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SIMON BLOCK |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Independent Talent Group Limited |
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Plays by Simon Block |
Chain Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3595 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written By Terry Johnson, Philip Ridley, Charlotte Jones, Lee Hall, Sebastian Barry, Zinnie Harris, Kevin Elyot, Nick Dear, Tanika Gupta, Frank McGuinness, Nick Stafford, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Teevan, Patrick Marber, David Lan, Sarah Daniels, Martin She | |||||
Synopsis: | One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National Theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chimps | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854598776 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3596 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A young couple settling into their new home are visited by two door-to-door salesmen whose nightmare sales pitch threatens the very foundation of their life together. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Everything Is Illuminated | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57481 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer | |||||
Synopsis: | The play takes the form of a quest. Jonathan, a young New York Jew representing the author, comes to rural Ukraine on a single-minded mission: to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is accompanied by an interpreter, Alex, who speaks pedantically correct English, and by Alex's own grandfather who acts as their surly, recalcitrant driver. Much of the first half consists of comic cultural conflict as American eagerness meets Ukrainian obstinacy. But, in the second half as the trio reach their destination, the action shifts towards the uncovering of wartime guilt and shame. What emerges in Block's version is the cathartic nature of the pilgrimage. Jonathan sets out to discover his own family past. In the process he unearths an even more dramatic story: one that involves Alex's grandfather, his relationship with a Jewish friend, the moral choices people face during wartime occupation. "I am a good person who lived in a bad time," the old man protests. But Foer's point is that past actions have present consequences and that both individuals and nations need to confront their stained history. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hand In Hand | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854596857 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3597 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Ronnie is fresh off the plane from Israel, looking to move back into his old room in Dave's flat and pick up where he left off. But life has moved on. And when his younger sister Cass and her new relationship with Dave become the target of Ronnie's interference, her belief that blood is thicker than water starts to crack under the strain | |||||
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No Exp Req'd | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3598 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Not A Game For Boys | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854592347 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3599 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Three cabbies seek solace in table tennis, and tonight they must win or face relegation from the local league. But the content taking place between the three is much more than a game | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Place At The Table, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854594884 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3600 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Adam is a fringe dramatist plucked from obscurity by a script editor striving to make her mark in a small independent TV company. Because Adam happens to be in a wheelchair, Sarah proposes he writes the first ever TV sitcom about disability. He accepts the commission with predictably disastrous results | |||||
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