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2009

NT

Oberon Books, London (2009) >>>

978-1-84002-900-0

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There are about 80 characters in the play and one would need a company of about 20 at least to do the production with the balance between men and women about even

the play would appeal to drama schools who are looking for large ensembles to test their actors with multi role plays

A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture. And the emerging pattern shows that white flight and anxiety over integration are anything but new. Richard Bean's comedy follows a pair of star-crossed lovers amid cutters' mobs, Papists, Jewish anarchists and radical Islamists across four tempestuous centuries.

Rose, Kingston

2008

Headlong Theatre

Oberon Books, London (2008) >>>

978-1-84002-913-0

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a mixed bag of players, ten men and a boy come to an unnamed London park for a 35 over cricket match against another amateur team.
- Benedict Nightingale, The Times

2003

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Oberon Books, London >>>

1840024151

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the borders don't make any sense, there's no rule of law, no running water, you never know when the electric's on, the last war's fucked everything, and the next war will fuck everything else A dark and deeply funny tale of foreign aid workers in far-flung Tambia. . . Truly alternative Christmas entertainment, not for the faint hearted or politically correct.

2005

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Oberon Books, London (2005) >>>

978-1-84002-913-0

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won the Critics' Circle BEST NEW PLAY 2005 AWARD. It was also nominated for the Olivier Award and the Evening Standard Award in the same category

On 14th May 1875 Lord Primrose Agar, drunk as a skunk, wagered one of his tenant farmers, Orlando Harrison, that his border collie pup Jip would outlive the 94 year-old Harrison. The prize would be 82 acres of up and down known as Kilham Wold Farm, near Driffiels in East Yorkshire. Thirteen years later, having buried his dog, Agar shook hands with Orlando and conferred on the Harrisons a century of struggle

2004

ETheatre Company

Oberon Books, London (2003) >>>

1840024062

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won the Pearson "New Play of the Year" for 2002

The wear and tear of marriage; and the result, while full of deadpan humour, leaves you unsure whether Bean's deadlocked duo are the victims of temperamental mismatch or social circumstance. Technically, the play is ingenious. The action takes place in a Bridlington hotel suite and traces the shifting marital fortunes of Eddie and Irene: Bean's Ayckbournian trick, however, is to present the three chosen time-periods simultaneously rather than sequentially.

2005

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Oberon Books, London >>>

1840026170

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Original Playwright - Moliere, adapted by Richard Bean, literal translation by Christopher Campbell

Molière's classic farce pokes fun at Argan, a man so obsessed by his own imaginary ailments that he can no longer control his haphazard household or the mercenary medics he employs. With doctors determined to grow fat from the profits of his condition, Argan's closest relatives battle to show him the truth of his situation. Using elaborate trickery, they strive to cure the real disease from which he suffers, managing to pile confusion upon hilarious confusion.

2007

Hamstead Theatre

Oberon Books, London (2007) >>>

978-1-84002-913-0

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Hapless MEP Philip Wardrobe has a busy day ahead of him, balancing his less-than-irreproachable political career with his attemps to start a family. As he prepares for his girlfriend to fly in from Kettering for an afternoon of fertile frolics, his plan to be voted President of the European Parliment is foiled at every turn by unpredictable colleagues: uncouth Yorkshiremen; irate Turks and amarous Frenchwomen. . .to say nothing of the mysterious man in the linen cupboard.
theatre list

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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By Richard Bean, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Joel Horwood and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

Pantomime returns to Hammersmith in a community and entertainment extravaganza with the creative team working alongside local talent to present a traditional panto

2002

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Oberon Books, London >>>

1840023112

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Original Playwright - Serge Valletti

Inventory time in a pub, or rather poeub, somewhere in the world. Life is about to change for Mr Globul. He will go on to fight the inspectors, prompt a revolution, lead the country, lapse into a deep sleep, hide in a crowd of refugees, dress as a barrel and live as a travelling puppeteer. . . Globul could be the heir apparent to Ubu and Gargantua. Poeub is a modern epic comedy where Serge Valetti plays with language, characters, clichés, time and space and leads us through an imaginary world as pitiless, brutal and absurd as our own.

2002

Oberon Books, London >>>

1840022876

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War, poverty, corruption, spiralling taxes, bad behaviour, inter-personal violence and over-population. Do these things worry you? Middle-aged manager Ted, hits on a utopian plan to change the way we live

2000

NT Studio

Oberon Books, London, 2000

1840021705

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Why has middle manager Stephen England got up in the night and defecated on the living room carpet? His wife Judith doesn’t know, nor does his mother Irene. Only Andy, the gauche youth who regularly turns up uninvited to borrow his power tools, can save him (or destroy him).

Canal Cafe Theatre

1996

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in The great game: Afghanistan, Oberon Books, London (2009) >>>

9781840029222

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part of a three month long festival about the culture and history of Afghanistan. Entitled The Great Game: Afghanistan. The festival will be divided into three parts, each focusing on a period of Afghan history: 1996 - 2009 : Enduring Freedom

Richard Bean was always likely to liven up proceedings but, while his tale of NGOs contains some great jokes and a series of memorable characters, it has a dark heart. It starts with a scene where Jackie, a feisty aid worker on the ground played by Jemma Redgrave, tries to "sell" Afghanistan to the charity's fund raisers. Jemima Rooper and Daniel Betts as Fiona and Jonathan are less than impressed at trying to push farming and land rights on to the market but eventually get sold on the idea of projecting the plight of starving farmers who have lost their livelihoods. The action moves to the poppy fields of Herat, where the politics are complicated and deals must be settled over ritualised cups of tea. The combination of Jackie and her headstrong colleague, Tom Mackay's Graham, can be hilarious. They are also incredibly brave and, in Jackie's case, pragmatic, accepting traditional values. This causes a rift between the pair that ultimately leads to a tragic ending to one of the day's strongest plays. .
- British Theatre Guide

1995

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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LibrettoOpera by Stephen McNeff

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Hull: Hull Truck Theatre, England, EUR >>>

11 Sep 2009

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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a study of a pub quiz team whose name 'My dad's a Drug Addict', is not supposed to be ironic.
- Alfred Hickling, Guardian

2003

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Oberon Books, London (2003) >>>

1840023732

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If you're a Robinson, family matters. And family matters are about to get serious.' Things have changed since Dad set up the family business in the 60s: new products, more competition, and a bigger market. At the end of the day though, it's still all about cash and stock. But this is no ordinary family business - the Robinsons are drug dealers. After 35 years of serving it up to the local community, Dad has handed over the reins to son Sean. And there are going to be changes, but not all for the better. Strange things are happening in the previously quiet streets of Whitley Bay. The local police are becoming more and more interested in the activities of the family and serious questions are being asked: Who killed Pammy? Who are the mysterious Russians? And more importantly where the f**k are all the spoons?

1999

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Oberon Books, London (1999) >>>

1840021047

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Seven men come together to bake enough bread to feed the population of Hull. It’s just another Sunday. Nellie's so worn down from a lifetime making dough, he loses his vest in the mix. First, Owen Man's on a promise. The ovens are cranked up and running, and the wholemeal's pleasingly big going in. But there's a spanner in the works which threatens bread production in Hull for good, and life as they know it for the men on the shift.

2003

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Oberon Books, London (2003) >>>

1840022868

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winner of the George Devine award for 2002

The life of Darrel Ascough, a Hull trawlerman, is played out in three acts in the crew's quarters of a distant water trawler: First, at sixteen, Darrel is a deckie learner on the Kingston Jet. Here he meets Hull's "one man circus" Cassidy, and is introduced to his legacy. On the James Joyce, and as a young but skilled trawlerman, Darrel is the only survivor when the trawler capsizes when heavy with ice. In the final act, on the heritage museum ship the Arctic Kestrel, Darrel meets the confused and rootless youth Pat, and is forced to address the meaning of his legacy and his true heritage.

2006

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Oberon Books, London (2009) >>>

978-1-84002-913-0

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nominated for the 2006 TMA award for Best New Play

fictional account of the eruption at Hull prison (UK) in 1976