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JAMES FENTON (1948 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
He was educated at the Durham Choristers' School, Repton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry. He has worked as a political and literary journalist on the New Statesman; was a freelance reporter in Indo-China; spent a year in Germany working for The Guardian; was theatre critic for The Sunday Times for five years; chief book reviewer for The Times from 1984 to 1986; South East Asian correspondent for The Independent from 1986 to 1988 and a columnist for them until 1995. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. James Fenton was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983 and he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1994 to 1999. He is currently writing a play for the Royal Shakespeare Company, has just edited the Faber Book of Love Poetry and his new book, SCHOOL OF GENIUS: A HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS has just been published.
Plays by James Fenton
Orphan of Zhao, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 Oct 2012 | |||||
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 | #137313 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | In the aftermath of a violent coup, an epic story of self-sacrifice and revenge plays out as a young orphan discovers the shattering truth behind his childhood. Sometimes referred to as the Chinese Hamlet, and tracing its origins to the 4th century BC, The Orphan of Zhao was the first Chinese play to be translated in the West, and was adapted by Voltaire. | |||||
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Pictures From An Exhibition | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Young Vic/Sadlers Wells | |||||
| 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 | #99294 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Based on the music suite by Modest Mussorgsky, Script by James Fenton | |||||
Synopsis: | biography of the short and turbulent life of Modest Mussorgsky the Russian composer who drank himself to death at the age of 42. | |||||
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Tamar's Revenge | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford, Swan | 2004 | ||||
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| 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 | #41608 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Tirso de Molina | |||||
Synopsis: | revolves round Amnon, son of the Old Testament King David, who took to raping his sister Tammar andd is eventually slaughtered at supper in this biblical tragedy. | |||||
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