ROBERT FARRAR
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Robert Farrar
Complex |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Psychodrome and London New Play Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | short play - psycho-sexual comedy-drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Text by Shaun Levin from his original short story of the same name. Adapated for the stage by Robert Farrar | ||||
Synopsis: a middle aged man is woken by a young woman at the door saying her car has broken down and can she use the phone. The sexual combat that follows packs a pair of memorable punchlines. | ||||
Donut |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Psychodrome and London New Play Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | short playlet - sex comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Text by Shaun Levin from his original short story of the same name. Adapated for the stage by Robert Farrar | ||||
Synopsis: a man helps his body-conscious boyfriend to overcome his neurotic fear of fattening foods by persuading him to eat a jam donut during sex. | ||||
Get The Guest |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Psychodrome and London New Play Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | short play - twisted farce | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Text by Shaun Levin from his original short story of the same name. Adapated for the stage by Robert Farrar | ||||
Synopsis: a camp farcelet set in a provincial B&B and has the owner seducing his guest in the invented guise of his own half-wit identical twin. | ||||
Lovers From Hell |
| 1st Produced: | 2004/5 | |||
| Company: | Psychodrome and London New Play Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Triple bill | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Text by Shaun Levin from his original short story of the same name. Adapated for the stage by Robert Farrar. comprises Complex, Get The Guest, The Smell of Asparagus Pee and the mini-play Donut | ||||
Synopsis: see individual plays | ||||
Smell Of Asparagus Pee, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Psychodrome and London New Play Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Text by Shaun Levin from his original short story of the same name. Adapated for the stage by Robert Farrar | ||||
Synopsis: A deserted lover composes an impassioned letter to the man who abandoned him. A "monologue for two" with two actors portraying a man slipping into madness | ||||
Wild Fruit |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Psychodrome | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Robert Farrar's witty, serious comedy follows the maneuvers of four gay men, gathering in a Brighton flat in hopes of an orgy, for whom, of course, nothing turns out quite as intended. The would-be artist, the won't-be osteopath, the quirky S/M couple, are given memorably detailed personalities - the artist never at a loss for crisp, Coward-like quips; the osteopath unwittingly disclosing child-like instability; the American top proving useless in a crisis. The dinky trolley-dolly is Farrar's most original creation, demanding to be submissive, mouthing seemingly vacuous political notions but emerging as the one with the decent social conscience while continuing to be, also, endearingly absurd. Farrar can switch the mood in a sentence from comic to poignant, and in the next sentence switch it back. The twists of his plot, though unforeseeable, become inevitable in retrospect so that his group portrait imparts a sense of real, felt life. An altogether admirable work. Jeremy Kingston, theatre critic, The Times | ||||