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Richard Marsh

RICHARD MARSH

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Giles Smart

Richard Marsh is a playwright, lyricist and poet. Plays include SKITTLES - a story about love (and sweets, which are more reliable) and NICKED, a musical about Nick Clegg (book and lyrics; composed by Natalia Sheppard) and DIRTY GREAT LOVE STORY (co-written with Katie Bonne), which won a Fringe First. He was one of the inaugural 503/5 writers-in-residence at Theatre503. As a poet, he performs regularly in London and internationally as far away as Scotland. He's won multiple slams and played festivals such as Latitude, at the Old Vic Tunnels and for nabokov.

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         2007         All I Want For Christmas         Beyonce         Bit Of Naughty, A         Dad's Money         Dirty Great Love Story         Duet         Greedy Scratchers         Hippo Love         Jesus II         Kingdom On Earth         Lifetime Of Happiness, A         Nicked         Rumpus         Skittles         Snow! the Musical         Westminster Side Story         Wingman

2007

Synopsis:
American soldiers bond tentively with a detainee by discussing Harry Potter

Notes:
part of "Decade" by Amy Rosenthal, Beth Steel, Nimer Rashed, David eldridge, Lou Ramsden, Fraser Grace, April de Angelis, Richard Marsh, Phil Porter And Rex Obano. Much has changed in the world since our current millennium dawned in 2000. theatre503 presents ten short plays by ten different playwrights, each encompassing A year of the so-called noughties And encourages the Audience to reflect over the past decade whilst taking in A great evening of theatre.

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Ten min

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All I Want For Christmas

Synopsis:
five fiendishly funny shorts on the true meaning of everyone's favourite holiday. Twisted and touching, All I Want For Christmas is the tale of everyday people struggling to survive in a winter wonderland. Meanwhile in Santa's grotto, the elves have decided enough is enough. Brought to you from five of the country's hottest writers and the home of fearless new theatre. If you're counting the days till Christmas is over, then this is the show for you.

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Written by Beth Steel, Louise Ramsden, Nimer Rashed, Rex Obano And Richard Marsh

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Christmas Shorts

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Beyonce

Synopsis:
Stuck in Somerset on her sixteenth birthday, Steph's got to sort out something huge without getting cow shit on her Adidas. Her parents are busy divorcing, but her Granny's got time to disapprove. A dark and hilarious comedy.

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Rehearsed Reading Jerwood Space, London     21 Oct 2002

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comedy

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Bit Of Naughty, A

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Rehearsed Reading Gatehouse Theatre, London    

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Caird Company

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Dad's Money

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Somerset is flooding. Two brothers fight across their father's grave. the water's rising but where's dad's money . . . and who'll get it? A darkly comic Drama where blood is thicker than scrumpy.

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Dirty Great Love Story

Dirty Great Love Story
Can a one-night stand last a lifetime? In her eyes, he's a mistake. A mistake who keeps turning up at parties. In his eyes, she's perfect. He's short-sighted. these hopeful, hapless romantics shamble through bleary mornings after, merry Christmas parties and cider-soaked festivals  but can they get together? Or even get breakfast? An achingly funny on-off love story of good intentions, bad timing and friendly livestock.

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written by Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna. A very human tale of good intentions and bad timing. Winner of 2012 Fringe First (for innovation and outstanding new writing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Dirty Great Love Story is a tale of the chance of love in a one-night stand. Developed at the Vault Festival at the Old Vic Tunnels, under the working title "Brand New love Story" on 24 Feb 2012

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Genre:
comedy, poetry

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Duet

Synopsis:
Duet is a brand-new piece, so at the time of writing we can't give you a synopsis of the story. But you can probably expect tales of the world's least romantic, most romantic stag and hen dos, festivals, lonely Christmas dinners and a pineapple. A wry, warm, real romance told in a hopeful, heartfelt way.

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written by Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna. A scratch performance by Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna. Richard and Katie perform hilarious, heartbreaking poems together.

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London     07 Oct 2011

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Greedy Scratchers

Synopsis:
In the beginning, there wasn't the word - From the first word to the first god, the first knife to the first lie, from feeding to farming, from metal to money, from death to doctors, this wry and thought-provoking drama brings you the prehistoric ancestors of chimpanzees and men, who evolve onstage into modern-day homo sapiens. Watch us break the first heart. Pay the first tax. Kill the first king. This pioneering play blends drama and science, physical and text-based theatre to tell a love story spanning 6 million years (and a complete change of posture).

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Hippo Love

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Jesus II

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Kingdom On Earth

Synopsis:
'the Alchemist' meets 'the A-Team' in a debauched fairytale of three young loafers who'll do anything for easy money.

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Upstairs/Landor, London     12 May 1998

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Full Circle Theatre

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Lifetime Of Happiness, A

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Rehearsed Reading Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London     18 Nov 2004

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Caird Company

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Nicked

Synopsis:
"they gave me their vote. they gave me their trust. And the country can't decide. So I must". May 2010. Two forty-somethings have lost the general election. the British public has not voted them into power. Not even close. even after thirteen years. even following a huge financial crisis. even against Gordon Brown. the British public has not voted them into power. So they take it. Nicked. Politics you can dance to. Shows Nick Clegg's, the deputy Prime Minister, hubristic vanity and his political ineptitude as cameron and Osborne run rings around him, especially over tuition fees.

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Book And Lyrics by Richard Marsh; Composed by Natalia Sheppard (aka Rogue Nouveau); Music Produced by Christoph Bauschinger And Natalia Sheppard. A short version of the play was conceived And performed At theatre503 As part of Coalition in 2010

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The Main House, The Cut, Halesworth, Ip19 8By     29 Apr 2011

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High Tide festival

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 09 Page 483

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Rumpus

Synopsis:
A comic drama about a non-religious regular guy who starts hearing the voice of God. Embarrassing. God isn't what he expected. God has a sense of humour (after all, she designed the penis). And God is looking for redemption. She's got religions wrong many times before. This is her latest start-up. This is religion 2.0. Richard is the grandson of a preacher-man, who married out of his own church. This made Richard a religious mongrel, somewhat confused as to just what he didn't believe in. Rumpus is a comic, poetry-soaked drama which asks what happens when you're hearing God's actual voice - it's just that nobody else is.

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Vaults Festival 2016

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[scratch performance] The Vaults, Leake St, Waterloo, SE1 7NN     28 Feb 2016

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Genre:
comic drama 90 min

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Skittles

Synopsis:
A story about love (and sweets, which are more reliable). Richard Marsh's debut solo show is a tale of broken dreams, trans-American road trips and a seductive mistress called Sorrow. Fusing poetry and prose, Skittles is a deeply funny and truly moving account of losing love and learning to put yourself back together again.

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developed at BAC

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Takeover festival

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Snow! the Musical

Synopsis:
It s bad news: Father Christmas has gone rogue and is hell bent on making it Christmas everyday, no birthdays, no Easter, no Solstice, no New Year. FC throws Nick, the delivery elf, from the stealth sleigh in his pursuit of world domination - big mistake! Nick falls to earth and meets up with star-crossed lovers Jilly and Jack, the less than lithe Lizzie, and their miserable parents for whom Christmas seems to be a disaster of enormous proportions. No-one is happy, or believes in Christmas any more, which means that Nick s quest to save the world from FC fanatical plan must be doomed. Or is it?

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Music And lyrics by Andy Caine, Richard Marsh And Guy Pratt

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Sound, London     19 Nov 2005

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Kit Productions

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Genre:
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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Westminster Side Story

Synopsis:
theatre503 present a series of short plays which riff on the theme of "Coalition" - both in that they are all products of collaborations between playwrights and artists of other disciplines, and in that they all address in one way or another the new age of coalition government in which we find ourselves. You might say that a theatrical exploration of the current political situation could have come a little sooner; but coinciding as it does with the student riots and the general reaction to the October cuts, this project feels incredibly vital. there are ten pieces of work, split into a Blue Group and a Yellow Group (for Tories and Lib Dems, of course), which perform on alternate nights.

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By Richard Marsh And Rogue Nouveau

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short play

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Wingman

Synopsis:
A new father-son comedy from Fringe First winner Richard Marsh. Mum's dead. Annoyingly, dad's not. After twenty years apart, can father and son say goodbye to mum without saying hello to each other? This achingly funny story reminds us: no matter how bad life is, family can make it worse. Previous shows: Dirty Great Love Story (Fringe First winner, co-written with Katie Bonna), Skittles and Love & Sweets (Best Scripted Comedy, BBC Audio Drama Awards 2014). Lovely, witty, delicious. . . Warmly and fuzzily recommended' ***** (Independent). Restores your faith in human nature and the Fringe. . . bliss' **** (Telegraph).

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Richard Marsh / Tim Johanson Productions

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Genre:
Comedy, Spoken word, 1 hour 15 minutes

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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