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BEN POWER |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
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Plays by Ben Power |
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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 | #100130 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adapted by Ben Power and Tim Carroll from book by Spike Milligan | |||||
Synopsis: | WW2 satire by Gunner Milligan | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cinderella | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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 | #94341 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adaptation By Ben Power And Melly Still | |||||
Synopsis: | The Brothers Grimm version where birds and the spirit of her dead mother help the downtrodden girl towards a happy clima | |||||
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Emperor and Galilean | ||
| 1st Produced: | 15 June 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421929 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124430 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 20 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extrass | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. Combines Ibsen's two plays, Julian the Apostate and Emperor Julian and is based on literal translations by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife and marie Wells | |||||
| Made Emperor, Julian attemps to abolish Christianity and restore the old gods. But met with fierce resistance, this great free-thinker becomes a tyrant more hated than his brutal predecessor Constantius. And in arousing the Christians from their apathy he advances their cause, his life and death altering the course of history in stark opposition to his intent. Ibsen's little-known masterpiece sweeps across Greece and the Middle East from AD351, covering twelve crucial years in the history of civilisation. | |||||
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Faustus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northampton, Royal | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854595737 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41279 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Christopher Marlowe, adapted by Rupert Goold with Ben Power | |||||
| Faustus, Mephistopheles and Helen of Troy are all present - but then comes the strange inclusion of Jake and Dinos Chapman. The Chapmans? Who let them in? The Chapmans are, of course, masters in the art of aesthetic hijacking - the most notorious recent example being their purchase of Goya's etching series Disasters of War in order to deface it with clowns and puppies' heads. They entitled the result Insult to Injury. Goold adds further insult to injury by interleaving scenes from the Renaissance play with a new scenario, devised with Ben Power, detailing the Chapmans' scheme to purchase and "rectify" the Goyas. It sounds like an act of hubris on a Faustian scale, yet unlike the necromantic doctor, Goold gets away with it. - Alfred Hickling, Guardian | |||||
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Gulliver | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2010 | ||||
Company: | Headlong | |||||
| 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 | #103867 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | By Rupert Goold and Ben Power, in response to Jonathan Swift's novel | |||||
Synopsis: | Described as "an innovative experiment in theatrical form, filtering the spirit and the ambition of the novel through the lens of contemporary culture, Rupert Goold and Ben Power create a visceral satiric exploration of identity, sanity and international relations." | |||||
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Paradise Lost | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northampton, Royal | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Oxford Stage Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43734 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | angels | |||||
Notes: | from the poem by John Milton | |||||
Synopsis: | "Here at least we shall be free. Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. . ." Defeated in battle and exiled from heaven, Satan burns in a lake of fire with his army of rebels around him. Consumed with envy, he plots his bitter revenge to destroy Gods delight in his newest creation. During his hunt for Paradise on Earth, Satan sweet-talks his way out of hell and tricks his way across the universe to tempt Eve and seduce humanity. | |||||
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Six Characters in Search of an Author | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Headlong Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854595317 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #80254 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello. version by Rupert Goold and Ben Power | |||||
| Pirandello's classic play updated for the twenty-first century by the team behind Faustus. Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Six Characters in Search of an Author exploded onto the stage in 1921 as one of the unique achievements of twentieth-century drama. Updated and recontextualised in this vertiginous new version, it becomes a dark parable for a media-obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of how we define art, ourselves and 'reality' in the twenty-first century. | |||||
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Tamburlaine The Great | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #28408 | |||
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Tender Thing, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 29 Oct 2009 | |||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848420823 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94914 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | adapted from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet | |||||
| Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story. . .Ben Power weaves the text of Romeo and Juliet into a provocative new tale of love and sacrifice. Re-imagining Shakespeare's story, A Tender Thing is an elegiac yet ultimately hopeful account of the human capacity for love. Shakespeare's timeless poetry provides the backdrop for this delicate and moving account of old age, memory and the demands we make of those we love. When a married couple discover that their lifetime together is drawing to a close, they realise they cannot contemplate being apart. | |||||
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Things She Sees, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Ysgol Aberconwy | |||||
| 1st Published: | in New Connections 2009, Faber and Faber, London and National Theatre | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571251353 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97686 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of local heats of the National Theatre's New Connections festival of new, short plays performed by schools and youth groups. based on the novel by Charles Boyle | |||||
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