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John Doyle

JOHN DOYLE  (1953 - )

 Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    RGM Artist Group  


John Doyle is an actor, comedian and screenwriter, best known as 'Rampaging Roy Slaven' of Roy and HG fame ( This Sporting Life, Club Buggery, The Dream, The Dream in athens). as a screenwriter, John's credits include the acclaimed mini-series Changi and Marking Time, as well as the documentary series Two Men in a Tinnie and Two Men in the Top End (written with Michael Cordell) in which he sets out to explore the Australian outback with biologist Tim Flannery. The Pig Iron People is his first play.

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 Beauty And The Beards         Carmen         Dracula         Gondoliers, The         Peter Pan         Pig Iron People, The         Pinafore Swing         Ten Cents A Dance         Tom Jones         Vere (Faith)

Beauty And The Beards

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Music By Catherine Jayes

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Carmen

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The Doyle Carmen is updated to the Spanish Civil War, in a period of exhaustion and treachery and needless bloodshed, oddly reminiscent of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. It is not a staging for those who like their Carmens to be flecked with sunshine and sangria and bulifights and all the joys of a Spanish holiday; this is a bitter, dark, sensational reading in which Carmen herself is well into a raddled middle-age, and the whole production is right in your face, high in energy, low in romance. This is a Carmen in angry closeup instead of the usually more gentle longshot.
Sheridan Morley, Spectator

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From story by Prosper Merimee with music by Geroges Bizet

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Musical adaptation

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Dracula

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From Bram Stoker Novel

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Theatre Royal York    1994

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Gondoliers, The

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From Light Opera By W S Gilbert And Arthur Sullivan

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Peter Pan

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Tinkerbell and Captain Hook amidst the fairies

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from story by J M Barrie. Music by Sarah Travis

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Oxford Playhouse    2004

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Pantomime

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Pig Iron People, The

John Doyle
Australia, 1996. The winds of change begin to blow like a gale through the nation as a new government has taken the reins. 'From now on people will have to make their own way in the world. People will no longer be rewarded for being weak. The madness is over& The people have spoken. This is what they want, this is what we voted for, and if you don't see it like me, then you are out of step. So get used to it.' Nick's out of step; he's a writer. No writer has ever lived in Liberal Street before. and the residents are making sure he knows it. In this timely satire, John Doyle's infectious humour takes an affable, yet sublimely sharp tilt at an Australia we all recognise.

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Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House    2008

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Sydney Theatre Company

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Pinafore Swing

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from the light opera by W S Gilbert And Sir Arthur Sullivan

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Newbury, Watermill    2004

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Ten Cents A Dance

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Tom Jones

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By John Doyle/George Styles/Paul Leigh From Fielding

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Theatre Royal York    1996

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Vere (Faith)

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The Big Bang created a future from nothing. For the esteemed Professor of Physics Vere, the future is nothing. One minute he is trading witty anecdotes with his colleagues and students and about to take up a job with the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland. The next, he receives a shattering diagnosis and learns that everything he knows will all too soon slip away. Just what is faith to different people? To some, its knowing that there is a God. To others, its knowing the architecture of the cosmos. And to Vere, its knowing that, at the end of it all, his wife Holly is out there waiting for him. Somewhere.

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Dunstan Playhouse, Australia    12 Oct 2013

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State Theatre Company of South Australia

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