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JOE PENHALL (1968 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Judy Daish Associates Ltd |
Award-winning writer Joe Penhall was described by The Financial Times as 'one of the finest playwrights of his generation.' His play Blue/Orange won an Olivier Award, an Evening Standard Award and the Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Joe wrote the award-winning television series The Long Firm and won a National Critics' screenplay award for the feature film Enduring Love, based on Ian McEwan's novel. His adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, starred Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen and was released in 2009.
Plays by Joe Penhall
Birthday | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 22 Jun 2012 | ||||
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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 | #133789 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | - Men can take the pain. - No you can't, that's just the myth they sell you. Lisa and Ed are having another baby. Determined to do things differently this time, it's proving a bumpy ride. This is a whole new birth plan. | |||||
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Blue/Orange | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Apr 2000 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413752703 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27454 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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| In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator-a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. BLUE/ORANGE is an incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service. | |||||
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Bullet, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Apr 1998 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413731500 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27455 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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| 'A Death of a Salesman for Britain in the nineties, and it is typical of Penhall's grace as a writer that it consciously echoes Arthur Miller while also emerging as an entirely distinctive work' (Daily Telegraph) | |||||
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Dumb Show | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Sep 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413774804 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39546 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Barry's fifteen minutes of infamy are overdue, and when laughter's your living . . . that's no joke. | |||||
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Haunted Child | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 02 Dec 2011 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408159651 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129141 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| We have the tools to enlighten and yet our world is darkening. We live in an era of pessimism and worry; we are hollowed out, lurching from crisis to crisis, with no faith that anything will improve, and no great hopes to sustain us. So what's the answer? A small boy is driving his mother to distraction - waking at night, hearing phantom noises and fixating on his absent father. Douglas attends an innocuous motivational course involving esoteric philosophy and mysteriously abandons his family to "live in a specific, pre-ordained way according to the tenets of a spiritual leader."Is it a predatory cult or the solution to all their problems?And how can a small child be expected to understand adult thinking at its most complex and self-destructive? | |||||
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Landscape With Weapon | ||
| 1st Produced: | 29 Mar 2007 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0713688054 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62849 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Qualms?' Oh yeah, sure, I have qualms'. Everybody has qualms. But I'll overcome them. To his family's horror, Ned reveals he's the brains behind a new military technology so sophisticated, so extraordinary, it will revolutionise the nature of warfare. It's only when the Ministry of Defence demands intellectual ownership that Ned begins to question himself, resisting the might of the weapons industry with frightening consequences. Landscape with Weapon is a wry account of private anguish, public responsibility and a problem with no solution. The play premiered at the National Theatre on 20 March 2007. | |||||
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Love And Understanding | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 May 1997 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413731500 | ||||
| Music: | in Penhall Plays: 1, Methuen Drama, London | doollee no | #27456 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Live-in lovers Neal and Rachel are overworked doctors. They rarely see each other, and their relationship suffers for it. Enter Neal's old good-for-nothing friend, Richie, for a surprise visit, straight from South America-or somewhere. He needs a place to stay and Neal is too weak to say no. Rachel doesn't want him either, but Richie manipulates her, creating a sexual tension between them. Richie immediately uses this charge to stir up trouble between the couple, insinuating that Neal is boring and that Rachel needs a good time with a black sheep like himself. And while he works on Rachel, Richie steals drugs from Neal's office. By the end of Act One, Richie has declared his interest in Rachel, but she resists. In Act Two, she tells Neal about the pass, but Richie denies it. Thinking Neal doesn't care, Rachel sleeps with Richie, but the couple is caught by Neal. Richie almost delights in the trouble he's caused, and with more drugs, ends up comatose from an overdose. The strain of all that's happened causes Rachel and Neal to split up. Richie recovers, and takes off for Wales, leaving Neal and Rachel with a new-found understanding of one another which may or may not lead to reconciliation. | |||||
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Pale Horse | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413704405 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27457 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
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| the story of Charles, who, disillusioned by the sudden death of his wife, propels himself into a world of urban alienation and self-destruction in an attempt to assuage the private demons that haunt him. Along the way he encounters the capricious Lucy and is forced to examine the nature of his own mortality, identity and beliefs. | |||||
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Road, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | USA | 25 Nov 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408127421 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111235 | |||
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Genre: | screenplay | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 | ||
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| Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. Released shortly after his No Country for Old Men was turned into an Oscar-winning film, The Road's cinema version of the novel is directed by John Hillcoat, stars Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron and is an official selection for the 66th Venice Film Festival 2009. Joe Penhall's adaptation is a faithful, careful crafting of the book for the screen, fully evoking the atmosphere of menace and desperation. The Road is set a few years after an unexplained cataclysmic world disaster has left the earth poisoned, barren and hostile. While ash blocks out the sun and the earth no longer fosters plant or animal life, men either starve or join the maruading gangs of cannibals. The plot follows an unnamed father and son on a bleak epic across the wasteland and features a series of horrifc encounters in a merciless world starved of life and hope. | |||||
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Some Voices | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in Frontline Intelligence 3, Methuen Drama, London (Jul 1995) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413694300 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27458 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| focuses on Ray, a young schizophrenic trying to reassimilate after a spell in a mental hospital. He is sent to live with his overworked brother where he is happy until he falls in love. When Ray finds himself increasingly frustrated by a maladjusted community and an illness he'll never control, events spiral towards inevitable tragedy. | |||||
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Wild Turkey | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0713689433 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27459 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| explores themes of violence and envy on the fringes of East London's murky restaurant trade | |||||
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