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STEPHEN SHARKEY (1967 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
Stephen was born in Liverpool in 1966, and grew up in Huyton, just outside the city. He studied classics at Oxford, where he started writing plays. He lives in London with his wife Rebecca and their two sons. In November 2005 he founded The Miniaturists, an ongoing series of short play events.
Plays by Stephen Sharkey
Christmas Carol, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 24 Nov 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Josef Weinberger | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111983 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling and chorus | |||||
Notes: | Stephen Sharkey from Charles Dickens | |||||
Synopsis: | Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year . . .Well it is for everyone except the miserable miserly Scrooge. He has no time for friends or fun , celebrating Christmas with misery and meaness rather than mistletoe and merriment. Bah, humbug! But one dark, cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge is paid a visit by the ghost of Marley, his former business partner, who tells him he will be called upon by Three Spirits, each of whom will take him on a magical and mysterious journey to reveal the error of his ways . . . | |||||
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Cloudcuckooland | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Feb 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 | #96541 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Alex Silverman; lyrics and book by Stephen Sharkey. Based on "The Birds" by Aristophanes | |||||
Synopsis: | Swift and McFly want to build a new city in the sky away from the pollution on their one on Earth. The birds want revenge on mankind for ruining the environment. A bombardment of bird poo starts | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Everything Must Go | ||
| 1st Produced: | 12 Sep 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 | #57593 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned to mark Southwark Playhouse's departure from 62 Southwark Bridge Road | |||||
Synopsis: | A Southwark couple in their sixties, on the verge of splitting up, create a storm as they sell their house, gamble away their savings and auction off their keepsakes on the internet. Breaking up is hard to do but Billy and Margaret are giving it a go. A comedy about love and family, and what happens next after you think it's all over | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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From Bombay To Santa Fe | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Jun 2007 | |||||
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 | #139272 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 7 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gambler, The | ||
| 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 | #52966 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adaptation of Dostoyevsky | |||||
Synopsis: | Resourceful, vibrant version. . . Lucid and audacious - The Independent. "The material is first class - wonderfully inventive - This is a sure winner" - The Scotsman | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Glass Slipper, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Dec 2000 | |||||
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 | #31560 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A new telling of the Cinderella story | |||||
Synopsis: | A lovely anti-panto. It often soars, in the manner of the balloon which lifts its bold heroine to the ball - Susannah Clapp, The Observer. "Sharkey's variation on the cinderella story combines charm with such keen intelligence that the result is a really delightful piece of theatre you can't help falling for" - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian. "Intelligent, baroque humour, colourful characters and touching romanticism" - Time Out | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hansel & Gretel | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Nov 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 | #86170 | |||
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Genre: | Christmas Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Brothers Grimm fairytale | |||||
Synopsis: | the idea of Hansel and Gretel running away from their home on the edge of Kielder Forest to Scotland | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hell And High Water | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 13 Nov 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 | #57594 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 1 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | Round the world yachtswoman meets Judas Iscariot on a rocky island in the Southern Ocean. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ion | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 May 2002 | |||||
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 | #52962 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
Synopsis: | A compelling revival - Michael Billington, The Guardian. "Effective, stripped-back storytelling -puffs away at the classical cobwebs" - Brian Logan, Evening Standard. "The genius of his re-rendering is that it is witty, light and realistic - poetic but modern " Jonathan Myerson, The Independent | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jig | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL >>> | 12 Jul 2009 | ||||
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 | #52971 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 20 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | about Will Kemp and Will Shakespeare | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mahler's Unfinished | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford: Burton/Taylor Studio at Oxford Playhouse, England, EUR >>> | 1991 | ||||
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 | #52969 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Gustav Mahler coming to terms with the afterlife | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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May Queen, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 May 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66530 | |||
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Genre: | revenge tragedy Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | "It's not just what he's done that makes me want to kill him. It's everything about him that makes me want to kill him. Listen to me. And me a May Queen an' all". Frank Donohue is dead. Murdered. And as the culprits bury his death in the chaos of the Blitz, Theresa Donohue prays for revenge. Revenge for her father, her brother and herself. But if vengeance is the Lord's then who will pull the trigger? The May Queen is a dark and brutal thriller set against the backdrop of wartime Merseyside. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Night-Light | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Out of Inc | |||||
| 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 | #54999 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | created and performed by Sinead Rushie and Camille Litalien | |||||
Synopsis: | An impossibly proportioned bed, a rope, one women in pyjamas and another in oddly insectile get-up with a mischievous glint in her eye. A surreally suggestive foray into the unblinking world of the insomniac. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oblomov | ||
| 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 | #52965 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 1990s London adaptation of Russian classic | |||||
Synopsis: | The most challenging offering at the Pleasance - a highly original re-working of Oblomov - The strength of Sharkey's adaptation is its effortless command of many different dramatic tones; the script slips elegantly between sharp, sly satire and gently generated joy - Independent on Sunday. "Stephen Sharkey's updating of the classic Goncharov novel. . .tackles big issues in a sensitive way" - The Stage . "Sharkey's witty and shrewdly written [script]. . .is full of fine little observations about twenty-something London disaffection. . .one can't help thinking of 'Withnail & I' or George Orwell's 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' - What's On | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Old Curiosity Shop, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Dec 1999 | |||||
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 | #52963 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A new adaptation of Dickens | |||||
Synopsis: | Solid, old-fashioned storytelling, episodes of comic exuberance - Independent on Sunday. "The literary equivalent of conquering Everest. . . adaptor Stephen Sharkey not only manages this feat, but also does it with some finesse, deserves great credit" - The Stage. "Culturally forward-looking but true to the ghosts of its locale" - Time Out | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Peter Pan | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 Nov 2009 | |||||
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 | #101223 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adapted from the original novel by J .M. Barrie | |||||
Synopsis: | goes back to Barrie's original story away from Disneyfication | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Picture of Dorian Gray, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lindsay Rooms, Oxford | 1989 | ||||
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 | #52970 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adaptation of Wilde | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Porno Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 18 Jun 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 | #57595 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 3 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today. Adapted from a story by Merin Wexler | |||||
Synopsis: | New Yorker new mom self-medicates for post-natal depression by visiting peep shows | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Resistable Rise Of Arturo Ui | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 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 | #129407 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
Synopsis: | 1930s Chicago. Small time crime boss Arturo and his men offer protection. Protection for workers, jobs, businesses. As the Great Depression hits the City's fortunes, Arturo strikes a deal and makes a killing until soon his shadow looms from the markets to the docks. But whether you're with him or against him, you can't ignore the resistible rise of Arturo Ui. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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This Night Forward | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL >>> | 17 Oct 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 | #139273 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 25 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tomorrow Is A Lovely Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
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 | #52964 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A homage to Dennis Potter, produced in a double bill with his 'Blue Remembered Hills'. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Trojan Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | Courtyard Drama School, London | 1992 | ||||
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 | #52968 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Verse translation of Euripides | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Venus Avenger | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
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 | #52967 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | One-woman show, with the goddess Venus relating her dethronement by Psyche, and her meeting with Christ in the desert | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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