PHILIP RIDLEY   (1964 - )


Philip Ridley
   Nationality:
English
   Literary Agent: *:
   Email:
n/a
   Website:
n/a

* If shown, click on the literary agent's name for full contact details and links to all the Playwrights they represent.

Plays by Philip Ridley

PHILIP RIDLEY
American Dreams, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
films
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
The Reflecting Skin; The Passion Of Darkly Noon
Synopsis:
Ridley's film debut The Reflecting Skin caused a sensation at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival and went on to win eleven international awards. Set in the Idaho farmlands of the 1950s, the film follows eight-year-old Seth through a mythical summer where reality is heightened to the level of an hallucinogenic, quasi-fantasy. The Passion of Darkly Noon is a modern fable; echoing the surrealist style of Ridley's dazzling and innovative debut film. A young man roaming the American countryside, the victim of a savage attack on his religious cult, is rescued by Callie, for whom he develops a dangerous obsession. "Provocative, shocking and disturbing, a true original. . .a masterpiece." (What's On)
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Apocalyptica
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Methuen
ISBN/ASIN
978-0413688705
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Brokenville
1st Produced:
-
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2001
ISBN/ASIN
978-0571206094
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
Play for young audience
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
1b
Notes:
-
Brokenville
In the ruins of a city destroyed by disaster, a group of individuals gather round a sleeping child and begin the difficult process of piecing together their lives through stories
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Chain Play, The
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Written By Terry Johnson, Philip Ridley, Charlotte Jones, Lee Hall, Sebastian Barry, Zinnie Harris, Kevin Elyot, Nick Dear, Tanika Gupta, Frank McGuinness, Nick Stafford, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Teevan, Patrick Marber, David Lan, Sarah Daniels, Martin She
Synopsis:
One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National Theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Daffodil Scissors
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Barrington Stoke Ltd
ISBN/ASIN
9781842991695
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Childrens play
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Daffodil Scissors
Daffodil lives alone with his mum! And living with mum, well it ain't much fun! Come and meet Daffodil as he tries to beat the bullies, make new friends and meets someone who might change his life forever...and his mum's!
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Fairytaleheart
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1998
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The Two fifteen-year-olds confront their lonliness by exploring the language of theatre itself in a derelict community centre
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Fastest Clock In The Universe, The
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays: One" Methuen, London, 1997
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Cougar Glass and it is his 30th birthday and he decides to seduce 16 year old schoolboy Foxtrot Darling. However, Foxtrot turns up with his pregnant girlfriend.
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Ghost From A Perfect Place
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
9780413688606
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Ghost From A Perfect Place
Back in the sixties, Travis Flood and his gang terrorised Bethnal Green. Now, after an absence of 25 years, Travis returns and meets Rio, whose haunting beauty leads him to confront a story that bears no relation to his own distorted memory. And then there's the Cheerleaders. . .a present-day gang, more vicious and terrifying that anything Travis led in the past.
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Karamazoo
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Kasper in the Glitter
1st Produced:
-
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
Children's
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Krays, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
Screenplay
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Post-war East End London. Ronnie and Reggie Kray are school ground bullies brought up by a domineering mother and two devoted aunts. National Service and spells in prison expose the brutality that helps establish the twin brothers as the kings of 1960s gangland London. Philip Ridley's original, uncut screenplay, almost as notorious as its subject matter is a stylised meditation on maternal love, childhood, violence and homoeroticism and takes its place as one of the masterpieces of contemporary cinema.
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Krindlekrax
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2002
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
It is the day for choosing a hero, and Ruskin Splinter wants to be that hero. Unfortunately, the very idea he could defeat the dragon in the school play makes everyone laugh. But in the vast sewers of Lizard Street something is stirring. Something called Krindlekrax. And before long, Ruskin will be testing his heroic qualities . . . for real.
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Leaves Of Glass
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
Soho Theatre
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
9780713688580
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Leaves Of Glass
On the surface, Steven has everything. A beautiful wife, a successful business, a brand new home. But beneath the glittering veneer lies a monstrous secret . . . 'You believe him cos he wraps all the painful stuff in feathers and flowers. Makes it all safe and cosy. You can't feel the broken glass inside.' Leaves of Glass is a rich, complex play about two brothers and the hold that the past and memory has on them. Haunted by the death of his father and a car accident involving a young child, Steve finds his life unraveling and his pregnant wife unable to comprehend his pain and sense of loss. Known for his dark disturbing dramas, Ridley's latest play is a deeply human drama that shifts between elegy for the past and a chilling exploration of the power of loss and grief.
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Mercury Fur
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
9780413775146
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Mercury Fur
Elliot is panicking. The party that he and his brother Darren have been planning has been brought forward - to tonight. In a lawless, ravaged city, where memories of the past have been brutally erased, the boys and their team survive by realising their clients' darkest fantasies. But just how far are they prepared to go in trading humanity for information? As the light fades and events spiral out of control it becomes clear that on the success of the evening hangs not just their security, but their existence. The world is at its worst. . .let the party begin. Mercury Fur is a challenging new work containing some explicit scenes that may cause offence.
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Moonfleece
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
Shell Connections
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Curtis could be the next big thing in politics, but he's being tormented by sightings of his dead brother. To try and exorcise his demons a séance is held in the very same flat Curtis and his brother grew up in all those years ago. All would have gone to plan were it not for Link and his mysterious friend Zak squatting in Curtis' hallowed ground. It soon transpires that these unexpected and unwanted guests could provide answers to Curtis' torment and the link between him and his dead brother he's been pining for.
- Simon Sladen, British Theatre Guide
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Piranha Heights
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
9781408109366
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Piranha Heights
It's Mother's Day and mother is dead. Now her two sons gather in her home to argue about the truth of their childhood. But a storm is approaching. . . with violent truth all of its own
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Pitchfork Disney, The
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays: One" Methuen, London, 1997
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Agoraphobic chocoholic twins Presley and Haley Stray are having another night in. But it's interrupted by the arrival of a bizarre nightclub entertainer, Cosmo Disney and the evening assumes a very sinister direction
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Scribbleboy
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2006
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Years ago, Scribbleboy transformed the gloomy grey concrete of the neighbourhood with his fabulous shapes and colours, until, without warning, he vanished off the face of the earth. Most of the Scribbles were destroyed and only the Scribbleboy Fan Club kept his legend alive.
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Sparkleshark
1st Produced:
1997
Company:
BT/Connections
1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1998
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
Top of Page
PHILIP RIDLEY
Vincent River
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London (2000) also published Methuen Drama, London >>>,
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Why is the young man following the middle-aged woman? Why is she grieving and what has he to do with it? Philip Ridley's spare and evocative work slides under the surface of fear, hatred and love and discovers that mental scars may not heal entirely but people can begin to understand each other.
Top of Page