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Statement of Service, Royal Naval Service Records John Clifford HALL DOB: 26 June 1925, Saltford, Somerset Official service number: JX 679401. Promoted to Officer in the RNVR: 03-03-44 Date of commencement of service: 3 November 1943 Date and cause of discharge: 30 December 1946. Released in Clas
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was well-received. It is a story based around '...an industrialist – a Senator – who is prospecting for water...' '...in the Western Australian desert... the central character outwardly a man of success and power, but faced with the collapse of his achievements...' and the realisation that 'Life
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wrote: 'Mr Hall's mind is his own; what he has to say is his own...' The review in The Stage for the Birmingham production of the play read: 'an interesting journey through a variety of tense scenes, each peopled with characters that might in turn be the focal point of the play themselves... Mr.
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Hall considered the most important playwrights of the 1960s were '...Harold Pinter, Christopher Fry, Robert Bolt, John Arden, John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Peter Schaeffer and Charles Wood'. He was influenced by
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influenced by 'the marked contrasts of life at Oxford... and Keele ... The leading character – within a few months of leaving academia – writes a paper titled "39 Reasons Why University Is No Good"'.
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by John Hall, which required him to be shot at point-blank range in the stomach: as he suddenly crumpled, uttering cat-like cries, the critic
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was quoted as saying that the play contained 'a great deal of power and originality'. and the playwright
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FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT (10 July 1957). "John Hall's The Lizard on The Rock at Birmingham Rep".
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cannot depend upon "the blandishments of power; the blind man groping among the useless treasure.'"
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Gillard, David (16–22 January 1988). "Hear This! Radio Highlights with David Gillard (Pg 14)".
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described it as "the best fall since Feuillère", who was then queen of the French stage'.
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Ransom, Harry H. (Summer 1967). "British Drama in the Sixties – A Note from London".
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Cordelia Oliver (12 September 1966). "THE LITTLE WOMAN at the Traverse, Scotland".
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The London Stage 1950–1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel
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Hall was educated at Queens College, Oxford, where he studied under
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who wrote over thirty plays for theatre, television and radio.
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Hall... gives them an aura pregnant with possibilities.' The
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The cover of The Lizard on the Rock, published by Methuen
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Study for his MA was interrupted by service in the 1471:"radio plays drama,bbc,Alec Reid, DIVERSITY website" 358:  –  York and Aberdeen student productions 287:  –  tour and London Phoenix theatre with 1384:"BBC Radio Drama, Radio 3 , 1985,DIVERSITY website" 344:  –  Strathclyde University theatre group 248:(Augsberg theatre and Birmingham repertory company) 204:, which never got beyond a rehearsed reading.  1128:"Dalzell & Beresford Ltd – Dame SiΓ’n Phillips" 770:"Albert Finney, Rosamund Hall, Lizard on the Rock" 788:"Production of Lizard on the Rock | Theatricalia" 743:"REPERTORY: THREE WORLD PREMIERES FOR BIRMINGHAM" 570:Certicate of MA from Oxford University, John Hall 1017:CIM04 Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology 991: 989: 987: 196:during the resurrection of verse drama, and by 1013:"Painted musical representation and mnemonics" 462:  –  Radio 4, Saturday Night theatre 86:(26 June 1925 – 25 March 2001) was an English 42:to make improvements to the overall structure. 932:"The Lizard on the Rock, John Hall's Tragedy" 8: 1031:"Programme for 'The Strangers' by John Hall" 127:starred in one of his most successful plays 131:, at Birmingham Repertory Theatre of which 1250:"Production of Convolvulus | Theatricalia" 434:  –  BBC2, Thirty Minute Theatre 323:  –  Traverse theatre, Edinburgh 200:. 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