SIMON READE   


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Plays by Simon Reade

SIMON READE
Aladdin And The Enchanted Lamp
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
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1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
Christmas Show
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Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
doubling, extras
Notes: adapted from the stories of Philip Pullman in new adaptation by Simon Reade and Aletta Collins
Synopsis: a classic family show, with centuries of pantomime tradition as well as Arabian Nights' reinvention as its antecedent. The director Aletta Collins and I have taken Philip Pullman's retelling of it and retold it again as drama. It's fun to present a play that tells a story with which we think we're familiar and then surprises us.
Simon Reade
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SIMON READE
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Pantomime
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: from book by Lewis Carroll
Synopsis: white rabbits and caterpillars
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SIMON READE
Back To Methuselah
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Oberon, London
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
20+
Notes: Original Playwright - George Bernard Shaw. Abridged by David Fielding and Simon Reade
Synopsis: Listen, I will tell you a great secret. I am very subtle; and I have thought and thought and thought. Back to Methuselah was first published in 1921 and first performed a year later. David Fielding's abridgement makes it possible to play this five-part visionary epic over one evening. It was specially commissioned for the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2000 revival to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Shaw's death.
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SIMON READE
Epitaph for the Official Secrets Act
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1st Published:
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: written by Paul Greengrass and Simon Reade
Synopsis: -
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SIMON READE
Midnight's Children
1st Produced:
2003
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: Dramatised By Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade And Tim Supple. From novel by Rushdie
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SIMON READE
Not The End Of The World
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
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1st Published:
2007
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
6
Parts Other:
1c
Notes: adapted from Geraldine McCughrean's novel Not the End of the World which was a winner of the Whitbread Award 2004.
Synopsis: Forty days below the decks of a ship in relentless storms. Squalid conditions, a cargo of animals, and the man in charge claims he is acting on God's orders. Written for an ensemble cast, Not the End of the World tells the exhilarating and gripping story of the world's first natural disaster, and the making of the world's first Middle Eastern religious fanatic.
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SIMON READE
Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark, The
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
much doubling
Notes: adapted from the stories of Jill Tomlinson
Synopsis: is a play for young children from toddlers upwards. In its original production it also became something of a cult for older siblings, students and cool parents. Jill Tomlinson wrote it at the end of the 1960s, so it's a story which has been read by, or recited to, every generation now living. Like the owlet, Plop, we've all sought to overcome our fear of the dark at one time or another in our lives.
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SIMON READE
Private Peaceful
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: adapted from the stories of Michael Morpugo
Synopsis: Set before and during the First World War, is a story that grips people of all ages. Michael Morpurgo's original novel has become part of the contemporary publishing phenomenon of cross-over literature, existing in an adult's as well as a children's cover. In this one-man play, it now takes on a different form again, as a play for everyone, however old or young. I've changed the ending from the original novel (with Michael's blessing): because we spend the performance with one young man as he lives through the last night of his life, while reliving his short but eventful past, I felt we needed to complete the journey with him.
Simon Reade
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SIMON READE
Tales from Ovid
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
5
Female
6
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: adapted from Ted Hughes's versions of The Metamorphoses by Simon Reade and Tim Supple
Synopsis: takes 10 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, as translated by Ted Hughes, and adapts them for the stage. This is an evening that stands as astern warning about the dangers of excess and desire: Myrrhas illicit lust for her father, which sees her entombed in a tree like a mummy; the desire of both Echo and Narcissus, which is so strong that it destroys them; Midass foolishness and greed; and Tereuss rape of Philomela, which leads to a gruesome revenge.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian
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