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MOIRA BUFFINI (1965 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
Born Cheshire. Film includes: Presence, Gabriel, The Enlightenment, Dibbuk Box, Jane Eyre
Plays by Moira Buffini
Asylum | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Oct 2004 | |||||
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 | #39386 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 m/f | |||||
Notes: | The National presents the world premieres of five new monologues by leading playwrights, inspired by current events. Taken directly from interviews, each piece explores the personal stories behind the headlines. Each monologue will be followed by a discus | |||||
Synopsis: | With tabloid hysteria about the influx of asylum seekers largely unchallenged by mainstream politicians, a refugee recounts his experience of the British asylum system and his hopes for a way forward | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blavatsky's Tower | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lion & Unicorn Theatre, 42-44 Gaisford St, Kentish Town, London NW5 2ED >>> | 30 Mar 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Moira Buffini Plays 1, Faber and Faber, London, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5203 | |||
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Genre: | black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | On the twenty-fifth floor of a monstrous tower block Hector Blavatsky - visionary, architect and patriarch - dominates his family with God-like authority. Fearful of being tainted by the rest of humanity below ('the crushed') the Blavatskys are in full retreat from the world. But Hector is dying. And when an outsider arrives in their miniature universe the family must finally consider flying the nest and joining the crushed - but at what cost? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chain Play, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Mar 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, (not for commercial sale), 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63699 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Samuel Adamson, Moira Buffini, David Hare, Charlotte Jones, Frank McGuinness and Roy Williams each wrote a link for the Almeida's first chain play, performed for one night only as the theatre's major fund-raising event. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chain Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie | |||||
| 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 | #5204 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written By Terry Johnson, Philip Ridley, Charlotte Jones, Lee Hall, Sebastian Barry, Zinnie Harris, Kevin Elyot, Nick Dear, Tanika Gupta, Frank McGuinness, Nick Stafford, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Teevan, Patrick Marber, David Lan, Sarah Daniels, Martin She | |||||
Synopsis: | One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National Theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dinner | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Nov 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5205 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An artist, a scientist and a sexpot are coming to dinner. Paige, hostess extraordinaire, is celebrating the publication of her husband's bestseller. The arrival of Mike, marooned in the foggy lane after crashing his van, provides an unexpected addition to the evening's entertainment. A silent waiter, sourced from an obscure website, completes the picture. Primordial Soup is first on the menu let the dinner from hell begin. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Doomsday Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Nov 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 | #5206 | |||
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Genre: | short comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Laughing Darkly | |||||
Synopsis: | short comedy dangerously on the edge of sex and death | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dying For It | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 Mar 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571237449 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58937 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman (The Suicide). Literal translation by Charlotte Payne | |||||
| Inspired by Erdmans classic satirical comedy, banned by Stalin before a single performance. Dying For Ii centres on Semyon, unemployed, living in the hallway and watching his wife Masha slave all the hours God sends. When his last hope to earn a crust and gain some self-respect disappears. he decides to take his own life. Word gets out of his intention and he finds himself inundated with visitors begging him to die on their behalf On the night he is to shoot himself they hold a party. at which point events spiral to a glorious climax. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fantasy Life Of Gilbert Cunliffe, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1979 | ||||
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 | #122642 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gabriel | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5207 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | hurls you through the fractured lives of a family of women in occupied Guernsey in 1943 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Games Room, The | ||
| 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 | #85190 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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God Is Jealous | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133119 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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 Nahum | |||||
| 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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Greenland | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Lyttelton, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 01 Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571277919 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122217 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | By Moira Buffini, Matt Charman, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne | |||||
| The questions we all have about the environment and the future are intricate. Knowing what and who to trust is an increasingly bewildering challenge. Only a few things are certain: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; change is constant and inevitable. Seeking to understand a subject of great complexity, the National Theatre has asked four of the most distinct and exciting playwrights in British theatre to collaborate on a new piece of documentary theatre. The team has spent six months interviewing key individuals from the worlds of science, politics, business and philosophy in an effort to understand our changing relationship with the planet. Greenland combines the factual and the theatrical as several separate but connected narratives collide to form a provocative response to the most urgent questions of our time. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Handbagged | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Jun 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421166 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113143 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Women, Power & Politics: Then | |||||
Synopsis: | For over a decade Margaret Thatcher met the Queen for a weekly audience. With all her previous Prime Ministers the Queen enjoyed a fairly informal relationship, but with Mrs Thatcher, things were different. Handbagged speculates on the relationship between these two very powerful and private women. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jordan | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Singular Female Voices, Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5208 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Anna Reynolds | |||||
Synopsis: | The true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy, Jordan, rather than have him taken away by his abusive father. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Loveplay | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Pit, London | 2001 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5209 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Together ten chronologically organised scenes offer a vision of love and sex in England across two millennia, from classical times to the present day via the Renaissance anf the Swinging 60's. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Marianne Dreams | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Dec 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571241330 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69561 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from Catherine Storr's novel | |||||
| This is the Almeida Theatre's first Christmas family production. Catherine Storr's novel was first published in 1958 and reprinted many times, soon becoming a much loved children's classic. The Almeida production will use actors and dancers to convey the world of Marianne's dreams. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Silence | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Oct 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | StageScript, Faber and Faber, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5210 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | an historical drama set in grim and violent first-century England | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Teacher, 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 | #85191 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Thief of Baghdad, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | ROH2 Linbury Studio Theatre, London | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Royal Opera House | |||||
| 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 | #94321 | |||
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Genre: | Dance theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | By Sarah Woods from a concept by Moira Buffini | |||||
Synopsis: | A post-modern dance theatre version of The Thief of Baghdad with inventive design and self-conscious storytelling. Scared, lost, and hungry, Megan, her sister Bee, and their friend the thieving Callum, sheltering in a bombed building from the war raging outside, discover a backstage Aladdin's cave of wardrobe baskets, fake food, dressing up clothes, and an old lamp. The building was once a theatre. Luckily for them, the kindly stage door keeper (Christopher Colquhoun) is on hand to help. He encourages them to create their own story as a diversion from their dire predicament. Theatre as therapeutic flight from reality; life-enhancing theatre as an antidote to war. "What is theatre? It's magic." "It can make you forget you're cold and hungry". | |||||
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Vampire Story, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | New Connections | |||||
| 1st Published: | in New Connections 2008, Faber and Faber, London, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85192 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 2 m/f | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two young women arrive in a nameless British smalltown. Their names are not their own. They don't declare their ages. Their relationship with each other is not clear. Are they sisters, as their assumed identities declare? Or are they mother and daughter? The eldest, Claire, takes a job in a pub. The youngest, Eleanor, goes to school. During a truth exercise in her drama class, Eleanor confesses that she has been alive for over two hundred yeas and has survived by drinking human blood. Her classmates think she is utterly crazy and Mint, her teacher, puts her in touch with the school counsellor. She makes one friend, Frank, a boy who has been home educated and is as much of an oddity as Eleanor. He tries to get to the bottom of her vampire delusion, thinking it an epic and compelling psychosis. Why would anyone want to be undead? Frank's parents believe that Ella is an anorexic - why does she never eat? Eleanor has started to write her life story as a play. She describes Claire's background as a prostitute in 19th century London and her own as a child in a private orphanage. Meanwhile, things are falling apart. People are disappearing. Are Eleanor and Claire vampires? Or are they troubled young women on the run? | |||||
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Welcome to Thebes | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Jun 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571258734 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #109990 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | ensemble | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | He put this gun into my hand and Made me human once again. Faced with an impoverished population, a shattered infrastructure and a volatile army, the first democratic president of Thebes, Eurydice, promises peace to her nation. Without the aid of Theseus, the leader of the vastly wealthy state of Athens, she doesn't stand a chance. But Theseus is arrogant, mercurial and motivated by profit. I've always been susceptible to handsome egomaniacs. You get in there. Exploit his weaknesses as he would exploit yours. Will Eurydice and her government get what they need for their fledgling state - on terms that they can live with? A swaggering opposition circles, impatient for insurrection. The body of the former dictator lies unburied. A boy soldier is carelessly murdered. You're only old enough to kill, not vote. Set in the present day, but inspired by ancient myth, Moira Buffini's Welcome to Thebes offers a passionate exploration of an encounter between the world's richest and the world's poorest countries set in the aftermath of a brutal war. | |||||
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