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Simon Day

SIMON DAY

  (1967 - )
Nationality:    English
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Simon Paisley Day was born in Kent in 1967 and attended schools in Edinburgh, Tunbridge Wells and Dorset. He read Drama & American Literature at the University of East Anglia and trained for two years at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before embarking on a career as an actor. He has worked extensively in theatre and also on screen. 'spike' was his first full-length stage-play.

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

         Country Doctor         Flamborough Head         Keepers         Pains Of Youth, The         Raving         Spike

Country Doctor

Country Doctor
Based on the short story by Ivan Turgenev. The young Turgenev catches a cold whilst our shooting and seeks refuge in a tavern. He is visited by a talkative and intense local doctor who seems anxious to get something off his chest...It's a hard life, trying to cure people. Sometimes you're fumbling in the dark. Sometimes you end up prescribing, and even administering the most dangerous drug of all...love. Written in the late 1840s, this story is one of many from Turgenev's The Sportsman's Notebook.

Notes:
Based on the short story by Ivan Turgenev

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books   978-1840023510

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Genre:
adaptation

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Flamborough Head

Synopsis:
Amateur ornithologist Raymond sits outside a beach hut when his neighbours for the summer arrive; a meeting which engenders trust and a promise of a new start. But secrets come crashing onto the summer beach when a little girl goes missing, a nude a body is found floating in the sea.

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Organisations:
Charm Offensive (in association with Infinity Productions and Jacksons Lane)

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Keepers

Synopsis:
Two hundred years ago, 22 miles out to sea, two men live and work in a wooden box 15 feet across, 70 feet above the dark ocean. Using little more than a ladder and a pair of creaky chairs, two performers and a musician conjure up the confines of the infamous Smalls Lighthouse, and the remarkable true-story it guards. a tale of companionship and loss unfolds between the swelling tides, and in the sweeping flashes of the lamp that the keepers tend each and every night.

Notes:
Created by Martin Bonger, Simon Day And Fionn Gill

1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Plasticine Men

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-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Pains Of Youth, The

Synopsis:
1926 play. Medical students experiment with drugs, alcohol, lust and how to live life. Knowing how to kill and cure, reckless human desires compete with their factual knowledge. They learn that the power of words can change relationships and lives. Anything could happen at any moment as their youthful crises become more than just pubescent angst. Challenging and intense.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Ferdinand Bruckner

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Organisations:
Mind Rocket Projects

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Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

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Raving

Raving
I sometimes wonder how on earth people as pathetic as you and me are allowed to start a family. Its far more dangerous than driving a car, and yet theres not a single test. . .Briony and Keith are not finding parenthood easy so their friends, the delightful Ross and Rosy, engineer a relaxing weekend away in Wales: intelligent adult company, good food and drink, complete rest  and absolutely no children. But making up the numbers by inviting the unpredictable Charles and Serena doesnt make things restful. Add an uninvited anarchic adolescent and a fanatical farmer and Briony and Keiths idyllic weekend erupts into total chaos. . .An uproarious study of modern parenting and matrimonial tribulations.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2013) >>>    978-1783190461

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Spike

Spike
Sunday. July, 2001. Hendon, centre of the world. A car salesman, alone in the showroom, performs an intimate act of love and worship. Pigeon, crashing through the plate-glass window, witnesses everything. This almighty puncture is the beginning of the big end. Worlds collide. Lives swerve and skid. A pile-up of secrets, sex and sabotage. Can the immaculate bodywork remain undented? And whos ultimately behind the wheel?

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
co-production with the Theatre of Comedy Company in association with Lemon Inc

1st Published:
Oberon Books   978-1840022100

Music:
-

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Genre:
black comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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