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OLIVER LANSLEY (1981 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown Group Ltd |
Oliver Lansley an accomplished writer, director and actor. As an actor he has worked in numerous productions on both stage and screen from Berkoff's 'Greek' at The Riverside Studios and The Award-winning, self-penned one man show 'The Germinator' to 'Eastenders', 'Holby City' and numerous short films for the likes of Cinema Extreme, the NFTS and the British Council. He is a published playwright, has been a Royal Court Young Writer and has written a series of original projects including 'FM' for Channel 4 in which he also starred. He has developed several original television projects with companies such as the BBC, World Productions, Objective, Pozzitive Television and Channel Four.
Plays by Oliver Lansley
Bedtime Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 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 | #58553 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A collection of Monologues and Duologues; Bedtime Stories explores our pre-conceptions and stereo-typical expectations of the male and female psyche. Sometimes puerile, sometimes poignant, always honest. It's set in a bed, in a bedroom, in those last few moments, while we lay in bed awaiting sleep and our brains are left to wander around aimlessly. It examines our own personal forms of logic and our abilities to convince ourselves of the existence or non-existence of events occurring in our own realities. Our desires, our paranoia and our fears of not complying to 'the norm', not being understood and most of all our fear of ourselves. Played out in a series of male and female train-of-thought-style monologues it in turn examines and parodies our ideals of gender stereotypes. Funny and at times shocking, Bedtime Stories is a play that starts when the lights go out. | |||||
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Charlie's Empire | ||
| 1st Produced: | Electric Theatre, Guildford | 15 Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | Surrey Youth Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #134864 | |||
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Genre: | TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | book, music and lyrics by Oliver Lansley and Tomas Gisby | |||||
Synopsis: | Charlie's Empire is a wickedly funny 'whodunnit' set in the gaudy limelight of the Empire Music Hall. When proprietor Charlie is murdered, anyone could have done it. Was it the knife-thrower? Was it the magician? We know where and when, but as for 'who?' and 'why?'- you'd be surprised! | |||||
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Ernest and the Pale Moon | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Pins and Needles Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431637 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99477 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller 60 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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| A noir horror which combines live music, physical storytelling and stylized design, this spine-chilling tale of obsession and murder has been written by the multi-award-winning Oliver Lansley, and produced by the team behind The Terrible Infants | |||||
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Flies | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | Pins and needles production | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432146 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132762 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Some people are frightened of small spaces. . . Some people are frightened of sharks. . . Dennis is terrified of flies. In a kill-or-be-killed fight for sanity, one man is determined to conquer his fear of flies, but as darkness falls, what is that ominous hum behind the door? | |||||
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Germinator, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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| 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 | #20054 | |||
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Genre: | Dark Fairytale | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Winner of 2003 'Hairline Highlight Award' | |||||
Synopsis: | The play is a dark fairytale about the life of an extraordinary young man, his journeys, experiences and the vast array of bizarre characters he's encountered along the way. Our Storyteller leaps in and out of the weird and wonderful caricatures, in a completely original piece that explores the darker sides of human nature in a way we can all understand. A Fairy Story unlike any you've ever seen before. | |||||
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Holly and Ivans Christmas Adventure | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Dec 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431361 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #134862 | |||
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Genre: | tya Christmas story | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | inspired by an original idea by Pins and Needles Productions. Adapted for the stage by Oliver Lansley and Emma Earle | |||||
| A brand new Christmas story for children, Holly and Ivan's Christmas Adventure is a magical tale of two brave little toys who fall off the back of Santa's Sleigh on Christmas Eve. Not wanting their new owners to wake up to no presents, they set off on an epic journey to find them. Presented here as both a story book and a play, Holly and Ivan's Christmas Adventure is packed with charming illustrations. | |||||
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Immaculate | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Aug 2005 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54261 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Fest 'Critic's Choice' | |||||
| Girl meets boy, Girl leaves boy, Girl doesn't have sex for eleven and a half months, Girl gets pregnant, Girl meets Angel, Girl meets Fallen Angel, Girl ponders fate of unborn child. You're young, free and single and haven't had sex for the last eleven and a half months, then one morning you wake up pregnant and to make matters worse the Angel Gabriel is on your doorstep claiming parentage! This is the situation Immaculate's young heroine finds herself in, which is unexpected to say the least, considering the fact that as a part-time mistress she isn't exactly 'the Virgin Mary'. To make matters worse her highly-strung boyfriend Michael turns up, blind with panic, convinced that the child is his, closely followed by Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, who is adamant the unborn baby belongs to him! 'Immaculate' is a black comedy of misconceived conceptions that deals with religion, relationships and responsibilities.It explores the reality of immaculate conception and how it would be received by a generation of non-believers. It asks the questions many of us would like to ask God if we ever got the chance. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record 2006 Page 391 | |||||
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Infant, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aug 2006 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57477 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner Hairline Highlight Award | |||||
| They have a picture, a picture which could spell the destruction of civilised society, a plan so devastating it would change the world as we know it. They must put a stop to it. They have a suspect, tied to a chair, a hood covering his face. The only problem is the suspect claims the picture was drawn by his four year old son. They have the suspect's wife, but she claims her son couldn't have made the picture. Who's telling the truth? What is the truth? And does the truth really matter any more? Are we paranoid? Or are they really out to get us? What effect have the politics of fear had on our society? How much we will believe and what will we do to save ourselves when we feel we're under threat? Are we under threat? And if so what is justifiable? Can the myth of terror be more dangerous than the truth and could the biggest threat to our way of life be our own paranoia? | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record 2006 Page 1016 | |||||
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Terrible Infants, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival | Aug 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431637 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131721 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 2 musicians | |||||
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| blends puppetry, live music, performance and storytelling to present a series of twisted tales for children and adults. Inspired by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Vaudevillians, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Apr 2011 | |||||
Company: | Les Enfants Terribles Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431637 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #127939 | |||
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Genre: | comedy with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Tomas Gisby | |||||
| Everyones a suspect as we discover the secrets of all the weird and wonderful acts who have found themselves upon The Empires bill. A macabre musical of murder and music hall, The Vaudevillains is night not to forget! Think La Clique meets Moulin Rouge, meets Jerry Springer the Opera meets Sweeny Todd. From the team that brought you the multi-award winning The Terrible Infants and Ernest and The Pale Moon - Murder, mystery and mayhem combine with Les Enfants Terribles dark, twisted wit and inventive theatricality as they present their brand new musical extravaganza. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 08 Page 407 | |||||
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