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Matthew Hurt

MATTHEW HURT

  
Nationality:    Irish
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         Believe         Call To Prayer         Dogs And Ladies         Greek Street         Have A Nice Life         Kicking Oscar's Corpse         Life & Death Of A Couple Of Words         Lightning Conductor, The         Man Jesus, The         Mortal Ladies Possessed         Necklace         Pesach         Secret Agent, The         Singing! Dancing! Acting!         Time Step         Tuesdays At Tesco's         Valentine
Believe

Synopsis:
the Old Testament is a battleground and war is a man's game. But what of the women? 'Believe' is a contemporary re-imagining of four survivors: traitor, widow, warrior, martyr - who carved their names into our violent history. Linda marlowe plays four women from the Old Testament: the prostitute Rehab who betrays her people, the military widow Bathsheba, Judith who beheads the warrior Holofernes, and Hannah who stands by her principles and watches as each of her seven sons is tortured and killed

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Call To Prayer

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1st Produced:
Rada, London     2003

Organisations:
Operating Theatre

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Dogs And Ladies

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Greek Street

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Have A Nice Life

Synopsis:
This sharp-witted, therapeutic musical from Philadelphia follows seven eccentric characters during their weekly group therapy session.

Notes:
Book by Matthew Hurt with Conor Mitchell And Music And Lyrics by Conor Mitchell

1st Produced:
Musical Theatre Festival, NY     2006

Organisations:
New World Stages

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Genre:
Musical

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Kicking Oscar's Corpse

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1st Produced:
Man In The Moon, London     2002

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Life & Death Of A Couple Of Words

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Genre:
performance art Piece

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Lightning Conductor, The

Synopsis:
a man walks into the spotlight. He needs our ears and, it appears, our purses. But this is no ordinary fund-raiser and no ordinary speaker. He's probably the single most important Arts impresario in history, a man with the gift of attracting and inspiring the greatest artists of his time. and that time is running out. the year is 1929 and the man is Sergei Diaghilev. a no-talent hustler or a visionary? art-addicted, dilettante magpie or genius inventor of the modern? Diaghilev lived by one rule: never repeat. Don't look back. always look forward. Diaghilev is where the future was.

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1st Produced:
Spiegeltent Teatro - Assembly George Square, Edinburgh Fringe Festival     12 Aug 2012

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Man Jesus, The

Synopsis:
Of all the stories ever told - Of all the figures in history - Of all the men that have lived. Look at Jesus through the eyes of those around him: his mother, brother and followers, the political and religious elite. What do you see? The Son of God or a Jewish terrorist? A poet-philosopher or a fraud? Whoever the man Jesus was, he inspired the history of the world.

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A one-man show starring world renowned actor Simon Callow.

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Genre:
solo piece

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=3925
Theatre Record Vol XXXIV (2014) Page 0949 - [Theatre: Theatre Royal - Brighton]

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Mortal Ladies Possessed

Synopsis:
Widow Holly reminisces about the women who have stayed in her boarding house. Such as Gretchen. She met an aspiring actor - who was going to be bigger than Cary Grant. She supports him financially and is dumped when she gets pregnant.

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adapted by Matthew Hurt from Tennessee Williams' short stories

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Linda Marlowe Productions

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Necklace

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International Young Playwrights Festival

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Operating Theatre

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Pesach

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book by Matthew Hurt; composition by Conor Marlowe

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Genre:
Musical

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Secret Agent, The

Secret Agent, The
Secret terror cells, political conspiracy, police bungling, state-sponsored bomb plots. . . This is London, 1896. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's classic novel, the Secret Agent is theatre O's heartbreaking and hilarious chronicle of passion, betrayal and terrorism. Set at a time of social upheaval and growing disparity between rich and poor, at the heart of this tale is a woman fighting to protect her young brother from exploitationand violence. In their trademark highly imaginative style, described by the New York Times as, "vivid, enlightening, inventive and compelling", music halland early cinema collide in theatre O's return to the stage after five years away

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devised by Matthew Hurt, theatre O. Adapted from novel by Joseph Conrad

1st Produced:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     06 Aug 2013

Organisations:
Theatre O / Young Vic co-production

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devised 1 hour 30 minutes

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Singing! Dancing! Acting!

Synopsis:
a bittersweet reflection on the many pitfalls of the enticing world of show business.

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Time Step

Synopsis:
From award-winning team behind 'Berkoff's Women'! Linda Marlowe stars alongside Marnie Baxter, with puppetry by Blind Summit, in a thrilling new play about fantasies, failures and talent contests.

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LMP and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in association With Blind Summit

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Tuesdays At Tesco's

Tuesdays At Tesco's
every Tuesday, Pauline loyally spends the day with her father, tidies his home, does his ironing. then they go to Tesco. every Tuesday. all eyes are on Pauline when they go shopping. Before she became Pauline, her name was Paul. and to her Father she remains Paul, despite all appearances to the contrary.

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Original Playwright - Emmanuel Darley. Translated by Matthew Hurt, Sarah Vermande. Emmanuel Darley's French-language play, Le Mardi A Monoprix, was A critical And commercial hit when it premiered in Paris in 2009, And went on to be nominated for A Moliere, France's national theatre Awards.

1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Assembly Hall     04 Aug 2011

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Valentine

Synopsis:
Mother, son and daughter refuse to act their age - living in a secret world - until one day they're forced to open the door.

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Operating Theatre

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