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White Bear Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2000

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Play/Drama

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Synopsis: A beggar is convinced that she is the Virgin Mary who has been 'rogered by the Holy Spirit'.
Joe McCallum, What's On

White Bear Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2001

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Oberon Books, London >>>

2001

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Absurdist tragi-comedy

Absurd

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Synopsis: A savage metaphor of a mindless, isolationist modernity

Orange Tree, Richmond, UK >>>

2001

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Oberon Books, London >>>

2000

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Domestic Tragedy

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Notes: First play to be produced for the SJT and Orange Tree's Theatre-in-the Round project

Synopsis: A despotic man descends into helplessness as his servile wife falls seriously ill.

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2006

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in Torben Betts Plays Three, Oberon Books, London >>>

2008

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Synopsis: a dying woman's last night is marred by the conflict between her accomplished yet emotionally damaged husband and their deeply troubled son.

HERE Arts Center, NY >>>

2007

TALR 2007

Oberon Books, London >>>

2007

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Synopsis: From a playwright rated by Alan Ayckbourn and Howard Barker to be the most exciting new voice in British theatre comes a shattering re-imagining of life as we live it now, set in the context of a bloody revolution. Witness to a brutal political assassination, we are introduced to a society fractured by a lack of belief in anything meaningful, in which everyone has something to protest against. This skewed world spins giddily between the surreal, the mundane and a ghastly graphic reality. Powerful poetic language, raw emotion, dark humour and big uncomfortable ideas build a fast moving story of 'quite shattering impact' (The Guardian).

White Bear Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2000

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Oberon Books, London >>>

2001

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Five Short Plays

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Numerous parts but could BF done with seven actors (and child)

Notes: The Invention of Morality; What The Butterflies Said; I Am The Knife; The Art Of Being Alone; A Lesson In Arbitration

Synopsis: A group of short plays examining the link between religion and cruelty

Scarborough: Stephen Joseph Theatre, England, EUR >>>

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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White Bear Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2000

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Synopsis: A whisky sodden priest has been sent to persuade a political prisoner (the self described Knife of the title) to compromise his principles in exchange for freedom.
Joe McCallum, What's On

White Bear Theatre, London, EUR >>>

1999

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Oberon Books, London >>>

2001

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Verse Drama

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Notes: A Time Out Critics choice at both the White Bear and Battersea Arts Centre

Synopsis: A modern-day revenge tragedy, written largely in rhyming couplets, and straight out of Jacobean drama

White Bear Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2000

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Synopsis: Two security guards watch the animalistic ruttings on Earth from some Olympian control room. They are no better than the mortal beasts they oversee.
Joe McCallum, What's On

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in Plays Two, Oberon Books, London >>>

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White Bear Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2000

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Synopsis: Pontius Pilate has to choose between sentencing a Comedian and a Terrorist.
Joe McCallum, What's On

Scarborough: Stephen Joseph Theatre, England, EUR >>>

1999

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Oberon Books, London >>>

2000

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Domestic Tragedy

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Notes: The play has been translated into German, French and Finnish, nominated as TMA Best New Play 2001

Synopsis: A very conservative English family's inability to grieve for their dead eco-warrior son.

Riverside, London >>>

2005

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Oberon Books, London >>>

2005

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Synopsis: At the turn of the sixteenth century the two most powerful people on the planet, Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon are making plans to expand their empire. They are plundering the riches of the New World, removing all Jews and Moors from their territories and waging war on the infidels in the East. At home they seek to assert the dominance of Spain by marrying their daughters to various princes of Europe. One such daughter is Juana, a young woman full of religion and passion. Why, however, is she mad? Though set during the Golden Age of Spain, The Lunatic Queen is both brital and contemporary satire and classical revenge tragedy, as it tells the story of Juana's two servants who seek vengeance on a system which has victimised them.

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National Theatre Studio, London

1999

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Oberon Books, London >>>

2000

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Domestic Tragedy

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Notes: The play was developed at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond and was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2000

Synopsis: A brutal yet hilarious insight into consumerism as a marketing man and friends gather to celebrate the last summer of the 20th century.

unproduced

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in Torben Betts Plays Three, Oberon Books, London >>>

2008

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Notes: commissioned by Alan Ayckbourn and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in April 2002

Synopsis: Set on Guy Fawke's Night The Optimist concerns a Government Defence Minister who must face up to the consequences of the choices he has made, both professionally and personally.

White Bear Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2002

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Oberon Books, London >>>

2001

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Political Satire

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Synopsis: An examination of the artist's quest for self-expression in the Philistine state, set against a background of genocide

Didsbury Studio Theatre and Oldham Coliseum Studio

1998

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Satire

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Synopsis: A couple wake one morning to find that their love has died overnight and so must embark on a desperate journey to locate their missing emotions.

Scarborough: Stephen Joseph Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2007

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in Torben Betts Plays Three, Oberon Books, London >>>

2008

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Synopsis: Betts's pnncipal subject is the toe-curling awkwardness inspired by social embarrassment and personal failure. Downcast spinster Ruth, who has not seen anyone - including herself in a mirror - for quite some time, invites a group of former school friends to a reunion. Timorous mother-of-three Lindsay arrives with bullish husband Mark, a simmering sack of resentment whose dreams of a football career ended with Leyton Orient reserves. Then Ruth, the high-flyer of the bunch, breezes in with Claude, a French international star, on her arm. It is as if Beverly's get-together in Abigail's Party has been brought to a standstill by the sudden arrival of Thierry Henry. Mark is first awestruck, then furiously jealous as Claude casts approving glances at his wife, who in turn contemplates a wild, liberating fling with Steve, the gentle Gulf war veteran who lives next door. With the action confined to Ruth's poky kitchen and yard, Betts's game-plan is to put together a toxic combination of couples and watch the sparks fly.
- Alfred Hickling, Guardian

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Kuwait International Theatre festival

2002

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St Andrews: Byre Theatre, Scotland, EUR >>>

2007

Stellar Quines Theatre Company

Oberon Books, London >>>

2007

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no interval

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Synopsis: One day you will say something from the heart, a truth forced raw and screeching from the howling depths of your soul. Powerful poetic language, dark humour and provocative ideas build a fast moving story around a fiercely intelligent young girl and her relentless refusal of the establishment. When suddenly a people's revolution breaks out and a mercenary soldier intrudes the family home, the conflict between the regime and the unconquered girl is revealed.

White Bear Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2000

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Synopsis: An idealistic Victorian doctor fighting 'the devil of disease' is persuaded to rekindle a lustful liaison with his sister-in-law.
Joe McCallum, What's On