Nick Dear
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Nick Dear has been writing plays for stage, screen and radio for many years.
Last year Lunch in Venice appeared at the Shell Connections festival at the National Theatre. His play Power premiered in 2003, and Summefolk in 1999 by the Royal National Theatre. Power deals with the intrigue and tension of the court of the young Louis XIV of France. Power has been transferred to theatres in Portugal, Poland and Hungary, as well as 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.
Dear also wrote a play Zenobia (1995).