STEPHEN SHARKEY (1967 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Stephen Sharkey
Everything Must Go |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Commissioned to mark Southwark Playhouse's departure from 62 Southwark Bridge Road | ||||
Synopsis: A Southwark couple in their sixties, on the verge of splitting up, create a storm as they sell their house, gamble away their savings and auction off their keepsakes on the internet. Breaking up is hard to do but Billy and Margaret are giving it a go. A comedy about love and family, and what happens next after you think it's all over | ||||
Gambler, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Adaptation of Dostoyevsky | ||||
Synopsis: Resourceful, vibrant version. . . Lucid and audacious - The Independent. "The material is first class - wonderfully inventive - This is a sure winner" - The Scotsman | ||||
Glass Slipper, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A new telling of the Cinderella story | ||||
Synopsis: A lovely anti-panto. It often soars, in the manner of the balloon which lifts its bold heroine to the ball - Susannah Clapp, The Observer. "Sharkey's variation on the cinderella story combines charm with such keen intelligence that the result is a really delightful piece of theatre you can't help falling for" - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian. "Intelligent, baroque humour, colourful characters and touching romanticism" - Time Out | ||||
Hansel & Gretel |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Christmas Show | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Brothers Grimm fairytale | ||||
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Hell And High Water |
| 1st Produced: | - | |||
| Company: | The Mimaturists | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Round the world yachtswoman meets Judas Iscariot on a rocky island in the Southern Ocean. | ||||
Ion |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides | ||||
Synopsis: A compelling revival - Michael Billington, The Guardian. "Effective, stripped-back storytelling -puffs away at the classical cobwebs" - Brian Logan, Evening Standard. "The genius of his re-rendering is that it is witty, light and realistic - poetic but modern " Jonathan Myerson, The Independent | ||||
King Elizabeth, or Whatever |
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A sideways look at the life, loves and death of Elizabeth the First | ||||
Lulu |
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | 1993 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A new version of Wedekind's tragedy | ||||
Mahler's Unfinished |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Gustav Mahler coming to terms with the afterlife | ||||
May Queen, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2007 | |||
| 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: | revenge tragedy | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
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Synopsis: "It's not just what he's done that makes me want to kill him. It's everything about him that makes me want to kill him. Listen to me. And me a May Queen an' all". Frank Donohue is dead. Murdered. And as the culprits bury his death in the chaos of the Blitz, Theresa Donohue prays for revenge. Revenge for her father, her brother and herself. But if vengeance is the Lord's then who will pull the trigger? The May Queen is a dark and brutal thriller set against the backdrop of wartime Merseyside. | ||||
Night-Light |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Out of Inc | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Piece | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: created and performed by Sinead Rushie and Camille Litalien | ||||
Synopsis: An impossibly proportioned bed, a rope, one women in pyjamas and another in oddly insectile get-up with a mischievous glint in her eye. A surreally suggestive foray into the unblinking world of the insomniac. Lucy Powell, Time Out London | ||||
Oblomov |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: 1990s London adaptation of Russian classic | ||||
Synopsis: The most challenging offering at the Pleasance - a highly original re-working of Oblomov - The strength of Sharkey's adaptation is its effortless command of many different dramatic tones; the script slips elegantly between sharp, sly satire and gently generated joy - Independent on Sunday. "Stephen Sharkey's updating of the classic Goncharov novel&tackles big issues in a sensitive way" - The Stage . "Sharkey's witty and shrewdly written [script]&is full of fine little observations about twenty-something London disaffection&one can't help thinking of 'Withnail & I' or George Orwell's 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' - What's On | ||||
Old Curiosity Shop, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A new adaptation of Dickens | ||||
Synopsis: Solid, old-fashioned storytelling, episodes of comic exuberance - Independent on Sunday. "The literary equivalent of conquering Everest& adaptor Stephen Sharkey not only manages this feat, but also does it with some finesse, deserves great credit" - The Stage. "Culturally forward-looking but true to the ghosts of its locale" - Time Out | ||||
Picture of Dorian Gray, The |
| 1st Produced: | Lindsay Rooms, Oxford | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Adaptation of Wilde | ||||
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Porno Girl |
| 1st Produced: | - | |||
| Company: | The Mimaturists | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Adapted from a story by Merin Wexler | ||||
Synopsis: New Yorker new mom self-medicates for post-natal depression by visiting peep shows | ||||
Tomorrow Is A Lovely Day |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A homage to Dennis Potter, produced in a double bill with his 'Blue Remembered Hills'. | ||||
Trojan Women |
| 1st Produced: | Courtyard Drama School, London | 1992 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Verse translation of Euripides | ||||
Venus Avenger |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Solo | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: One-woman show, with the goddess Venus relating her dethronement by Psyche, and her meeting with Christ in the desert | ||||