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ROBERT FARRAR |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Michelle Kass Associates |
Robert Farrar had his first play performed on TV at the age of sixteen, and since then has written novels, stories, songs and work for radio, TV, cinema and stage, including the novel State of Independence, the screenplays The Man Who Knew Too Little (Warner Bros, 1997, starring Bill Murray) and Bedrooms and Hallways (1998); and, for the stage, Lovers From Hell(2004-5) and Wild Fruit (2006), both at Oval House. His work as director includes his adaptation of Shaun Levin's The Smell of Asparagus Pee (in Lovers From Hell) and the short films Sunday Morning and Donut. A one-time pop pretender (as front-man for The Mystery Girls, signed to A&M records), he recently returned to live performance, singing with Brighton-based cabaret combo The Desperate Ones. He is currently planning to publish a collection of fairytales, The Prince Who Lost His Penis and other Stories, as a limited edition, helped by designer Simon Reed.
Plays by Robert Farrar
Complex | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Psychodrome and London New Play Festival | |||||
| 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 | #48836 | |||
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Genre: | short play - psycho-sexual comedy-drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Text by Shaun Levin from his original short story of the same name. Adapated for the stage by Robert Farrar | |||||
Synopsis: | a middle aged man is woken by a young woman at the door saying her car has broken down and can she use the phone. The sexual combat that follows packs a pair of memorable punchlines. | |||||
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Donut | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Psychodrome and London New Play Festival | |||||
| 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 | #48837 | |||
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: | short playlet - sex comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Text by Shaun Levin from his original short story of the same name. Adapated for the stage by Robert Farrar | |||||
Synopsis: | a man helps his body-conscious boyfriend to overcome his neurotic fear of fattening foods by persuading him to eat a jam donut during sex. | |||||
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Get The Guest | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Psychodrome and London New Play Festival | |||||
| 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 | #48838 | |||
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: | short play - twisted farce One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Text by Shaun Levin from his original short story of the same name. Adapated for the stage by Robert Farrar | |||||
Synopsis: | a camp farcelet set in a provincial B&B and has the owner seducing his guest in the invented guise of his own half-wit identical twin. | |||||
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Lovers From Hell | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
Company: | Psychodrome and London New Play Festival | |||||
| 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 | #54236 | |||
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: | Triple bill | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Text by Shaun Levin from his original short story of the same name. Adapated for the stage by Robert Farrar. comprises Complex, Get The Guest, The Smell of Asparagus Pee and the mini-play Donut | |||||
Synopsis: | see individual plays | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Relax | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mar 2010 | |||||
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 | #112676 | |||
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 | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Sandy, houseproud proprietor of a Weston-Super-Mare B&B. Lonely since the departure of his much younger "houseboy" and (it's heavily implied) lover, he's taken to date-raping his guests after plying them with Bailey's and Rusty Nails, then in the morning blaming it on his mentally unstable identical twin brother Jimmy. Or has he? | |||||
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Smell Of Asparagus Pee, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Psychodrome and London New Play Festival | |||||
| 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 | #48839 | |||
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: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Text by Shaun Levin from his original short story of the same name. Adapated for the stage by Robert Farrar | |||||
Synopsis: | A deserted lover composes an impassioned letter to the man who abandoned him. A "monologue for two" with two actors portraying a man slipping into madness | |||||
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Wild Fruit | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Psychodrome | |||||
| 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 | #49924 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Robert Farrar's witty, serious comedy follows the maneuvers of four gay men, gathering in a Brighton flat in hopes of an orgy, for whom, of course, nothing turns out quite as intended. The would-be artist, the won't-be osteopath, the quirky S/M couple, are given memorably detailed personalities - the artist never at a loss for crisp, Coward-like quips; the osteopath unwittingly disclosing child-like instability; the American top proving useless in a crisis. The dinky trolley-dolly is Farrar's most original creation, demanding to be submissive, mouthing seemingly vacuous political notions but emerging as the one with the decent social conscience while continuing to be, also, endearingly absurd. Farrar can switch the mood in a sentence from comic to poignant, and in the next sentence switch it back. The twists of his plot, though unforeseeable, become inevitable in retrospect so that his group portrait imparts a sense of real, felt life. An altogether admirable work. | |||||
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