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David Muncaster | |
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 Muncaster in 2024 | |
| Born | c. 1958[1] |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Nationality | English |
| Period | 2006–present |
| Genre | Comedy, drama, adaptation |
| Notable works | Call Girls Mission Impossible The Beginner's Guide to Murdering Your Husband |
| Website | |
| www | |
David Muncaster (born c. 1958)[1] is an English playwright based in Sandbach, Cheshire. He has written around twenty plays, which have been performed by amateur and community theatre groups in the United Kingdom and internationally, including in the United States, New Zealand and Germany.[1][2] His one act comedy Mission Impossible won the Congleton One Act Play Festival, selected by audience vote from a shortlist drawn from more than 150 international entries.[3]
Career
[edit]Muncaster worked in information technology before retiring.[1] He has been involved in community theatre since the 1990s as an actor, director and stage manager, and began writing for the stage in 2006 after watching a television documentary about playwrights competing to have their work produced in London's West End.[2] His first one act play, Call Girls, was published by New Theatre Publications and performed in both the UK and the USA.[2]
His subsequent short, one act and full length plays have been performed in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia.[2] His comedy The Beginner's Guide to Murdering Your Husband has been staged in New Zealand and in Germany, where it was performed in translation, as well as in Yorkshire, Scotland and Sussex. In March 2024 Muncaster directed the play in Sandbach for the Saxon Players, a theatre group he helped to form.[1] His other work for the group includes an adaptation of Aristophanes' The Frogs and a stage adaptation of Josephine Tey's novel The Daughter of Time.[1]
Muncaster has also written for radio. His radio play adaptation of John Willard's 1922 stage thriller The Cat and the Canary, framed as a live studio broadcast in which too few actors arrive to cover the parts, was performed by the Walberton Players in West Sussex in 2022.[4]
Since 2010 Muncaster has been a playscript reviewer for Amateur Stage magazine, and collections of his reviews have been published in book form.[5][6] A number of his plays are made available royalty-free through his website, Plays for Theatre.[7]
Muncaster's one act comedy Mission Impossible, set in an office training session and satirising management jargon, won the Congleton One Act Play Festival. More than 150 entries from around the world were read blind by the organisers, with a shortlist of five performed before a capacity audience at the Daneside Theatre in Congleton on 18 July, and the audience voted Mission Impossible the winner.[3] A longstanding participant in local theatre, Muncaster previously served as chairman of the Sandbach Players and has been a member of Knutsford Little Theatre, which staged his comedy Life Begins at Seventy.[3]
Selected works
[edit]Stage plays
[edit]- Call Girls (one act)[2]
- Waiting for a Train (one act)[2]
- Mad Gary's Fruit and Nut Case[2]
- Mission Impossible (one act; winner, Congleton One Act Play Festival)[3]
- Life Begins at Seventy[2]
- The Beginner's Guide to Murdering Your Husband[1]
- The Frogs (adaptation of Aristophanes)[1]
- The Daughter of Time (adaptation of the novel by Josephine Tey)[1]
Radio
[edit]- A Radio Play of the Cat and the Canary (adaptation of the play by John Willard)[4]
Books
[edit]- The Play's The Thing: Amateur Stage Playscript Reviews 2010–2011 (2013)[6]
- The Play's The Thing 2: Amateur Stage Playscript Reviews 2012–2013 (2013)[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i Bowyer, Deborah (17 March 2024). "Sandbach playwright gets ready to see his play performed by the Saxon Players". Sandbach Nub News. Retrieved 2 July 2026.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "David Muncaster". doollee.com. Retrieved 2 July 2026.
- ^ a b c d "Success for Sandbach playwright". Northwich Guardian. Retrieved 2 July 2026.
- ^ a b Smithers, Keith (25 February 2022). "A Radio Play of the Cat and the Canary". National Operatic and Dramatic Association. Retrieved 2 July 2026.
- ^ "Meet Our Authors: David Muncaster". YouthPLAYS. Retrieved 2 July 2026.
- ^ a b c "About David Muncaster". The Play's the Thing. Retrieved 2 July 2026.
- ^ "Plays for Theatre". playsfortheatre.com. Retrieved 2 July 2026.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- David Muncaster at Goodreads
- David Muncaster at doollee.com
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