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Davey Anderson

DAVEY ANDERSON

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Davey Anderson is from Glasgow and his work as Playwright/Director includes: Snuff, (Arches Theatre, as winner of the Arches Award for Stage Directors, runner up Meyer-Whitworth Award), Rupture (NTS & Traverse Theatre) and Blackout (National Theatre New Connections & Citizens Theatre Young Company). His other plays include: Flicker (as part of the 200th play, Oran Mor), Playback (Ankur Productions), Wired (Oran Mor), Liar (TAG Theatre Company & Sounds of Progress, Best Show for Children and Young People, Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland) and Clutter Keeps Company (Birds of Paradise). Adaptations include: Zorro (Visible Fictions & Traverse Theatre). Co-Writing/Directing credits include: Mixter Maxter (NTS & St Magnus Festival, Orkney). As Associate Director he collaborated with New York based company the T.e.A.M. on Architecting (Co-Production with NTS). His work as Musical Director/Composer includes: Peter Pan (NTS & Barbican), Be Near Me (NTS & Donmar Warehouse), Oresteia (Lazzi experimental Arts Unit & Cumbernauld Theatre) and Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland, world tour). He was Director in Residence with the National Theatre of Scotland 2006-07 and is currently an Associate Playwright with the Playwrights' Studio Scotland 2010-11.

Research:    http://www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk/playwrights/davey-anderson.aspx

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         Architecting         Beautiful Eyes         Blackout         Clutter Keeps Company         Dead Man's Dying, A         Deficit Show, The         Demons         How To Choose?         Jean-Jacques Rousseau Show, The         Liar         Mark Of Zorro, The         Playback         Police State         Rupture         Scottish Enlightenment Project         Snuff         Static, The         Thieves and Boy         Tipping Point         True or False         War Hasn't Started Yet, The         Wired         Zorro!

Architecting

Architecting
(workshop production 3LD Art & Technology Center, NY, 2008) From a condemned bar in post-Katrina New Orleans, to the mythical South of Gone with the Wind, to a lonely gas station in Arkansas, Architecting is a multi-media road-tripping requiem for modern America. Ghosts of American prejudice haunt a play, that questions whether this country has ever recovered from slavery and the Civil War. Aggressive athleticism is combined with wicked humor, video crashes against song, and at the center of it all stand humans confronting the world as it changes radically under their feet.

Notes:
created by Jessica Almasy, Davey Anderson, Frank Boyd, Rachel Chavkin, Jill Frutkin, Matt Hubbs, Libby King, Jake Margolin, Dave Polato, Kristen Sieh, Lucy Kendrick Smith, Nathan Wright and Nick Vaughan with Stephanie Douglass, Jake Heinrichs and Brian Scott

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The TEAM, Performance Space 122 & National Theatre of Scotland Workshop

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Beautiful Eyes

Synopsis:
Behind the scenes of a puppet booth

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Blackout

Blackout
A small room, bright lights, white walls, a metal door. Oh my God! Imagine you wake up in a jail cell and you don't know how you got there.'Blackout is the true story of a 15-year-old boy charged with attempted murder who tries to piece together the events in his life that have brought him into a secure care unit and threaten to keep him there. This short play packs a big emotional punch with its stylistic economy and razor-sharp storytelling.

Notes:
theatre of Debate session

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Organisations:
Citizens Young co

1st Published:
in New Connections 2009, Faber and Faber, London and National theatre
Methuen Drama, London (2012)>>>    978-0573052583

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Short play

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Clutter Keeps Company

Synopsis:
the tale of a teenage boy with aspergers and the assorted characters he encounters over a weekend

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Organisations:
Birds of Paradise Theatre Company

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Dead Man's Dying, A

Synopsis:
Oran Mor's a Play, a Pie and a Pint spring season at edinburgh's Traverse theatre, presented in association with the National theatre of Scotland, will feature five plays from South America, adapted by Scottish playwrights.

Notes:
Original Playwright - esteban Navajas Cortez

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Deficit Show, The

Synopsis:
From the same team that brought you the Jean Jaques Rousseau Show and Demons comes a show that interrogates the deficit. What does it actually mean? How big is it, really? What can we do about it (apart from sell the NHS, obviously)? In this highly-charged political cabaret, Scotland's most formidable and upworthy collective come together to investigate the gaps in society; between rich and poor, between 'them and us' and between you and I.

Notes:
written by Davey Anderson, Dave Anderson, Alan Bissett, Catrin Evans, Keiran Hurley, Brian James, Kirstin McLean, David Maclennan, Gary Mcnair and A J Taudvin

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Organisations:
A Play, A Pie and a Pint. OTT

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Demons

Synopsis:
To celebrate Oran Mor's 250th play a group of Scottish writers collaborated to produce the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Show. Those writers were Dave Anderson, Davey Anderson, Alan Bissett, Catrin evans, Mike Gonzalez, Sean Hardie, Kieran Hurley, David MacLennan, Gary McNair, Amanda Monfrooe and Julia Taudevin. Joined Now By David Greig and Lewis Hetherington, they have got together again to write this companion piece - Demons. A modern day variety show of songs, scenes, comedy, tragedy and polemic.

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Organisations:
a Play, a Pint and a Pie

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How To Choose?

Synopsis:
Try to visualise each of the steps which have brought you to this moment. The squirms of regret at making the wrong turn. The waves of smugness at getting it right. All of the life choices, and the imperceptible instinctive decisions, that brought you here. This is the story of a man who takes logical thinking too far by investing in a machine that can make his choices for him. This September as the nation is faced with a momentous decision as part of the Scottish Independence Referendum, we dig a little deeper into the question of how we choose. Can we ever know what the right decision is?

Notes:
written by Davey Anderson and Gary McNair As part of the Flip Side series, produced by Trigger

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Trigger

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Show, The

Synopsis:
To celebrate the 250th play commissioned and produced by A Play A Pie and A Pint at Oran Mor we look back to 1762 and the publication of Jean Jaques Rousseau's the Social Contract. You may be asked to sign a document while sipping your drink and nibbling your pie before the show goes up. . .

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a Play, a Pint and a Pie

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Liar

Synopsis:
Scottish travelling songs and family secrets are revealed together in this play for young adults, which explores the difficulties people have when they are required to tell the truth.
- Theresa Munoz, List

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Organisations:
TaG ! Sounds Of Progress

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Mark Of Zorro, The

Synopsis:
A mysterious figure has arrived in town. A flurry of a cape, the glint of a sword and a flash of a mask; who is this baffling character? exciting friend or formidable foe? If youre looking for some swash buckling fun, come and lock swords with Zorro. Watch as our masked champion ricochets from one sticky situation to another in a world where adventure is the name and justice is the game! Watch out for Zs scratched into the ground, it might mark the start of a thrilling escapade . . .

Notes:
Script originally commissioned and co-produced with the Traverse theatre.

1st Produced:
Page Theatre, 700 Terrace Heights, Winona     23 Jan 2013

Organisations:
visiblefictions

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Genre:
thriller

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Playback

Synopsis:
the half-built mezzanine in Glasgows Briggait Arts centre is getting ready for a party. While the publicly accessible parts of the former fish market are bathed in brightly lit calm, the vast hangar-like rehearsal room turned performance space is a hive of activity in preparation for the latest show by ankur Productions. Playback, written by Davey Anderson and directed by Paddy Cunneen, is an epic rites-of-passage tale told through an urban soundtrack; a work that aims to be a cross-cultural hybrid of gig, road movie and promenade theatre.
Neil Cooper, the Herald

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1st Produced:
Ankur Productions @ The Briggait, Glasgow     14 Oct 2010

Organisations:
Pangaa Young Company

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Police State

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Rupture

Synopsis:
a 21st century thriller that takes a scalpel to the shiny surface of city life. Six characters collide in the twilight urban underworld of post-Blair Britain as they watch, manipulate, fall in love and double-cross each other. Dark and funny, Rupture exposes the links between private security and personal trauma, migrant workers and lonely consumers, strange desires and societal secrets.

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Organisations:
Traverse Theatre Company/National Theatre of Scotland Workshop

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Genre:
Thriller

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Scottish Enlightenment Project

Synopsis:
Our tales are similar but the endings are different. In America, the underdog battles against all the odds to triumph in the dying seconds of the game. In Scotland, we dwell on the moments of glorious defeat snatched from the jaws of victory; the glass isn't just half empty, it's been smashed on the bar and waved in your face. On the eve of the Scottish referendum, this new collaboration between the National Theatre of Scotland and The TEAM uses the Scottish Enlightenment as a springboard to dive into the murky depths of our national mythologies.

Notes:
Written collaboratively, with Davey Anderson overseeing the group writing process, directed by TEAM Artistic Director Rachel Chavkin, the production will feature Scottish performers Brian Ferguson and Sandy Grierson, and members of the TEAM.

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The TEAM

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Snuff

Snuff
a gritty bite of in-yer-face theatre creating a compelling and prescient look at the underbelly of life during wartime close to home.

Notes:
Anderson wrote And directed Snuff As part of the Traverse theatre edinburgh's 2005 Festival programme, for which he won the Arches Award for Stage Directors

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Organisations:
arches Theatre Company

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Genre:
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Static, The

Static, The
We all have sick thoughts. It doesnae matter what you think, it's what you do that counts. Trouble is, my thoughts do things. Don't believe me? Just watch.' Sparky is a bright but volatile 15-year-old boy on the brink of permanent exclusion from school. then one day he falls under the spell of a seemingly psychic girl called Siouxsie and develops his own kinetic superpower. But will it save him or push him over the edge? the Static is a coming-of-age love story about what happens when our darkest dreams come true.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Underbelly, Cowgate     04 Aug 2012

Organisations:
ThickSkin

1st Published:
Methuen Drama, London (2012)>>>    978-1408173435

Music:
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Genre:
multimedia, physical theatre

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Thieves and Boy

Synopsis:
darkly comic crime story. Two construction workers turn vigilante, trying to right the wrongs of society by burgling a high ranking, corrupt government official. However once they get inside it turns out they both have very different ideas about justice

Notes:
From the play by Hao Jingfang, adapted by Davey Anderson

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Organisations:
A Play, a Pie and a Pint

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Tipping Point

Synopsis:
knits together the words of assorted activists to demonstrate how local groundswells of single issue epiphanies connect up to form a real, live mass movement.

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1st Produced:
Glasgow, S T U C Centre     2005

Organisations:
7:84 Theatre Company

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True or False

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War Hasn't Started Yet, The

Synopsis:
Russian troops enter Ukraine. But the war hasn't started yet. Not officially. Meanwhile, protestors take to the streets, parents lose their children, strangers find lovers, journalists lie on television, cancer patients crack jokes about the absurdity of existence, the downtrodden dream of rising up against their oppressors and everyone everywhere is addicted to something. 'you see all these people in the subway with icy cold eyes. Burning inside. It's either gastritis, or their souls, or God knows what. They look like they could pounce at any moment, tear you apart and eat you alive.' A darkly funny, kaleidoscopic look at contemporary Russia on the brink.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Mikhail Durnenkov. Literal translation by Alexandra Smith. Adapted and directed by Davey Anderson.

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A Play, A Pie and A Pint and the University of Edinburgh

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Genre:
short play in adaptation

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Wired

Synopsis:
a retired policeman returns to London to lead the enquiry into the shooting of an innocent man on the underground. arriving at his hotel he finds a witness standing in his bathroom holding a pair of scissors

Notes:
part of Short And Sweet

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One act

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Zorro!

Synopsis:
a mysterious figure has arrived in town and it's certainly not Father Christmas. a flurry of a cape, the glint of a sword and a flash of a mask; who is this baffling character? exciting friend or formidable foe? If you looking for some swashbuckling fun this Christmas, come and lock swords with Zorro at the Traverse theatre. Watch as our masked champion ricochets from one sticky situation to another in a world where adventure is the name and justice is the game! Watch out for 'Z's scratched into the snow this Christmas, it might mark the start of a thrilling escapade. . . For all intrepid adventurers.

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Organisations:
Visible Fictions and Traverse Theatre Company

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Genre:
Christmas Show

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