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SIMON BRETT (1945 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Simon Brett was born in Surrey and studied English at Oxford University. He worked as a producer in radio and television for some years, and in 1979 became a full-time writer. His first published work was a play, Cast in Order of Disappearance (1975), and it has been followed by others, including Silhouette (1998), which toured nationally starring Stephanie Beacham, A Bad Dream (2004) and two pantomimes: The Tale of Little Red Riding Hood (1998), and Sleeping Beauty (1999). He has also written for radio, including the series No Commitments, Dear Diary, Smelling of Roses and After Henry. He is perhaps best known for his detective novels, which are in three series: the Charles Paris series, comprising 16 books which include An Amateur Corpse (1978), Murder Unprompted (1992), Corporate Bodies (1999) and Dead Room Farce (1997); the Mrs Pargeter series, which include A Nice Class of Corpse (1986), Mrs Pargeter's Package (1990), Mrs Pargeter's Plot (1996) and Mrs Pargeter's Point of Honour (1998), the eponymous heroine being a widow with a shadowy past; and the Fethering series, set in a fictional village on the south coast of England and including The Body on the Beach (2000), Murder in the Museum (2003) and The Stabbing in the Stables (2006). The latest book in this series is Blood at the Bookies (2008). Other novels include Dead Romantic (1985), adapted for BBC2, and A Shock to the System (1984) which was made into a film, starring Michael Caine. He has edited the Faber Books of Useful Verse (1981), Parodies (1984) and Diaries (1986), and his humorous non-fiction titles include a series of How to be a Little Sod books and The Watepaper Basket Archive (1986). Simon Brett is a talented speaker, and performer of one-man 'crime in rhyme' dramas, and a former chair of the Crime Writers Association and the Society of Authors. He lives in West Sussex.
Plays by Simon Brett
Bad Dream, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47284 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Cast in Order of Disappearance | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1975 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Heron, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89120 | |||
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Drake's Dream | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shaftesbury Theatre, London | 07 Dec 1977 | ||||
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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: | pres-1068 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording; PRES (1068) 1977 | doollee no | #125081 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music and lyrics by Lynne and Richard Riley; book by Simon Brett | |||||
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Healthy Grave, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Josef Weinberger | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0856763366 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111941 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | voices | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Robert and Hillary Travers, a childless married couple in their seventies, have had careers around the world as academics but in retirement their horizons have shrunk to a small cottage in the Cotswolds. Robert, one the life and soul of lecture hall and Senior Common Room, is now reduced to an audience of one - his wife. And she's heard all his stories before. Alternately hilarious and heart-breaking, this is a study of marriage in old-age | |||||
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Mr Quigley's Revenge | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4592 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 20 | ||
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Murder In Play | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4593 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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Putting The Kettle On | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89122 | |||
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Silhouette | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4594 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Sleeping Beauty | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4595 | |||
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Genre: | Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Small Family Murder, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arundel Football Club | - - - | ||||
Company: | Arundel Festival Drip Action Theatre Trail | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89119 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | Elderly Valerie Trevelyan has been murdered with an overdose of painkillers and there are suspicious bruises on her neck. Worse still is the fact that the two key suspects in the case are her sons, Gavin and Miles. Making no secret of their cold relationship with each other, both had a financial motive and the physical opportunity to have been the killer. As detectives interview the brothers, as well as their senile father, Lionel, secrets about the family are discovered as the clues mount up and clearly lead to one person. But is he actually the murderer? This can be performed with four men or as a one-man show. | |||||
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Tale Of Little Red Riding Hood | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4596 | |||
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Genre: | Untraditional Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 8 Chorus | |||||
Notes: | Written by Simon Brett and Sarah Travis | |||||
Synopsis: | Pre-Revolution Siberia and the Boronski family have fallen foul of an evil fox who has condemned Siberia to eternal winter and sent a wolf to destroy the Boronskis | |||||
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Tale of Little Red Riding Hood, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89121 | |||
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Genre: | Pantomime | |||||
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