Nick Dear
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Nick Dear has been writing plays for both stage and radio for many years. Last year 'Lunch in Venice' appeared at the Shell Connections festival at the National Theatre, and his play Power was first performed in 2003 by the National Theatre, and deals with the intrigue and tension of the court of the young Louis XIV of France. Power has been transferred to theatres in Portugal and Hungary, also in the Finnish National Theatre (Kansallisteatteri). He also wrote the highly acclaimed 'Art of Success' in 1986 starring Penny Downie and Michael Kitchen, and received a BAFTA for his adaptation of Jane Austen's 'Persuasion' for television.
Nick Dear also wrote a play Zenobia (1995)