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Torben Betts

TORBEN BETTS

  (1968 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Independent Talent Group Limited  

Torben Betts read English Literature & English Language at the University of Liverpool before training and working as an actor. Works include: The Unconquered, Best New Play 2007 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (Tron/Traverse/Arcola/Brits-off-Broadway); A Listening Heaven, nominated for Best New Play at the 2001 TMA Awards (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum); Lie of the Land, nominated for Edinburgh Fringe First Award, 2008 (Edinburgh Pleasance/Arcola); Clockwatching (Orange Tree Theatre); The Company Man (Orange Tree Theatre); The Biggleswades (Southwark Playhouse); Five Visions of the Faithful (Edinburgh Festival); The Lunatic Queen (Riverside Studios); The Error of Their Ways (HERE Arts Center, New York); The Swing of Things (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Muswell Hill (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Park Theatre, London) and Invincible (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, St James Theatre London).

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         Art Of Being Alone, The         Beyond the Ocean Sea         Biggleswades, The         Clockwatching         Company Man, The         Error Of their Ways         Five Visions Of the Faithful         Get Carter         Her Slightest Touch         I Am the Knife         Incarcerator         Invention Of Morality, The         Invincible         Last Days Of Desire, The         Lesson In Arbitration, A         Lie Of the Land         Listening Heaven, A         Lunatic Queen, The         Misfortune Of Martha Mcleod         Monogamy         Mummies And Daddies         Muswell Hill         National Joke, The         Optimist, The         Seagull, The         Silence And Violence         Spurning Comfort         Swing Of Things, The         This Is Glorious         Trough, The         Unconquered, The         What Falls Apart         What the Butterfly Said
Art Of Being Alone, The

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a beggar is convinced that she is the Virgin Mary who has been 'rogered by the Holy Spirit'.
Joe McCallum, What's On

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Beyond the Ocean Sea

Synopsis:
This autumn, the Traverse is launching a new season of Friday lunchtime theatre and discussion. Feed your body, mind and soul as leading actors perform a new full-length play, script-in-hand, or playwrights discuss the most pertinent issues in theatre today.

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part of the Dough Is Rising

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Biggleswades, The

Biggleswades, The
a savage metaphor of a mindless, isolationist modernity

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absurdist tragi-comedy absurd

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Clockwatching

Clockwatching
a despotic man descends into helplessness as his servile wife falls seriously ill.

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First play to be produced for the SJT And Orange Tree's theatre-in-the Round project

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Orange Tree, Richmond, UK >>>     28 Mar 2001

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Domestic Tragedy

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Company Man, The

Company Man, The
a dying woman's last night is marred by the conflict between her accomplished yet emotionally damaged husband and their deeply troubled son.

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written 2006

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Orange Tree, Richmond, UK >>>     05 Oct 2010

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Error Of their Ways

Error Of their Ways
From a playwright rated by Alan ayckbourn and Howard Barker to be the most exciting new voice in British theatre comes a shattering re-imagining of life as we live it now, set in the context of a bloody revolution. Witness to a brutal political assassination, we are introduced to a society fractured by a lack of belief in anything meaningful, in which everyone has something to protest against. This skewed world spins giddily between the surreal, the mundane and a ghastly graphic reality. Powerful poetic language, raw emotion, dark humour and big uncomfortable ideas build a fast moving story of 'quite shattering impact' (the Guardian).

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HERE Arts Center, NY >>>     01 Aug 2007

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TaLR 2007

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Five Visions Of the Faithful

Five Visions Of the Faithful
a group of short plays examining the link between religion and cruelty

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the Invention of Morality; What the Butterflies Said; I Am the Knife; the Art Of Being Alone; A Lesson In Arbitration

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Five Short Plays

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Get Carter

Synopsis:
I've got a story for you. Involves blue films, a killing, bent cops, drugs and a friend of a couple of people you've been trying to wrap the fish and chips in for a long time now. The man who was killed was called Carter.' A dark and stylish new adaptation of the classic Newcastle -noir thriller. Jack Carter is back home for the first time in years. He's back to bury a brother who hated him, in a town he swore he was never going to see again. He wants to pay debts, settle scores and discover who killed his brother. As the local underworld closes ranks Jack's bosses back in London find out that Jack has had his fingers in the till, and other places they shouldn't have been. Jack plays a deadly game of cat and mouse as everyone tries to GET CARTER. Unless he gets them first. Ted Lewis's novel is a classic of British Crime fiction. Set in a hard and uncompromising 1960's Newcastle rife with crime, sex, gambling and violence, this adaptation tells the story made famous by the 1971 film starring Michael Caine.

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Based on the novel JACK'S RETURN HOME by Ted Lewis

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thriller

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Her Slightest Touch

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Two strangers with nothing in common apart from their shyness. He's a failing salesman and old enough to be her father. What does he want from her? He thought he knew, but now he's not so sure. He starts to open up his world to her and she shares her secret. Can they find comfort in each other, even in these strangest of circumstances?

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I Am the Knife

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a whisky sodden priest has been sent to persuade a political prisoner (the self described Knife of the title) to compromise his principles in exchange for freedom.
Joe McCallum, What's On

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Incarcerator

Incarcerator
a modern-day revenge tragedy, written largely in rhyming couplets, and straight out of Jacobean Drama

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a Time Out Critics choice At both the White Bear And Battersea Arts Centre

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Verse Drama

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Invention Of Morality, The

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Two security guards watch the animalistic ruttings on earth from some Olympian control room. they are no better than the mortal beasts they oversee.
Joe McCallum, What's On

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Invincible

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The recession is biting hard and so Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle-class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England. They want to live and to work and to raise their two young children in a friendly community, among what Emily terms ?real people', away from the cold anonymity of the city. So these left-leaning, well-educated people have invited over two of their new neighbours in an attempt to break the ice. Tonight Alan and Dawn are to be offered olives, anchovies and are to be introduced to Karl Marx and abstract art. As classes and outlooks collide, the scene is set for a meeting which will have consequences as hilarious as they are tragic.

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Last Days Of Desire, The

Last Days Of Desire, The
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Lesson In Arbitration, A

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Pontius Pilate has to choose between sentencing a Comedian and a Terrorist.
Joe McCallum, What's On

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Lie Of the Land

Lie Of the Land
away from the city, with its holes in the road, suicide bombers and fresh morning vomit, husband and wife go rural. Savagely funny poetic Drama by Torben Betts - winner, Best New Play, Scottish theatre awards 2007.

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Pleasance & adam Barnard

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Play/Drama 60 min

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Listening Heaven, A

Listening Heaven, A
a very conservative english family's inability to grieve for their dead eco-warrior son.

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the play has been translated into German, French And Finnish, nominated As TMa Best New Play 2001

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Domestic Tragedy

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Lunatic Queen, The

Lunatic Queen, The
at the turn of the sixteenth century the two most powerful people on the planet, Queen IsabElla of Castile and King Ferdinand of aragon are making plans to expand their empire. they are plundering the riches of the New World, removing all Jews and Moors from their territories and waging war on the infidels in the east. at home they seek to assert the dominance of Spain by marrying their daughters to various princes of europe. One such daughter is Juana, a young woman full of religion and passion. Why, however, is she mad? Though set during the Golden age of Spain, the Lunatic Queen is both brital and contemporary satire and classical revenge tragedy, as it tells the story of Juana's two servants who seek vengeance on a system which has victimised them.

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1st Produced:
Riverside, London >>>     26 Feb 2005

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Monika and Herrand von Trauttmansdorff (in association with Shadow of the eye Productions)

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Misfortune Of Martha Mcleod

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Monogamy

Monogamy
Monogamy means sharing your life with one person, but what if you shared your kitchen with 5.6 million? Caroline Mortimer, the nation's favourite TV cook, has it all - a sparkling career, a big house in Highgate, a (golf) loving husband, smart kids and the best kitchen money can buy. But beneath the immaculate furnishings, studio lighting and away from the glare of the ever-present cameras - Caroline must face the looming collision of living a private life in the public eye. What happens when the cameras turn off and the truth comes out? A searing, sharp, state of the nation comedy from one of the UK's most exciting playwrights, Torben Betts.

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Genre:
comedy

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Mummies And Daddies

Mummies And Daddies
a brutal yet hilarious insight into consumerism as a marketing man and friends gather to celebrate the last summer of the 20th century.

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the play was developed At the Orange Tree theatre, Richmond And was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2000

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National Theatre Studio, London     1999

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Domestic Tragedy

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Muswell Hill

Muswell Hill
One night in January 2010 an earthquake in Haiti leaves around a hundred thousand people dead and almost two million homeless. Meanwhile, somewhere in a leafy north London suburb, a group of six individuals convene over avocado and prawns, followed by monkfish stew. they struggle with worries over their mortgages, their mobile phone tariffs, their Facebook friends, their careers, their love lives, their diets, their holiday plans and whether or not any of them will be able to make any lasting impression on history. Muswell Hill, another comedy of acute social embarrassment from this award-winning playwright, is the third of Torben Betts' plays to be premiered at the Orange Tree.

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National Joke, The

National Joke, The
Will the Prime Minister give Rupert the political prize he's been hoping for? How much more can Olivia take of her mother Mary and her withering put-downs? Will Charlie get off her phone for long enough to listen to anyone, let alone her boyfriend? Home truths emerge and a reputation could tumble as Rupert St John-Green MP and three generations of women gather in the family garden to watch a total solar eclipse. A searingly funny contemporary look at one family and at Britain today.

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Optimist, The

Optimist, The
Set on Guy Fawke's Night the Optimist concerns a Government Defence Minister who must face up to the consequences of the choices he has made, both professionally and personally.

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commissioned by Alan Ayckbourn And the Stephen Joseph theatre in April 2002

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Unproduced    

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Seagull, The

Seagull, The
As guests assemble at a country house for the staging of an avant-garde open air play, artistic temperaments ignite a more entertaining drama behind the scenes, with romantic jealousies, self-doubt and the ruthless pursuit of happiness confusing lives, loves and literature.

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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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adaptation

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Silence And Violence

Silence And Violence
an examination of the artist's quest for self-expression in the Philistine state, set against a background of genocide

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Political Satire

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Spurning Comfort

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a couple wake one morning to find that their love has died overnight and so must embark on a desperate journey to locate their missing emotions.

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Didsbury Studio Theatre And Oldham Coliseum Studio     1998

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Rocket Theatre Company

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Satire One act

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Swing Of Things, The

Swing Of Things, The
Betts's pnncipal subject is the toe-curling awkwardness inspired by social embarrassment and personal failure. Downcast spinster Ruth, who has not seen anyone - including herself in a mirror - for quite some time, invites a group of former school friends to a reunion. Timorous mother-of-three Lindsay arrives with bullish husband Mark, a simmering sack of resentment whose dreams of a football career ended with Leyton Orient reserves. then Ruth, the high-flyer of the bunch, breezes in with Claude, a French international star, on her arm. It is as if Beverly's get-together in abigail's Party has been brought to a standstill by the sudden arrival of Thierry Henry. Mark is first awestruck, then furiously jealous as Claude casts approving glances at his wife, who in turn contemplates a wild, liberating fling with Steve, the gentle Gulf war veteran who lives next door. With the action confined to Ruth's poky kitchen and yard, Betts's game-plan is to put together a toxic combination of couples and watch the sparks fly.
- alfred Hickling, Guardian

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This Is Glorious

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Trough, The

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Kuwait International Theatre Festival     2002

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Unconquered, The

Unconquered, The
One day you will say something from the heart, a truth forced raw and screeching from the howling depths of your soul. Powerful poetic language, dark humour and provocative ideas build a fast moving story around a fiercely intelligent young girl and her relentless refUSAl of the establishment. When suddenly a people's revolution breaks out and a mercenary soldier intrudes the family home, the conflict between the regime and the unconquered girl is revealed.

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no interval Play/Drama

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What Falls Apart

What Falls Apart
May 2015: The most important General Election for a generation. All is not well for Tom Savage, an ex-Labour minister parachuted into a safe North East constituency, trying to win hearts and minds as well as an Election. Wrestling with a heady cocktail of mid-life crisis, growing dependency on alcohol and the consequences of his Government's policies in Iraq, Tom finds himself in a Tyneside hotel bar at midnight with a newly-teetotal barman and a 'criminally attractive' woman. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. . .

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What the Butterfly Said

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an idealistic Victorian doctor fighting 'the devil of disease' is persuaded to rekindle a lustful liaison with his sister-in-law.
Joe McCallum, What's On

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