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MATT HARTLEY |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
Matt grew up just outside Sheffield in the Peak District. He studied Drama at the University of Hull, graduating in 2002. Since then Matt has lived and worked in London. He studied under the tutelage of Simon Stephens at the Royal Court Theatre and in 2006/07 was one of Paines Plough/Channel Four's Future Perfect group. Matt's play Sixty Five Miles, was one of the winners of the inaugural Bruntwood Awards. Matt's other work includes Mad Funny Just, which won the Old Vic New Voices Award, Sentenced at the Union Theatre, Punch, for the Hampstead Theatre Heat and Light Company, The Bee at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008, Epic for Theatre 503 and The Pursuit for Radio 4. Future work includes the full length productions of Sixty Five Miles, Microcosm, Silver Bullet, Epic as well as the short film Whitby, which is going into production in late spring. Matt is currently under commission to the Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatres Valence and Theatre503.
Plays by Matt Hartley
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| 1st Produced: | Latitude Festival | - - - | ||||
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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 | #92636 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Bird & The Bee: The Bee | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Kandinsky | |||||
| 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 | #88769 | |||
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Synopsis: | Chloe and Jacob are beautifully in love. The first time they meet, they end their lives. 'The Bee' follows Chloe's journey. Written by Royal Exchange Bruntwood Award-winner, Matt Hartley. | |||||
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Burning Cars | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #118435 | |||
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DryFIGHT | ||
| 1st Produced: | East End Pub, London | 2009 | ||||
Company: | DryWright | |||||
| 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 | #101357 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Writers include John Donnelly, Ashanti Dhawan, Matt Hartley, Joel Horwood, Phil Porter, Penelope Skinner | |||||
Synopsis: | It's ingeniously simple. They perform twice over the weekend: each performance features four short scenes of fights, all of them beginning verbally and becoming physical. At the start of the show every audience member is given four simple coloured paper hats. Before each scene begins we are introduced via the booming PA system to each of the characters it will involve - they strut onto stage, pose and flex and grimace like Mickey Rourke, and we don a hat of a certain colour to "cast our vote" on that particular character coming out on top. Of course this is before we know anything about the nature of each fight, so it's interesting in theory to wonder what makes us side with one character over another purely on first glance. Do the women go for the women? Do we back the scrawnier man to try and predict the unpredictable? Which of the nuns looks the most muscular? As it is though, there are few easily apparent trends. All our attention really is focused on screaming out our support of whoever we have arbitrarily chosen to back. This is theatre for closet wrestling fans, quite excessively happy to suddenly be encouraged to watch drama and make noise. As an experience it's infectious - but I fear not to be too often repeated, as only certain contexts allow it to work. I also wonder how long before the concept becomes stale - once you have seen it I doubt you'd feel the need to experience it again - unless the company push it in a new direction. In summary, we have two nuns attending a school reunion and discovering that their schoolmate of the time, who inspired both of their religious conversions, now views them with contempt. A man tries to hastily get rid of a woman after a one-night-stand, but his girlfriend bursts in on them. A jilted boyfriend challenges his ex-girlfriend's new lover to a fight to win her, which he will video for her to prove his devotion. But the final scene has an unexpected spike. Two old friends, one gay one straight, emerge from a gay club late at night, the straight one distraught having broken up with his girlfriend, and in a moment of drunken confusion makes a sexual advance on his friend. The ensuing fracas is him being fought off by his friend, who is trying only to beat sense into him. There's no-one for us to cheer for, the emotions of the piece are too true to make for easy side-taking. And the ending is horrifically unexpected and downbeat. We stop shouting long enough to think about what we have been doing. It's a canny achievement. But for all that, the show overall is too enjoyable for us not to emerge with smiles all over our faces. Guilty though they may be. | |||||
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Epic | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 at the Latitude Festival | 15 Jul 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 | #116034 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 14 | |||||
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Synopsis: | Jennifer has a gift. When she and her husband Andy are separated, she can see everything that happens to him. The question is: will she want to? And if she does, who will believe her? Commissioned by Theatre503 for Latitude, Epic is a story of love and faith on a galactic scale. Travelling between the intimate and the infinite, award-winning writer Matt Hartley's new play is an astonishing journey into the unexplained. | |||||
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Gambling | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London | - - - | ||||
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 | #118436 | |||
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Hacked | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 27 Sep 2011 | ||||
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 | #132173 | |||
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Genre: | collaborative piece | |||||
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Notes: | Playwrights: Ben Ellis, Marcelo Dos Santos, Dominic Cavendish, Dawn King, Anna Jordan, Matt Hartley. Curated by Derek Bond and Lisa Cagnacci | |||||
Synopsis: | All across London, phones are being hacked. Only now it's playwrights stealing the stories of brave volunteers. Will they score a scoop, or will they have to use a little artistic licence? And which will make the better story: the facts or the fiction? | |||||
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Mad, Funny, Just | ||
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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 | #118437 | |||
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Microcosm | ||
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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 | #118438 | |||
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Punch | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3EU >>> | - - - | ||||
Company: | Heat and light 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 | #137836 | |||
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Rewind | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 2011 | ||||
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 | #137835 | |||
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Sentenced | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Oct 2006 | |||||
Company: | part of ShorTheatre Companyuts 2006 | |||||
| 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 | #58576 | |||
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Genre: | Short play One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | has at its invisible centre, Peter, a hitherto respectable man arrested for rape. Peter, though, we never see. Instead, we get his brother, his former secretary and in all four scenes, Janet, his wife, who is pregnant with their child. In the absence of Peter, it is her job to carry his shame, to be abused, accused and pitied for her crime of failing to know the man she married. | |||||
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Sixty Five Miles | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Feb 2012 | |||||
Company: | Paines plough | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848422568 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #137833 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Under-26 Award, Bruntwood Playwriting Competition | |||||
| A devastating drama about family and the ties that bind us together. Sixty five miles. The distance between Hull and Sheffield. The distance between a man and the daughter hes never met. Pete and Rich are two very different brothers. Reunited after nine years, both are seeking forgiveness. Rich needs to confront ex-girlfriend Lucy, and the shadows of his recent past. Petes search is for the one woman in his life he has never known, his daughter. | |||||
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Trolls | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 09 Aug 2011 | ||||
Company: | commissioned by E15 Acting School | |||||
| 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 | #131122 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Debby and Matty witness the worst thing of all, they flee to start a new life. But is the place they're running to any safer or happier than the life they're leaving behind? | |||||
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