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GRAHAM BILLING
Nationality: British
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Graham Billing's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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below is a list of Graham Billing's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Absent thee From Felicity Carrie Pringle Charlotte And Emily Divorced, Beheaded, Died Such Art Such BeautyAbsent thee From Felicity
Synopsis:
exactly a year ago, sixteen-year-old Felicity went missing. Still without any news about her and unable to account for her disappearance, the other members of her family react to it in different ways. Her eldest sister Christina refuses to let it stop her living her own life, while the middle sister Maria does all she can to keep Felicity's painful memory fresh. their mother has lost the ability to feel anything and their estranged Father loses himself in alcohol-induced sentimentality. a local journalist, hoping for a new angle on the story, has to admit defeat. there are no new answers.
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New Theatre Publications (1999) 978-1840942361
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Drama One act
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Top of PageCarrie Pringle
Synopsis:
It is the day of Wagner's death. In Venice for his health, he is challenged by his wife to admit that his latest infidelity is with a young english soprano in his own opera company. their subsequent row leads to bitter recriminations about their whole life together, including Wagner's womanising and his irrational attitude toward the men in Cosima's life - her father, Listz. their delicate son Fidi and the philosopher Nietzsche. Home truths fall like well-aimed punches on both sides until the composer's already weakened heart can stand it no longer. . .
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New Theatre Publications (1999) 978-1840942354
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Top of PageCharlotte And Emily
Synopsis:
emily has had a stroke at the age of twenty-six. Charlotte, a pioneering speech therapist, has helped her to talk normally, but seems unwilling to admit that emily is now cured. She invites her out to restaurants and even to her holiday cottage. emily becomes increasingly disturbed by Charlotte's increasing emotional dependence on her. When she proves her independence by holding down a new job and a new relationship, the hard-drinking over-eating Charlotte's distress increases to the point where she too has a stroke. emily can now enjoy the fact that their roles have been reversed.
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New Theatre Publications (1999) 978-1840942460
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Top of PageDivorced, Beheaded, Died
Synopsis:
erstwhile queens of england squabble like schoolchildren over the memory of henry VIII
Lucy Powell, Time Out London
Lucy Powell, Time Out London
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by Graham Billing And Frederica Dunstan
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SweetFa Productions
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Top of PageSuch Art Such Beauty
Synopsis:
backstage bitchery of opera provides easy ground for this very passable comedy from Graham Billing. Three young divas vie to land the role of CinderElla in a minor opera company's production of La Cenerentola'. In the process, they all fall prey to the charismatic and permanently off-stage conductor of the company, Sebastian. Billing apparently has first-hand experience of his subject, and it shows. among the expected bouts of vapid flouncing, he evokes a subtler set of power relations, nicely tuned to the relative status of these would-be Maria Callases. On this rung of the ladder only the tenors get paid, and Barbara, the company's lead soprano, has to extract every last squeeze of admiration from her underlings to come near to justifying her self-regard. - Quirke, Time Out
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