PHILIP OSMENT   


Philip Osment
   Nationality:
British
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Plays by Philip Osment

PHILIP OSMENT
Buried Alive
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Stewart is an award-winning photo-journalist who specialises in recording atrocities around the world. A young woman, a journalist herself, who is an admirer of his work, starts to investigate Stewarts life and in doing so uncovers a disturbing family history. Set in Edinburgh, the play moves between the present day and the late 1970s of Stewarts childhood. Gradually, the story of Stewart and his two sisters and the nightmare imposed on them by their deranged mother and ineffectual father reveals itself. The play works as a psychological thriller and is about coming to terms with the past and the need for redemption and forgiveness.
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PHILIP OSMENT
Dearly Beloved, The
1st Produced:
Connaught Theatre, Worthing
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1993
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Synopsis: Members of a church choir face up to their achievements and failures.
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PHILIP OSMENT
Duck!
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
2007
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Genre:
-
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
doubling, extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: Meet Ugly, hes no ordinary duck. In fact, he might not even be a duck at all! An embarrassment to his brothers and sisters - Ugly eats snails, speaks funny and looks even funnier. Fed up with being the butt of all the pond jokes, he strikes out on his own. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersens Ugly Duckling and set on Hampstead Heath, Duck! is a wild adventure for anyone who wants to stand out from the crowd.
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PHILIP OSMENT
Flesh And Blood
1st Produced:
Northcott Theatre, Exeter
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
1996
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: rural craft is no match for the onward march of finance as farm family is trapped by mortgage
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PHILIP OSMENT
Kebab
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
International Playwrights: A Genesis Project
1st Published:
2007
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Gianina Carbunariu
Synopsis: Having moved to Dublin to start a new life, the young Romanina, Madalina finds herself working in a kebab shop...until her boyfriend Voicu suggests a more lucrative, if not altogether savoury, line of work. Her new career brings her into contact - quite literally - with a Romanian art student, Bogdan, and the three of them find a way of living and working together. Their uneasy, messy menage-a-trois persists until Madalina decides to choose between her two men... Kebab explores some of the harsher realities of immigration and what people are willing to give up in the hope of a better life
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PHILIP OSMENT
Leaving
1st Produced:
Garage Theatre, Monaghan, Ireland
2002
Company:
Quare Hawks, Monaghan, Ireland >>> in association with Garage Theatre
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Leaving tells the story of a Monaghan farming family. Una and Paddy have two sons, Sean, beer-drinking and hard-working, and Noel, shy and withdrawn. Deirdre, their old school pal, loves them both. When Noel returns home unexpectedly from UCD their lives are thrown into chaos.
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PHILIP OSMENT
Listen
1st Produced:
toured by Theatre Centre
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
-
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: -
Synopsis: At the heart of 'Listen' is the fractured relationship between a deaf teenager and his uncomprehending father
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PHILIP OSMENT
Little Violet And The Angel
1st Produced:
toured byTheatre Centre
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Philip Osments magical play is funny, tender and true. Gabriel has to earn his stripes as a guardian angel to a poor orphaned girl as she grows up with her adoptive parents. Along the way he learns things about his own history and the real reason for his growing friendship with the little girl. Astonishing theatrical skills, including puppetry, live music and song combine to create this wondrous adventure, an unforgettable exploration of the joys and heartaches of living and loving. A family show for audiences of 6+, Little Violet and the Angel won the Peggy Ramsay Award
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PHILIP OSMENT
Palace Of Fear, The
1st Produced:
Tour
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A play combining fanstasy and realism about two children coping with their mother's depression and learning how to overcome their own fears. The Palace of Fear was developed in primary schools and will tour Leicester schools in the Autumn term.
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PHILIP OSMENT
Pedro, The Great Pretender
1st Produced:
Stratford upon Avon, Swan
2004
Company:
1st Published:
2004
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
12
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Miguel Cervantes
Synopsis: The plot of this play revolves around a lovable trickster who aims to be helpful in order to be liked. His journey to find his identity ends with him finding his true vocation on the stage.
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PHILIP OSMENT
Sleeping Dogs
1st Produced:
toured by Red Ladder TC
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
-
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: -
Synopsis: concerns the love affair between a Muslim boy and a Christian girl during the war in former Yugoslavia
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PHILIP OSMENT
Telling Tales
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Solo
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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PHILIP OSMENT
This Island's Mine
1st Produced:
1988
Company:
Gay Sweatshop
1st Published:
in "Gay Sweatshop", Methuen
1989
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: -
Synopsis: A gay man and a lesbian are forced into a marriage of convenience.
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PHILIP OSMENT
Undertaking, The
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
1997
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Five friends journey into the Irish countryside to scatter the ashes of a friend who has died of AIDS
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PHILIP OSMENT
What I Did In The Holidays
1st Produced:
Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1995
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Synopsis: Children's lives and futures change with arrival of hitchhikers at the farm.
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PHILIP OSMENT
Who's Breaking
1st Produced:
toured by Red Ladder TC
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
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Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: a young man, learning that he is HIV-positive, is forced to rethink his life and attitudes
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PHILIP OSMENT
Wise Guys
1st Produced:
Theatre Centre and Red Ladder Company
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
-
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: -
Synopsis: Three youths living on the fringes of society try to survive an imperfect world. Their solution is crime. Drugs alter their perceptions, theft lines their pockets, crime gives them a buzz. But when two of them are caught stealing cars, all three go on the run up north and it changes their lives forever.
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