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ANTHONY NEILSON (1967 - ) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Julia Tyrrell Management Australian representation only: Cameron Creswell Agency |
Radio plays include THE COLOURS OF THE KING'S and A FLUTTERING OF WINGS His first stage play ELFARE MY LOVELY was performed at the Traverse Theatre. His second, NORMAL, played at The Edinburgh Festival and transferred to the Finborough Arms. PENETRATOR (originally commissioned by Colin Ludlow as a BBC Screenplay) played the Edinburgh Festival '93, transferred to the Finborough and then to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in January '94. Further works include THE YEAR OF THE FAMILY (Finborough 1994), HEREDITY (Royal Court) and WHITE TRASH (National Theatre Studio). He directed his play THE CENSOR at the Finborough Theatre in April 1997 which transferred to the Royal Court, Duke of Yorks, had a third run at The Ambassadors and won the Writers Guild Award for Best Fringe Play 1997. Television credits include DEEPER STILL, a 10 minute film for C4 which he wrote and directed, A TERRIBLE COLDNESS (60') for the Granada Crime Story series, BIBLE JOHN an influential episode of In Suspicious Circumstances, a commission to write screenplay for CRACKER (spin-off from Granada series for theatric release) and a 2 hour Prime Suspect film, also for Granada. His film debut THE DEBT COLLECTOR was released in 1999. In 2002 the Theatre Royal Plymouth produced EDWARD GANT'S AMAZING FEATS OF LONELINESS which he also directed, he wrote and directed STITCHING for The Bush/Red Room which played at the Traverse at the Edinburgh Festival, transferred to The Bush and toured England and Scotland afterwards and for which he was nominated Evening Standard Most Promising New Playwright. His third new play in 2002, THE LYING KIND played in the main house, Royal Court. In Sept 2004, new play THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISSOCIA played at the Tron Theatre and Royal Lyceum Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh International Festival and then at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Currently he is working on a television commission for BBC Northern Ireland and is adapting the screen version of THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, to be called USED TO SNOW for Vestry Films/Tartan Video which he will also direct. Anthony directed the UK premiere of the John Adams opera THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER for Edinburgh International Festival/Scottish Opera which won a Herald Angel Award.
Plays by Anthony Neilson
Censor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413721303 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25535 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| A gripping brief encounter between a pornographic film actress and the man with the licensing scissors. A moving parable of the critic and artist as a healing, and finally tragic love story | |||||
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Dirty Laundry | ||
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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 | #25536 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Dussseldorf Ripper, The | ||
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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 | #25537 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Edward Gant's Amazing Feats Of Loneliness | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781408106808 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25538 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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| mixes Victorian melodrama with a catalogue of grotesque comic tales | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Get Santa! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 01 Dec 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 | #114588 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Written by Anthony Neilson, Music by Nick Powell. Story by Anthony Neilson and Nick Powell | |||||
Synopsis: | It's Christmas Eve but Holly isn't happy. All she's ever wanted from Santa is to meet her real Dad for the first time. And every time, Santa's failed to deliver, bringing lots of useless presents instead. Well, Holly's had enough. This year she has a plan. She's going to wait up and trap Santa when he arrives and get from him the only present she's ever wanted | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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God In Ruins | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare 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 | #73371 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The themes which have arisen out of the process include elements of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, online technology, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, and men becoming gods in their own bedrooms as they try to recreate themselves in virtual worlds like Second Life. But at the heart of the play is a human story as a father attempts to communicate with his daughter. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Heredity | ||
| 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 | #25539 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Home | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh, Queens Hall, Clerk Street | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Queens hall | |||||
| 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 | #60794 | |||
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Genre: | Pieces Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | part of ten new pieces to launch the National Theatre of Scotland. Playwrights: Jessie Bowman (11), Euan Crowe (9), Dionne Devine (11), Katie Lawson (9), Amanda Rathney-Quinn (9), Allana Stanton (10) Aimee watson (9) | |||||
Synopsis: | scripted by 9-11 year olds. in their world, the head honcho is Mr fish and Chips, a half man, half cod who never gives a straight answer. A politician to the core. | |||||
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Hoover Bag | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Sep 1996 | |||||
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 | #25540 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | aka Meat and Two | |||||
Synopsis: | Horror in contemporary life is explored in this study of loss and erotomania. An elderly woman receives a phone call from her dead son | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre record 1966 Page 1264 | |||||
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Lying Kind, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413773142 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25541 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil before they finish their Christmas Eve shift: to tell the old couple at number 58 some terrible news. But what if the shock is too much for them? Maybe they'd be happier not knowing. And maybe the constables would also be better off if they weren't in the middle of a lynching. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Menu, The | ||
| 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 | #50923 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5 young actors | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Menu is an odd thing set in a retro-futurist world. Its quite likely to be rude but it also has songs by Vera Lynn. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Night Before Christmas, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413724601 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25542 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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| A funny but ultimately warm-hearted cri de coeur against the Christmas industry | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Normal: the Dusseldorf Ripper | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413724601 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25543 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| Anthony Neilson's controversial exploration into the mind of Peter Kurten, the notorious Dusseldorf Ripper. Neilson is at his stark and subversive best in this dark, emotional and gripping production. | |||||
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Orson Welles in the Land of the Peas | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2010 | ||||
Company: | Headlong | |||||
| 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 | #103866 | |||
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Synopsis: | Orson Welles is the actor, writer and director regarded by many as the greatest cinema artist of all time. In 1941 he releases Citizen Kane. By 1980 he is voicing adverts for frozen food on British television. Examining ambition, myth and the eternal clash between art and commerce, Orson Welles in the Land of the Peas takes a comic yet humane look at the one of the defining figures of twentieth century culture and attempts to fill in the gaps between the famous out-takes of this recording session. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Penetrator | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413724601 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25544 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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| This play thrusts into the male psyche with a rigour and insight which is by turns hilarious and horrific but always compulsive. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Realism | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aug 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780713687156 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63478 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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| It follows the life of one man during an ordinary day but veers off from the commonplace to become a deliriously comic trip inside his wayward imagination. Dreams and day dreams are brought to life to hilarious effect exposing the faultlines between everyday life and the world of the imagination in which fantasies ignore conventions of taste and political correctness. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Relocated | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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 | #86371 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a girl has gone missing, a German man has done terrible things in a basement and a woman - who may or may not be called Connie - is chasing clues. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Seance, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | New Connections | |||||
| 1st Published: | in New Connections 2009, Faber and Faber, London and National Theatre | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571251353 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101315 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | performed by The Moat School, London | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Stitching | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | The Red Room & The Bush Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413772930 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25545 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| in the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their sexual history stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Twisted | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh Festival | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Rapture 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 | #25546 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | originally produced for radio | |||||
Synopsis: | Twenty years ago Willis committed a crime, he believes himself reformed. The investigator looking at his case has other ideas. A powerful and explosive tale. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Welfare my Lovely | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
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 | #25547 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.10180/38 | |||||
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White Trash | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre Studio, 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 | #44360 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Wonderful World Of Dissocia, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780713687156 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39193 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| Dissocia is a place Lisa visits sometimes. Nobody wants her to go there but she doesn't understand why. Yes, like anywhere, it has its dangers - it can be a dark and mysterious place - but mostly it's colourful and funny and exciting; and populated by some of the most eccentric people you're ever likely to meet. But the people she loves made her promise not to go there and she's kept that promise. Until now. Now she has no choice but to return. The future of Dissocia depends on it. Her life depends on it. As she is soon to learn, the two are not as separate as she thought.. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Year of the Family, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413724601 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25548 | |||
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