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{{Short description|Scottish playwright, theatre director and actor}}
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'''Andrew Dallmeyer''' (
Some of Dallmeyer's plays have been considered controversial, for example ''Wanted: Dead or Alive'' which focused on [[Osama
==Early life==
Dallmeyer was born on 10 January 1945 in [[St Boswells]] in
==Career==
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Dallmeyer, described as a veteran actor and playwright,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ellis|first1=Maureen|title=No Headline|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/137235CDF12446C8?p=UKNB|accessdate=1 March 2015|
As a playwright, Dallmeyer has written over 75 plays despite admitting he is unable to type<ref name=Second/> and has directed over 50 productions.<ref name=Caper>{{cite web|title=Opium Eater by Andrew Dallmeyer|url=http://www.capercailliebooks.co.uk/shop/fairplay-press/opium-eater-by-andrew-dallmeyer/|website=Capercaillie Books|accessdate=23 February 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150223180854/http://www.capercailliebooks.co.uk/shop/fairplay-press/opium-eater-by-andrew-dallmeyer/|archive-date=23 February 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He was commissioned by the [[Baron of Prestongrange]] and has written a number of plays for him. He won three Fringe First awards as well as a [[BAFTA Scotland]] Award for the Best Radio Play of 1985 in Scotland.<ref name=Second/><ref name=Caper/><ref name=Julie/><ref name=Courier>{{cite news|title=Six cannons and countless muskets promise epic 'battle' |url=http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/roundup/articles/2009/09/17/391954-six-cannons-and-countless-muskets-promise-epic-battle/?mode=print |accessdate=25 February 2015 |work=East Lothian Courier |date=17 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225122813/http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/roundup/articles/2009/09/17/391954-six-cannons-and-countless-muskets-promise-epic-battle/?mode=print |archivedate=25 February 2015 }}</ref> In 1982, ''[[The Times]]'' pointed out that he was able to put on three separate successful Fringe shows each year.<ref name=Ned>{{cite news|last1=Chaillet|first1=Ned|title=Restoration exercise.|accessdate=1 March 2015|issue=61321|work=The Times|date=26 August 1982|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=lancs&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS118065946&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|location=London, England|page=7}}</ref> Much of Dallmeyer's work has not been published or put into print and therefore he holds the only copy of many plays.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cooper|first1=Neil|title=Making a play for the past|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/13421A5054E71AD0?p=UKNB|accessdate=1 March 2015|work=The Herald|date=14 December 2010}}</ref>
===1980s===
''The Opium Eater'', based on ''[[Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]]'' by [[Thomas De Quincey]],<ref name=Caper/> has had more than a dozen performances across the United Kingdom.<ref name=Opium>{{cite news|last1=McMillan|first1=Joyce|title=The Scotsman: Pick of the day: The Opium Eater|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/0F6614ACA90B2D98?p=UKNB|accessdate=1 March 2015|work=The Scotsman|date=27 September 2002}}</ref> The play was published by [[Capercaillie Books]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsD/dallmeyer-andrew.html|title=Andrew Dallmeyer|publisher=Doollee The Playwrights Database
The radio play won a [[BAFTA]] award equivalent in 1985.<ref name=Opium/> Dallmeyer believes ''The Opium Eater'' is somewhat autobiographical in nature as it is about a writer trying to find inspiration. He went on to state that "I
''The Boys in the Backroom'' was part of a series of plays, produced by Salamander Press, called The [[Traverse Theatre|Traverse]] Plays. The plays were written in celebration of Scottish playwrights and Dallmeyer's play was fifth in the series.<ref name=Traverse/> The play was performed in theatres across America covering 10 cities including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Pittsburgh.<ref name=HScot/> It was reviewed in ''The Times'' as a conspiracy story which "markets its paranoia through outsize performances".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Chaillet|first1=Ned|title=... and authentic revelations on the Fringe too.|accessdate=1 March 2015|issue=61324|work=The Times|date=30 August 1982|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=lancs&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS151620382&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|location=London, England|page=9}}</ref> Following a performance in Los Angeles in 1987 it reviewed by the [[Los Angeles Times]] as "sophomoric and forgettable."<ref name="Traverse"/> It has also been performed by students at the [[Royal Conservatoire of Scotland]].<ref name=Second/>
His one-man show, titled ''Hello Dali'', based on artist [[Salvador
In 1986, Dallmeyer wrote ''The Grand Edinburgh Fire Balloon'' as a piece of commissioned work for the [[Royal Lyceum Theatre]].<ref name=Fowler/> Based on the story of the first man to fly in Britain; [[James Tytler]] was a pioneer with the development of the [[hot air balloon]].<ref name=Hemmings>{{cite news|last1=Hemmings|first1=Sarah|title=Arts (Theatre): Review of 'Grand Edinburgh Fire Balloon' at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/0F90B4AD9DA10CDA?p=UKNB|accessdate=1 March 2015|work=The Times|date=13 October 1986}}</ref> Despite the Lyceum being praised for commissioning a new play with regional importance<ref name=Hemmings/><ref name=Peter/> the play itself received some poor feedback. ''The Times'' reporter Sarah Hemmings viewed the play to be "rather monotonous" and "static", though she also said that the "Scenes that do take off are fascinating."<ref name=Hemmings/> John Peter of the ''[[Sunday Times]]'' reported that the acting was below standard.<ref name=Peter/>
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===2000s===
Dallmeyer wrote and performed in his controversial 50-minute one-man play,<ref name=CNN/><ref name=Lothian/> ''Wanted Dead or Alive'', in which [[Osama bin Laden]] is [[Santa Claus]] in a shopping mall. It was released on the first [[September 11th attacks]] anniversary and attempts to explain possible reasons for Osama bin Laden's anger towards America.<ref name=CNN>{{cite news|last1=Boulden|first1=Jim|title='O-Santa' bin Laden causes a stir|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/12/20/uk.santabinladen/|accessdate=28 February 2015|publisher=CNN|date=20 December 2002}}</ref><ref name=Scotsman/> The performance prompted complaints from the US consulate and Dallmeyer received death threats and abusive phone calls. There were calls from Scottish Parliament member, [[Brian Monteith]], to boycott the performance.<ref name=Scotsman /><ref name=Thorpe>{{cite news|last1=Thorpe|first1=Vanessa|title=Santa Osama arrives cloaked in controversy|url=
His stage play, ''Playing a Blinder'', which attempted to re-create the 1940 [[Edinburgh Derby#New Year derby|Edinburgh Derby's New Year's Day]] match, in which the commentator improvised what was happening on the pitch due to severe fog, was aired in 2002 on BBC Radio 4.<ref name=Talking/><ref name=McBurnie/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Cocchi|first1=Massimiliano|title=The Edinburgh derby that nobody saw|url=http://www.ilpost.it/2015/01/03/hearts-hibernian-1940/|accessdate=25 February 2015|publisher=ILPost|date=3 January 2015|language=Italian}}</ref> The cast included [[Andy Gray (actor)|Andy Gray]] and [[Gavin Mitchell (actor)|Gavin Mitchell]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=McGlone|first1=Jackie|title=I rescued Easter Road from the mists of time...|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/0F2B77AA17549719?p=UKNB|accessdate=1 March 2015|work=The Scotsman|date=18 December 2001}}</ref>
The play took Dallmeyer two years to create<ref name=McBurnie/> and due to their being no recordings of the event he had to "imagine how it might have sounded".<ref name=Talking>{{cite news|last1=Philip|first1=Robert|title=Talking points: Guess who's coming to dinner?|url=
Dallmeyer wrote the musical ''Burns Supper'', in collaboration with composer David Todd, inspired by the [[bard]] [[Robert Burns]]. They then donated the script to schools around the country and a competition was held, in conjunction with charity 'First Scottish Film Features', to find the best school performance. Some of the work was then presented at the Fringe festival.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mollison|first1=Hazel|title=No holds Bard for Burns show|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/125DB21E5A324C80?p=UKNB|accessdate=1 March 2015|work=Edinburgh Evening News|date=20 January 2009}}</ref>
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===2010s===
Dallmeyer wrote the play ''Thank God for John Muir'' based on the life of [[John Muir]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bruce|first1=Keith|title=Arts News:|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/arts-news.118471443|accessdate=23 February 2015|
==Plays written by Dallmeyer==
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! Title !! Year !! Broadcaster !! Notes !! References
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| ''Brainwaves'' || 1973 || || ||
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| ''A Big Treatise in Store'' || 1979 || || ||
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| ''Metaphysics and Strip'' || 1981 || || ||
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| ''Opium Eater'' || 1984<br />1985<br />1993 || BBC Radio 3<br />BBC Radio 3<br />BBC Two England || ||
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| ''Boys
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| ''Hello Dali'' || 1984 || || ||
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| ''The Grand Edinburgh Fire Balloon'' || 1986 || [[Royal Lyceum Theatre]] || ||
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| ''A Grand Scam'' || 1989 || || ||
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| ''Rudolf Hess Glasgow to Glasnost'' || 1990 || || ||
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| ''Virtual Radio'' || 1994 || BBC Radio 4 || ||
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| ''Fatwah Patois'' || 1995 || [[Tron Theatre]] || ||
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| ''Potted History'' || 1996 || BBC Radio 4 || ||
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| ''The [[Chic Murray]] Story'' || 1997 || || ||
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| ''Into the Ether'' || 2000 || BBC Radio 4 || ||
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| ''Wanted:Dead or Alive'' || 2002 || || ||
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| ''Playing a Blinder'' || 2002 || BBC Radio 4 || ||
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| ''The Ordeal of Alfred M Hale'' || 2003 || BBC Radio 4 || ||
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| ''Burns Supper'' || 2007 || || ||
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| ''The Battle of Pots and Pans'' || 2008 || || ||
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| ''Colonel Gardiner: Vice and Virtue'' || 2009 || || ||
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| ''Too Clever By Half'' || 2009 || || ||
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| ''Thank God for John Muir'' || 2011 || || ||
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| ''The Mother of All Burns'' || 2014 || [[Scottish Storytelling Centre]] || ||
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! Title !! Year !! Broadcaster !! Notes !! References
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| ''[[Miss Julie]]'' || 2012 || Vagabond Productions || ||
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! Title !! Year !! Broadcaster !! Notes !! References
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| ''The Watchers on the Shore'' || 1971 || BBC Radio 4 || ||
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| ''Old Alliances'' || 1986 || BBC Radio 4 || ||
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| ''[[Tartuffe]]'' || 1986 || [[Royal Lyceum Theatre]] || ||
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| ''Foreigners'' || 1987 || BBC Radio 4 || ||
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| ''City Lights'' || 1988 || BBC Two England || ||
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| ''A Man Flourishing'' || 1988 || BBC Radio 4 || ||
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| ''Shadow on the Earth'' || 1988 || BBC Two England || ||
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| ''The Tales of Para Handy'' || 1994 || BBC One London || ||
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| ''Bad Boys'' || 1996 || BBC One London || ||
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| ''The Secret Commonwealth'' || 1996 || BBC Radio 3 || ||
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| ''[[Rab C Nesbitt]]'' || 1997<br />1998<br />2011 || BBC Two || ||
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| ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' || 2003 || [[The Arches (Glasgow)]] || ||
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| ''[[Krapp's Last Tape]]'' || 2005 || [[The Arches (Glasgow)]] || As part of ''The Basement Tapes'' ||
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| ''[[Eliza Graves|''Stonehurst Asylum'' (''Eliza Graves'')]]'' || 2014 || || ||
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.andrewdallmeyer.co.uk/}}
* {{IMDb name|nm0198108}}
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