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PETER STRAUGHAN (1968 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Gateshead-born writer Peter Straughan has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The film has also been nominated for a BAFTA for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay, and for the 2012 London Film Critics Circle Awards - Film of the Year, British Film of the Year, Screenwriter of the Year and the 2012 London Evening Standard Film Awards - Best Film.
Plays by Peter Straughan
Bones | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle Upon Tyne: Live Theatre, Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3DQ >>> | 26 Feb 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33590 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music Ollie Fox | |||||
Synopsis: | It''s the 1960s and we''re in the back of a porn cinema in Gateshead. Abel Stein takes a dislike to a cockney punter, knocks him out and stuffs him in a cupboard. Then they find out that the infamous Kray twins are in town. What do you do when you''ve inadvertently kidnapped England''s scariest man? | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXII (2002) Page 0347 | |||||
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Cold | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stockton on Tees: ARC, Dovecot Street, Stockton on Tees, TS18 1LL >>> | 05 May 2001 | ||||
Company: | Ashton Group | |||||
| 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 | #77740 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In the north of England, within the walls of a secure hospital, four young men have all been detained indefinitely for a range of barbarous and indecent acts. Reuben, Kellor and Grass are child killers, arsonists and defilers. But Stark is really mad - he believes they can play Beethoven's 15th. Cold is black comedy about a string quartet composed of disturbed and disturbing psychopathic young men. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ghost of Federico Garcia Lorca Which Can Also Be Used as a Table | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle Upon Tyne: Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RH >>> | 05 Jun 1998 | ||||
Company: | Foolsyard Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #136267 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Lorca returns as a ghost. A witty kaleidoscope of vibrant, often disjunctive, imagery they explore Lorca's life and tragic death. From his friendship with Dali and Bunuel, to his role in the republic's travelling theatre company 'La Barraca' and his struggle for individual and sexual freedom in an age characterised by violent oppression. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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NE1 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 29 Nov 2000 | |||||
Company: | Live 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 | #115935 | |||
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Genre: | short monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of a show of 12 monologues | |||||
Synopsis: | life on Tyneside in the year 2000 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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News From The Seventh Floor | ||
| 1st Produced: | Clements Department Store, Watford Palace Theatre, Watford | 12 May 2003 | ||||
Company: | Wilson and Wilson Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33591 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | By Bridget O'Connor And Peter Straughan; Music Ollie Fox | |||||
Synopsis: | News from the Seventh Floor is inspired by and made for Clements, Watford's 100-year old department store. An audience of 30 will be invited on a night-time journey through the store, a familiar world made strange and eerie, whilst encountering characters and stories scattered through time. News from the Seventh Floor combines elements of film noir, classic ghost story and is informed by extraordinary stories from generations of Clements staff and customers. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXIII (2003) Page 0667 | |||||
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Noir | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle Playhouse | 09 May 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33592 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Noir is a new millennium, film noir style, multi character, comic thriller. With the mood of "The Maltese Falcon", the humour of "The Office", and the pace of a Tarantino film, Noir transports you through a comically dark, emotionally charged night in the theatre. We meet Ray, (who to most people is just a security guard at a department store, but, in his own mind is a highly skilled private investigator), and George, (owner of a highly successful electronics franchise who suspects his lecturer wife is having an affair with a student). Witnessing George's depths of despair, Ray embarks on a very sensitive investigation through mistaken identities, morally-ambiguous low lifes from the dark and gloomy underworld of violent crime and corruption, stuffed dogs and adult chat lines. It'd be a killer of a film! Like the classic film noir developed during and after World War II, Noir takes advantage of the post-war/terrorism ambience of anxiety, pessimism, and suspicion, by flipping it on it's head in ways both hilarious and scarily familiar. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXII (2002) Page 0655 | |||||
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Philosophers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle Upon Tyne: Live Theatre, Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3DQ >>> | 07 Dec 2001 | ||||
Company: | Presented by BBC Radio and Live Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #136268 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | Be part of the audience for a live broadcast of three new short plays by Sean O'Brien, Julia Darling and Peter Straughan. Each writer will create a new play about a philosopher who has had a connection with Newcastle or the North East. The plays promise to give a surreal and humorous view of the philosophers and their beliefs. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Regime Change | ||
| 1st Produced: | Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon | 06 Oct 2006 | ||||
Company: | RSC Acting 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 | #136269 | |||
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Genre: | thriller | |||||
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Notes: | Rehearsed reading prior to recording the play for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 | |||||
Synopsis: | A contemporary thriller which examines the role of idealism in leading us into violence and betrayal. In a small family-run hotel in Istanbul, poised between two continents, two discreet British residents play out a bitter power struggle over a good-looking young student. In the process they reveal a different and terrifying world. | |||||
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Rhyme for Orange, A | ||
| 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 | #77741 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | won the 1997 North East People's Play Award at the People's Theatre | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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When We Were Queens | ||
| 1st Produced: | Forum 28, Barrow-in-Furness | 29 Jan 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 | #77742 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | About a group of lads employed in Shakespeare's original performing company. But they're growing up and a new crop of young soft-skinned boys is on the look out for their parts. | |||||
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