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Jonathan Gems

JONATHAN GEMS

  (1952 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Jonathan Gems (born 1952, London) is a British playwright and screenwriter mostly known for his work on Mars Attacks!, directed by Tim Burton. He also wrote the film's novelisation. The son of the playwright Pam Gems, Gems wrote a number of plays for theatres on the London fringe before gradually turning to screenwriting. As well as Mars Attacks!, Gems did uncredited rewrite work on Batman. Gems has written a number of unproduced scripts for Burton, including a Beetlejuice sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, an updating of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" set in Burbank, California, The Hawkline Monster, a cowboy/monster movie that was to star Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson and Go Baby Go, a beach movie in the style of Russ Meyer.

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         Back To Nature         Dentist, The         Doom Doom Doom Doom         Jesus Rides Out         Lorenza the Magnificent         Merry Xmas To All And Goodnight         Naked Robots         Paranormalist, The         Rinni Bootsie Tutti Frutti         Secret Of the Universe, The         Shithouse Of the August Moon, The         Susan's Breasts         Tax Exile, The
Back To Nature

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Dentist, The

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London     1979

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Doom Doom Doom Doom

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Six people the end of the World is watched on a television screen in a nuclear bunker built for two

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Not the RSC Festival

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Jesus Rides Out

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London     1978

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Lorenza the Magnificent

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Merry Xmas To All And Goodnight

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"an expressionistic, allegorical, agit-prop, thesis play of ideas, with heavy Christmas overtones"

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Schiller College     1997

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Naked Robots

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about the hell of trying to be hip and smart when deep down YOU are really middle-class. - Michael Billington, Guardian

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Warehouse, Covent Garden, London     19 Jan 1981

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in "Gems Plays" Oberon Books, London, 1988   

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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RSC ref NaK198101
Theatre Record Volume I Issues 01/02 Page 14

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Paranormalist, The

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in "Gems Plays" Oberon Books, London, 1988   

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Rinni Bootsie Tutti Frutti

Synopsis:
a reporter meets an eccentric man in a deserted bar. the man is convinced that aliens from Space are taking over

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Live Theatre Company

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Secret Of the Universe, The

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Shithouse Of the August Moon, The

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a comedy which incorporates elements of the fashion business, the music business, feminism, homosexuality and the need to succeed

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Susan's Breasts

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the lives of members of the heroin generation

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in "Gems Plays" Oberon Books, London, 1988   

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tax Exile, The

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Playwrights Press, London,    

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