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Matt Charman

MATT CHARMAN  (1979 - )

 Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Independent Talent Group Limited  represented by Michael McCoy

Charman was born on the 5 June 1979 in Crawley, West Sussex. Twenty-five year old Matt was washing cars at a crash repair shop when he wrote his first play, a Night at the Dogs. the play was directed by abigail Morris and produced at Soho Theatre from 8 April  14 May 2005. Charman was previously Pearson Writer in Residence at the National Theatre and is a recipient of the Peggy Ramsay award. the Observer won the 2008 Catherine Johnson award for Best Play. Charman is currently writing two screenplays for Universal/Working Title Films as well as an original Drama series for the BBC.

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

         Chatroom / Citizenship         Falling For Eve         Five Wives Of Maurice Pinder, The         Greenland         Machine, The         Night At the Dogs, A         Observer, The         Regrets         Without Love

Chatroom / Citizenship

Synopsis:
Two short sharp provocative plays where the Drama of teenagers' lives takes centre stage. Direct and honest, they are intensely alive to the possibilities and pressures we face on the verge of adulthood.

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National Theatre Company

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Genre:
2 short plays One act

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Falling For Eve

Synopsis:
a romantic comedy set in New York.

Notes:
written by Matt Charman And James Salisbury

1st Produced:
Horsham Arts Centre    29 Jun 1999

Organisations:
Horsham Youth Theatre and Jacob's Well Productions.

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Genre:
comedy

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Five Wives Of Maurice Pinder, The

Synopsis:
No family photograph can truly prepare Rowena for her first meeting with Maurice's three wives and teenaged son. Young, nervous and extremely pregnant, she is warmly welcomed into the fold but her presence soon has the family questioning the nature of their delicate balance. then Fay brings home a one-night stand, with far-reaching consequences for them all. Set in an ordinary house in a tree-lined street in Lewisham, the Five Wives of Maurice Pinder takes a provocative look at married life, and the alternatives.

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Organisations:
National Theatre Company

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2007   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Greenland

Greenland
the questions we all have about the environment and the future are intricate. Knowing what and who to trust is an increasingly bewildering challenge. Only a few things are certain: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; change is constant and inevitable. Seeking to understand a subject of great complexity, the National theatre has asked four of the most distinct and exciting playwrights in British theatre to collaborate on a new piece of documentary theatre. the team has spent six months interviewing key individuals from the worlds of science, politics, business and philosophy in an effort to understand our changing relationship with the planet. Greenland combines the factual and the theatrical as several separate but connected narratives collide to form a provocative response to the most urgent questions of our time.

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By Moira Buffini, Matt Charman, Penelope Skinner And Jack Thorne

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Genre:
Play/Drama 120 min

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Male:  8            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Machine, The

Synopsis:
In 1997, Garry Kasparov, the world's greatest chess player, arrived in New York City for the biggest match of his life. His opponent wasn't a fellow Grandmaster but a faceless super-computer, Deep Blue, built by tech-giant IBM in a bid to raise its profile and its stock price. An international celebrity and the undisputed master of his art, Kasparov came to America for freedom and glory. What he didn't expect to confront was the lifelong dedication of another man, Deep Blue's wunderkind inventor Doctor Hsu. Both geniuses, they staked their reputation on the tournament. What followed was one of the most compelling stories of our time.

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1st Produced:
Campfield Market Hall, Campfield Avenue Arcade, Manchester M3 4FH    10 Jul 2013

Organisations:
Manchester International festival

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Night At the Dogs, A

Synopsis:
On the evening of their first race, five men await the arrival of a dog that they hope will change their fortunes. But before they've even left for the track, a violent situation erupts and now the night of their dreams, along with the fate of an innocent man, hangs in the balance.

Notes:
winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2004

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Faber and Faber, London, 2005   -

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Play/Drama

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Observer, The

Synopsis:
an international group of observers arrives in a West African country to oversee and rubber stamp its first democratic election. New voters queue in their thousands, but a senior member of the observation team find herself both horrified by the President's suppressive tactics and, for once, in a position to do something about it. Yet as violence on the streets escalates and the country enters free fall, an increasingly angry young translator forces this well-meaning outsider to confront the impact of her intervention.

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National Theatre Company

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Regrets

Synopsis:
Caleb Farley is the youngest man ever to show up at Mrs. Dukes cabins, a ramshackle retreat in the Nevada desert and one of the few places men can go to secure a quick divorce in 1950s America. Caleb claims he fled his Hollywood home for the same reason as the other men in camp - to shed the lives and wives theyve known to begin anew. But in an era of heightened fears and political distrust, accusations that Caleb is hiding more than just a broken heart test each mans loyalty - to country and to one another.

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1st Produced:
Manhattan Theatre Club
131 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019    27 Mar 2012

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc   978-0-8222-2709-0

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Without Love

Without Love
the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the english language. the KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken english.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. the curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, Drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. the voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. all the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush theatre and Westminster abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient Arts of writing and spoken performance

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Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is A response to the King James Bible book of 1 Corinthians

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849432276

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piece

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