GLEN NEATH (1965 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Glen Neath
Closer To Ormsby |
| 1st Produced: | Shunt Arch, Bethnal Green, London | 2001 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A man brings a woman home from the pub, but he only wants her to witness a battle that will decide who has killed his mother. . . himself, his brother, his sister or his father who is serving time for the crime. | ||||
End of the Round |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
| Company: | London New Play Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: In struggling to free herself from the subversive advances of an old flame, a woman attempts to make of her new partner the incarnation of all that she is desperate to leave behind. But she is unable to deny the compelling attractions of a brutal and possessive past | ||||
Gantenbein |
| 1st Produced: | Hebbel Theater, Berlin, Germany | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Hebbel-am-ufer, Berlin and Theaterhaus Gessnearalle, Zurich co-production | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Adaptation of Max Frisch's novel 'Mein Name sei Gantenbein' | ||||
Synopsis: An actor and an actress live on the stage, trapped within its formal confines, and to pass the time they try on fictional characters like clothes. The actor decides to be Gantenbein, a man who pretends he is blind. The actress is his wife, the actress Lila. When the actor becomes Enderlin, a man who won't take up his new professorship at Harvard because he'll have to leave behind the wife of his associate Svoboda, with whom he is having an affair, the actress decides to become Svoboda's wife, so that she is able to meet Enderlin. . . but it seems Svoboda's wife might also be Lila. | ||||
Mephisto |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | Konkrete | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Adaptation of Klaus Mann's novel | ||||
Synopsis: As Gantenbein struggles to reveal his true self, he sees redemption might lie in Camilla, his manicurist, who loves to share stories with him, and it only when these innocent tales they tell each other begin to suddenly take on a factual life of their own, that he is left with a choice: should he live forever as Gantenbein and lose the one thing he is sure of, or destroy everything and rescue Camilla from the fate she has told him awaits her? | ||||
Romcom |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | Rotozaza | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: a collaboration with Rotozaza, www.rotozaza.co.uk | ||||
Synopsis: Two performers meet on stage before an audience and enact the story of a relationship. The "story" is pre-recorded onto 2 cds and is relayed to them, for the first time, through a set of headphones. The performers, different for every performance, agree in advance to do the show, but have absolutely no idea what is expected of them; they simply turn up and put on a set of headphones through which their instructions are given to them | ||||