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GLYN MAXWELL (1962 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Micheline Steinberg Associates |
Glyn Maxwell was born in Hertfordshire in 1962. Many of his plays have been staged in London and New York, and his poetry has won several awards, including the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He lives in New York City
Plays by Glyn Maxwell
After Troy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Mar 2011 | |||||
Company: | Lifeblood | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-189430265 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125413 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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| Troy is in ruins- the men dead and the women taken into captivity. The victorious Greeks prepare to sail home. An epic tale of love, loss, song and sarcasm in the smoking ruins of Troy. Award-winning poet and playwright, Glyn Maxwell rips up two Greek tragedies and makes a witty, passionate play from the fragments. A contemporary retelling of Euripides' Women Of Troy and Hecuba, After Troy exposes the cruelties of war both then and now. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 288 | |||||
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Agamemnon Home | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wild Project | 22 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | Phoenix Theatre Ensemble | |||||
| 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 | #137996 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Agamemnon is the second installment of the company's 3-play House of Atreus cycle in a new version by Phoenix Playwright in Residence, Glyn Maxwell. It is 10 years after the close of Iphigenia at Aulis, when Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to secure passage to Troy. Now fresh from his conquest of Troy, the victorious Agamemnon returns home to his waiting wife and the mother of his children, Clytemnestra. The curse on the House of Atreus continues with Maxwell's dark and violent Agamemnon and the Phoenix cycle concludes next season with Electra. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Anyroad | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bridewell Theatre, St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ >>> | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Restricted View/Toye | |||||
| 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 | #22836 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | From La Strada By Federico Fellini | |||||
Synopsis: | An inept travelling circus is thrown into disarray by a brutal strongman and his waiflike girl assistant Goldie. (inspired by the Fellini film La Strada) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Best Man Speech | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840026154 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95314 | |||
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Genre: | one man show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| The truth hurts for bridegroom Addy, when his downtrodden friend takes revenge on him in his Best Man Speech | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Birds | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
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 | #129629 | |||
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Genre: | Opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | music by Edward Dudley Hughes | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Birthday Ball Of Zelda Nein, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Garden theatre, Welwyn Garden | 1991 | ||||
Company: | Green Light | |||||
| 1st Published: | Chatto & Windus, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22837 | |||
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Genre: | Fairy Tale | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 12 extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A spoilt rich girl pays a high price for a rash promise made in childhood in this eerie baroque fantasy, set in a decaying castle. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black Remote, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Royal & Derngate Youth Theatre, Nottingham | |||||
| 1st Published: | in NT Connections2007, Faber and Faber, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70263 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of the National Connections Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Polly has been left alone at home with the new plasma television. It has four remote controls. She knows what the silver, grey and white ones do - but no one knows what the black remote does. Her friend Norman drops by. He starts playing with the black remote. The television explodes and strange winged creatures fly out of it | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Broken Journey | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | Restricted View/Toye | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840026154 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22838 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A partygoer is dead, his sexy girlfriend assaulted, a biker is guilty - or are they? Each tells a different story in this version of Rashomon. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Forever Waltz, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Workshop Theater Company and Verse Theater Manhattan | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840025913 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #53995 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| A man arrives in the underworld in search of his true love, to find instead a mysterious guitar-wielding guide who may be able to help him. As he lingers undecided, he begins / to mistake the underworld for the real world, becoming caught there, until he wakes up to the leality Ut his choices and breaks a cycle of violence. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Front Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Underbelly (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Felix 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 | #102080 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Who backstabbed the front man? His girlfriend? His teacher? The obsessive fan watching from the window? Old and young fight to the death in this tragedy for the Facebook generation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Girl Of Sand, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
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 | #129628 | |||
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Genre: | Opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Elena Langer | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Heart In Hiding, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | Damned Poets | |||||
| 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 | #22839 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A burned-out rock star is pursued to his hideout by two fans and a reporter, but they find him guarded by a demented disciple. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last Valentine, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Almeida | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840026154 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22840 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A group of cynical schoolfriends play a cruel Valentine's Day prank on a newcomer, whose unexpected reaction changes them all forever. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Liberty | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Totus Mundus 2008 Season | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840028690 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88965 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling, extras | |||||
Notes: | From Lesdieux Ont Soif By Anatole France | |||||
| Liberty follows the journey of a cheerless ideologue, Evariste Gamelin. We first meet an artist seeking to become a politician at a picnic in what was known as the month of Meadows in Year I of the short-lived revolutionary calendar. His fellow revellers are an ill-matched bunch: Elodie, an embroidress, wants the love of Evariste; Rose is a chorus girl with higher ambitions and Philippe is an unprincipled fellow artist. By far the most intriguing pairing are the oldies. Louise, a political changeling desperate to meet the People's Friend, Marat, while a louche Duke transformes into a sweet-natured puppet-maker. Their brief Edenic idyll soon comes to grief as the Revolution gets serious under "Robespierre and (the) nine lunatics in charge of France". As Evariste becomes an increasingly unbending magistrate and continues to climb the greasy pole, his friends are incriminated one by one until, inevitably, he too falls like dead Marat and Robespierre, allowing a hopeful ending. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lifeblood | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Unrestricted View | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840025905 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22841 | |||
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Genre: | History | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| The doomed Mary Queen of Scots, a prisoner in England, fights for her life after being tricked into joining a conspiracy and convicted of High Treason. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lion's Face, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Opera House, London | May 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840029949 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116906 | |||
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Genre: | Opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 4 | |||||
Notes: | music by Elena Langer. Written for both children and adults, an earlier version of The Lion's Face won the Audience Prize at the 2009 New Opera Festival in Zurich. | |||||
| Compassionate, heartfelt and witty, The Lions Face is a musical tale of love, loss and family bonds. Produced by the award-winning Opera Group, The Lions Face explores the issues surrounding dementia. Featuring the beautiful poems of Glyn Maxwell as part of an operatic collaboration with composer Elena Langer | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Merlin And The Woods Of Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester | 14 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432245 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129630 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 14 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| It's a perfect day in Camelot. The Table is Round and the Grail is Holy. Knights joust and Ladies show favour. Blood is spilt, love declared, and medieval pundits talk us through the action. What could possibly go wrong? But then a humble water-carrier falls head-over-heels for an arrogant beauty and in his passion stumbles on the Secret of Controlling Time. Now the survival of the world is in his hands, and it will take more than the wisdom of Merlin to save Old England from catastrophe. Chivalry, showbiz and strange-coloured cocktails meet with Very Weird Results in Merlin and the Woods of Time. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mimi & The Stalker | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Giudecca Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781840028843 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88942 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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| "The actress story's dead. Let's do the car park. . ." Snatched from obscurity and thrust into the spotlight, schoolgirl Michelle Latchford was transformed into Hollywood's hottest property Mimi Luck. Now the reclusive Mimi is barricaded in her rural hideaway as a paparazzo lurks outside, scrutinised by her watchful agent, and haunted by the memory of the boy all the other kids called God. Brilliantly shifting between fantasy and reality and the past and the present, acclaimed playwright Glyn Maxwell tackles celebrity and sanity | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Only Girl In The World, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Volition | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840025905 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22842 | |||
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Genre: | History/Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| The poignant (and true-life) love affair of humble fishmonger Joe Barnett with the wild and beautiful Mary Kelly, better known as the last victim of Jack the Ripper. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Seven Angels | ||
| 1st Produced: | CBSO Centre Birmingham | 17 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | The Opera Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430791 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #127341 | |||
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Genre: | opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | musicians | |||||
Notes: | This is the long-awaited first opera from Luke Bedford featuring the libretto of award winning poet Glyn Maxwell. | |||||
| Seven angels have fallen through space and time for so long, they have forgotten why. Coming to rest on a desert landscape, they imagine the creation of a legendary garden that once flourished there and its destruction from greed and neglect. Inspired by Paradise Lost, Seven Angels interprets the themes of John Miltons masterpiece for a modern audience facing up to the urgent challenges of a changing climate and ever-depleting resources | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wolfpit | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Cambridge ADC | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840025905 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22843 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Two green children are found in a C12th Suffolk village: reactions range from cruelty, jealousy & lust to love - how can the bewildered pair survive in our world? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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