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Joe Harbot

JOE HARBOT

  (1988 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Playwright Joe Harbot wrote his first play, Gathered Dust and Dead Skin, when he was just fifteen and has recently graduated from the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme. His other plays include a Sock in the Wash (Live Theatre, Newcastle), Fish Missing (Theatre 503, Battersea), the Running Machine (rehearsed reading, Royal Court Upstairs) and This Way Up (Live Theatre, Newcastle). He has also had a short film, Linked, which was produced in 2007

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below is a list of Joe Harbot's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Boy On A Swing         Cold Tea         Fish Missing (Fishing)         Gathered Dust And Dead Skin         Memories         New and Better You, A         Not Quite Hole         Running Machine         Sock In the Wash, A         Spinning Wheeel, The         This Way Up         Throwing Up         You Should Be Happy
Boy On A Swing

Boy On A Swing
the Boy on the Swing is an original and unnerving play which satirises the corporatisation of God. Ingenious and thought-provoking, the play is by turns sinister and surreally funny. With hints of Pinter and Kafka, it portrays an individual in the throes of a corporation with intimidating authority and an almost inexplicable leverage to trap and injure. Upon finding a mysterious business card labelled 'talk to God' in the street, protagonist earl Hunt comes into contact with the Hope and Trust Foundation which offers the chance to meet God - for a price. From submitting credit card details during a bafflingly threatening phone interview, earl proceeds to a visit to the Hope and Trust office full of unfathomable power games which alternate between geniality and intimidating menace. the promised meeting with 'God' arrives when, in a dingy room, earl finally comes into contact with an old man of 85. From the pseudo business-evangelical spiel of the Hope and Trust Foundation to the frugal simplicity of the man presented as God, Joe Harbot's range and pace is cleverly broad and elusive. From a set-up which subtly suggests the mercenary exploitation of the lost and the lonely, the play's arc turns to darker and stranger themes of metaphysical significance. the Boy on the Swing is an enigmatic piece of writing, sometimes baffling and sometimes blackly funny. For all its bizarre and perplexing notes, the play has a smart, dark sense of humour and grapples with abstract, preternatural questions.

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Cold Tea

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Fish Missing (Fishing)

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a cringe-out-loud black comedy of escalating pet-related revenge. the goldfish goes missing and Steph wants to know why

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Box of Tricks

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Gathered Dust And Dead Skin

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A surreal look at the breakdown of a relationship and the subsequent unraveling of the two people involved, as seen from both sides. Combining extreme humour with searing heartbreak.

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Memories

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New and Better You, A

New and Better You, A
You self sabotage. Youre always on your phone. You procrastinate. Your bathroom has mould on the shower. You dont exercise regularly. You dont eat your recommended five a day. But its not too late  its never too late! Things can be different! You can make a change  youre the master of your own destiny after all. Its all down to you. Societys not going to change for you, so you need to change for society. A New and Better You asks you to take action, to improve absolutely everything and to become something magnificent. Because thats what you want. This is what you want.

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Not Quite Hole

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a play about digging

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Running Machine

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Political correctness and corporate mentality

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Sock In the Wash, A

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Spinning Wheeel, The

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This Way Up

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Clive finds three boxes - one contains a man

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Throwing Up

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You Should Be Happy

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PLAYlist is back - short plays inspired by songs by brilliant writers you know, and brilliant writers you don't. This PLAYlist is something special - an exchange between Theatre503 and Live Theatre in Newcastle. Each theatre has nominated three writers, each will take inspiration from bands from their theatre's region and write a play. As usual, the only rule is: the play must be no longer in running time than the song that inspired it. Will it be London Calling? Or Fog on the Tyne?

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