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Stuart Lee

STUART LEE

  (1966 - )
Nationality:    Irish
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My theatrical writing career includes: 'Quiz Night at the Britannia' (OxFRINGe 2011); 'Dev's army' (Winner Galway Theatre Festival New Writing, 2010; winner 'Forever Manchester award' 2011; Winner 'Buxton New Writing award 2011'; elysion Productions - Manchester, Buxton Fringe, Preston Fringe 2011); 'the Ghosts May Laugh' (produced December 2003 Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford; august 2004 Greyfriars Kirkhouse, edinburgh); 'the attic' winner of the 2007 Oxford Writers/Oxford Playhouse New Writing Competition (produced September 2007 Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford); 'Never Tell them' winner of the 2008 Oxford Writers/Oxford Playhouse New Writing Competition 2008 (produced September 2008 Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford; Oxford Fringe Festival, 24-27th March 2010). I have had three short plays on at the Oxford Playhouse Playbites competitions - 'Leafmould', 'the Intricate Workings of a Sherbet Lemon', and 'an academic's Progress'). the first was also produced by Semper Theatre Company as part of their 'Wonder' competition (Birmingham, 2010) and 'sherbet Lemon' was produced as part of the Off-Cut Festival, Red Lion Theatre, London (2009). I have also one unproduced play 'aynho Turn' (current entry in the Bruntwood Competition).

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         Academic's Progress, An         Attic, The         Aynho Turn         Boswell and Johnson - Late But Live         Dev's Army         Elizabeth And Raleigh - Late But Live         Ghosts May Laugh, The         Intricate Workings Of A Sherbet Lemon, The         Jerry Springer: the Opera         Leafmould         Never Tell them         Quiz Night At the Britannia         What Would Judas Do?
Academic's Progress, An

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Oxford Playhouse Playbites Competition    

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Attic, The

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Two women take refuge in an attic hiding from troops who are searching for them. The arrival of a downed RAF pilot threatens their safety

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Aynho Turn

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current entry in the Bruntwood Competition

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Boswell and Johnson - Late But Live

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James Boswell hosts a book launch for the publication of his friend - Doctor Johnson's new work on their tour of the Scottish Highlands

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devised by Stewart Lee from An idea by Iain Gillie

1st Produced:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh     07 Aug 2007

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Blue Box, Anthony Field associates, Festival Highlights, Skullduggery, Weasel & Sons and Eleanor Lloyd

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Drama

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Dev's Army

Dev's Army
'Dev's army' is a dark comedy set in the latter part of 1940 in the Republic of Ireland. the play takes place entirely in a small hut along the coast to the south of Dublin. This is a base for three members of the Local Security Force (LSF) - the poor man's equivalent of Britain's Home Guard.

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Winner 'New Writing' Buxton Fringe 2001; Winner 'Forever Manchester Award' Manchester Fronge 2011; Winner 'New Writing Festival' Galway, 2010; Runner-up New Drama Competition of Wales 2010.

1st Produced:
Taurus Bar, Manchester     01 Jul 2011

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elysion Productions

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Elizabeth And Raleigh - Late But Live

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Elizabeth I and Walter raleigh as stand up comediens

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Ghosts May Laugh, The

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Confined to a Western Front dug-out during the First World War, four British officers play out a series of ghost stories to while away the time between attacks. What begins as a Christmas eve parlour game becomes a revelation of terrifying memories, as the soldiers challenge each other's responses to the horrors and duties of the war.

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90-120 min Play/Drama

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Male:  15            Female:  -            Other:  15 males (8-15 actors possible: 7-15 males, 0-1 females)

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Intricate Workings Of A Sherbet Lemon, The

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A woman on a deserted railway station. Then a man turns up. They get to talking. He tells her of a spate of murders locally the only thing that links each murder is that the victim had recently eaten a lemon sherbet

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Jerry Springer: the Opera

Jerry Springer: the Opera
Jerry Springer in Hell

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Music, lyrics and book by Stewart Lee; Richard Thomas

1st Produced:
Battersea Arts Centre, London     Aug 2001

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Original cast recording: Sony Music 2003

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Leafmould

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Birmingham     2010

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Semper Theatre Company as part of their 'Wonder' competition

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Never Tell them

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Quiz Night At the Britannia

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the play is set in the saloon bar of a pub. every Wednesday night a Quiz is held in the back room. It is regularly won by a team called the Faceless Bureaucrats. Tommy, Joe and Berne, the pub's working class regulars, are determined to beat them one day. the pub is run-down. Brenda, the hard-working but tolerant and perceptive manager, is apprehensive about the expected visit by the area Manager. Meanwhile the pub is becoming the regular resort of political advisers attending a Public Inquiry, where another little Drama is unfolding about building contracts, back-handers, politicians and faceless bureaucrats. Interweaving the Quiz, the Inquiry and the characters' lives QUIZ NIGHT aT the BRITaNNIa presents a comic view of life and politics in the 21st century.

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Copa Bar, Oxford Fringe 2011     15 Jun 2011

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Deck Theatre Production

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Comedy

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What Would Judas Do?

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stand-up-cum-monologue on Palm Sunday to Good Friday as seen from Judas's perspective.

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