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Harry Derbyshire

HARRY DERBYSHIRE  (1972 - )

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Having grown up in Stockport near Manchester, Harry went to the University of Warwick to study English with Theatre Studies. While there he directed the devised piece The Raisin Show and his play The Remarkable Ralph Nugent affair (1993), co-written with Jim Birkett, was performed. He and Birkett are also the authors of Life is Pain and Scenes of Terror, both as yet unperformed. as a postgraduate student Harry contributed material to and directed Hurt Me (Ideally by Punching Me in the Face), a sketch show performed at the 1996 Edinburgh Fringe starring Tony MacMurray, Karen Taylor and Stephen Merchant. Harry went on to gain a PhD from King's College, London for a thesis on the reception of Harold Pinter's later work. Between 2000 and 2005 Harry was the writer with sob theatre company, acting as dramaturg for sob's productions of The Fire Raisers (BaC, 2001) and The Duchess of Suffolk (Globe Theatre Education, 2001), and providing scripts for the devised pieces Go the Way your Blood Beats (Hoxton Hall, 2000), sob stories (BaC, 2002) and Refrain (BaC, 2003-4, Resonance FM, 2005). Now lecturing in English and Drama at the University of Greenwich, Harry continues to write for the stage; his latest project is entitled The Bomb.

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 Go The Way Your Blood Beats         Refrain         Sob Stories

Go The Way Your Blood Beats

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Refrain

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Sob Stories

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Rob, smarting from a bitter break-up, has retreated to an isolated cottage on the coast. One night he encounters a young woman who has apparently been washed up on the beach, and who speaks no language he understands. Rob takes her in, at first resentful of her intrusion upon his solitude, but soon finds that their attempts to communicate without language have formed a bond between them. Time passes and they become closer but, one day, Rob is shocked to discover that his mysterious princess is in fact an English girl from a neighbouring village who has been feeding him outrageous lies in an invented language. Their fragile relationship seems doomed - unless of course they choose to carry on as if nothing has happened. sob stories is an attempt to retell the true story of Mary Baker in a twenty-first century setting.

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