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OWEN SHEERS (1974 - ) |
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Nationality: Fijian Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd (agent: Zoe Waldie) |
Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. The winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the 1999 Vogue Young Writer's Award, his first collection of poetry, The Blue Book (Seren, 2000) was shortlisted for the Welsh Book of the Year and the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2001. His debut prose work The Dust Diaries (Faber, 2004) - a travel memoir set in Zimbabwe - was published in the UK, US and Holland and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and won the Welsh Book of the Year Award 2005. Owen has also written for radio, TV and newspapers and has toured extensively, most recently in New York, Croatia and Hungary. In 2004 he was Writer in Residence at The Wordsworth Trust and was selected as one of the Poetry Book Society's '20 Next Generation Poets'. Unicorns, almost his one man play about WWII poet Keith Douglas, will be produced by Old Vic Productions in Spring 2006. His second poetry collection, Skirrid Hill, is published in October and he is currently working on his first novel, due for publication by Faber in Spring 2007.
Plays by Owen Sheers
Fair & Tender, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133215 | |||
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Notes: | Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is a response to the King James Bible book of Ezekiel | |||||
| The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. The voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient arts of writing and spoken performance | |||||
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Passion, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Port Talbot, Wales | 22 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre of Wales and Wildworks | |||||
| 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 | #125257 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | Easter. Port Talbot is in a battle for its life. Authoritarian forces have taken over the town and plan to change it forever. The atmosphere is explosive. Resistance is inevitable. How far will each side go? Into this comes a man who needs to listen. The stories he hears and the community he witnesses make him the most dangerous element of all. Love. Betrayal. Sacrifice. Passion. In a spectacular finale to its triumphant launch year, National Theatre Wales joins forces with WildWorks and brings Michael Sheen home to star in a one-off ground-breaking theatre event which places the Port Talbot community at its very heart. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 09 Page 477 | |||||
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Two Worlds of Charlie F | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal - Drury Lane, Catherine Street, London WC2B 5JF >>> | 22 Jan 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 | #135898 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | One of the biggest names in the West End is joining forces with the nation's leading Armed Forces charity to offer a group of wounded, injured and sick Service personnel a once in a lifetime opportunity. The Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass Trust and The Royal British Legion, working in partnership with the Ministry of Defence, have brought together 30 wounded, injured and sick Service personnel from across Britain to write, produce and perform their own play on the West End stage. The Bravo 22 Company will present two performances only of a new play based on their experiences in conflict and in recovery, entitled "The Two Worlds of Charlie F", under the artistic auspices of Trevor Nunn CBE and with the support of Ray Winstone as the company's ambassador. The aim of the project is to use a learning environment to aid the recovery of wounded, injured and sick Service personnel. The project will introduce the Service personnel involved to leading theatrical professionals and will give early Service leaders career opportunities in the theatrical industry. | |||||
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Unicorns, almost | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58905 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Water Diviner's Tale | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Albert Hall, London | 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 | #135899 | |||
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Genre: | song cycle | |||||
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Synopsis: | Owen's collaboration with Oscar winning composer Rachel Portman on The Water Diviner's Tale, a dramatic song-cycle about climate change, was premiered in the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms 2007. | |||||
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