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Greig Coetzee

GREIG COETZEE

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    David Higham Associates Ltd  represented by Georgina Ruffhead

Greig Coetzee has over ten years' experience writing and editing scripts for South African television, covering both drama and comedy. He has also worked as Head Writer on four different productions. His radio play, Banana Republic (BBC Radio 4), received a Sony Radio Academy Award in the Drama category. Greig has also enjoyed an international career as a playwright and stage actor. Highlights include seasons at New York's Lincoln Center Festival, London's Soho Theatre and the Traverse in Edinburgh. His theatre work in the UK has received two Fringe First Awards. He has numerous South African writing awards including South African Playwright of the Year. Now based permanently in London, Greig is writing an original television script.

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

         Blue Period of Milton van der Spuy, The         Happy Natives         Johnny Boskak Is Feeling Funny         White Men With Weapons

Blue Period of Milton van der Spuy, The

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South Africa     1997

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Happy Natives

Happy Natives
the play shows how little we still know each other and how South Africans still make assumptions about each other based on racial grouping rather than on individual reality. "Happy Natives" is very contemporary, looking at the way in which South Africans struggle to define their present identity. the author's play points out just what an interesting and richly human world we inhabit. He shows that no human being in fact fits into the images that the media would like to sell us, and that the effort required to relate authentically to one another is worthwhile. a willingness to listen, a tolerance of different ways, and a sense of one's own worth are shown to be ways to greater enjoyment of this diversity.

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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (15 Mar 2004)   978-1869140335

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Satire

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Johnny Boskak Is Feeling Funny

Johnny Boskak Is Feeling Funny
Combine Shakespearean verse and American Rap to write a South African Natural Born Killers (using Johannesburg slang). You might come up with Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny. a love-story, a quest for faith and a car-chase that takes you across South Africa from Durban to Secunda to Hillbrow to Hell and back again. This is a darky tragicomedy about a whitey and his bubblegum, lip-gloss, double-come, kick-arse, troublesome cherry. (Very. . .) Writer/performer Greig Coetzee (Fringe First award & the Stage Best actor award 2000) sees this work as a mini rock-opera for spoken word. Or a road movie for the stage. Visual artist Michelle Coetzee has created (admittedly twisted) South African landscapes for the projections. afro-Saxon guitarist, singer and song-writer Syd Kitchen has composed the original soundtrack for the show and plays while Coetzee performs. Where does Johnny fit in Mandela's new South Africa? Is he a white trash dinosaur? Or is he the last cowboy hero in boots and blue jeans? What we do know is that he's on the road, looking for love, redemption, an aK-47 and the quickest way out of Secunda. . .

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South Africa     26 Jun 1905

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in Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny and Other Plays, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (1 Sep 2009)   978-1869141806

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White Men With Weapons

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about the experience, the attitudes and the deperate, self pitying post-apartheid trauma of the white soldiers who in the apartheid times made up the South African Defence Force (SaDF).
Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

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South Africa     1996

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