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Ian McEwan

IAN MCEWAN

  
Nationality:    1948
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

[photo credit - Annalena McAfee]. Born in Aldershot, Hampshire, on 21st June 1948, he was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, and read English literature at Sussex University and East Anglia University. His debut novel was The Cement Garden and he has been nominated for the Man Booker prize six times to date, winning the Prize for Amsterdam in 1998. Several of his books have been made into films including Oscar-winning Atonement. He is married to Annalena McAfee and has two children by his first marriage.

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below is a list of Ian McEwan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Butterflies         Conversations With A Cupboard         For You         Solid Geometry         Strangers

Butterflies

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival    2003

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Semper Fi (Ireland)

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Conversations With A Cupboard

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The Cupboard Man was trapped in his mother's house and treated as a two-year-old right up until he was eighteen. From there, he went to a special home, learning self-expression through dance and therapy. The Cupboard Man tells his tale, from his first 18 years of life to working in the kitchens of a posh hotel for a sadistic boss, through trying to contact his mother again, to a lonely existence in an attic flat. This is the story of the destruction of one man's psyche at the hands of virtually everyone he encounters, and of wishing for what might have been.

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Torch Theatre

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For You

Synopsis:
Michael Berkeley and Ian McEwan's new opera for Music theatre Wales is a thrilling tale of dark obsession and misplaced passion. At its centre are Maris and Charles: she, the deluded housekeeper - all disquieting diligence and dangerous desire; he, the maestro - charismatic, egocentric and completely oblivious to the growing turmoil around him and the chaos about to be unleashed at the very heart of his household. the brilliantly crafted text by Ian McEwan has all the elements that have made his novels Atonement, Enduring Love, Saturday and On Chesil Beach number one bestsellers. It has inspired a wonderful score from composer Michael Berkeley - music filled with powerful undercurrents, Dramatic force and impassioned vocal writing.

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music by Michael Berkeley and book by Ian McEwan

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Music Theatre Wales

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Genre:
Opera

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Solid Geometry

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1st Produced:
Warehouse, Covent Garden, London    06 May 1980

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RSC

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Strangers

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1st Produced:
Red Lion, London    1989

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