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Paul Hodson

PAUL HODSON

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Blake Friedmann  

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

         Blues Brother, The         Brighton 'til I Die!         Don't Shoot the Clowns         Fever Pitch         Football Factory, The         Game         Greatest Hits Of British History, The         How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the Fa Cup         Kiss And Tell, The Story Of A Woman Who Kissed And Told         Meeting Joe Strummer         Notes From A Small Island         Pretty Vacant         Ronaldo Ate My Credit Card         Still         Teenage Kicks         Way Out West

Blues Brother, The

Synopsis:
Probes the dangerous and shortened life of talent John Belushi.

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Play/Drama

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Brighton 'til I Die!

Synopsis:
a specially commissioned piece to celebrate Brighton and Hove albion's 100th birthday. Told through the chanting and rivalry of a group of Seagulls supports, from the highs of the first division to the lows of the demolition of the Goldstone ground

Notes:
written by Paul Hodson And Dave Blake

1st Produced:
Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton    05 Jun 2001

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Don't Shoot the Clowns

Synopsis:
a feisty piece of theatre inspired by the rough magic and wonder of a circus in a war zone.

Notes:
Inspired by the book of the same name by Jo Wilding.

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Organisations:
the future is unwritten/Fuel

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Piece

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Fever Pitch

Synopsis:
Seminal football novel of arsenal obsession adapted to the stage. From the rootlessness of 60's suburbia and through the Highbury turnstiles, Hornby was instantly fixated with arsenal football club. This is his tale of families, football, class, identity and joy. as much for football widows as its supporters.

Notes:
from the book by Nick Hornby

1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    06 Sep 1994

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Genre:
adaptation

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Football Factory, The

Synopsis:
the hidden world of football hooliganism in the national game.

Notes:
from the book by John King

1st Produced:
Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton    09 Oct 1998

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Game

Synopsis:
Game gets under the skin of women who sell sex for a living - and the men who pay for it. With a nervous smile ali leads him into her sweet smelling room. He's her first ever client and not what she expected - a young banker with a Porsche. . .what would her partner Joe say? Joe and ali have a relationship which breaks all the rules, but can it survive her new job. . .?

Notes:
written by Paul Hodson And Chris Stagg

1st Produced:
Old Town Hall Arts Centre, Hemel Hempstead    08 Oct 1999

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Greatest Hits Of British History, The

Synopsis:
the CrUSAdes, Black Death and Battle of Britain are amongst the exciting events that stream across the stage in front of you.

Notes:
written by Paul Hodson And Chris Stagg

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Play/Drama

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How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the Fa Cup

Synopsis:
Is it possible? Could a humble village team really have taken on the best that the football leagues could throw at it and still come out on top? When an enigmatic trainer with revolutionary theories, two of the best players ever to have disappeared without trace from football's top flight, and a chairman of Napoleonic ability all find themselves in the same place at the same time, it just might be! This joyous tale of the unstoppable rise of the ultimate underdog is rivetingly retold in a funny and touching new one-man show - prepare to laugh, prepare to cry, and above all to believe every word!

Notes:
from the book by J L Carr

1st Produced:
Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    03 Aug 2011

Organisations:
New Perspectives

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Kiss And Tell, The Story Of A Woman Who Kissed And Told

Synopsis:
Sex, power and corruption. Mady was thrown into modelling by her Father when she was 13, five years later she is both famous and infamous.

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1st Produced:
Swindon Arts Centre, Swindon    20 Jun 1997

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Meeting Joe Strummer

Synopsis:
passionate punk comedy follows the lives of two young men, one middle-class and one working-class, from adolescence in 1977 to middle-age as they are transformed by Joe Strummer and the Clash's potent mix of rock n' roll, iconic imagery and rebel politics

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1st Produced:
Komedia Theatre, Brighton    31 Jul 2006

Organisations:
Brighton Theatre events

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Notes From A Small Island

Synopsis:
adaptation of Bryson's travel diaries records the trip he made round the UK, prior to returning to the States. His aim was to take stock of Britain, and analyse what it was he loved so much about a country that had produced marmite, places like Farley Wallop and people who said 'mustn't grumble'. . .

Notes:
adapted from book by Bill Bryson

1st Produced:
Komedia Theatre, Brighton    09 Mar 2001

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Pretty Vacant

Synopsis:
he punk story

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1st Produced:
Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley    09 Aug 1996

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Ronaldo Ate My Credit Card

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written by Mark Braisford And Paul Hodson

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Still

Synopsis:
H is burnt out from her lifestyle of stealing data by day and partying by night. On one final binge she stumbles across the work of Vivian Maier: two more different women it would be hard to imagine. Inspired by the photographer Vivian Maier, Still celebrates her work and life and explores issues of privacy, assumptions and images raised by her evolving story. In our technological age, is there any privacy left?

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Written and Directed by Paul Hodson; Created with and Performed by Beth Fitzgerald

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Teenage Kicks

Synopsis:
a funny, touching journey through the life of Britain's best-loved broadcaster John Peel as he transforms from a well-spoken idealistic hippy into a down-to-earth DJ. an ordinary bloke with an extraordinary love for music.

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Organisations:
Home Truths Present

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Way Out West

Synopsis:
Two men walk into a pub - and then it stops being normal. Pints are drunk; conversation spans the creation of the universe, the meaning of happiness, the chemical construction of pork scratchings  and how they seem to know more about each other than complete strangers could, or should. and they both seem to recollect dreams in which they met Laurel and Hardy, and each other. as the alcohol kicks in Simon and Peter find themselves lurching towards an unnerving philosophical and spiritual world, where it becomes a distinct possibility that they are Laurel and Hardy reincarnated. . . but that's simply laughable, absurd and beyond comprehension  isn't it?

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1st Produced:
Nightingale Theatre, Brighton    23 Jan 2012

Organisations:
the Future Is Unwritten

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Genre:
sureal comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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