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STEPHEN PAPPS |
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Stephen Papp's breakthrough role was his award-winning turn as Firpo in Ian Mune's 1992 feature film The End of the Golden Weather. Most recently he has once again teamed with Stephen Sinclair to shoot the feature film Russian Snark (Working title) which is still in post production. Of Blowing It Papps says: "In 1997 I was looking to research the undercover world in New Zealand - I wanted the play to be about an undercover cop. I believed the covertness and therefore loneliness of that world suited the one man show format. So I approached a friend of mine who was an ex-undercover and interviewed him extensively. Stephen (Sinclair) and I then got together and wrote it up as Blowing It. The main strength of the play is to show the actor having to engage all his skills of story-telling, mime and mimicry. Another inspiration for the play piece is the universality of its themes: Loyalty; loneliness; the paradoxes inherant in being an undercover agent and the fear that goes along with doing a life-threatening job."
Plays by Stephen Papps
Blowing It | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Zealand | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106771 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Stephen Sinclair and Stephen Papps. In 1999 Stephen Sinclair directed co-writer Stephen Papps in the debut season of Blowing It which toured nationally before going on to the Edinburgh Festival in 2001, where it received 5 star reviews. It has since toured Australia and Europe. | |||||
Synopsis: | A brilliant comic portrayal of a multitude of criminal low-lives, from both sides of the law. Follow an undercover cop as he goes seriously off the rails. Mike Fahey, police constable, penetrates the pub underworld of petrol-heads, perverts, pit-bulls and loses the plot at the Queens Arms, Panmure, where it's all goin' down: sex, drugs, violence, Mike goes under, Cheryl goes down, Anal is fingered, and Satan gets CPR! One man's struggle with betrayal and loss of identity that is also an hilarious, affectionate satire on the New Zealand public bar. | |||||
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