''Frozen Assets'' is a 1978 play by

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, written for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The play is "about what happens to a youth after he kills a prison guard". A production of the play was put on by director Will MacAdam at the

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in 1983.

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starred in a radio adaption of it. A revival of the play was put on by the Shattered Globe Theatre of Chicago under Nick Bowling from January 1999. It was praised by the ''

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'' as "hugely entertaining", a "marvelous blend of satire and social commentary and class-based screwball comedy". In 1989 ''Frozen Assets'' was also staged at the

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with Marc Tufano playing the lead role of Buddy Clark.

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