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Ben Webb

BEN WEBB  (1981 - )

 Nationality:    English
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Ben Webb is a writer and director. Ben has also written a short film, Our Life Together, which will be filmed by Poppie Skold in Autumn 2011.

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below is a list of Ben Webb's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Go Now         His Spread Legs         So Little of You Left         Song Of Us, The         Well and Badly Loved, The

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His Spread Legs

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A young gay man talks about life, love and loss in this haunting and heartbreaking new solo show, inspired by the biblical Song of Songs. Funny, sad, and very human, His Spread Legs is a light entertainment with serious intentions. It is a universal story of love, which entwines poetry, music and physical imagery into a bold and beautiful excavation of the consequences of desire.

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piece. - - Gay, one act

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So Little of You Left

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Scenes from a relationship. Moments: intimate, tiny details. An excavation of intimacy and disintegration played out by two young men. A devised performance in which adult intimacy meets childhood games. It explores how we remain the children we were and how politics and history are contained within and expressed through our bodies. A comedy that ends in tears before bedtime.

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Choreographer - Imogen Knight

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comedy piece. - - Gay, full length

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Song Of Us, The

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Well and Badly Loved, The

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This collection of short plays is a passionate response to the effect of Clause 28 on the artistic and social language of a generation. The plays dance between intimate details and the big, historical picture, telling the story of a love affair from three different angles. Each piece is formally inventive & draws on a rich history of gay and queer theatre practice, whilst innovatively pushing the form forward. This collection includes: So Little of You Left - This begins as a traditional poetry reading and rapidly disintegrates into physical theatre, combining poetry, childrens games, physical risk & bold imagery to tell the story of a love affair from start to finish. So Little details the marks that love leaves on our bodies. His Spread Legs - One year later. Tom, alone in his flat in the early hours, begins to speak. A haunting and heartbreaking monologue, inspired by the biblical Song of Songs, excavating the relationship between love, language and identity. The Actor Has Told of His Pain - In this final installment, the two lovers from So Little meet again and a third character  another ex  helps to give shape to the stories they have been telling each other. A three-act play with a queer twist, about the act of leaving and being left, and coming to terms with the end of the world.

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Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849431705

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trilogy of short plays. - - Gay, one act

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