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John Cooper

JOHN COOPER  

 Nationality:    British
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below is a list of John Cooper's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         20th Century Faust         21st Century Faust         Andromache         Bleak House         Daniel Deronda         Education Of A Lap Dancer, The         Emma         Far From the Madding Crowd         Mating Behaviour         Mistress And Muse         Northanger Abbey         Notes From London's Underground         Old Curiosity Shop, The         Party Pieces         Pleasure Principle, The         Water Babies, The

20th Century Faust

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21st Century Faust

Synopsis:
In this new Sci-Fi version of the famous Faustian legend, Mephistopheles and his partner-in-evil the glamorous Andromeda, arrive in modern-day Oxford to tempt Doctor Faust with promises of infinite power in exchange for his soul. Doctor Faust, keen cosmologist and celebrated agnostic, finds himself torn between the certainties of science, and the mysteries of love and faith.

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Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London    02 May 2007

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Traffic of the Stage Theatre Company

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Andromache

Synopsis:
Racine's 'paroxysm of psychological violence', set in ancient Greece in the aftermath of the Trojan war.

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adapted from book by Jean Racine

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adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Bleak House

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adaptation of Charles Dickens novel

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Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Daniel Deronda

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Daniel Deronda, first published in 1876, was the last novel completed by George eliot. Her sympathetic rendering of the central Jewish characters was controversial and perplexed the Victorian reading public who were used to novels such as Middlemarch and Silas Marner with their perceptive analysis of england's rural communities. Unlike the portrayal of Jews in other novels such as Dickens' Oliver Twist and Trollope's the Way We Live Now, Daniel Deronda was a brave attempt to depict a positive view of Jewish culture forcing readers from their reassuringly english assumptions.

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from novel by George eliot

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Education Of A Lap Dancer, The

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If you re an attractive young girl from Romania, which will get you further . . . a GCSE or a G-string? John Cooper's latest play cuts through the political spin and looks at the increasingly complex cultural mix that is London today. Chris, a stressed- out teacher spends his evenings in a Lap Dance club where he meets the beautiful Ylenia, a Romania exotic dancer providing special services for those who can afford it. His wife Marie, an exhausted NHS doctor, finds herself charmed by Sorin, an enigmatic East-European trying to make a fast euro. When Chris daughter, Sophie, college girl and rock-chick wannabe, brings home black musician Billy, the cultural melting-pot begins to overheat. Fast-moving, street-wise and humorous, The Education of a Lap-dancer examines values and morals in a London undergoing rapid cultural change, where sex, as ever, is powerful and irresistible driving force.

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Pleasance, London    18 Oct 2005

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Emma

Synopsis:
Stage version of the enchanting novel. Young, handsome and eligible, Frank Churchill is just what Highbury needs. Full of good intentions, Emma immediately sets about her match-making plans. But she's so busy meddling, she fails to recognise the yearning of her own heart! Meet dashing heroes, leering vicars and lusty nieces in this deliciously updated romantic comedy.

Notes:
from the novel by Jane Austen

1st Produced:
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London    05 Oct 2004

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Traffic of the Stage Theatre Company

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Male:  6            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Far From the Madding Crowd

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Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London    May 2008

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Mating Behaviour

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Matthew declares he is a teacher and a friend of Sara. Cue Sara who lives in Camden, works in publishing and shares her friend anne, who is in TV, and who has just met a wonderful chat-show host, Pierce. Cue rest of play where the rekish Islington-dwelling Pierce turns out to be a good looking old Oxbridge friend of loserish Matthew.
Mark espiner, Time Out.

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sitcom play Play/Drama

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Mistress And Muse

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Northanger Abbey

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Concerns the misadventures of Catherine Morland, an impressionable young girl with an overactive imagination, who makes her debut into fashionable Bath society, and later removes to the secluded and mysterious Northanger abbey in Gloucestershire, where she must learn the difference between fiction and reality , and between false and true friendship.

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by Jane Austen, Adapted by John Cooper

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Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London    19 Apr 2011

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Traffic of the Stage

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Notes From London's Underground

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Corner Theatre, London    1986

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Old Curiosity Shop, The

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Nell Trent lives with her doting grandfather in his London shop, a magical place filled with dust-laden treasures. What is the secret of Grandfathers mysterious night wandering? Why does he borrow so much from the evil money lender Quilp? As they run from the clutches of Quilp, the pair fall in with a number of colourful characters, some villainous, some affectionate. Quilp, however, is not a man to be trifled with, something they are all about to find out the hard way.

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from novel by Charles Dickens

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Party Pieces

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Pleasure Principle, The

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Jonathan, a young impressionable teacher/poet from the North, meets gam-femme Julia, 35 year old editor of her own poetry magazine nd wealthy princess of her own Hampstead flat. Together they make beautiful music until Julia's pursuit of the "pleasure principle" (by which one obeys no law but that of one's own desire) threatens to destroy Jonathan's life and ultimately her own.
- Sabine Durrant, Independant

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Water Babies, The

Synopsis:
Tom the little chimney sweep, falsely accused of stealing runs away and begins a new life as a water baby. On his exciting journey he meets many wonderful characters including the Fairies and Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby.

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adapted from the book by Charles Kingsley by Willis hall with songs by John Cooper

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