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CHRIS LEE (1964 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
Chris is an Irish writer living in London. His plays include Hummingbird at The Old Red Lion in 1996, The Optimist's Daughters at The Finborough in 1997 and The Electrocution of Children at The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1998, for which he won The Stewart Parker Award. Chris was Anglo Irish Bank Writer in Association at The Abbey in 2000. Other plays include The Map Maker's Sorrow at The Abbey in 1999, Eat the Enemy at The Old Red Lion in 1999, On Line and Paranoid at The Finborough in 2000, Vermilion Dream at The Salisbury Playhouse in 2004 and The Ash Boy at Theatre 503 in 2006. His new play The Water Harvest opens at Theatre 503 in June. His plays have also been performed in New York, Houston, Copenhagen and Paris.
Plays by Chris Lee
Ash Boy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #56433 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Jack divides his time between protecting his aged mother from the terrors of the outside world, and sitting alone in the park. He doesn't usually talk to strangers, until, that is, he meets Benny. Believing he has found a friend who can help protect them, he lets Benny into the sanctuary of his home. But Benny's love is that of an avenging angel. | |||||
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Cease Fire | ||
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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 | #20413 | |||
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Cold Vintage | ||
| 1st Produced: | rehearsed reading, Theatre Royal, Plymouth | 2002 | ||||
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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 | #20414 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Eat The Enemy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #20415 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The same dinner party takes place in four different decades in Croydon, in South London. Each time a different dish is served. Presided over by the spirit of St Lawrence, patron saint of cooking, this play is an invitation to enjoy an unbridled appetite for food and sex, with only a little bit of cannibalism. | |||||
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Electrocution Of Children, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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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 | #20416 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A play full of pre millennium tension, where a man begs the doctor to help him kill off his father, the doctor looses faith in being a doctor and her daughter falls in love with a man just in time for him to be taken out by a contract killer. Who is responsible? Not God, he's much more interested in bacteria than in humans, which is why he's forgotten to do anything about the giant asteroid heading to crush us. We'll just have to muddle through. | |||||
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Future Tense, The | ||
| 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 | #20417 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Hummingbird | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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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 | #20418 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Martha looks after her poor learning disabled neighbours, Billy and Jane and their son Richard. Martha's own evil son Jamie lures Richard into the world of hard drugs and also exposes a terrible family secret. With devilish glee he reveals this to Richard, with terrible consequences for everyone, and not even Martha's alcoholic rage can dampen the flames. | |||||
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Map Maker's Sorrow, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20419 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A young man kills himself. His parents, recently divorced, struggle to understand why. Perhaps the prostitute can help. Or maybe the MP who cannot sleep. Possibly even Death herself has something to say. Morag is a map maker and Henry is a sleep specialist. They may not have been good parents but sorrow forces them to come to terms with how they have led their own lives and how they may face the future. Understanding how maps work, is essential. | |||||
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On Line And Paranoid In The Sentimental City | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Steam Industry | |||||
| 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 | #20420 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | This play is a hymn to London Town. Racists, Islamic intellectuals, pornographers, historians, lovers and politicians can be part of one family. Rowing, fucking and killing is just London life. Centered around the King's Cross area just before the redevelopment, the play reveals the rich and vicious variety of London and its extraordinary instinct for survival. | |||||
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Optimist's Daughter, The | ||
| 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 | #20421 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | It is the eve of the British general election in 1997. A cross section of London characters are followed through their personal lives, racial tensions and political beliefs. At the heart of the play are two love stories. A white male teacher falls for his married Asian colleague, while an older Muslim man, with serious mental health problems, falls for another patient who is Irish. The play registers an early disillusion with the world of New Labour, and seeks solace in the hope of inter personal understanding. | |||||
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Orgy of Outrage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal - Stratford East, Gerry Raffles Square, Stratford, London, E15 1BN >>> | 02 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 | #115083 | |||
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Notes: | part of Central Lines- new plays in development, exposing and exploring contemporary life. Performed by a company of actors in our studio space, Central Lines delivers two weeks of new writing at its freshest, funniest, most moving and thought-provoking. | |||||
Synopsis: | A gripping and horrifying tale of two women haunted by the choices they made in the past. As child welfare once again hits the news, Chris Lee's daring new play examines how the unthinkable can happen. | |||||
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Prayers for an Angry God | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Operating 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 | #91237 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | part of writer's block | |||||
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Regolith | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Jan 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 | #107530 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A stunning and poetic meditation on the loves and hates, the murder and betrayal, and the sweet destruction of a mother and daughter relationship. Across a barren landscape and into the city of fire, down the course of the freezing river and out to the edge of the universe, Regolith is a beautiful testament to the power of language, set in the wrecked, ruined rubble of the world. Words can shine a light on the terror in your heart. Do you love your daughter? Yes, but do you love her enough? | |||||
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Saxophone | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Operating 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 | #91238 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of writer's block | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Shallow Slumber | ||
| 1st Produced: | 24 Jan 2012 | |||||
Company: | Supporting Wall | |||||
| 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 | #135686 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Written by award-winning writer and social worker Chris Lee in response to the Baby P case in the UK, Shallow Slumber is a tense, powerful play that explores the fraught relationship between a young mother and her social worker. | |||||
Synopsis: | For social workers everywhere and anyone with a heart. Dawn never thought motherhood would feel like this. Moira never thought she'd have a case like this. Unfolding backwards to the heart-rending moment when everything changed, Shallow Slumber looks past the headlines to the lives beneath. | |||||
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Sneer | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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 | #20422 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | 20 minute play, part of a project called Cells. "The funniest most way out piece is Chris Lee's Sneer". Time Out. | |||||
Synopsis: | A girl is kept like an animal in a cage in her parents' living room. Here she learns discipline and ballet dancing. One day when her father unlocks the cage to read her a bedtime story, she rips his throat out. | |||||
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Vermilion Dream | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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 | #39701 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Miriam is an artist. She has visions of the High Renaissance and can step into the worlds of the painters Titian and Durer. George loves Miriam and is worried about her. He is afraid she will harm herself terribly. Should he tell the psychiatrist and have Miriam sectioned? Or would this ruin their relationship forever? Titian and Durer have their own views. Can art save Miriam? Can psychiatry? And which is more important, line or colour? | |||||
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Water Harvest, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | State of Play productions | |||||
| 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 | #49354 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two boys grow up together in the lap of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. Over time their friendship is tested in many ways; by the fates, by emigration, by money and by madness. This is a story of love under pressure, of intense euphoria and deep despair. Against the backdrop of rain soaked Irish hills and the frantic insanity of London, two men struggle with sorrow and desire. And if love is to win out over hatred, a terrible sacrifice must be made. | |||||
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