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John Fletcher

JOHN FLETCHER

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

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John Fletcher: c/o Norman North, A.D. Peters, 1 0 Buckingham Street, London WC2 (01 839 25 56) Sheik of Amby [written 1968; performed 1969] - A nauseating extravaganza in which a hybrid David Frost / Keith Joseph TV interviewer (Launcelot Upsurge) gains control of the world by his demagogic powers, only to lose his soul to the boy next door. Wandering in Eden (written 1972; BBC Radio 3, 1974) Two hour rustic ramble through Albion two centuries hence, when the programmes of Levellers, Digger, Ranters and other Civil War sects have been implemented (see article in Aug-Dec I 974 Theatre Quarterly) . Stargazy on Summerdown (written 1975, unscheduled BBC TV Play for Today, commissioned). Plenty of amateur actors, two simple scenes. Two communities, one industrial, one agricultural negotiate next year's trading terms on immaculate anarcho-syndicalism lines. Includes colourful and dramatic boot-biting game, creative swearing competition and onion tasting contest. Yes! (commissioned by BBC Radio 3, unproduced, performed New York 1975) A dramatized history of America 1840 to present. Confessions of The Mystic Bed-sit Pervert (written for Second City Firsts 1976) About the strange relationship of a humble Leicester clerk with the rituals of North American plains Indians. Specialist Areas: Transposing and projecting visionary Utopian sects of the past into the future. Anything connected with the Celts the Angio-Saxons, John Ball, William Langland, the Lollards, Famialists, Pelagians, Neo-Platonists; Winstanley, Muggletonians, Ranters, Diggers, Milton, Monmouth Rebellion, smugglers, poachers, Shakers, Billy Blake, Swing, Walworth Jumpers, Chartists, Radical traditionalists, William Morris, Tom Mann, A.J. Cook, Anarcho-syndicalists , Spanish anarchists or humanity in general.

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         Chances, The         Humorous Lieutenant, The         Island Princess, The         Marvellous Boy, The         Tamer Tamed, The
Chances, The

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Humorous Lieutenant, The

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Revival

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BAC 2, London >>>     1999

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Island Princess, The

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part of the RSC Swan Season

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Marvellous Boy, The

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the start of the idea that the art of the artist matters less than his projection of himself as an artist

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Tamer Tamed, The

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Revival

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Directed by: Gregory Doran

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