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Ben Brown

BEN BROWN

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  US representative Peregrine Whittlesey Agency

Ben Brown's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         All Things Considered         Larkin With Women         Promise, The         Three Days In May

All Things Considered

Synopsis:
David Freeman, a Professor of Philosophy about to reach fifty, is tired of life. His only desire now is to control the timing and manner of his death. His plans for 'self-deliverance', however, are disrupted by the earthly demands of people around him. alone at last he carries out his plan, but is saved by the college electrician. Returning from hospital, David hears news that may change his mind - yet ultimately the vagaries of chance would have it otherwise

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1997   

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Larkin With Women

Synopsis:
It's 1956, and Philip Larkin, one of england's most famous post-war writers, has just arrived in Hull as the University Librarian. Over the next thirty years, his life there will be dominated by three women. In this funny and touching new play, we see behind the facade of 'the Bard of Humberside' and into his complex private life.

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Stephen Joseph Theatre Company

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1999   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Promise, The

Promise, The
Chaim Weizmann, later the first president of the State of Israel, was a Jewish emigre from Russian who, while Professor of Chemistry at Manchester University, made a significant contribution to the British military effort during the First World War by developing a way of producing acetone. He was also an ardent Zionist lobbying the British government's support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland. This play begins in December 1914 when it was already becoming clear that if the war should topple the Turkish empire, with the participant allies haggling for control in the Middle east, it would provide an opportunity for territorial changes. Weizmann (Jonathan Tafler) has already secured a meeting in Whitehall and he is in the office of Herbert Samuel (Richard Clothier) about to outline his proposals. It ends with the opening of the Jewish University in Jerusalem in 1925, completion of the first stage of Weizmann's Zionist dream. It takes us into the centre of government, with ministers around a table in Number 10 under both the asquith and Lloyd George administrations . We are given the heart of the discussions on support for a Jewish state that led to the Balfour Declaration of 1917. This, the British 'promise', was a key element in the creation of today's problems in the Middle east.
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  1            Other:  little girls

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Three Days In May

Three Days In May
Ben Brown's political thriller takes us behind the doors of Number Ten during three of the most pivotal days in British History, when, extraordinarily, giving in to Hitler was considered by some to be a viable option'. Having urgently assembled the British war cabinet, the new Prime Minister is suddenly confronted with an intense game of political chess between peace treaty supporters and its opponents. Divided on whether to negotiate terms through Mussolini or escalate the battle against fascism alone, one man has to make a monumental decision, which will shape the future of the free world. . .

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1st Published:
Faber and Faber (18 aug 2011)   

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Genre:
political thriller

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  -            Other:  -

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