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Oliver Emanuel

OLIVER EMANUEL  

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Oliver Emanuel is a co-artistic Director of silver tongue theatre. He was BBC Writer-on-attachment at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and was part of the Traverse Theatre's Emerging Writer's Residency in 2006

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 Bella And The Beautiful Knight         Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The         End of the World (for one night only), The         Gemini         Henry And Ingrid: Some Words For Home         Iz         Magpie Park         Man Across The Way         One Night In Iran         Porcelain Living         Shiver         Spirit of Adventure         Tiger         Titus         Welcomehomeworld         Your Project Loves You

Bella And The Beautiful Knight

Synopsis:
Bella and her brother share a seductive, private world. Made close by the sudden death of their parents fifteen years earlier, perhaps now they are too close. But when Philip arrives for dinner, their world begins to unravel. Fantasy and reality collide with heartstopping effect in this mesmerising new Drama about love, deception, sex and death.

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Company:
Silver Tongue Theatre Company

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Play/Drama

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Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The

Synopsis:
What if you wanted your best friend Nathans two goldfish so much, that you would swap anything you had for them? Anything. Absolutely. Anything. Even your Dad. . .Well thats just what Neil does and when Mum finds out, shes not best pleased and Neil and his little sister have to GO GET DAD BACK! Unfortunately though, its not that simple. Nathan doesnt have Dad any more. He swapped him for Vashtis electric guitar. And Vashti swapped Dad, with Blinky, for a gorilla mask. And Blinky swapped Dad, with Patti, for Galveston the rabbit. And Patti lives a very, very long way away. Young audiences and their families are invited to take part in an interactive promenade production to help Neil and his sister on their mission to get Dad back!

Notes:
adapted from the book by Author Neil Gaiman And illustrator Dave McKean in a new adaptation created by Lu Kemp and Abigail Docherty; Written by Oliver Emanuel

1st Produced:
The Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock    25 Apr 2013

Company:
National Theatre of Scotland

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Genre:
50 min TYA adaptation

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End of the World (for one night only), The

Synopsis:
Join the Red Note Ensemble on the 21st December 2012 as we prepare ourselves for the end of the world. Do you remember the moment you realised the world was going to end? Did you feel panic? Fear? Were you excited or frozen to the spot? Or maybe, just maybe, you felt hope for the possibility of a new beginning...? This is a one-off, site-specific music-and-theatre piece about the predicted apocalypse, with new work by Gareth Williams, John Harris, Oliver Emanuel, Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Broom and Ludwig van Beethoven about beginnings and endings, time and nothingness, the things we leave behind and what we want to take into the future. It seemed as if we were in reach of the answer, the answer to everything. We were so close. And then just as we got there the question changed. It ended. Goodbye. Who can bear himself forgotten? WH Auden

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1st Produced:
Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, EH9 1PL    21 Dec 2012

Company:
The Red Note Ensemble and Traverse Theatre

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Genre:
piece with music

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Gemini

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Notes:
Scotsman Fringe First Nomination

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Company:
Silver Tongue Theatre Company

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Henry And Ingrid: Some Words For Home

Synopsis:
a home is not just a place, it's the people. This is the story of twoJewish refugees who escaped the atrocities of World War II to make a home for themselves in Scotland. Based on interviews, this verbatim play explores not just the great events of history but also the small, everyday detail of building a new life.

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Refugee Week @ Tron Theatre, Glasgow

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Iz

Synopsis:
three young men's friendship is predicated on their love for the wild inspirational Iz. They had all at one time been her lover, one of them her husband, and now she's dead and they don't know how they can carry on

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1st Produced:
Greenwich Playhouse, London    2004

Company:
Silver Tongue Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Magpie Park

Synopsis:
Magpie Park features a Harvey Nics store detective with a dodgy past and a florist with a missing sister. What brings them together in a room at the Queens Hotel? Part mystery, part romance, this tender-hearted thriller follows the two on a trail through Leeds from the bright lights of Briggate to the birds of Hyde Park

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1st Produced:
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds    2007

Company:
Northern Exposure Festival

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Man Across The Way

Synopsis:
Fraser and Dougie are watching a suspect. Sal is learning a new dance. an explosion rips through the city. But you're just getting on with your own life. aren't you? First performed at the Edinburgh Festival 2007, Man across the Way is a dazzling, anarchic new play about surveillance, tap-dancing and the new world order.

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Company:
Silver Tongue Theatre Company and Theatre503

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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One Night In Iran

Synopsis:
a man and a woman meet for an assignation in a hotel. They have been in love for ten years but have never yet spent a night together. Tonight is the night they will consummate their passions. But this is Iran and what they are doing is illegal. If they are caught or even suspected they could be flogged or imprisoned.

Notes:
part of A Play, A Pie And A Pint

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Genre:
short play

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Porcelain Living

Synopsis:
Laden with onomatopoeic words and deliberately poetic turns of phrase, the language is. Each one reflects on death's intrusions into life: in 'Let's Skip', Damien's mother is slowly dying; the old couple in 'an afternoon Walk' are watching their bodies crumble away.
Maddy Costa, Time Out

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Silver Tongue Theatre Company

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Genre:
Four monologues

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Shiver

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Silver Tongue Theatre Company

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Spirit of Adventure

Synopsis:
1912. Antarctica. The great white silence. The land of no maps. The fiercest desert on the planet. Into this terrifying landscape, five men struggle up mountains and across glaciers and crevasses to claim the South Pole for science and the British Empire. But they are not alone. There is one more explorer that no-one expected. . . A comical-tragical tale of the last heroes of the Golden Age of Exploration.

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Company:
a Play, a Pint and a Pie

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Genre:
short play

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Tiger

Synopsis:
Tiger, a two-hander for two women, is a confrontation between a mother of a child presumed kidnapped and a journalist. The work is about media fact and fiction and the distance people will go for a story.

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1st Produced:
work in development, CCa, Glasgow    2009

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Titus

Synopsis:
The story of a 10 year-old boy on the edge  literally on the roof of his school  confronted by a situation that seems hopeless. He can either give up or fight.

Notes:
by Jan Sobrie, new English version by Oliver Emanuel

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Company:
macrobert

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Genre:
TYA

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Welcomehomeworld

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Johannes Schrettle

1st Produced:
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds    -

Company:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Your Project Loves You

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Johannes Schrettle - (Dein Projekt Liebt Dich)

1st Produced:
Courtyard, West Yorks Playhouse, Leeds    2006

Company:
The Janus Project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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