|
|
JAMES GRAHAM |
|
Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
|
|
Literary Agent: Curtis Brown Group Ltd |
James Graham won the Pearson Playwriting Bursary in 2006 after writing Albert's Boy which opened at the Finborough and has since been adapted for Radio 4. His next play, Eden's Empire won the Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play in 2007. He is Writer in Residence at the Finborough Theatre and his play The Man will be staged as part of their 30th Anniversary celebrations in June 2010. Tory Boyz was a success for the National Youth Theatre last year, and he is now writing Relish about Alexis Soyer, the first celebrity chef, who embarked on revolutions in cooking during the Irish Famine and the Crimean War. James Graham's latest play The Whisky Taster had an extended run at The Bush in January 2010 to 5 star reviews. His first film for television, Caught in a Trap, was broadcast on ITV1 on Boxing Day 2008.
Plays by James Graham
Albert's Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Jul 2005 | |||||
Company: | Icarus Theatre Collective, Concordance & Wildcard Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60656 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Blackly humorous drama of Einstein's tortured conscience. Why do you think I've been locked in this room? I've been grieving for a wife, a sister, three hundred thousand Japanese civilians, the presence of a universe gone mad, and the absence of a theory to explain it. Albert Einstein is not feeling too good. His house is empty, his cat is missing, he can't remember where he put his violin - and he is slowly driving himself insane as he struggles to solve the unanswerable question - "Did I do the right thing?" When a family friend, newly released from a Chinese POW camp, comes to visit, a warm reunion soon becomes an explosive collision of opposing beliefs on the subjects of evil, the winning of wars, and the construction of the world's first weapon of mass destruction - the atomic bomb. Albert's Boy commemorates the World Year of Physics, the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the 50th anniversary of Einsteins death. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Bassett | ||
| 1st Produced: | Blackwood Miners' Institute, Wales | 14 Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | Caerphilly County Youth Theatre in Association with National Theatre Connections 2011 | |||||
| 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 | #124626 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast size 20 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a pacy, funny and exhausting drama which looks at young people who have inherited a world at war, who, as they grow older, are starting to ask questions about conflicts, their country and themselves. The story begins. . . It's lunchtime and a group of GCSE pupils studying citizenship in a school in Wootton Bassett have been locked into a classroom by a supply teacher. They are anxious to get out and attend a repatriation procession for a brave soldier who lost his life while fighting for his country. Tensions are mounting. . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Billy Club Puppets, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays, Lorca" French, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115251 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham; Lujan O'Connell; Richard O'Connell | |||||
Synopsis: | pits three men for the love of a maid who can't make up her mind | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Butterfly's Evil Spell, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays, Lorca" French, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115252 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham; Lujan O'Connell; Richard O'Connell | |||||
Synopsis: |
| |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Coal Not Dole | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aug 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 | #60657 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | the 1984 miners strike | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Dona Rosita, The Spinster | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115253 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham; Lujan O'Connell; Richard O'Connell | |||||
Synopsis: | the problems of five women whose mother keeps them under strict subjection and prevents them from marrying because there are no suitors of the right class | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Eden's Empire | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Sep 2006 | |||||
Company: | Pye Productions and the finboroughtheatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Drama, London, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61362 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Political Theatre Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | ensemble (at least 4) | |||||
Notes: | wins the first Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play 2007 | |||||
| Fifty years ago, Britain propelled itself into a disastrous war in the Middle East. Condemned by the UN and accused of falsifying intelligence, the Prime Minister was left fighting for his political life against a Party disillusioned, a public betravcd, and a wily Chanccllor with ambitions to take his place. With the pressure of opposition to his war, Prime Minister Anthony Eden rapidly lost his grip on both the Empire and his health. Unable to control the growing power of both the United States and the Arab world, nor his own failing body, history would mark him as the worst British Prime Minister of the twentieth century. Eden's Empire is an uncompromising political thriller exploring the events of the Suez Crisis and the tragic story of its flawed hero Churchill's golden boy and heir apparent Anthony Eden. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Hand-Me-Downs | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133150 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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 2 Timothy | |||||
| 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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
History of Falling Things | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Apr 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781408122907 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97867 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | voice, 1b | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Oh, you do look. . .really good, though. You know. In the face. Oh and, uh, I love you. Prisoners of their fear of falling things keraunothetophobiacs Jacqui and Robin are restricted to living indoors. When they meet online a relationship begins which forces them to confront their fear and discover what's real in their lives and what really matters. A History of Falling Things, a new play by the acclaimed young playwright James Graham, is a gentle love story fearful, funny and moving. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
House Of Bernarda Alba, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115254 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham; Lujan O'Connell; Richard O'Connell | |||||
Synopsis: | the problems of five women whose mother keeps them under strict subjection and prevents them from marrying because there are no suitors of the right class | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Huck | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chipping Norton Theatre, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire | 08 Feb 2010 | ||||
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 | #111769 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |||||
Synopsis: | an outcast teenager and a runaway slave | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
If Five Years Opass | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115255 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham; Lujan O'Connell; Richard O'Connell | |||||
Synopsis: |
| |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Little Madam | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Oct 2007 | |||||
Company: | Brawl | |||||
| 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 | #74742 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | the upbringing, life and times of Margaret Thatcher | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Love of Don Perlimplin for Belissa in the Garden | ||
| 1st Produced: | Etcetera Theatre, 265 Camden High Street, London NW1 7BU >>> | 07 Oct 1999 | ||||
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 | #115244 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham; Lujan O'Connell; Richard O'Connell | |||||
Synopsis: | A surreal and passionate fairytale in which a battle of the body and the soul is played out. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 27 May 2010 | |||||
Company: | Whippet Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408132166 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111768 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | 60 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | rotating team of actors | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| "This is my first tax return. Thank you. . .erm for offering to. . . for helping. I realise it's a bit weird. It's just. This is. . .it's the only way I can think to make it better. The only way I can think to do it. With other people. Like this." Award-winning Playwright-in-Residence James Graham reunites with former Finborough Theatre Associate Director Kate Wasserberg to present a blackly comic and uniquely interactive storytelling event - a different actor, telling a story in a different order, selected at random, every single night. Tax is really, really taxing for Ben Edwards. Self Employed. And afraid. . .And now he must face his dreaded self assessment form, with every receipt evoking the good times and the bad - memories of things gone wrong, gone right, the journeys he's been on, the relationships that have begun and ended and the people he has lost. . .With each receipt drawn out at random, Ben begins to stitch together the patchwork quilt that was the Tax Year 2009/2010 - a year that was both hilarious and tragic, all mixed up in one shoe box of receipts. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Relish | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 04 Dec 2009 | ||||
Company: | National Youth Theatre of Great Britain | |||||
| 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 | #115212 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Inspired by the book by Ruth Cowen | |||||
Synopsis: | tells the remarkable story of Alexis Soyer, a Victorian celebrity chef who captured the imaginations of the British public long before Delia and Jamie. Born in the early nineteenth century, Soyer rose from humble beginnings in Paris to become Queen Victoria.s favourite chef, cooking for 2,000 people at her coronation. He also established soup kitchens for the poor, and invented a portable stove which revolutionised the British Army during the Crimean War. With live cooking on stage, Relish will explore Soyer's rags-to-riches life story, | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Shorts - Native Aliens | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 Feb 2010 | |||||
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 | #115245 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | London in a city of strangers, and some of them are the people closest to you. . .Four new short plays and two monologues performed for one night only. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Sons of York | ||
| 1st Produced: | 03 Sep 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 | #86162 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Hull. December 1978. The Winter of Discontent. Rubbish rots on the streets and picket lines block the factory gates. Feeling betrayed by the Labour government, a community battens down the hatches and prepares to fight. Britain's future hangs in the balance - and by summer, nothing will ever be the same again. Meanwhile on Arthur Street, Mam is dying, Dad can't cope and no one dares tell him that Mark doesn't want to be a truck driver. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
SuddenlossofdignityCom | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Jul 2009 | |||||
Company: | The Bush | |||||
| 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 | #101457 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | New Compilation by Zawe Ashton, James Graham, Joel Horwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcom and Michele Terry | |||||
Synopsis: | sketches about embarrassing moments | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Tory Boyz | ||
| 1st Produced: | 15 Aug 2008 | |||||
Company: | National Youth Theatre in World's Apart Season | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Six Plays for Young Performers, Methuen Drama (December 15, 2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408128855 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89151 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Was Edward Heath gay? If so does it matter? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Whisky Taster, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 26 Jan 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408130049 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102309 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| The Whisky Taster is a contemporary, subtle and witty exploration of feeling and perception in the modern world of advertising. Moving from monochrome to technicolour, James Graham's latest play is about seeing things too clearly in a city that never stands still. Barney and Nicola are advertising wonder kids. They win accounts with wit, charm and a secret weapon: Barney's ability to feel, smell and taste colours, and to translate these sensations into words. Lately Barney has been finding things far too colourful and wishes his full throttle London life was more black and white, but Nicola is hell bent on winning accounts at all costs. When the two hire an old Scottish Whisky Taster to help them with a new campaign, the enigmatic and mysterious figure slows the Londoners to a stop with his strange wisdom, just as the deadline looms. This play explores perception, sensitivity and feeling through the neurological condition synesthesia. Whilst the characters thrive on the surface with witty banter and accomplished advertising pitches, their real lives threaten to intrude with a deeper, darker vein of seriousness and potential despair. When every sensation can be turned into a marketable, profitable brand, they start to lose sight of the real value of experience. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
