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MICHAEL ROSEN (1946 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: United Agents (agent: Charles Walker) |
I write books, present radio programmes - (if you come from America, you'd call that hosting radio shows), appear occasionally on TV, visit schools and colleges where I do a one-man show and I lecture and teach in universities on children's literature, reading and writing. I usually call myself a writer and broadcaster, though some people call me a poet and performer. I wrote my first book in 1969, it was a play called Backbone, my first children's book in 1974, a book of poems called Mind Your Own Business and I've been bringing out books pretty well every year since then.
Plays by Michael Rosen
Amos The Shepherd Curses, The Rulers of Ancient Israel | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133212 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is a response to the King James Bible book of Amos | |||||
| The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. The voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient arts of writing and spoken performance | |||||
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Backbone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Oxford | 1967 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30099 | |||
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Genre: | Social Comic Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | about the difficult courtship of a boy from a liberal permissive Jewish family and a girl from a rigidly conventional WASP family | |||||
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Grandparent | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC local radio | - - - | ||||
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 | #57396 | |||
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Genre: | Short radio plays One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about the problems of Grandparenting | |||||
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Magician's Daughter, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Little Angel Theatre, 14 Dagmar Passage, Off Cross Street, Islington, London N1 2DN >>> | 28 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | Little Angel Theatre in association with 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 | #128925 | |||
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Genre: | TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Inspired by Shakespeare's story of The Tempest, Little Angel Theatre bring their trademark blend of puppetry and song to this captivating story of the adventures of a young girl. Written by former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen, follow Miranda's daughter as she discovers the magic of the island for herself. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pinocchio In The Park | ||
| 1st Produced: | Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London | 2001 | ||||
Company: | New Shakespeare Company and Unicorn Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | script available from Unicorn Theatre, London, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30100 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | lyrics by Ben Glasstone | |||||
Synopsis: | the story of the carpenter Geppeto making a puppet child which comes to life. | |||||
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Stewed Figs | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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 | #57394 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | did a two week run in Edinburgh in, I think, 1968 | |||||
Synopsis: | about a student flat and got reviewed by Eric Shorter in the Telegraph | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Vanunu | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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 | #57395 | |||
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Genre: | docu-play, 15 min Documentary | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about Mordecai Vanunu that the Vanunu campaign put on at the Hackney Empire as part of a benefit | |||||
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We're Going On A Bear Hunt | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Bristol Old Vic | |||||
| 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 | #67237 | |||
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Genre: | Children's Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Company adaptation of the picture book 'We're Going On A Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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You Can't Catch Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Theatre Alibi | |||||
| 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 | #57325 | |||
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Genre: | Poems | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | based on poems by Michael Rosen | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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You're Thinking About Doughnuts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #30101 | |||
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