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MATTHEW LENTON |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Matthew Lenton |
Blackout | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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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 | #20599 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A boy arrives in the city shut in his father's suitcase and begins a dark and surreal journey through life. This is his story. A remarkable journey involving refugees, a stolen moon, disputed ownership, inept policemen and a revolt among the dead. Strange landscapes and figures, comic and tragic, materialise and disappear like stories drifting through the imagination. | |||||
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Brief History Of Time, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #20600 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Text by Kai Fischer, Matthew Lenton, Norman Gray, Paul Johnson. Original Music by Malcolm Lindsay | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on Stephen Hawking's bestselling book, A Brief History of Time is about the universe, time and the urge to explore that leads humankind on a potentially infinite search for knowledge and ultimate answers. Embarking in groups of twelve, audiences begin a visceral journey around the spaces of Tramway. They encounter performance, animation and a sound and video installation, before indulging in a sinister game of cards which separates winners from losers. Winners are led one by one into the vast pitch darkness of Tramway 1, where faint images emerge from the darkness, before being led blindfolded into a nearby church. Here they are reunited with the losers, who have been on a journey of their own, for the final sequence. | |||||
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Glimpse | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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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 | #20601 | |||
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Genre: | Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | ext by Matthew Lenton, with Anthea McKinlay and John Killick | |||||
Synopsis: | Glimpse was created through six weeks working with dementia patients and their carers at a day centre in the Scottish borders. Glimpse is the story of an archaeologist who has forgotten her greatest discovery. Affected by dementia, she lives in a world where her television talks to her and flowers grow from the walls of her room. Four hundred years before, an old woman is stranded with her son in the bleak wilderness of Sutherland, surrounded by the peat bogs that eventually claim her life. As the dawn emerges, so does the connection between these ghostly figures, centuries apart but strangely linked by an umbilical chord that spans the ages. | |||||
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Home | ||
| 1st Produced: | Caithness Glass Factory, Wick | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Grey Coast 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 | #60791 | |||
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Genre: | Pieces Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of ten new pieces to launch the National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
Synopsis: | two women in an old folk's home with a fragile grip on reality | |||||
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Interiors | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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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 | #95983 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Conceived by Matthew Lenton. Based on Interior by Maurice Maeterlinck. Interiors is a co-production with Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli and Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre. Interiors was developed with the support of the National Theatre Studio. | |||||
Synopsis: | Behind a window, in a cosy room, a group of friends sit down for a meal. The food is being cooked; the lamps are on, everyone is happy. Talk begins and soon stories unfold around the table, stories about the living and the dead, about missing necklaces and what happens when people get hungry | |||||
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Last Stand | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gilmorehill G12 in Glasgow | 1999 | ||||
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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 | #18184 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Text by Matthew Lenton | |||||
Synopsis: | In a distant country, a man dreams of walking barefoot on the grass for the last time in his life. Back home, his estranged brother receives a parcel from death row containing stories of surreal but strangely familiar incidents. These incidents relate to a past they both remember and to a photograph taken years ago, in which they stand side by side. Last Stand is a distinctively visual show about brotherhood, memory, time and reflection, in which light paints amazing pictures and stories materialise out of thin air. | |||||
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Legend of Captain Crows Teeth, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, More London, Southwark, London SE1 2HZ >>> | 31 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | A Unicorn production | |||||
| 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 | #136220 | |||
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Genre: | TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 4 boys | |||||
Notes: | Based on the book by Eoin Colfer, directed and devised by Matthew Lenton | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the novel from the popular best-selling childrens author Eoin Colfer, creator of the Artemis Fowl series, The Legend of Captain Crows Teeth is a funny and lively adventure of ghostly pirates, sibling rivalry and terrifying school discos | |||||
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Little Otik | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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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 | #98182 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Adapted by Matthew Lenton with Sandy Grierson and the Company. Adaptation of Jan Svankmajer's incredible cult film Little Otik | |||||
Synopsis: | tells the story of a couple desperate for a child but unable to conceive | |||||
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Lost Ones | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #98170 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | live songs by Alasdair Macrae. Conceived and text by Matthew Lenton | |||||
Synopsis: | Lost Ones is a surreal, fantastical adventure about a man whose unusual past is coming back to haunt him. Strange creatures are emerging from his body and disappearing through a hole in the skirting board. Each carries a bag in which something valuable is being smuggled to the void on the other side. It all goes back to an incident at the top of a mountain, a class outing years before. A group of extraordinary children at the notorious academy, St Peter's On The Hill, are taken on a day out by their teacher. Only one child comes back, but what happened on that mountain? And why has it come back to haunt our hero now? Based on a series of extraordinary short stories by Matthew Lenton, Lost Ones is a strange, beautiful and ever so slightly twisted piece with performance, extraordinary design and anarchic live music. | |||||
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Saturday Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | Teatro Nacional Sao Joao, Porto | 15 Sep 2011 | ||||
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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 | #133182 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Conceived and directed by Matthew Lenton | |||||
Synopsis: | We are watching through the windows of a house, with a garden: different rooms, different people. What unfolds within is a mystery to be pieced together. Who is the young couple recently moved in? What is he doing in the bathroom? Who is that strange presence up above? And what is it that's moving in the garden? Saturday Night is the darker, dreamier and more surreal companion piece to Vanishing Point's innovative and award-winning show, Interiors. Saturday Night is about the environments we create for ourselves and call home, the dreams we build together, the secrets we keep from each other. It is about the creeping force of nature and the respite we find in the smallest of pleasures. | |||||
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Sightless, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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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 | #98177 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Maurice Maeterlinck. Written and directed by Matthew Lenton | |||||
Synopsis: | In a place, which not a single shaft of light penetrates, a group of men and women, blind to their surroundings, sit separated from each other. Abandoned by their sighted leader they grow ever more afraid of the darkness that envelopes them. The Sightless, performed in total darkness, is an unnerving thriller about perception, prejudice and the extent to which the fears that haunt us come from within. | |||||
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Subway | ||
| 1st Produced: | Traverse 3: The University of Edinburgh Drill Hall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival >>> | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Vanishing Point | |||||
| 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 | #70946 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | text by Vanishing Point, conceived by Matthew Leyton | |||||
Synopsis: | The future. Today's politics has become tomorrow's reality. An odyssey featuring stunning live music from a six-piece Kosovan band and inventive visual theatre from the creators of 2005 smash hit 'Lost Ones.' Co-produced Tron Theatre, commissioned by Lyric Hammersmith. | |||||
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