GARY OWEN   (1972 - )


Gary Owen
   Nationality:
Welsh
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Plays by Gary Owen

GARY OWEN
After Life
1st Produced:
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2002
Company:
Slush Theatre
1st Published:
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GARY OWEN
Amgen : Broken
1st Produced:
2009
Company:
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ISBN
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Play/Drama
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Synopsis:
Broken. Because - the world is. Amgen. Achos mae 'na ffordd arall. I know I'm broken. And no offence but - you're not looking so good yourself these days. Achos mae 'na ffordd gwahanol. Are you drinking again? I don't mean drinking at all, I mean - drinking in the day. Ffordd gwell. Because if you're not, start now. That's only way to get through what's coming. Ffordd newydd, Cymraeg, o fyw. You see it everyday - things are changing, and never for the better. Dere lan am drink. Oes, mae cariad 'da fi. Na, dyw hi ddim yn mynd i ffeindio mâs... It's the end of the world as we know it - and it's gonna hurt.
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GARY OWEN
Amser Canser
1st Produced:
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2003
Company:
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
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GARY OWEN
Cancer Time
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
2
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Gary Owen's two-hander is a strange little number, charting the unlikely friendship of two young women doing jobs they hate in a Welsh call centre. Relief comes in the regular fag breaks, during which they sit outside and watch the skateboarders, contemplate genocide as a form of aerobic workout, consider aesthetics and the Welsh language, and wait to get cancer. Only life has a habit of springing little surprises that often turn out to be nasty even when they come wrapped in tissue paper and ribbon. Like sushi or hazelnut yoghurt, Owen's play is something of an acquired taste. Initially it seems stilted and contrived, but as the young women begin to break down the barriers that surround them, what emerges is an unspoken but deeply felt relationship, something fragile and yet solid, in a world of piss and puke, uncertainty and terror. - Guardian
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GARY OWEN
Cold Harbour
1st Produced:
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2003
Company:
Professional Company outside Wales
1st Published:
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GARY OWEN
Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco
1st Produced:
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
2001
Company:
Paines Plough/Sgript Cymru
1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
0
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Saturday night, small town Wales, one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations - the gimp, the geek and the bully. Their dream - to get the hell out. With a dead cat stuffed through a letterbox, a soupcon of mindless violence and the perfect girl to die for, Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco bristles with the desperately ordinary, the truly extraordinary, and the just plain mad
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GARY OWEN
Credit/Crunch
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN
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Genre:
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Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
explores issues, myths and realities of money in the lives of young Welsh people
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GARY OWEN
Drowned World, The
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
Paines Plough and Graeae
1st Published:
ISBN
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2
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2
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Notes:
Winner of the George Devine Award for 2002
Synopsis:
And that is why we can't have these/Fatally radiant creatures/Walking round the place/Reminding us how clumsy/And mean-spirited/And graceless/And cowardly/And shapeless/And flabby and foul we all are.
In a drowned world - how far will you go to save your own skin? In this vicious tale of love, revolt and beauty, Gary Owen presents a vision of a world divided between citizens and non-citizens, where friends betray one another and where surfaces matter more than love or kinship.
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GARY OWEN
Enemy for the People, An
1st Produced:
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2006
Company:
Ruth is Stranger Than Richard 
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Synopsis:
In a small semi-independent state on the edges of Europe. Terry has discovered that the government's ineptitude is ruining the lives of the people. Unfortunately Terry is the Prime Minister
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GARY OWEN
Fags
1st Produced:
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2002
Company:
Slush Theatre
1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
Short Work
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Notes:
companion piece to Cancer Time
Synopsis:
You're twenty-four hours from death, then someone walks in and says, "I've got a bone to pick with you".
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GARY OWEN
Ghost City
1st Produced:
Chapter Arts, Cardiff
2004
Company:
Sgript Cymru
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Edgy Drama
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Set in Cardiff over a period from 6am to midnight, in 25 scenes Ghost City offers brief snatches of lives lived and souls lost to create an interconnecting map of the city and its people.
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GARY OWEN
Green, The
1st Produced:
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2003
Company:
Professional Company outside Wales
1st Published:
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ISBN
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Synopsis:
Exploitation of the Third World
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GARY OWEN
Hartleby, Oooglemore and Jeramee
1st Produced:
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2005
Company:
Professional Company outside Wales
1st Published:
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ISBN
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Genre:
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Childrens one act play
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Synopsis:
Jeramee plays a trick which backfires
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GARY OWEN
Heavenly
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
Frantic Assembly
1st Published:
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ISBN
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GARY OWEN
Here Comes Everybody
1st Produced:
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2003
Company:
Sgript Cymru
1st Published:
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GARY OWEN
In The Pipeline
1st Produced:
reading at Telephone bar & Grill, NY
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN
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Genre:
Short Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
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Synopsis:
As Britain tries to wean itself off oil, a massive liquid gas line is being built from the port of Milford Haven, tearing through the countryside of west Wales. Andrew, Dai and Joan are three of the people caught in its path.
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GARY OWEN
Low Hundreds, The
1st Produced:
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2003
Company:
Non- professional or Amateur production
1st Published:
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ISBN
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Synopsis:
A man is feeling under the weather and a scientists cannot believe the results she is getting
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GARY OWEN
Mari Lwyd
1st Produced:
The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl
2008
Company:
Bridgend Youth Theatre, Bridgend Youth Dance & members of Bridgend Youth Orchestra
1st Published:
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ISBN
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Genre:
muti-media
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Parts:
Male
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large cast
Notes:
Specially commissioned by Bridgend County Borough Councils Arts & Culture Service in partnership with Arts Council of Wales. aka Mary Twice
Synopsis:
an adventure story based on the ancient traditions of Mari Lwyd from the Welsh Mabinogion. Mari is 11 years old, and like lots of 11 year olds she finds her Parents endless efforts to get her interested in things are just embarrassing! Her life is, quite simply, boring! Until, that is, she discovers Otherworld and Grey Mary. As their lives become interwoven, both girls find themselves living a twilight existence between our world and the mystical, magical environment of the Otherworld.
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GARY OWEN
Playtime
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN
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Play/Drama
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2
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Written By Gary Owen and Gabriel Bisset-Smith. Hampstead Theatre's second new writing festival is what the theatre describes as "something of a cross-breeding experiment". It's called Daring Pairings and, as the publicity says, "instead of crossing a sheep with a kangaroo and getting a woolly jumper, or a centipede with a parrot and getting a walkie-talkie, we've been cross-breeding writers, artists and theatre companies."
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GARY OWEN
Shadow Of A Boy, The
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Luke, a sci-fi obsessed adolescent who lives with his grandmother, is about to start high school. Taunted by his friend, Katie, who warns him of the bullying he'll suffer at the big comp, Luke finds refuge in his alter-ego, Shadow.
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GARY OWEN
We That Are Left
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
-
1st Published:
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ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
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3
Female
1
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Synopsis:
Britain, 1940. The situation is desperate, and the Battle of Britain is about to start. Ginger is a radar officer, one of the few women charged with the job of shooting down German bombers. En-gaged to a PoW held by the Nazis. she has little time for the dances that offer the local RAF crews sex and solace before they take to skies. Then she meets Billy, a bomber pilot, and in the hothouse of Britain at war, she does something which will change the course of her life forever.Lyn Gardner, Guardian
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