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Neil Fleming

NEIL FLEMING

  
Nationality:    British
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Neil Fleming* is a British playwright who writes stage plays, movies and poetry, and translates theater from German and French. He is the co-founder of UK theatre company Hydrocracker (www.hydrocracker.co.uk ), and is currently writing the company's forthcoming show Wild Justice, a revenge tragedy for the 21st century. Neil's previous Hydrocracker piece, The Consultant ran March 23 to April 16, 2011, at London's Theatre503, to rave reviews and sold-out houses. His acclaimed adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Musik has appeared at The Arcola Theatre, London, in 2005, and Plymouth Theatre Royal in 2000. A movie, Unspeakably Wonderful, about the events surrounding the 1921 discovery of insulin, is in development in 2015 with British film company AngryMan Pictures. Neil's theatre translations from German have included Ewald Palmetshofer's Superheroes (Helden), performed at New York's HotINK Festival; Paul Brodowski's Fish Soup (Stadt, Land, Fisch) at Tampere Theatre Festival Finland & HotINK; and Christian Winkler's Digging (Graben) also at HotINK. Most recently he has completed work on Do Not Pass Go. Excerpts from Superheroes and Do Not Pass Go have appeared in US translation journal Asymptote (http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Drama&id=37 and http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Drama&id=28) Neil won the 2005 Kent & Sussex International Poetry prize. Samples of his work are at www.neilfleming.co.uk. An award-winning journalist for 17 years, Neil worked in East Africa, Southern Africa, the Middle East and Britain, variously covering war, famine, wildlife, politics, business news, and the international energy industry

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

         Consultant, The         Digging         Do Not Pass Go         Fish Soup         Musik         Sphinx         Suicide Square         Superheroes         Wild Justice

Consultant, The

Synopsis:
Hugo Shackleton is a man in trouble. And the trouble is: he doesn't even know it. Chief executive of a struggling hi-tech company, hounded by competitors, despised by his own Board of Directors, Hugo needs a Big Idea to turn his business around. Except if he comes up with one, his wife will leave him. Into their world rolls James Ross, a charismatic management consultant with a dark past, wheelchair-bound, furious with all mankind, and brilliant. With him comes Nicola Patchett, ferocious strategy analyst, member of Mensa, and a threat to Hugo's marriage of another kind. James promises Hugo he can change him forever. But once you sign up with The Consultant, he never leaves.

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Play/Drama

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Digging

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Original Playwright - Christian Winkler (translation of Graben

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HotINK Festival NY    2010

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Do Not Pass Go

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Do Not Pass Go - a translation of German playwright Ulrike Syha's comedy "Herr Schuster Kauft Eine Strasse". The original was first performed at the German National Theatre in Mannheim in 2010. A reading of the English translation was first performed by Voyage Theatre Co in New York on Feb 19, 2015

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Fish Soup

Synopsis:
When two families move from their lakeside homes in rural Germany to a big city, the change smashes their lives. Parents and children are pulled apart; and young Ullrich's teenage love for his girlfriend Lydia is threatened by darkness

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Original Playwright - Paul Brodowsky (Stadt Land Fisch)

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Tampere Theatre Festival, Tampere Finland    2005

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adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Musik

Synopsis:
a young girl bids to escape from a web of bigotry, lies, and sexual desire. 18-year-old Klara Huhnerwadel is on fire with life when she leaves her mother's village in Switzerland for a place at a German music conservatory. But an affair with her middle-aged singing teacher pushes her into darkness. Pregnant Klara is pressured into an abortion. But in the Germany of 1905, abortion is a criminal act, and - as the play opens - love-sick Klara is forced to flee to Belgium, financially assisted by Josef's status-conscious wife else. Months later, when manipulative teacher Josef Reissner deems it safe, Klara is persuaded back to Germany by Josef . . . where she is arrested, imprisoned and - persecuted by female warders - comes close to madness. Bitter bourgeois else rescues her again and she moves back into the Reissner home, to resume her musical career - and a relationship with Josef that he insists is purely platonic. But is it. . .?

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Original Playwright - Frank Wedekind. First English language Adaptation of Frank Wedekind's 1905 "Musik"

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Oberon, London, 2005   -

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

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Sphinx

Synopsis:
Does Oedipus really have to do it? Sphinx is a bold re-working of the Oedipus myth that takes a fresh look at political power, at the nature of violence, and at sexual control. Sphinx is the Pulp Fiction of the ancient world, a dark, disturbing and bitterly funny take on the game show of life. What the hell is destiny anyway? and who cares? Kings can have anything and anyone they please.

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a fresh look At the Oedipus myth

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Reading Only    2002

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Tragedy

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Suicide Square

Synopsis:
Hugo Shackleton is a man in trouble. and the trouble is: he doesn't even know it. Chief executive of a struggling hi-tech company, hounded by competitors, despised by his own Board of Directors, Hugo needs a Big Idea to turn his business around. except if he comes up with one, his wife will leave him. Into their world rolls James Ross, a charismatic management consultant with a dark past. Crippled, furious with all mankind, and brilliant at everything he touches, James promises Hugo he can change him forever. But once you sign up with the Consultant, he never leaves.

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aka the Consultant

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adaptation

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Superheroes

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Original Playwright - ewald Palmetshofer (translation of Helden)

1st Produced:
HotINK Festival NY    2007

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Wild Justice

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Wild Justice is a Hydrocracker project to explore the nature and workings of revenge. Its first outing took the form of a hybrid performance/public debate on revenge, featuring two actors and a panel of four leading revenge experts. This performance won a Brighton Argus Angel Award. Further work, including a full-length play, is in development.

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Brighton Festival    May 2014

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piece

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