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CHRIS GOODE |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents (agent: Giles Smart) |
Writer and performer Chris Goode, whose company Signal To Noise collaborates here with The Corn Exchange Newbury, sees theatre as a completely live and unrepeatable experience. Goode burst into the theatrical limelight after his early success directing The Tempest in Edinburgh. There followed two Edinburgh Fringe Firsts, for his cowriting of Unlimited Theatre's Neutrino and his solo show Kiss of Life. Since then he has developed a truly diverse CV of theatre practices, challenging himself and his audience to 'be emotional through the brain and intellectual through the heart'.
Plays by Chris Goode
Adventures of Wound Man & Shirley, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Apr 2009 | |||||
Company: | Rick Watts and Queer Up North | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431804 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97053 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Queer Up North International Festival | |||||
| Shirley is a teenage boy, a bit of a loner, who is hopelessly in love with a classmate at school who barely knows he exists. Then, one night, a mysterious figure moves into his ordinary suburban street. Wound Man is an unconventional superhero, who happens to have a vacancy for a teenage side-kick. | |||||
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Could It Be Magic | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Unlimited 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 | #13920 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Escapology | ||
| 1st Produced: | Camden People's, London | 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 | #43631 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | It brings together Marie Curie, a pint sized Abraham Linciln, a gendere bending Hellen Keller, escapologist Harry Houdini and the balloonist Montgolfier brothers, locks them in a room and throws away the key. - Gardner, Guardian. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Extremists, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | rehearsed reading, Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Upstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 25 Mar 2011 | ||||
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 | #135779 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | At a high-end London restaurant, two couples meet to talk: an estranged father and son, each damaged in his own way; and a couple of young women whose role-playing games occupy a vortex of private jokes. But as their separate conversations start to become entangled, abetted by their disarming waiter, the apparent realities of their relationships reveal themselves to be unsustainable fictions. A viciously sardonic state of the nation bulletin disguised as an absurd comedy of manners, or possibly vice versa, Chris Goode's new play is a disorienting examination of the extremism that dwells within even the most moderate hearts and minds. | |||||
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God / Head | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oval House Theatre, 52-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW >>> | 21 Feb 2012 | ||||
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 | #137368 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Chris Goode (and Company) | |||||
Synopsis: | So theres this writer. Thirtysomething, gay, lefty metropolitan writer. Atheist, obviously. History of mental health problems, but those are all in the past. Sure of himself and his world view. Comfortable in his assumptions. And then one day, suddenly, without any warning. . .Theres God. In this brand new documentary piece, award-winning writer and storyteller Chris Goode explores the flipside of the familiar crisis of faith: what if there really is a God after all? GOD/HEAD is a humane, candid, radically unsettling piece about the tensions between religion and neuroscience, and about the limits of language and the edges of desire. | |||||
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Hippo World Guest Book | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Festival Highlights | |||||
| 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 | #71730 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Fringe First winner Chris Goode reveals a poignant yet hilarious drama created from messages posted at a real website, where hippopotamus fans confront the dark virtual realities of scepticism and spam. | |||||
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Infinite Lives | ||
| 1st Produced: | North Wall, Oxford | 10 Jul 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 | #126302 | |||
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Genre: | Drama. - - Gay, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A thirty something man is trying to write a gay sci-fi novel but he gets distracted by internet porn | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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King Pelican | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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 | #96441 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | It offers the melancholy madness of nonsense poet and painter Edmund lear and his Shakesperian namesake, with a treatise on ways of seeing and being in art. | |||||
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Kiss Of Life - Signal To Noise | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
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 | #13921 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A high-risk romantic comedy attempting to do the seemingly impossible: turn a story about attempted suicide into a life-affirming show. Chris is stuck in a rut: dead-end job, no lovelife, and way too much TV. Then a homeless stranger comes into his life and turns everything upside down. With storytelling, stand-up and a bit of unabashed sentimentality, Kiss of Life is inspiring and disarming, posing tricky questions about the responsibilities that love confers. | |||||
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Kissing Bingo | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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 | #13922 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Longwave | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Signal to Noise and Greenham Arts | |||||
| 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 | #57494 | |||
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Genre: | 70 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | devised by Chris Goode, Tom Lyall and Jamie Wood; music by Mark Owen | |||||
Synopsis: | A sensitive evocation of the nature of companionship, and so by extension community, Longwave pits two scientists together in a shack somewhere in a post apocalyptic world, where they carry out experiments with just their radio and each other for company. In their isolated existence, living in such close proximity, the nuances of their individual characters gradually emerge to reveal the basic nature of human communication, interaction and tolerance within a community. Performed entirely without words, Longwave is a seductively bleak comedy with a tender heart. | |||||
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Loss Of All Things, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133147 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is a response to the King James Bible book of Philippians | |||||
| The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. The voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient arts of writing and spoken performance | |||||
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Napoleon in Exile | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | cpt Company | |||||
| 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 | #13923 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A nameless man tries to recover his memory; a defeated Emperor struggles to suppress his. . . .But what has Napoleon got up his sleevies? | |||||
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Neutrino | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Unlimited 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 | #13924 | |||
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Genre: | Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | devised by company with Chris Goode | |||||
Synopsis: | Love, coincidence and sub-atomic physics | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nine Days Crazy | ||
| 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 | #43488 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | takes its inspiration from an unlikely source - the madcap capering of disgruntled Elizabethan actor 'l'homas Kemp. After a row with his colleague, William Shakespeare, Kemp undertook to morris dance his merry way from London to Norwich in nine clays in an attempt to outshine 'Hamlet', which was opening at the same time. Four hundred years later, a similarly disgruntled Goode decides the actor's life is not for him and over a pint or ten accepts a bet for ten whole English pounds to recreate Kemp's journey. | |||||
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Puckerlips | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe Festival | 1997 | ||||
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 | #126303 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Sisters | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Headlong 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 | #80252 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | from Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | Improvisatory piece, where the actors are prompted by random cues, games and sheer whim to riff on the themes of Checkhov's play. | |||||
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Six Characters in Search of an Author | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Headlong 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 | #80253 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | adapted from Luigi Pirandello in a version by Chris Goode and Ben Power | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Speed Death Of The Radiant Child | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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 | #68722 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | the piece is emotionally raw and suffused with an almost religous intensity. Watching it is like feeling the protective layers of skin being peeled from your body to reveal the bloody wounds beneath. | |||||
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We Must Perform A Quirkafleeg! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Your Home, London | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Signal to Noise | |||||
| 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 | #54138 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Uses the setting of the home itself to explore the transitory nature of human existence, the clutter we accumulate, the desire to nest, the people and things we miss when they vanish from our lives, the fantastical mating habits of the blue-footed booby and the one thing you would save if your house was burning down. | |||||
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Weepie | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
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 | #39660 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | "Pay attention to my heart! Good advice, but it comes too late for the protagonists of Chris Goode's quaintly original two-hander. The play improbably - but successfully - entwines two stories: one of two young men who were imprisoned for life for a motiveless murder, the other of a 12th-century mystic, Mary of Oignies, who was noted for her visions and ecstatic weeping. It is a highly unusual 90 minutes, baffling and bewildering by turns, but also bewitching as it charts the dangers of loving too little and the pain of loving too much. The action cuts quickly between the SAS-style preparations of the youngsters, Edsel and his protege Petrel, for their mission to find and "kill a pimp", and a TV-style interview with the mystic. This makes considerable demands upon the actors, Tom Lyall and Greg McLaren, who play interviewer and mystic with the same accomplished ease with which they inhabit the eager young killers. The latter pair, you suspect, would be considerably less dangerous if they would only direct their murderous impulses into love and sexual consummation. Edsel's denial, however, leads inexorably to Petrel's shocking act of violence. ", Guardian | |||||
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