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MICHAEL KUSTOW |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Knight Hall Agency Ltd represented by Emily Hayward |
Michael Kustow, playwright, writer, producer and avant-gardist, has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Associate Director of the National Theatre, Director of theInstitute of Contemporary Arts and Channel 4's Arts Commissioning Editor. Since 1990, he has been an independent writer and producer, notably writing the biography of Peter Brook, producing two feature films, directed by Julien Temple and Tony Harrison, and associate producing Tantalus, a nine-hour epic on the Trojan War and the Greek myths, written by John Barton and directed by Sir Peter Hall. This year, having nurtured the plays of others, he has turned to writing plays himself. West Bank shows how the war against terrorism decimates an English university, while his latest play, Honey From The Carcass, displays the extreme passions and antagonisms that erupt in a Jewish family after the death of its mother, and links them to the ferocious conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East. Discussions about the production of these plays are under way. He has written five books - The Book of US (Calder and Boyars, 1968), a study of Peter Brook's theatre-piece about the Vietnam War; Tank, An Autobiographical Fiction (Cape, 1975); One in Four (Chatto and Windus, 1987), an account of a year working in Channel Four Television; and theatre@risk (Methuen 2000), a defence of theatre in the digital age. His most recent book, the authorized biography of Peter Brook (Bloomsbury) brings together his experiences in theatre in England, France and America, and is based on a friendship and collaboration with Brook of more than forty years. Published to coincide with Brook's eightieth birthday, it was glowingly reviewed: 'A bountifully detailed record of Brook's marvellously driven life,' wrote Peter Shaffer, 'expertly charted, and described with devotion. It is a wondrous story'; 'I defy anyone to read the book and not come away thinking better of the theatre, its scope, its passion, its contribution,' wrote Simon Callow. Kustow is now working with photographer Simon Annand on The Half, a big illustrated book about actors in their dressing-rooms during the last half-hour before they go on stage, which Faber will publish in 2008. As a director and deviser, he staged a cabaret of Brecht's poems and Hanns Eisler's songs, with Jane Asher and Gawn Grainger, in the National's Cottesloe Theatre. At the Queen Elizabeth Hall, he directed his translation of Stravinsky and Ramuz's The Soldier's Tale, starring Claire Bloom, Pinchas Zukerman, Wayne Sleep and Maina Gielgud. He has begun work on A Passage from India, 'an intimate epic' about his life in 2006/7
Plays by Michael Kustow
Criminals, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow | 20 Oct 2000 | ||||
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 | #136067 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jose Triana. Translated by Michael Kustow and Pablo Armando Fernandez | |||||
Synopsis: | Cuba 1952 suburban Havana. Two sisters and a brother rehearse the murder of their parents. Through cruel game-playing and vicious black humour, Triana puts on trial the oppressive tendencies of both State and family. | |||||
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Honey From The Carcass | ||
| 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 | #136068 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Synopsis: | displays the extreme passions and antagonisms that erupt in a Jewish family after the death of its mother, and links them to the ferocious conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Soldiers Tale, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Queen Elizabeth Hall, London | - - - | ||||
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 | #136069 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | translation of Stravinsky and Ramuzs The Soldiers Tale | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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US | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roundhouse, London | 1966 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19857 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | Music by Richard Peastee; lyrics by Adrian Mitchell; original text by Denis Cannan (aka Tell Me Lies; adaptors of documentary material: Michael Kustow and Michael Scott; directed by Peter Brook. Majot contribution from Charles Wood. Developed with works | |||||
Synopsis: | America and Vietnam, anti war protest | |||||
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West Bank | ||
| 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 | #136070 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Synopsis: | shows how the war against terrorism decimates an English university | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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