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Andrew Upton

ANDREW UPTON   

Nationality:   Australian    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  United Agents  ANZ representative RGM Artists Group

Andrew Upton has established himself as a writer for both stage and screen. His play The Hanging Man was commissioned by the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) and premiered at the Wharf Theatre in 2002. The STC's 2004 production of Hedda Gabler, which starred Cate Blanchett in the title role, was Upton's third major adaptation for the stage after his celebrated adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac and Don Juan debuted with the STC in 1999 and 2001 respectively. He wrote and directed the short film Bangers and has developed a number of feature screenplays.

Plays by Andrew Upton

ANDREW UPTON

Cherry Orchard, The

1st Produced:

National Theatre, Olivier, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>>

17 May 2011

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Faber and Faber Ltd, London (2011) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0571277681

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

8

Female

6

Parts other:

ensemble

Notes:

Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

Cherry Orchard, The

Ranyevskaya returns more or less bankrupt after ten years abroad. Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of Lopakhin, a peasant turned entrepreneur, to save the family estate. In so doing, they put up their lives to auction and seal the fate of the beloved orchard. Set at the very start of the twentieth century, The Cherry Orchard captures a poignant moment in Russia's history as the country rolls inexorably towards 1917

Further Reference:

Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 10 Page 513


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ANDREW UPTON

Cyrano De Bergerac

1st Produced:

Sydney Theatre Company

1999

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#35200

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

10

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

translation of Edmond Rostand's classic tale

Synopsis:

Dating from 1897, the story describes the misadventures of the valiant and tragic Cyrano, whose enormous nose prevents him from securing the adoration of the demure and much-admired Roxane. Instead, Cyrano expresses his love by writing billets-doux on behalf of his gorgeous but vapid soldier-friend Christian, which are duly delivered to Roxane in Christian's name. It doesn't help that Roxane was Cyrano's childhood friend, or that Christian's wit is as slow as Cyrano's is fast. Will our Quixotic chevalier win the heart of his beloved, or he be stymied by his own self-loathing?

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ANDREW UPTON

Don Juan

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#35201

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

9

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Moliere. Adapted by Andrew Upton and Marion Potts

Synopsis:

Don Juan has a self-appointed mandate from Heaven to follow his desire wherever it leads. Faced with the delicious agony that the world might not hold enough women to conquer, he swings over the crevice of damnation with all the agility of a high wire act

Further Reference:

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ANDREW UPTON

Hanging Man

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#35202

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Genre:

full length Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

The three sons of a legendary Australian painter come home for their mother's funeral, but as always, it's their father's ghost that haunts them. Surrounded by his achievement, they begin grappling over their father's legacy including a masterpiece from '

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ANDREW UPTON

Hedda Gabler

1st Produced:

Clark Street Playhouse, Crystal City, VA

2008

Company:

Washington Shakespeare Company

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

Synopsis:

the story of a beautiful woman who has decided to marry Jorgen Tesman, an academic of limited skill and ambition who adores her, rather than his brilliant, drunken colleague Lovborg, who actually loves her. Tesman, a historian who spent most of his honeymoon doing field work, is desperate for a University appointment so that he can continue to keep Hedda in the style to which she would prefer to become accustomed. Lovborg, who has thrown off the drink with great difficulty, has (with a lover and silent partner) written a fabulously successful treatise and is ready to introduce an even more significant work. Hedda, recognizing that her old lover is a threat to her new husband's prosperity, reintroduces Lovborg to the sauce, and after that the bad things happen.
- Tim Treanor, dc theatre scene

Further Reference:

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ANDREW UPTON

Philistines

1st Produced:

National Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2007

Company:

National 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:

-

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#62871

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

9

Female

9

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky

Synopsis:

A household falls to pieces as the personal and political turmoil of pre-revolutionary Russia gathers pace. Gorky's darkly comic first play of 1902, banned fiom public performance under the Czarist regime

Further Reference:

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ANDREW UPTON

Riflemind

1st Produced:

Wharf 1 Theatre, Sydney

2007

Company:

Sydney Theatre Company

1st Published:

Currency Press, Australia >>>, 2007

ISBN/ASIN:

9780868198231

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

5

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Riflemind

John was once the frontman in one of the world's biggest bands, Riflemind. Now John and his wife Lynn are safe from the world in their walled country house. Money and anonymity, however, won't protect them from themselves or their past. As a comeback tour nears, a weekend of music-making is planned. As soon as the band and associated spouses, lovers and hangers-on arrive, it's a rock'n'roll circus. With their apparent affluence, preposterous egos and rock-god lifestyles, each of them struggles to find redemption. Over this weekend they will open old wounds, lose their way, play great music and, perhaps, stumble into a more certain future.

Further Reference:

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ANDREW UPTON

Through a Glass Darkly

1st Produced:

Almeida Theatre, London, EUR >>>

16 Jun 2010

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#105529

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

based on Ignmar Bergman's film

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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ANDREW UPTON

White Guard, The

1st Produced:

Lyttelton, National Theatre, London, EUR >>>

23 Mar 2010

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Faber and Faber Ltd, London (2010) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0571268597

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

20

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Mikhail Bulgakov

White Guard, The

In Kiev during the Russian civil war, the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, close-knit crowd presided over by the beautiful Lena. As her brothers prepare to fight for the White Guard, friends charge in from the riotous streets amidst an atmosphere of heady chaos, quaffing vodka, keeling over, declaiming, taking baths, playing guitar, falling in love. But the new regime is poised and in its brutal triumph lies destruction for the Turbins and their world.

Further Reference:

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