Robert Holman
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ROBERT HOLMAN
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Robert was born in 1952 in Guisborough, North Yorkshire. His father was a farm manager, and his mother was head teacher of an infant school. Robert was encouraged to take his writing seriously by an English teacher when he was sixth form, and came to London in 1971 with that intention, although at first he worked on a bookstall on Paddington Station. In 1974 Robert received an Arts Council bursary which enabled him to write full time. Robert has been Resident Dramatist at the Royal National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company.
2010 1000 STARS EXPLODE IN THE Co-written with David Eldridge and
SKY Simon Stephens, Lyric Theatre,
Hammersmith
2008 JONAH AND OTTO The Royal Exchange Theatre,
Manchester.
2003 QUIETLY MAKING NOISE The Royal Exchange Theatre,
Manchester. Season of plays including
Across Oka and Rafts and Dreams
2003 HOLES IN THE SKIN Chichester Festival Theatre
1998 BAD WEATHER The Royal Shakespeare Company
1990 RAFTS AND DREAMS Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court
1988 ACROSS OKA The Royal Shakespeare Company.
1987 MAKING NOISE QUIETLY The Bush Theatre, London
1986 THIS IS HISTORY GRAN BBC Television film
1985 THE OVERGROWN PATH The Royal Court Theatre
1984 TODAY The Royal Shakespeare Company.
1983 OTHER WORLDS The Royal Court Theatre
1980 CHANCE OF A LIFETIME 'Play for Today’, BBC
1980 THE ESTUARY The Bush Theatre, London
1979 ROOTING The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
(A play for five pigs and four actors) Later shown on BBC Television as
'Mucking Out'.
1977 GERMAN SKERRIES The Bush Theatre. Winner of
the George Devine Award.
1976 ÉMIGRÉS Translated from Mrozek.
Royal National Theatre at the Young Vic, London.
1976 OUTSIDE THE WHALE Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
1974 MUD The Royal Court Theatre
1974 THE NATURAL CAUSE Cockpit Theatre, London.
1973 COAL Soho-Poly Theatre, London.
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1972 PROGRESS IN UNITY Middlesbrough Town Hall,
Teeside Youth Theatre.
1972 THE GRAVE LOVERS The Pool Theatre, Edinburgh.
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