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Lee Simpson

LEE SIMPSON

  
Nationality:    British
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Lee Simpson's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Bear, The         Cinderella - A New Telling Of An Old Story         Get Off My Foot!         Ghost Downstairs, The         Hanging Man         No Idea         Panic         Spirit         Still No Idea         Theatre Of Blood         Written With Light Text
Bear, The

Synopsis:
A taut, tense and funny show about an everyday murder and a mythic bear. Angela is a solicitor's clerk. She works with the defence team during criminal trials. the job brings her face to face with people accused of GBH, rape and murder. In the cells under the Old Bailey, Angela meets her client who is on trial for murder. "I didn't do it." He says. "the Bear did it." He's obviously lying. Or mad. But someone else has seen it. Without quite knowing why, Angela finds herself hunting the bear. Until she discovers the bear is hunting her. A film noir thriller with added beartastic facts and revenge songs.

Notes:
written by Angela Clerkin & Lee Simpson

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Clerkinworks in co-production with Improbable in association with Ovalhouse

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cinderella - A New Telling Of An Old Story

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Phelim McDermott; Lee Simpson and Julian Crouch

1st Produced:
Lyric, Hammersmith     27 Nov 1998

Organisations:
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Music:
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Get Off My Foot!

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Ghost Downstairs, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Adapted By Phelim McDermott And Lee Simpson

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Music:
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Genre:
Mime

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hanging Man

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Scripted By Phelim McDermott, Lee Simpson & Juilan Crouch

1st Produced:
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, Uk     2003

Organisations:
Improbable Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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No Idea

Synopsis:
This is a picture of Rachael and Lisa. If they were in a show, what kind of show it would be? Who would you choose to play the main character? Who would you choose to be the funny one? Armed with a tape recorder, Rachael and Lisa went on to the streets and asked people what they thought their show should be about. What they heard and recorded was funny, heartfelt, sometimes staggering but always very very revealing about what we can (and can't) imagine when we look at someone.

Notes:
Devised by Lisa Hammond, Rachael Spence And Lee Simpson

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Presented with Improbable as part of their Associate Artist programme

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Music:
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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Panic

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Created by Phelim McDermott, Lucy Foster, Matilda Leyser, Tamzin Griffin, Phil Eddolls, Lee Simpson, Julian Crouch, Colin Grenfell, Nick Powell And Lysander Ashton

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Improbable Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Piece

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Spirit

Synopsis:
Three performers play three brothers who break bread together and wait for their story to begin. The performers wait too. And when did a story not happen to three brothers? Spirit takes you to a Improbable world of ugly improvisation, headless puppets, fractured storytelling and visual imagery to find out what happens to three brothers, who are in a simple story that gets complicated when things don't turn out the way they should. If drama is conflict, is conflict still drama when the performers don't agree? That is really don't agree.

Notes:
Created by Julian Crouch, Phelim McDermott, Lee Simpson, Guy Dartnell And Arlene Audergon

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Improbable Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Still No Idea

Still No Idea
Best mates Lisa and Rachael are making a new show almost a decade after they created their first piece together. Back then they had no idea where to start so they went onto the streets and asked the public. What story should they tell? What characters should they play? When they saw Lisa in a wheelchair and Rachael not, what the public said was funny, jaw-dropping and ultimately heartbreaking. They made a show about it. It was called No Idea. Now people say the world has changed and things are looking up. There are more disabled people in the mainstream media, Lisa landed a big part on TV and disabled mates are getting regular auditions - happy days. So what kind of exciting stories are the TV professionals dreaming up for them? Still No Idea is the whole story (so far): the British public, the professional writers, the TV execs. Part verbatim theatre, part improv, part comedy sketch show, this is a raucous and mischievous expose of good intentions gone bad and how sometimes no matter how hard we try, we still have absolutely no idea.

Notes:
conceived by Lee Simpson, Raxhael Spence and Lisa Hammond

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Improbable

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  voices

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Theatre Of Blood

Synopsis:
Seven self-regarding critics assemble at a disused theatre in response to a mysterious invitation. Too late they discover its gruesome purpose as Edward Lionheart, an actor frenzied by a lifetime of sneering reviews, hacks his revengeful way through the bloody works of Shakespeare, assisted by a gang of murderous tramps. the laws of theatre supersede the laws of physics in this macabre exhibition of putty noses, Kensington gore and some very large acting indeed.

Notes:
written by Lee Simpson And Phelim McDermott. Based on the film by Stanley Mann And John Knott And the screenplay by Anthony Greville-Bell

1st Produced:

Organisations:
collaboration with Improbable

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Music:
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Genre:
Film Adaptation Mystery. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  chorus of tramps

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Written With Light Text

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Roundhouse Undercroft, London     2002

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1st Published:
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