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PHILIP GAWTHORNE (1981 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown Group Ltd |
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Plays by Philip Gawthorne |
Apple Pie | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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 | #53247 | |||
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Genre: | short historical drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | first performed as part of a compendium of new plays, inspired by the events surrounding the terrorist group "The Black Hand Gang". | |||||
Synopsis: | in 1960s America, two anonymous men are drawn into a casual philosophical discussion, sparked off simply because one of them lost a substantial sum of money on a football game and the other has suggested that the result may have differed, had he attended the actual fixture. From this small issue a debate ensues, which takes in everything from the origins of Chaos Theory to the nature of destiny, and it soon becomes clear that these two men are about to play a major role in the shaping of world history. . . | |||||
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Breaktime | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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 | #52935 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | short comedy/drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | first produced as part of the "Doing Lines" festival of new writing | |||||
Synopsis: | two young, stressed-out teachers hide in a school confiscation room to escape from the kids who have been terrorising them. However, they soon realise that it is the loss of their own youth, rather than the antics of the schoolchildren, which is disturbing them the most. | |||||
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Broke | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #52936 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | TV Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Coffee, Cigarettes & Paranoia | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 2005 | ||||
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 | #52937 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | crime drama/black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | rehearsed readings have taken place at The Royal Court (YWP/The Site) and The Cochrane Theatre | |||||
Synopsis: | a gritty (yet darkly comic) thriller, focusing on the volatile relationship between a strung-out, coke-addicted criminal, and his corrupt barrister, as the two men take refuge in a coffee-shop to escape from what may (or may not) be an elaborate police surveillance operation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Homeland | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Practicum 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 | #35026 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | first performed as part of the "Breaking News: Rachel Corrie" event, which was produced in response to the New York Theatre Workshop's decision to pull the plug on "My Name Is Rachel Corrie", which was due to transfer there following it's run at the Royal Court. | |||||
Synopsis: | Three recently laid-off American labourers have their regular poker-night interupted by an attempted car-theft. They manage to prevent the crime and capture the young Arab thief, dragging him back into the house and holding him hostage. The stage is set for a brutal and uncompromising exploration of racism, patriotism and class, which threatens to explode into terrible violence with every passing moment. . . | |||||
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Modern Life Is Rubbish | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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 | #55966 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama (short) Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | First produced as part of the Hampstead Theatre's "Start Night". | |||||
Synopsis: | The classic scenario of a couple separating their music collection at the end of a relationship is given a new spin for the I-Pod generation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Public Display Of Affection | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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 | #52938 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | romantic comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a romantic-comedy looking at the trials and tribulations of a quartet of twenty-somethings, focusing particularly on the ways in which technology (text-messaging, e-mail etc) has affected dating culture in the early twenty-first century | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Thrill Of The Chase, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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 | #52939 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two twenty-something flatmates make a wager regarding their respective love-lives, which spirals wildly out of control. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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