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Ryan Craig

RYAN CRAIG

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Rose Cobbe

Ryan Craig is Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre Studio. He has written for television, film, radio and Theatre. In 2005 he received a Most Promising Playwright Nomination at the evening Standard Awards in 2005 for his play What We Did to Weinstein (Menier Chocolate Factory). Other plays include the Holy Rosenbergs and the English version of Tadeusz Slobodzianek's Our Class (National Theatre); the Glass Room (Hampstead); Broken Road (edinburgh. Fringe First Award); Happy Savages (Lyric Studio/Underbelly); and a translation of Portugal (National Theatre). Television work includes the ChAnnel 4 Drama documentary Saddam's Tribe, and episodes of Robin Hood, Hustle, and Waterloo Road (BBC). In 2005 he was Writer-in-Residence at BBC Radio Drama and his radio plays include English in Afghanistan, the Lysistrata Project, Hold My Breath, Portugal, the Great Pursuit, and Looking For Danny.

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         Barrowload Of Oranges, A         Broken Road         City Boys         Death Of An Exorcist         Filthy Business         Glass Room, The         Happy Savages         Holy Rosenbergs, The         How To Think the Unthinkable         Lost Elijah         Mobile Thriller, A         Our Class         Please Forgive Us Whoever You Are         Portugal         Shame         Sins Of Dalia Baumgarten, The         Talk Talk Fight Fight         Three Servants         Vintage Stuff         We Lost Elijah         What We Did To Weinstein

Barrowload Of Oranges, A

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Long Rooms, New College, Oxford/The Edinburgh Festival '93     1993

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Broken Road

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You and your fellow audience members, all two of them, are ominously ushered into the back seat of a car and driven around east London's mean streets. You can then get into a second car to experience another story which intersects ingeniously with the first.

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a Mobile Thriller And Broken Road Are the two plays

1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival     16 Aug 2005

Organisations:
Huish Productions

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Site Specific

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Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 1576

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City Boys

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Rehearsed Reading At The Soho Theatre, London     2004

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Death Of An Exorcist

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The Raven Theatre, Leeds     1993

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Filthy Business

Filthy Business
1968, East London. Over the years and against all the odds, Yetta Solomon has built a thriving business from nothing through sheer grit and passion. Ignoring all the obstacles - insufficient capital, economic downturns, aggressive competition - she has found a way to survive everything adversity could throw at her. Now she faces her toughest challenge: her family. In a rapidly changing Britain, Yetta must protect the shop and keep it in the Solomon family. But her sons, grandchildren and in-laws have other ideas& Always ruthless, how far will she go to keep the business in the family and the family in the business?

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Oberon Books (2017) >>>    978-1786821621

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Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Glass Room, The

Glass Room, The
In a safe-house in the suburbs, human rights lawyer Myles Brody meets with a high-profile and contraversial historian. She has been charged with denying the Holocaust, and he has agreed to defend her in court. But as her guilt becomes apparent, Myles is forced to doubt his most sacred principles, question his belief in the right to free speech and acknowledge that he too has been denying the past.

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Oberon Books (Nov 2006) >>>    978-1840027129

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVI (2006) Page 1431

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Happy Savages

Happy Savages
Rachel, naked apart from a leather coat, shows up at Joe's office. Isn't kinky sex enough? Do we need to betray our closest friends? Two twenty somethings having sex without love and two who are in love, but not having sex. What happens when the four of them clash?

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Oberon Books >>>    978-1840028782

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XVIII (1998) Page 1008

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Holy Rosenbergs, The

Holy Rosenbergs, The
as big-hearted patriarch David clings to a deal that could save both his ailing catering firm and his cherished standing in the edgware Jewish community, his children are at loggerheads. While eldest son Danny fights for the Israelis in Gaza, his sister investigates war crimes in that same conflict. their brother drinks and brawls and refuses to join their father's business. But when tragedy strikes, each family member is forced to confront head-on the clash between individual identity and the demands and expectations of community. the Holy Rosenbergs explores tribal loyalties, the culpability of family and the consequences of standing up for what you believe to be right

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Oberon Books, London >>>, 2004   978-1849430425

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXXI (2011) Page 0294

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How To Think the Unthinkable

How To Think the Unthinkable
antigone makes everything OK. Gives me hope. I'm utterly devoted to her. I couldn't imagine what would happen if she weren't here. What could a play written 2,500 years ago possibly mean today? Ryan Craig's new adaptation of Sophocles' famous tragedy captures the passion, danger and moral deadlock of the story of Greece's most famous teenager. Set in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, antigone fights for what she believes is right. What would you do?

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By Ryan Craig, After Sophocles' Antigone

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Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849434324

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TYA

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Lost Elijah

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1st Produced:
National Theatre     05 Jul 2013

Organisations:
National Theatre's annual Connections programme

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short play

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Mobile Thriller, A

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You and your fellow audience members, all two of them, are ominously ushered into the back seat of a car and driven around east London's mean streets. You can then get into a second car to experience another story which intersects ingeniously with the first.

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a Mobile Thriller And Broken Road Are the two plays. A Mobile Thrilleris An Adaptation of An original Italian short story.

1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival     16 Aug 2005

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Huish Productions

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Our Class

Our Class
a group of schoolchildren, Jewish and Catholic, declare their ambitions: one to be a fireman, one a film star, one a pilot, another a doctor. they are learning the aBC. This is Poland, 1925. as the children grow up, their country is torn apart by invading armies, first Soviet and then Nazi. Internal grievances deepen as fervent nationalism develops; friends betray each other; violence escalates: until these ordinary people carry out an extraordinary and monstrous act that darkly resonates to this day.

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Original Playwright - Tadeusz Slobodzianek; in A version by Ryan Craig

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National Theatre

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>, 2004   978-1840029468

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adaptation

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 0990

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Please Forgive Us Whoever You Are

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part of "Walking the Tightrope: The tension between art and politics"

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five min play

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Portugal

Portugal
an intellectual escapes the security and wealth of his Budapest life and heads for the dream land of Portugal. He stops in a remote poverty-stricken village where he refuses to become part of the community. He seduces the inn-keeper's daughter with his alluring sadness, but is pursued by his wealthy wife.

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Original Playwright - Zoltan egressy. This version is from A literal translation by Katalin Trencsenyi And is part of the National theatre's Channels (Hungary) season of rehearsed readings, initiated by the NT Studio And performed in the Cottesloe theatre.

1st Produced:
Reading At Cottesloe Theatre, London     25 Jun 2004

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (Jun 2004) >>>    978-1840024661

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Shame

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Sins Of Dalia Baumgarten, The

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Etcetera Theatre, London >>>     07 Jun 1996

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Scenario Theatre Company

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Play/Drama

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Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XVI (1996) Page 0727

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Talk Talk Fight Fight

Talk Talk Fight Fight
In a room in the United Nations in New York the european delegation prepare for their next session on Nuclear Non-Proliferation with Iran. Suddenly a CIa agent is at the door with an Iranian nuclear scientist, and a new negotiation strategy emerges. Is this breakthrough to be trusted?

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Part of the Bomb  A partial history. SeCOND BLaST: Present Dangers

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849431521

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Three Servants

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a liar, a mute and a sexy Venetian slave girl are united by a bid for freedom from their tyrannical masters. along their journey they stumble upon a desolate inn run by two enigmatic Japanese attendants. Suddenly they find themselves in charge of the place. . .but there is a curse on the inn and after an evening of drunkenness and debauchery, the three servants make a shocking discovery.

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written by Ryan Craig And edwin Morgan. Music by Ben Foster

1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London     05 Nov 2002

Organisations:
Jet Theatre Company

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXII (2002) Page 1514

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Vintage Stuff

Synopsis:
Mayhem erupts at a very minor public school when a one-eyed master with a taste for adventure takes a new boy under his wing. He soon discovers that his psychotic pupil - possibly Sharpe's most insane creation - takes everything literally. But when a practical joke goes horribly wrong, these two lunatics are sent off on the wildest goose-chase ever staged..surpassing even those of Dornford Yates!

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from novel by Tom Sharpe

1st Produced:
Connaught Theatre, Worthing     21 Feb 2000

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ITF Productions

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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We Lost Elijah

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Elijah's older brother and two friends were charged with getting him home safely while the riots were raging. Somehow though, somewhere on route, something happened and they didn't make it home together. Did elijah get caught up in the events or was there another reason for his disappearance?

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Royal and Derngate Youth theatre

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National Theatre Connections

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Genre:
TYA

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  9 plus ensemble

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What We Did To Weinstein

What We Did To Weinstein
NO! We can't change the subject! This is the subject! there is no other subject. Not for us.' Sickened by the everyday arguments and compromises he saw around him in his native London, the idealistic Josh has moved to Israel and joined the army. there, however, he finds himself in a situation with a Palestinian terror suspect which seems to challenge his most strongly held beliefs. Deftly cutting between different locations and time periods, Ryan Craig's play lets us see unexpected connections between disparate events, as well as bringing together people with apparently nothing in common. a wryly humerous, sometimes hilarious, look at a serious issue, What We Did To Weinstein moves between London life and the world of the intifada, creating a portrait of a society where idealism too easily becomes extremism and pragmatism hypocrisy.

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Oberon Books (Sep 2005) >>>    978-1840025811

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 1218

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