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NEIL MCPHERSON
(1969 - )Nationality: British
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Neil McPherson trained as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and with the National Youth Theatre. He has been Artistic Director of the Finborough Theatre since 1999, twice winning the OffWestEnd Award for Best Artistic Director. His award-winning first play I Wish to Die Singing - Voices From The Armenian Genocide, commemorating the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, was presented at the Finborough Theatre in 2015, and an excerpt was also performed concurrently in Los Angeles. It Is Easy To Be Dead, based on the writings and brief life of First World War poet Charles Hamilton Sorley, premiered at the Finborough Theatre and transferred to the West End in 2016. I Wish to Die Singing and It Is Easy To be Dead are both published by Oberon Books.
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I Wish To Die Singing It Is Easy To Be Dead Mumpers DingleI Wish To Die Singing
The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the 20th century, perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish Government against the Armenians, a Christian minority in a Muslim state. One and a half million people died. The word 'genocide' itself was invented by Raphael Lemkin in 1943 to describe the events of 1915. Adolf Hitler used the Armenian Genocide as a direct inspiration for the Holocaust during the Second World War. To this day, the Turkish government refuses to admit that any genocide ever took place. Commemorating the exact centenary of the deportations that began the Armenian Genocide, I Wish To Die Singing - Voices From The Armenian Genocide is a controversial documentary drama uncovering the forgotten secrets and atrocities of a denied genocide - featuring eye-witness reportage, images, music, poetry from Armenia's greatest poets, and verbatim survivors testimonies from one of the greatest historical injustices of all time.
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Finborough Theatre, London >>>
21 Apr 2015
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Oberon Books (2015) >>> 978-1783193059
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Documentary Drama Documentary
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Male: 5 Female: 3 Other: Character breakdown can be varied
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When twenty year old Charles Sorley is killed in action during the First World War, his devastated parents are left with only his letters and poems to remember him by. Using his extraordinary writings, together with music and songs of the period, It Is Easy To Be Dead is a tender portrait of a brief life filled with promise, cut short by the futility of war. Charles Sorley was a witty, intelligent and spirited young man from Aberdeen, with a talent for poetry and dreams of escaping his privileged background. Studying in Germany in 1914 - where he was briefly imprisoned as an enemy alien - his life, like those of millions of other young men and their families, was ripped apart by the start of the First World War. Inspired by his experiences in Germany and of the horror and pity of war, he created some of the most profound and moving war poetry ever written, directly inspiring the grim disillusionment of later poets such as Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon.
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Finborough Theatre, London >>>
15 Jun 2016
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Presented by Breon George Rydell in association with Amanda Castro for the Finborough Theatre.
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Oberon Books (2016) >>> 978-1786820099
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Drama, Historical
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: 2
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In 1825, the penniless George Borrow walked through England and later recorded his adventures in a racy blend of fact and fiction. the play recounts his time in Mumpers Dingle including a knockdown fight with "the Blazing Tinman", a visit from his Romani blood brother, and, above all, his relationship with the splendid road girl, Isopel Berners - "one of the most touching romances in English literature".
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An Adaptation from the novels Lavengro And the Romany Rye by George Borrow
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Brompton Cemetery Chapel
2003
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Adaptation
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