SIMON STEPHENS   


Simon Stephens
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Plays by Simon Stephens

SIMON STEPHENS
Bluebird
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
Royal Court Young Peoples Season
1st Published:
2005
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SIMON STEPHENS
Christmas
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
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1st Published:
2003
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Genre:
pub play
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Parts:
Male
4
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Synopsis: People don't mourn out of love, they mourn out of fear and the fear makes them stop. Michael, Billy and Giuseppe are biding their time before Christmas away from their loved ones. When Charlie comes in with his cello, and a fear of stepping outside the door because he's been told today is the day that he'll die, they know that this'll be a long night. Set over the course of one night in a bar in East London, Simon Stephens' play is a slow-burning, evocative play about selling up, growing old and moving on.
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SIMON STEPHENS
Country Music
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
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1st Published:
2004
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
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Synopsis: A story of crime and redemption, starting at the mouth of the River Thames and moving across England over twenty years. It begins with a life choice for Jamie Carris and ends with a re-union with his young daughter. It is also a story about a killer.
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SIMON STEPHENS
Harper Regan
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
2008
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
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Synopsis: In her late forties, Harper Regan suddenly leaves her family in the suburbs of West London and sets off on a mission to see her father before he dies. Her journey becomes a road trip through the heart of England in this violent and comic exploration of the moralities of sex and death.
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SIMON STEPHENS
Herons
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
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1st Published:
2001
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
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Synopsis: Set around Limehouse Cut and the Lee River in East London, Herons is the disturbing and moving story of fourteen-year-old Billy, whose life has been made a misery by his father's actions. As the teenagers that surround him on the estate step up their campaign of bullying, the play escalates to a violent climax
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SIMON STEPHENS
Motortown
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
Royal Court Theatre 50 Season
1st Published:
2006
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Synopsis: Danny returns from Basra to a foreign England and a different kind of battle. He visits an old flame, buys a gun and goes on a blistering road trip through the new home front. 'I don't blame the war. The war was alright. I miss it. It's just you come back to this.' Written during the London bombings of 2005, Motortown is a fierce, violent and controversial response to the anti-war movement - and to the war itself. Chaotic and complex, powerful and provocative, Simon Stephen's new play portrays a volatile and morally insecure world.
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SIMON STEPHENS
On the Shore of the Wide World
1st Produced:
2005
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1st Published:
2005
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
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Synopsis: Something is about to happen that will change one family forever. Set over the course of nine months, On the Shore of the Wide World is an epic play about love, family, Roy Keane and the size of the galaxy.
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SIMON STEPHENS
One Minute
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
1st Published:
2004
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
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Synopsis: Robert Evans is new to the police force, and his enthusiasm for the case is keener than that of his cynical colleague Gary Burroughs. They're both looking for a missing child. But as the mother, Dr Anne Schults, wants to know, when does "missing" become "presumed dead"? Simon Stephens' new play is a disquieting portrait of the many lives that are united in the single moment it takes for a child to disappear.
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SIMON STEPHENS
Pornography
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
co-production with Birmingham Rep
1st Published:
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Notes: English language premiere. Pornography was first produced at Schauspielhaus, Hanover in June 2007
Synopsis: captures Britain as it crashes from the euphoria and promise of 2012 into the chaos and reality of 7/7
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SIMON STEPHENS
Port
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
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1st Published:
2002
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
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Synopsis: Stockport 1988-2002. Rachel Keats is growing up in town she doesn't like. Abandoned by her mother, her family life is torn to tatters as she is left to bring up her younger brother, who, increasingly is drawn to the excitement out on the streets. When her new partner starts to abuse her, and those she loves leave her behind, will she stay or will she find the strength to make her own way in the world?
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