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RYAN CRAIG |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents represented by Rose Cobbe |
Ryan Craig won a Fringe First for his play Broken Road at the Edinburgh Fringe and was nominated for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards in 2005. He has also worked extensively in television and radio. Oberon Books publishes his plays, Happy Savages, What We Did To Weinstein, The Glass Room, Portugal, Our Class and Talk Talk, Fight Fight his contribution to The Bomb: A Partial History. Ryan Craig is currently Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre Studio.
Plays by Ryan Craig
Barrowload Of Oranges, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Long Rooms, New College, Oxford/The Edinburgh Festival '93 | 1993 | ||||
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| 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 | #8096 | |||
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Broken Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe festival | 16 Aug 2005 | ||||
Company: | Huish Productions | |||||
| 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 | #46473 | |||
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Genre: | Site Specific | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | A Mobile Thriller and Broken Road are the two plays | |||||
Synopsis: | You and your fellow audience members, all two of them, are ominously ushered into the back seat of a car and driven around East London's mean streets. You can then get into a second car to experience another story which intersects ingeniously with the first. | |||||
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City Boys | ||
| 1st Produced: | rehearsed reading at the Soho Theatre, London | 2004 | ||||
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| 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 | #40658 | |||
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Death Of An Exorcist | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Raven Theatre, Leeds | 1993 | ||||
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 | #8097 | |||
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Glass Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Nov 2006 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840027129 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58779 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| In a safe-house in the suburbs, human rights lawyer Myles Brody meets with a high-profile and contraversial historian. She has been charged with denying the Holocaust, and he has agreed to defend her in court. But as her guilt becomes apparent, Myles is forced to doubt his most sacred principles, question his belief in the right to free speech and acknowledge that he too has been denying the past. | |||||
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Happy Savages | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Studios Hammersmith, Lyric Square, King St, London W6 0QL >>> | 05 Aug 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840028782 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8098 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Rachel, naked apart from a leather coat, shows up at Joe's office. Isn't kinky sex enough? Do we need to betray our closest friends? Two twenty somethings having sex without love and two who are in love, but not having sex. What happens when the four of them clash? | |||||
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Holy Rosenbergs, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Cottesloe, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 16 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430425 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122219 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
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| As big-hearted patriarch David clings to a deal that could save both his ailing catering firm and his cherished standing in the Edgware Jewish community, his children are at loggerheads. While eldest son Danny fights for the Israelis in Gaza, his sister investigates war crimes in that same conflict. Their brother drinks and brawls and refuses to join their father's business. But when tragedy strikes, each family member is forced to confront head-on the clash between individual identity and the demands and expectations of community. The Holy Rosenbergs explores tribal loyalties, the culpability of family and the consequences of standing up for what you believe to be right | |||||
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How to Think the Unthinkable | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, More London, Southwark, London SE1 2HZ >>> | 28 Apr 2012 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849434324 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136169 | |||
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Genre: | TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | By Ryan Craig, after Sophocles Antigone | |||||
| Antigone makes everything OK. Gives me hope. I'm utterly devoted to her. I couldn't imagine what would happen if she weren't here. What could a play written 2,500 years ago possibly mean today? Ryan Craig's new adaptation of Sophocles' famous tragedy captures the passion, danger and moral deadlock of the story of Greece's most famous teenager. Set in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, Antigone fights for what she believes is right. What would you do? | |||||
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Mobile Thriller, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe festival | 16 Aug 2005 | ||||
Company: | Huish Productions | |||||
| 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 | #139571 | |||
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Genre: | Site Specific | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | A Mobile Thriller and Broken Road are the two plays. A Mobile Thrilleris an adaptation of an original Italian short story. | |||||
Synopsis: | You and your fellow audience members, all two of them, are ominously ushered into the back seat of a car and driven around East London's mean streets. You can then get into a second car to experience another story which intersects ingeniously with the first. | |||||
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Our Class | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Sep 2009 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840029468 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99385 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Tadeusz Slobodzianek; in a version by Ryan Craig | |||||
| A group of schoolchildren, Jewish and Catholic, declare their ambitions: one to be a fireman, one a film star, one a pilot, another a doctor. They are learning the ABC. This is Poland, 1925. As the children grow up, their country is torn apart by invading armies, first Soviet and then Nazi. Internal grievances deepen as fervent nationalism develops; friends betray each other; violence escalates: until these ordinary people carry out an extraordinary and monstrous act that darkly resonates to this day. | |||||
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Portugal | ||
| 1st Produced: | Reading at Cottesloe Theatre, London | 25 Jun 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840024661 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #40657 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Zoltan Egressy. This version is from a literal translation by Katalin Trencsenyi and is part of the National Theatre's Channels (Hungary) season of rehearsed readings, initiated by the NT Studio and performed in the Cottesloe Theatre. | |||||
| An intellectual escapes the security and wealth of his Budapest life and heads for the dream land of Portugal. He stops in a remote poverty-stricken village where he refuses to become part of the community. He seduces the inn-keeper's daughter with his alluring sadness, but is pursued by his wealthy wife. | |||||
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Shame | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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 | #8099 | |||
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Sins of Dalia Baumgarten, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Jun 1996 | |||||
Company: | Scenario Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #8100 | |||
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Talk Talk Fight Fight | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Feb 2012 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431521 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132690 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Part of The Bomb a partial history. SECOND BLAST: Present Dangers | |||||
| In a room in the United Nations in New York the European delegation prepare for their next session on Nuclear Non-Proliferation with Iran. Suddenly a CIA agent is at the door with an Iranian nuclear scientist, and a new negotiation strategy emerges. Is this breakthrough to be trusted? | |||||
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Three Servants | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 Nov 2002 | |||||
Company: | Jet Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #8101 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written by Ryan Craig and Edwin Morgan. Music by Ben Foster | |||||
Synopsis: | A liar, a mute and a sexy Venetian slave girl are united by a bid for freedom from their tyrannical masters. Along their journey they stumble upon a desolate inn run by two enigmatic Japanese attendants. Suddenly they find themselves in charge of the place. . .but there is a curse on the inn and after an evening of drunkenness and debauchery, the three servants make a shocking discovery. | |||||
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Vintage Stuff | ||
| 1st Produced: | Connaught Theatre, Worthing | 21 Feb 2000 | ||||
Company: | ITF Productions | |||||
| 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 | #8102 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | from novel by Tom Sharpe | |||||
Synopsis: | Mayhem erupts at a very minor public school when a one-eyed master with a taste for adventure takes a new boy under his wing. He soon discovers that his psychotic pupil - possibly Sharpe's most insane creation - takes everything literally. But when a practical joke goes horribly wrong, these two lunatics are sent off on the wildest goose-chase ever staged..surpassing even those of Dornford Yates! | |||||
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We Lost Elijah | ||
| 1st Produced: | NT New Connections | 2013 | ||||
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 | #139572 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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What We Did To Weinstein | ||
| 1st Produced: | Menier Chocolate Factory, 53 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU >>> | 21 Sep 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840025811 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45555 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| NO! We can't change the subject! This is the subject! There is no other subject. Not for us.' Sickened by the everyday arguments and compromises he saw around him in his native London, the idealistic Josh has moved to Israel and joined the army. There, however, he finds himself in a situation with a Palestinian terror suspect which seems to challenge his most strongly held beliefs. Deftly cutting between different locations and time periods, Ryan Craig's play lets us see unexpected connections between disparate events, as well as bringing together people with apparently nothing in common. A wryly humerous, sometimes hilarious, look at a serious issue, What We Did To Weinstein moves between London life and the world of the intifada, creating a portrait of a society where idealism too easily becomes extremism and pragmatism hypocrisy. | |||||
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