SHELAGH STEPHENSON   (1955 - )


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Plays by Shelagh Stephenson

SHELAGH STEPHENSON
Ancient Lights
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
in association with The Peter Wolff Theatre Trust
1st Published:
2000
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Hollywood actor Tom Cavallero and girlfriend Iona are spending Christmas in the English countryside with his oldest friends, Bea and Kitty. Bea's new lover, Tad, would rather hole up quietly with Pathology for Beginners. Her daughter, Joni, would rather be in London. And how can anyone relax whilst Iona's filming their every move? She's making a documentary about "the real Tom." But who is that exactly? Tom, Kitty and Bea have known each other since they were young and unformed. But who have they become, and what price have they paid?
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SHELAGH STEPHENSON
Chain Play, The
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie
1st Published:
-
-
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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
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SHELAGH STEPHENSON
Enlightenment
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
1st Published:
2005
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Genre:
full length
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Four months since the disappearance of their son, Adam, all Lia and Nick can cling to is a vague email mentioning Jakarta, and the possibility that somewhere he may still be alive. As they struggle with grief and uncertainty, a spiritualist and a determined journalist seem their only hope.
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SHELAGH STEPHENSON
Experiment With An Air Pump, An
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
1st Published:
1998
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: 1799-On the eve of a new century, a Northern English house buzzes with scientific experiments, furtive romance, and farcical amateur dramatics. Present Day-In a world of scientific chaos and genetic engineering, the same house reveals a dark secret buried for 200 years
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SHELAGH STEPHENSON
Fallout
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: In the 1950s, a blacklisted screenwriter confronts scientist Robert Oppenheimer, with whom she has a shared past. A noirish tale of Hollywood, espionage, and the Manhattan Project
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SHELAGH STEPHENSON
Five Kinds Of Silence
1st Produced:
-
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
1997
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Genre:
90 min
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Billy controls his wife and two adult daughters to the extent that they can't leave the room without asking permission. He runs his family as a personal fiefdom, and the women are there to service him and his madness. He is violent, disturbed and sexually controlling. But he is also tragic, sad, a lost soul. One day his family shoots him dead. The play shows us a distorted world of madness, control and despair through the eyes of dead Billy and those of his family, struggling to understand reality outside their stifling tomb.
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SHELAGH STEPHENSON
Long Road, The
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
Synergy Theatre Project and Forgiveness Project
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: concerns the random stabbing of an 18 year old boy by a girl of the same age one night in a london shop while she was out of her head on drugs. She asked for a pound, he told her to eff off, and was knifed in the heart for his brusqueness.
- Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
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SHELAGH STEPHENSON
Mappa Mundi
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
2002
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
6
Notes: -
Synopsis: While Anna prepares for her wedding, her father Jack, a passionate map collector, confronts the limits of his life. Although his research proves the family is related to a famous 18th-century cartographer and plantation owner, Anna is interested that they may also be descended from a slave.
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SHELAGH STEPHENSON
Memory Of Water, The
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
1997
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Three sisters and their partners gather at the home of their recently dead mother and revisit the past in poignant and often hilarous way
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