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Timothy Knapman

TIMOTHY KNAPMAN  

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Literary Agent:    Alan Brodie Representation Ltd  represented by Caroline Underwood


Timothy Knapman is a playwright, lyricist and children's writer. Plays include: Gilbert and Sullivan: all at Sixes and Sevens (King's Head); The Stag King (Edinburgh Fringe); The Smallest Person (Trestle Theatre Company, national tour). Music Theatre: adaptations of The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, Cosi` fan tutte (Handmade Opera); L'amfiparnaso (also DVD), La Pazzia Senile, Barca di Venetia, Una parola nell'orecchio, The Spell (I Fagiolini); King arthur (Dartington); I'm the King of the Castle (Holywell Music Room) and The Night Knight (Madison, Wisconsin). Books include: Mungo and the Picture Book Pirates and its sequels, Guess What I Found in Dragon Wood, Little Ogre's Surprise Supper, My Uncle Foulpest series, Fantastical Flying Machines, Mythical Beasts and Fabulous Monsters. Radio: In Tune and The Choir. TV: CBeebies Bedtime Stories and Driver Dan's Story Train

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 Belle Canto's Opera Hour - Tales Of Love And Lies         Fiery The Angels         Gilbert And Sullivan: All At Sixes And Sevens         Hamlet! The Musical         Smallest Person, The         Spell, The         Stag King, The

Belle Canto's Opera Hour - Tales Of Love And Lies

Synopsis:
Miss Belle Canto invites you to take a peep through her magical opera glasses and join her on a journey through opera's greatest stories of passion and betrayal. With the help of her fabulous troupe of divas and deceivers, will our heroine make a choice between true love and duplicity, or accept that life really can be as complicated as an opera plot? From sultry sopranos to bewitching baritones, this opera-cabaret crossover features the brightest young stars of the London classical music scene performing excerpts from favourites including Carmen, La Traviata and Don Giovanni as well as lesser-known gems.

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by Loretta Hopkins And Paul Vialard with Tim Knapman

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Musical

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Fiery The Angels

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Text, with music by Richard Peat

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St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London    2010

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Gilbert And Sullivan: All At Sixes And Sevens

Synopsis:
Gilbert and Sullivan are giants in the history of musical theatre. World famous in their lifetimes, they are, if anything, even more popular now. Their comic operas are timeless masterpieces of 'topsy-turvy': each a little world of enchanted nonsense, brimming with hilarity, satire and immortal songs.But their collaboration was, famously, a stormy one. This witty and elegant play explores what made them such a combustible mixture. as Sullivan calls upon Gilbert one last time, the two men recall their careers together, performing favourite numbers from a host of their works.

Notes:
a play by Timothy Knapman; With music by Arthur Sullivan And lyrics by WS Gilbert

1st Produced:
Maldon Festival of Arts    2010

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Genre:
play with music

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hamlet! The Musical

Synopsis:
Six fearless actors and a live orchestra squeeze murder, madness (and musical theatre) into this joyous and critically-acclaimed retelling of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. It's the Bard's most famous play  only shorter, funnier and with a few more show tunes. Boasting rapier-sharp wit and a sumptuous score, Hamlet! The Musical features all of your favourite characters, from the sweet Prince Hamlet himself, to crazed Ophelia and the treacherous Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Join us for a gleefully inventive and uplifting evening of foot-tapping first folio frolics. See it or Elsinore!

Notes:
written by Alex Silverman, Timothy Knapman And Edward Jaspers

1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2010

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musical

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Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 10 Page 536

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Smallest Person, The

Synopsis:
Two stories intertwine in a mask theatre show. From freaks to tiny heroines. It is 1824. On the throne sits George IV. On his knee sits the Sicilian Fairy and eminent scientists of the day have designs on her body... It is 2004, In a chair sits a girl. On her knee sits her baby brother who will die soon, but eminent scientists of the day believe they have a cure. . .

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1st Produced:
Pod Deco, Edinburgh    04 Aug 2004

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Trestle Theatre Company

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  extras, doubling

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Spell, The

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Text inspired by Canto XVI of Torquato Tasso's GerUSAlemme Liberata, with music by Orlando Gough

1st Produced:
Cadogan Hall, London    2010

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I Fagiolini

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Stag King, The

Synopsis:
at his christening, an infant king is presented with two enchanted gifts. The first will lead him to true love. The second could destroy him. Granted the power to transform himself into any creature, the king is tricked and betrayed by his devious prime minister. To win back his crown and the woman he loves he must learn the true value of everything he has until then taken too lightly. Timothy Knapman's dark, delicious adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's fairytale conjures a winter wonderland bursting with playboy kings, lie-detecting statues, feisty maidens, second-rate sorcerers and bloodthirsty politicians.

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Original Playwright - Carlo Gozzi

1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2010

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