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Jimmy Osborne

JIMMY OSBORNE

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    MacFarlane Chard Ass  

Jimmy's play, 'Meat', was staged at Theatre503 in June 2012. His co-adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'the Cement Garden' was given a rehearsed reading at the National Theatre Studio by FallOut Theatre. He is one of the writers on the 4Screenwriting 2013 Programme run by Channel 4. His short radio play, 'This is Jack, Leave a Message, Alright?" won a BBC Writersroom competition. Jimmy's collected short plays have recently been published as 'Transmission'.

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

         1833         Cement Garden, The         Eightball         Meat         Move the Mountain         Perfect Now         Permanent Change, A         Ripples         This is Jack, Leave a Message, Alright?         Transmission         Windows

1833

Synopsis:
Loved. Loathed. Lastingly influential. She gave us the right to buy, whilst taking our children's milk; marched some proudly to war, whilst driving others to riot; was honoured by the pomp and regalia of a ceremonial funeral whilst mocked as a burning effigy on the pyre. the Iron Lady who wasnt for turning continues to divide the nations hearts and minds like no other figure in living memory.

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part of A Festival of Plays Inspired by Margaret Thatcher. In response to the national conversation surrounding Thatchers death, theatre503 has invited a broad spectrum of writers to write a series of short plays looking back at Margaret Thatcher - the woman, the politics and her legacy.

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Cement Garden, The

Cement Garden, The
I did not kill my father, but sometimes I felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared with what followed. I am only including the little story of his death to explain how my sisters and I came to have such a large quantity of cement at our disposal.. In the relentless summer heat, four children retreat into an isolated world left to them by their parents, and attempt to create their own version of a family. In Ian McEwans first novel, The Cement Garden explores coming of age, burgeoning sexuality and the distortions of a 14-year-old mind. David Aula and Jimmy Osbornes stage adaptation approaches the horror of the story through the innocent eyes of children, and encourages an audience to remember the games, irreverence, and shadows of their youth: to remember and reinvent their sense of invincibility.

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from novel by Ian McEwan, adapted by David Aula and Jimmy Osborne. Workshop and rehearsed reading at the National Theatre Studio, Dec 2011

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The Vault, London    28 Jan 2014

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FallOut Theatre

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Eightball

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Rehearsed reading, Interplay European Playwright Festival, Warsaw, Poland.

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Meat

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Vincent works in a meat processing factory. When the local lads erupt, things get out of hand and Vincent becomes a vigilante. As the violence from his workplace blazes through the streets, Vincent has to choose to fight for his town or for the woman who was once the love of his life.

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Move the Mountain

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Performed As part of Crossing the Borders, theatre Upstairs, Royal Court theatre. Collaborated with A number of writers All over the world on An innovative online writing initiative to co-create A piece of Drama telling stories from Across the globe.

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Perfect Now

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part of Festopia. Utopia or Dystopia? Playwrights imagine the future in a festival of new plays. From over 250 submissions, 19 plays from emerging and more established playwrights staged across five days this January.

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Permanent Change, A

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On his first day in office, a Deputy Minister in a dictatorship struggles to deal with the realities of what the job involves and finds out if the real weapons of oppression are guns or paperwork.

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A scratch performance As part of the Newvolutions Festival

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Lincoln Performing Arts Centre    Jan 2012

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Ripples

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Rehearsed public reading, theatre Downstairs, Royal Court theatre

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This is Jack, Leave a Message, Alright?

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Set in the voicemail of a missing teenagers mobile phone as his dad, girlfriend and the police try to coax him home.

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Performed As part of the Little Pieces of Gold showcase. Winner of the BBC Writersroom Hackgate Rapid Response competition. Described by competition judge Tim Price As A Brave And beautiful piece.

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Transmission

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No method of contraception can provide 100% protection against pregnancy, STIs or love.

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A short play As part of the Little Pieces of Love showcase

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Windows

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Performed As part of Under the Skin, Royal Court theatre, rehearsal rooms. One of A group of Writers in Residence At Chelsea And Westminster Hospital in Association with the Royal Court theatre.

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