David Storey

David Storey
David Storey was born in Yorkshire. He studied at Wakefield Art School from 1951-53, and subsequently at the Slade School in London. After his art studies and a career as a professional rugby player, he turned to writing. His plays have been produced throughout the world to great acclaim. Mr. Storey's work for television includes Home in 1971, and Grace, an adaptation from a story by James Joyce, which was shown on the BBC in 1974. He wrote the screenplay for his novel This Sporting Life and play In Celebration. Of his novels, This Sporting Life won the Macmillan Fiction Prize in 1960, Fight and Camden won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1961 and the Somerset Maugham Award 1963. Pasmore won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1973 and Saville won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1976. Mr. Storey's other plays include The Changing Room, The Farm, and Stages.Perform David Storey
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Stages
David Storey
Full-Length Play, DramaStages
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 1m
"David Storey's starkly observed portrait of an artist in extremis leaves us as close to the core of this eternal enigma as almost anything I have hitherto seen on any stage. He delivers a painful portrait some suggest a self portrait of a man at the…
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The March on Russia
David Storey
Full-Length Play, DramaThe March on Russia
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 3m
"Deeply moving.... A play of delicate half tones and pastel shades ... impressive." - The Guardian
"Lyrical and lovely." - The International Herald Tribune
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David Storey
Full-Length Play, DramaHome
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 3m
Two elderly gentlemen stroll on to an almost bare terrace. They discuss various subjects — the past, schooldays, climate, the sea, moustaches, the war, families, etc.
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David Storey
Full-Length Play, DramaStages
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 1m
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The March on Russia
David Storey
Full-Length Play, DramaThe March on Russia
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 3m
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David Storey
Full-Length Play, DramaHome
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 3m
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David Storey