSDAM QUARTET with Clive Swift, at the Lyric Hammersmith, London. THE POTSDAM QUARTET was then screened by the BBC, and staged at the Lion Theatre in New York, directed by Jacques Levy . Kate O'Mara played the lead in his play THE LAST ENGLISHMAN at the Orange Tree which Pinner also directed, and Philip Madoc played Joseph Stalin in the THE TEDDY BEARS' PICNIC at the Gateway, Chester. James Faulkner, Francis Cuka and Marayam D'Arbo starred in his most recent play, LENIN IN LOVE at the New End Theatre, Hampstead. His plays have been published by Penguin, Plays of the Year, Samuel French and Oberon Books. He has also written many plays for radio and television. |
STAGE PLAYS PRODUCED: DICKON (Queen's Theatre, Horuchurch) 1965 FANGHORN (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh) 1966 Starring Glenda Jackson (Fortune Theatre, West End) 1967 THE DRUMS OF SNOW (Stanford University, USA, 1969;0xford Universityl972,) LIGHTING AT A FUNERAL (Stanford University, USA, 1970) CARTOON (Soho Poly, London, 1970) LUCIFER'S FAIR (Arts Theatre, London, 1971, where David Pinner was Playwright in Residence) MARRIAGES (London Academy of Music and Drama, 1972, directed by the author) HEREWARD THE WAKE (Key Theatre, Peterborough, 1973, where he was Playwright in Residence) THE POTSDAM QUARTET (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guilford, 1974; then at Lyric, Hammersmith, 1979, starring Clive Swift, directed by David Giles; and then at the Lion Theatre, New York, 1982, directed by Jacques Levy; there have been further productions in Cleveland and L.A, USA) SHAKEBAG (Soho Poly, London, 1976) AN EVENING WITH THE G.L.C (Soho Poly, 1979) SCREWBALL (Theatre Royal, Pymouth, 1983) REVELATIONS (Grinnell College, USA, 1886) THE TEDDY BEARS' PICNIC (Gateway Theatre, Chester, 1988, with Philip Madoc as Joseph Stalin) SKIN DEEP (Gateway Theatre, Chester, 1989, with Mark Kingston) THE LAST ENGLISHMAN (Orange Tree Theatre, London, 199O, with Kate O'Mara, directed by the author) THE SINS OF THE MOTHER (Grace Theatre, 1996, produced by Richard Bates) LENIN IN LOVE (New End Theatre, Hampstead, London, 200O, with James FaulLner as Lenin, Francis Cuka as Krupskaya and Marayam D'Abo as Inessa Armand) LENIN IN LOVE and THE TEDDY BEARS' PICNIC have been translated into Russian and readings of both plays were given by the leading actors of Liubimov's Taganka Theatre in Moscow and shown on Moscow television in 2001, prior to production in 2003. He has just completed his latest play NEWTON'S HOOKE which focuses on the conflict between Newton Hooke and Robert Hooke. |
STAGE PLAYS PUBLISHED: DICKON (Penguin, 1966) FANGHORN (Penguin, and Plays and Players, 1968) THE DRUMS OF SNOW (Penguin, 1967, and Plays Of The Year, 1971) SHAKEBAG (Green River Review, USA, 1982) THE POTSDAM QUARTET (Terra Nova Editions, 1971, and Samuel French, 1981) LENIN IN LOVE (Oberon Books, 2000) THE TEDDY BEARS' PICNIC and THE POTSDAM QUARTET (Oberon Books 2002) MIDSUMMER and ALL HALLOWS'S EVE (Oberon Modern Plays 2002) LADY DAY and REVELATIONS (Oberon Modern Plays 2003) NEWTON'S HOOKE in Newton's Darkness. Two Dramatic Views (Imperial College Press 2003) THE STALIN TRILOGY. Lenin in Love • The Teddy Bears' Picnic • The Potsdam Quartet. London: Oberon Books, 2004. TV FILMS: THE VERDICT IS YOURS (Granada, 1970) JULIET AND ROMEO (Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Germany, 1974) THE POTSDAM QUARTET (BBC, 1980) THE SEA HORSE (Thames, 1985) RADIO PLAYS: (Broadcast by the BBC) DICKON; LIGHTFALL; RICHELIEU; KIER HARDIE; THE EX-PATRIOT; TALLEYRAND, PRINCE OF TRAITORS; THE SQUARE ON THE HYPOTENUSE; FANGS AINT WOT THEY USED TO BE and THE LAST ENGLISHMAN. DICKON and LIGHTFALL were also broadcast in Germany. FILMS: The colt movie THE WICKERMAN (British Lion, 1972) starring Christopher Lee, Brit Eckland, Edward Woodward, Ingrid Pitt and Diane Cilento - was based on David Pinner's novel, RITUAL. PAINTINGS click here. |
NOVELS: RITUAL (Hutchinson, 1967, and Arrow, 1968) WITH MY BODY (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1968, and Corgi, 1969) THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND (Anthony Blond, 1985) POETRY: He has had his poems published in Stand Magazine; The Tribune; Pentamaters, The Transatlantic Poetry Review. His poems have been broadcast on BBC radio and on 'FIVE TO ELEVEN' (BBC TV). DIRECTING: He directed his own play THE LAST ENGLISHMAN at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. His own play MARRIAGES at the London Academy of Music and Drama; THE AMERICAN DREAM, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, ALL MY SONS and THE THREE SISTERS at the Mountview Drama School, London; MACBETH and ANDROMACHE at the Rose Bruford Theatre School, London. He has directed the following plays at the University Theatre, Colgate; EDUCATING RITA; ZOO STORY; BLYTHE SPIRIT; BEDROOM FARCE; MISS JULIE; THE PROPOSAL; THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING, TARTUFFE and THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN. Currently he is directing THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST at Colgate. In 2000 he played Dylan Thomas in Sidney Michael's' DYLAN, directed by Jacque Levy. Pinner has been Associate Professor of Drama at Colgate University for the last ten years. Prior to that he was Associate Professor at Grinnell College, USA. In 2001 he directed 'MACBETH' for The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in Cantonese. In the Fall of 2002 he directed his own play ALL HALLOWS' EVE to tour Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and the USA. Other forthcoming productions of his include his own play LENIN IN LOVE and Shakespeare's RICHARD III in 2003. Visits included a visit in Moscow. |