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JUSTIN BUTCHER |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
Justin Butcher (Writer/Director) read Classics at Oxford, and trained subsequently at Drama Studio London, graduating in 1992, since when his work as a playwright and director has gained global recognition, with credits including: Scaramouche Jones, starring Pete Postlethwaite (Dublin Theatre Festival 2001, UK tour 2002, World Tour 2003); The Madness Of George Dubya (Arts Theatre, London, 2003); A Weapons Inspector Calls (Pleasance London 2003-4, Fringe Report Best Political Dramatist Award 2003); Breaking Strain (Edinburgh Fringe 2003); Guantanamo Baywatch (New Players Theatre, London, 2003); The Firebrand (Royal & Derngate, Northampton 2007); The Millennium Man (Theatre Royal, Bath & Uk tour, 2000); King Of fools (Westminister Abbey, 1995, and UK tours). He has also written three plays for BBC Radio 4: Chukwudebelu -- Preserved of God (with Ben Okafor); The Man On The Pillar, about St. Simeon Stylites, and The Seven White Masks Of Scaramouche Jones, starring Warren Mitchell.
Plays by Justin Butcher
Breaking Strain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford, Oxfordshire | 16 Sep 2002 | ||||
Company: | Passion Pit Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #5533 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Sexually explosive update of the Greek legend of Hippolytus and Phaedra. Aphrodite moves in malicious, mysterious ways - hilarious send-up of Greek tragedy. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Curtain Raisers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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 | #41241 | |||
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Go to Gaza, Drink the Sea | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Feb 2009 | |||||
Company: | Passion Pit Theatre & Zeitgeist Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #95322 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written & directed by Justin Butcher and Ahmed Masoud; designed & co-devised by Jane Frere | |||||
Synopsis: | a highly atmospheric fusion of moving personal testimonies with searing film images, haunting music and soundscape bearing witness to the dignity, courage and suffering of the people of Gaza, performed by a Palestinian and British cast. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Guantanamo Baywatch | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Players, London | 19 Oct 2004 | ||||
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 | #41365 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | final part of the Dubya Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of sand, sea, sex and prisoner abuse is a bizarre concoction of satire and nightmarish fantasy, as a holiday in Guantanamo Bay morphs into a bizarre blend of Alice In Wonderland and The Great Escape. | |||||
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King Of Fools | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 21 Apr 2000 | ||||
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 | #115214 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Controversial Passion Play with former Nigerian boy soldier Ben Okafor as Jesus. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Madness Of George Dubya, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Jan 2003 | |||||
Company: | Passion Pit Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #5534 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Satire, songs and insanity. 'Tension is mounting in the Gulf, war drums are beating in Britain and America, and the commanding general of a US air base in Britain goes 'a little funny in the head' and orders his airborne division, each armed with countless megatons of nuclear missiles, to attack their primary targets in Iraq. It's a frantic race against time for President George Dubya and Prime Minister Tony to recall the planes and prevent an all-out war in the Middle East. . .A rollercoaster ride through the delights and terrors of global war, coming soon to a town near you! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Present Tense | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 27 Apr 2008 | ||||
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 | #115215 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
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Notes: | written by Justin Butcher, Katie Douglas, Jack Thorne, David Watson | |||||
Synopsis: | The return of the toughest creative challenge in town. A group of playwrights, directors, film-makers, poets and musicians have one week to respond to the most important news story of the moment. Some of the UK's most exciting talent convenes to select the most momentous story on the news agenda. They each have one week to create a piece of work that responds to the story they choose. As the news changes, they will be forced to adapt their work, until it is performed for you the public on Sunday 27 April 2008 - exactly one week after they began. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Prisoner of Windsor, The, or, The King's Spit | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, London WC2H 7BX >>> | 15 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | Passion Pit Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #128362 | |||
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Genre: | Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Created fresh in the weeks following the Royal Wedding, this up-to-the-minute response from one of the most renowned theatrical satirists of his generation provides immediate comment on the World Wide Wed via the medium of musical comedy. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 10 Page 506 | |||||
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Red Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | The Sticking Place | |||||
| 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 | #45974 | |||
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Genre: | horror playlet | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Terror 2005 a repertoire of short plays by various writers. Adapted from H G Wells | |||||
Synopsis: | a cocky Victorian gent eager to debunk a local myth, changes his tune after a night spent in the notorious bed chamber of a stately pile | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Roman Bath, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 28 Apr 2010 | |||||
Company: | Gologan Productions | |||||
| 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 | #114442 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Stanislav Stratiev | |||||
Synopsis: | Ivan returns from a trip to the seaside to find his home torn apart. Builders have unearthed a lost treasure beneath his floorboards: an ornate bath dating back to Roman times. As the excavation destroys his flat, professors, businessman with dodgy Swiss connections, local councillors, reporters and even the national union of lifeguards set up camp. Everyone wants to claim the discovery - while all Ivan wants is some peace. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Scaramouche Jones | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bristol Old Vic/tour | 03 Apr 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5535 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | 11pm Millennium Eve. Ancient clown, Scaramouche, gives his final performance, charting a bizarre odyssey through comic misadventures and the century's darkest episodes, to reveal the loves, brutalities, ecstasies and tragedies beneath his seven white masks. Epic, poetic, profoundly moving | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Weapons Inspector Calls, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Dec 2003 | |||||
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 | #5536 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | based on JB Priestley's classic 1946 thriller | |||||
Synopsis: | In A Weapons Inspector Calls, it's the eve of the US presidential elections, the polls have opened and President George Dubya and his cronies are gathered in the Oval Office to celebrate his imminent re-election. But then a ghostly Weapons Inspector turns up, having spent the past 18 months and $900 million trawling the Middle East for the fabled WMD. He has questions to ask all of those gathered around the festive table. | |||||
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