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JAMES LEY |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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James Ley is a young, Edinburgh based writer
Plays by James Ley
Gaslighter | ||
| 1st Produced: | CCA Glagow | 02 Oct 2010 | ||||
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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 | #119213 | |||
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Genre: | extract reading | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Life of the Mind: 4 Plays. Playwrights James Ley, Mairead Martin, John McCann and Rachel Clive have recently completed the Playwrights' Studio Scotland mentoring scheme, and are delighted to present extracts of their work in this collaborative event between the Playwrights' Studio and the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival with support of the Arches. The event will present rehearsed readings of extracts from the following four plays: | |||||
Synopsis: | Desperate to escape his mother's latest breakdown, Joe threatens to kill himself if he doesn't get driving lessons for his birthday. When the driving lessons aren't forthcoming, viewing a 1950s Noir film gives him another idea which works at first, then backfires horribly. | |||||
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I Heart Maths | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 May 2011 | |||||
Company: | part of A Play, a Pie and a Pint | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432306 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128310 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | The theme of self-indulgence unites the three plays in The Ego Plays collection. At the heart of each is a gay man asking a lot of questions& about himself. These questions range from scientififIc and philosophical musings to angst-ridden pleas for enlightenment. They come from men who have become so trapped in their own situations that they can no longer successfully connect with the outside world. Up is a play about despair, I Heart Maths is a play about love and Spain is a play about moving on. Together they present the cognitive processes of three men who have allowed personal problems to grow to monstrous proportions. In each of these plays excessive self analysisleads to the main characters taking desperate measures, though frequently also leading to humorous consequences. But while these plays are comedies, exploring the perils of taking oneself too seriously, they are not intended to be cruel. Instead they set their characters free by making their worst fears come true and then taking them somewhere new. I heart Maths was initially developed by Glasgay!, Ros Philips and students of the MA Classical and contemporary Text and BA Acting courses at RSAMD. | |||||
| A heartbroken statistics lecturer goes on a quest to find his ideal man using a pseudo-Darwinian theory. Undeterred by his ball-busting colleague and blind to the affections of a love struck student he journeys into the abyss. But no matter where science takes you, love will always find you. | |||||
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Spain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS >>> | 25 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | Glasgay | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432306 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132343 | |||
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Genre: | play 60 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | by James Ley, co-created and performed by Mark Kydd. Part of Glasgay! Scotlands annual celebration of queer culture. The theme of self-indulgence unites the three plays in The Ego Plays collection. At the heart of each is a gay man asking a lot of questions& about himself. These questions range from scientififIc and philosophical musings to angst-ridden pleas for enlightenment. They come from men who have become so trapped in their own situations that they can no longer successfully connect with the outside world. Up is a play about despair, I Heart Maths is a play about love and Spain is a play about moving on. Together they present the cognitive processes of three men who have allowed personal problems to grow to monstrous proportions. In each of these plays excessive self analysisleads to the main characters taking desperate measures, though frequently also leading to humorous consequences. But while these plays are comedies, exploring the perils of taking oneself too seriously, they are not intended to be cruel. Instead they set their characters free by making their worst fears come true and then taking them somewhere new. | |||||
| You can't run away from your problems...but you can take them to nicer places. At 22, Ally relocated from Edinburgh to Gran Canaria and he's never looked back. He hasn't had time. He's been too busy enjoying himself. . . and other people. Lots of other people. In fact, in the twenty years he's been on the island he's averaged a man a week. But at 42 Ally is entering his promiscuous person's mid-life crisis. As he waits for the arrival of his latest gentleman caller, he finds a small memento that takes him back to his life in Scotland. Spain tells the story of an ex-pat Scot, thrown into an existentialist crisis and forced to begin a long journey home. | |||||
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Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Vault (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) | 10 Aug 2009 | ||||
Company: | Return to Work | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432306 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101328 | |||
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: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The theme of self-indulgence unites the three plays in The Ego Plays collection. At the heart of each is a gay man asking a lot of questions& about himself. These questions range from scientififIc and philosophical musings to angst-ridden pleas for enlightenment. They come from men who have become so trapped in their own situations that they can no longer successfully connect with the outside world. Up is a play about despair, I Heart Maths is a play about love and Spain is a play about moving on. Together they present the cognitive processes of three men who have allowed personal problems to grow to monstrous proportions. In each of these plays excessive self analysisleads to the main characters taking desperate measures, though frequently also leading to humorous consequences. But while these plays are comedies, exploring the perils of taking oneself too seriously, they are not intended to be cruel. Instead they set their characters free by making their worst fears come true and then taking them somewhere new. | |||||
| An unquiet mind swings between chaos and clarity in an austere world. The battle for mental stability is over. Might as well cut to the end of the story. Sharp new play with astringent language and gallows bedside manner. | |||||
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