REX OBANO
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Rex Obano
2009 |
| 1st Produced: | 18 Jan 2010 | |||||
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| 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: | - | Ten min | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Rex Obano's 2009 concludes the evening with BNP councillor Nigel asking for a "Big hand for Nick Griffin", which leaves a weary audience nervously contemplating whether to clap in support, having assumed the role of Nigel's audience in the mock BNP meeting, or to abandon this frame and praise the performers - Simon Sladen, British Theatre Guide | |||||
All I Want for Christmas |
| 1st Produced: | 08 Dec 2009 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Christmas Shorts | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Written by Beth Steel, Louise Ramsden, Nimer Rashed, Rex Obano and Richard Marsh | |||||
| 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. | |||||
La Fausse Monnaie |
| 1st Produced: | 08 Dec 2009 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Short play | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | based on short story by Charles Baudelaire | |||||
| Synopsis: | part of 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. | |||||
Slaves |
| 1st Produced: | 26 Jan 2010 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | When you enter a cell on the C.S.U. you don't always know what you'll find. HMP Wandsworth, London, January 2010. 1665 prisoners. Rising star prison officer Chris Jackson knows nothing is simply black or white. His superiors don't trust him, the prisoners suspect him and his girlfriend is being stalked. But after a sudden promotion, he needs to be even more careful. Confronted by Paul 'Jenks' Jenkins, an inmate whose fingers reach far beyond the prison walls, the two men begin a fight for survival on opposite sides of an indifferent system which makes a slave of everyone. Rex Obano's play is an unflinching portrait of prison life on both sides of the bars. - theatre | |||||
Someone's Son |
| 1st Produced: | Union, London | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of Union of Shorts | |||||
| Synopsis: | a tribute to that endangered species, the good old British boozer | |||||