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LEO BUTLER (1974 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Judy Daish Associates Ltd |
Leo Butler was born in Sheffield. He was awarded the 2001 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright for his first full-length play Redundant.
Plays by Leo Butler
Airbag | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre (Rough Cuts Season) | 02 Jul 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 | #87990 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/Dance | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | directed by Leo Butler, choreographed by Odey Anthony. Cast featured: Nick Moss, Nicola Walker, and Gillian Hanna. Music and dancers: Vincent Etagweyo, Frank Asiyai, and Odey Anthony. | |||||
Synopsis: | Produced for the Royal Court Rough Cuts season, the play fused Butler's script with music and dance from Nigeria. The story of an old woman who, on her death bed, imagines that she is being terrorised by gorillas. An exploration of death and the dying. | |||||
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Come To Where I'm From | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2010 | |||||
Company: | Paines Plough/Sheffield Theatres. | |||||
| 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 | #132635 | |||
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Genre: | short monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | directed by George Perrin, performed by Leo Butler. | |||||
Synopsis: | A short monologue about friendship, drugs, and Sheffield in the early nineties. | |||||
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Devotion | ||
| 1st Produced: | bRedbridge Drama Centre, London - then school tour | 26 Sep 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Aurora Metro Press, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0954233044 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38979 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | directed by Liam Steele, and the cast featured: Mark Oliver, Leigh Kelly, Chand Martinez and Beverley Denim | |||||
| In a strange war torn country, two boys escape from a POW camp and tow a burnt out car to an imagined Paradise Island. One boy dresses as Batman, while the other dresses as a young girl called Mary, who cradles a plastic baby called Rudolph. They are hijacked by a lone soldier who turns out to be their school-friend, Sarah Simpkins. Is the war a reality or a product of the childrens' imagination? | |||||
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Early Bird, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Ransom Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780713684735 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57435 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | directed by Rachel O'Riordan. The cast featured Colm Gormley and Abigail McGibbin | |||||
| The Early Bird taps into the darkest fears of any parent - what if your child simply disappears? Debbie and Jack blame each other and themselves, and in doing so reveal the inner secrets of their own relationship in this disturbing and darkly humorous play. Butler's language moves between naturalism and hyper-realism, brilliantly capturing the surreal quality of the worst time in this couple's life | |||||
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Faces In The Crowd | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Oct 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781408112694 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87991 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | directed by Clare Lizzimore, designed by Rae Smith, William Fricker. Cast: Amanda Drew, Con O'Neill. | |||||
| When Dave moved south to London he left behind his family, wife Joanne and mounting financial woes in favour of a playground of riches, sex and shopping. 10 years on and Joanne wants payback. . .with interest. Faces In The Crowd offers a unique insight into 21st century London and the debts we accrue in the wake of seeking out our ambitions. | |||||
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Heroes | ||
| 1st Produced: | touring London schools | 2007 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre (Education) | |||||
| 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 | #66802 | |||
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Genre: | Theatre for Young People Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | directed by Samantha Potter; designed by Kerry Bradley; the cast included Sophie Benjamin, Esin Harvey, Miranda Cook, David Harewood and Raad Rawi. | |||||
Synopsis: | Chantelle Brown is mixed up. Twelve years old with a pain in her belly the size of Ground Zero, the only person Chantelle can turn to is her dad. But her dad is hundreds of miles away, fighting the war in Iraq. | |||||
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Hung Over - Election Shorts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 22 Jun 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 | #122424 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Hung Over - 10 Playwrights Respond to the 2010 Election | |||||
Synopsis: | Ten of Britain's leading playwrights respond to the 2010 General Election. Five nights of ten minute short plays at Theatre Local, Elephant and Castle. Tue 22 & Thu 24 June at 7pm featuring plays by April de Angelis, Tim Crouch, Michael Wynne, Dipo Agboluaje and Leo Butler. Wed 23 & Fri 25 June at 7pm featuring plays by Alia Bano, Michael Bhim, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Martin Crimp and Emma Crowe. Sat 26 June at 7pm featuring all plays by the ten writers. Hung Over takes place as part of Rough Cuts, the Royal Court's annual season of work-in-progress, experimental pieces, readings and shorts. Rough Cuts emerges from the year-round activities of the Studio, providing an opportunity for emerging and established artists to develop ideas collaboratively, experimentally and informally. | |||||
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I'll Be The Devil | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 Feb 2008 | |||||
Company: | Royal Shakespeare Company. | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781408101490 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73372 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | directed by Ramin Gray, designed by Lizzie Clachan. The cast featured Gerard Murphy, Eoin McCarthy, Tom Burke, Derbhle Crotty, Andrew Macklin, Samantha Young, JD Kelleher, David Toole, Ed Macliam, Colm Gormley, Billy Carter, and John McEnery. | |||||
| A dark love story, written in response to The Tempest, Leo Butler's I'll Be the Devil is set in occupied Ireland in 1775. Knowing that her soldier lover is leaving for England, a local woman unleashes a sequence of events that will result in tragedy for both their children. With a poetic fearlessness Leo Butler looks at what happens when a brutal foreign power is in intimate and callous contact with the primitive heart of an ancient society. This is an epic play that marks an exciting departure from the stark realism of Butler's earlier work and that provides a powerful demonstration of Butler's maturity and ambition as a writer. | |||||
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Juicy Fruits | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | Paines Plough/A Play and a Pie and a Pint | |||||
| 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 | #132280 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | Nina and Lorna meet for coffee and chocolate croissants. They are no spring chickens, and each have a lot to prove. Since leaving University, Lorna has settled down as a house-wife, and Nina has been protecting the orphaned Orang-Utans of Borneo. As the caffeine and sugar kick-in, their friendship begins to show it's true colours as past regrets and present resentments pave the way for a darkly-comic feud. | |||||
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Lucky Dog | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 May 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413774668 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38978 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | directed by James Macdonald, and designed by Jean Kalman.The cast featured: Linda Bassett, Alan Williams, and Liam Mills | |||||
| Eddie and Sue settle down for Christmas dinner. The wine is poured, the crackers are pulled and the weather forecasts snow. But the dog won't eat her giblets and the telephone keeps ringing | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Made Of Stone | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Royal Court Young Writer's Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781408101476 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5549 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by Deborah Bruce. The cast featured: Huss Garbiya, Giles Ford, Sarah Cattle, Greg Chisholm, Nick Moss, and Joanna Bacon. | |||||
| Three brothers come to terms with the death of their father. The play is set in Sheffield and follows the brothers and their mother as they try and reconcile their lives. Dark and humourous, the play deals with such themes as bereavement, regional racism, and teenage psychosis. | |||||
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Redundant | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Sep 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413771698 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5550 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | directed by Dominic Cooke, and the cast featured: Lyndsey Marshal, Will Johnson, Eileen O'Brien, Craig Heaney, Rachel Brogan, and Simon Trinder | |||||
| Lucy is 17. She dreams of love, security and a bright future. But first she must confront reality - and reality means deciding who to trust | |||||
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Seperate Reality, A: A Rock Opera | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Upstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 19 Aug 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 | #129957 | |||
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Genre: | musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Book and Music by Leo Butler and dan Persad. part of Rough Cuts - a regular mini season of short plays, experimental readings and works in progress by established as well as emerging writers, directors and artists | |||||
Synopsis: | Are y'all ready to ROCK?! Join Alison as she escapes the stresses of her humdrum life and discovers her inner rock-goddess in the wild and hedonistic world of Mama Funk's Catfish Club. With LIVE music performed up to eleven' by Dan & Leo's band, and directed by Nick Slash' Bagnall, A Seperate Reality will leave you rocking all over Sloane Square. | |||||
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