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NICK PAYNE |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown Group Ltd |
Nick Payne is currently the Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Bush Theatre. In 2009, he won the George Devine award for Most Promising Playwright. Natalie Ibu is Associate Director at HighTide and was the Trainee Director at the Royal Court Theatre for the 2008/9 season
Plays by Nick Payne
Adam Lives in Theory | ||
| 1st Produced: | Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED >>> | 28 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #119235 | |||
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Genre: | 70 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Harry's son, Adam, disappeared six months ago. A group of middle aged men now think they know exactly where he has gone. A play about faith, grief and UFOs. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Constellations | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Upstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 19 Jan 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #133788 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here anyway. One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again. One relationship. Infinite possibilities. Quantum multiverse theory, love and honey. An explosive new play about free will and friendship. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Electra | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gate Theatre, 11 Pembridge Road, Above the Prince Albert Pub, Notting Hill, London, W11 3HQ >>> | 13 April 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430616 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125487 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Sophocles | |||||
| When young Electra's father is murdered by her mother, her world changes irrevocably. Ten years on, bound by grief and unwilling to forgive, Electra surrenders to an all-consuming desire for revenge that propels her toward a bloody and terrifying conclusion. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 08 Page 404 | |||||
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Fugitive Motel | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133204 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is a response to the King James Bible book of Hosea | |||||
| The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. The voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient arts of writing and spoken performance | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Oct 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571255979 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102313 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Surviving school as a fat kid is tough enough. When your mum's a teacher, it's hell. What's more, Anna's dad is obsessed with saving the world and her maverick uncle Terry is dossing on the couch. When Anna hits back at the bullies, she suspended from school and stuck at home with hapless Terry trying to save her. But Terry needs saving himself and, as the bond between the two deepens, Anna is swept up in a friendship she can't live without. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In The Beginning | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westminster Abbey, London | 24 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #127123 | |||
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Genre: | piece site specific | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 8 | ||
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Notes: | with extracts from the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) selected by the Revd Dr James Hawkey | |||||
Synopsis: | Exactly four hundred years ago, in 1611, a group of scholars gathered together in the Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster Abbey to finalise their translation of the King James Version of the Bible (KJV). To celebrate the publication of this remarkable text, Westminster Abbey has teamed up with the Bush Theatre to create a unique, intimate and highly theatrical event. In The Beginning will see audience members taken, in intimate groups, on an extraordinary journey round the Abbey - accessing areas that are rarely open to the public and at a time when it is usually closed to visitors. As you travel round the building, an ensemble of performers will read carefully chosen extracts from the KJV which will cast a fresh and surprising light on the Abbey itself. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 304 | |||||
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Lay Down Your Cross | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3EU >>> | 23 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #136412 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | 'You left! You left. You made it clear how you felt, and you left. And that speaks volumes' In a house in Luton, boxes are stacked high, the paint is out and Tony is ready for a spring clean. Amidst the dust and clutter lie photos and memories of family fun; reminders of what used to be. As the funeral of his son looms, and his aloof daughter and ex-wife return, will the regrets of the past and the sorrows of the present prove too much for Tony and his kin? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lost Mariner, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 Jun 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #114589 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Life without memory is no life at all. Chef Jimmy thinks it's 1995. Whilst his psychiatrist Burroughs diagnoses his condition, his wife and children become increasingly desperate in their efforts to get Jimmy to remember. A work in progress about family and forgetting. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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One Day When We Were Young | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 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 | #128680 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | When Leonard and Violet embark on their first night together, they know it also might be their last. It's 1942 and in a small hotel room in Bath, the couple prepare for Leonard's departure to war, and dream of what the future may bring. As the V1 bombs begin to fall, they know their world won't ever be the same again. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Starlings | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #92933 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Young Writers Festival Readings 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | Melissa wants to get on with her life but never knows when her father is going to turn up next. Over 30 years she struggles to overcome her past while her family, torn apart by alcohol, try to repair the damage. Nick Payne's new play about history and hope is a poignant, unflinching reflection on the ties that bind us. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stops, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL >>> | Dec 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #139265 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 32 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Switzerland | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Cut Arts, Halesworth, Suffolk | 2008 | ||||
Company: | HighTide Theatre Festival | |||||
| 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 | #81935 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | where a woman journeys to Zurich to finally escape her Motor Neurone Disease | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wanderlust | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Upstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 09 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571272884 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115525 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Joy is a married woman, a GP, and struggling to remain interested in sex. Her husband Alan, however, thinks of little else. And their teenage son Tim is ready to burst. | |||||
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