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Sean Foley

SEAN FOLEY

  (1964 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Maureen Vincent

Sean Foley (21 Nov 1964, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is a British Theatre director, writer, comedian and actor. Following early success as part of the comedy double act the Right Size, and their long-running stage show the Play What I Wrote, Foley has more recently become a director of successful West end comedy productions. OLIVIeR AWARDS - Best Comedy - DO YOU COMe HeRe OFTeN, PLAY WHAT I WROTe. Best Actor (nomination) - PLAY WHAT I WROTe. Best entertainment - DUCKTASTIC. FLIGHT TO FINLAND won the PRATO D'OR Award for Best Performance at International Comedy Festival in Lille, France.

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         Arturo Brachetti - Change         Ben Hur         Bewilderness         Cabin Fever         Do You Come Here Often?         Ducktastic!         Flight To Finland         Hold Me Down         Liability, A         Mad World My Masters, A         Moose         Miser, The         Painkiller, The         Play What I Wrote, The         Stop Calling Me Vernon

Arturo Brachetti - Change

Synopsis:
In an amazing display of virtuosic skill, Arturo Brachetti brings over one hundred characters to the stage in a unique and spectacular show that simply has to be seen to be believed. From James Bond to the Queen via Johnny Rotten, he transforms between characters in the blink of an eye in an astonishing display of the time-honoured art of quick change. Arturo's own distinct brands of humour and charm combine with eye-popping illusions in a show that tells the story of a famed entertainer whose memories of his illustrious career come to life.

Notes:
original concept by Serge Denoncourt

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Organisations:
Just For laughs

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Ben Hur

Synopsis:
the Watermill is overawed to present an unbelievably spectacular and never-before seen stage version of the novel by General Lew Wallace. almost certainly the greatest book ever penned. . . experts say no book has ever been so widely read. . .In true theatrical, live 3-D with genuine smellorama! Performed on stage for the first time ever with a maximum of four actors playing all twelve thousand and fifty-nine characters!

Notes:
adapted by Patrick Barlow; Based on the novel by General 'Lew' Wallace; Written by Patrick Barlow with Sean Foley

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bewilderness

Synopsis:
A comedy about two men down the back of a sofa. Holding an impromptu seance to kill time during a power cut, Hamish and Sean are flabbergasted when a voice, claiming to be the Father they never met, calls to them from the back of the sofa. Putting natural scepticism aside, the two men slip between the cushions and disappear into a terrifying upholstered underworld. . ..This epic comic odyssey of impossible tasks could be described as a fusion of Morecambe and Wise and Dante's Inferno. Whatever, it's unmissable!

Notes:
written And devised by Sean Foley, Hamish McColl And Josef Houben.

1st Produced:
Coventry: Warwick Arts Centre     13 Feb 2001

Organisations:
the Right Size

1st Published:
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Music:
music Chris Larner

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Genre:
Comedy Show

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cabin Fever

Synopsis:
Two washed out musicians on a Russian cruise ship

Notes:
written by Sean Foley And Hamish McColl part of the 1999 Channel 4 Sitcom Festival

1st Produced:
Riverside, London >>>     36/1999

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short play

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Do You Come Here Often?

Synopsis:
Two total strangers find themselves mysteriously stuck in a bathroom for 25 years. To make matters worse, they can't stand each other. But as they are resigning themselves to ending their days in a pastel-shaded prison, it occurs to them that there might just be a way out..

Notes:
Written by Sean Foley, Jozef Houben And Hamish McColl

1st Produced:
Pegasus Theatre, Oxford     07 Feb 1997

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ducktastic!

Synopsis:
Inspired by Siegfried and Roy, the German-born magicians who've been entertaining Las Vegas audiences for more than 30 years. However, whereas Siegfried and Roy have built their act around white Siberian tigers, the Right Size's show is, as the title suggests, built around ducks. In Ducktastic!, world famous illusionist Cornelius Ursula Sassoon who, after an accident with an emu, loses his license to perform in Las Vegas. He teams up with Roy de La Rue, a pet shop proprietor from Portsmouth, to form Sassoon and Roy and put on a new West end show.

Notes:
written by Sean Foley And Hamish McColl

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Organisations:
the Right Size

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piece

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Flight To Finland

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Hold Me Down

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1st Produced:
Purcell Rooms, London    

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Liability, A

Synopsis:
Simon Swarsbrick is becoming a pain in the arse. Fact is, he can't stop telling the truth.

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mad World My Masters, A

Mad World My Masters, A
Thomas Middleton's outrageous city comedy': a brilliantly plotted, farcical satire of lies and lust, translated from Jacobean London to the Soho of the 1950s. A dashingly impecunious bachelor, Dick Follywit, in need of quick cash and a good time has to live on his wits so turns con-man to fool his rich uncle. He variously becomes a Lord, a high-class call girl and a poor actor. Meanwhile, Truly Kidman, a high-class call girl  poor but quick-witted  needs to fool and then marry a rich young man. . .Sean Foley and Phil Porter's edited version of Middleton's play is faithful to the original text but adapts it to fit the seedy world of 1950s Soho, updating character names and including songs of the time to enhance the biting satire of lust and deception in the life of Bohemian London.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Thomas Middleton. Adapted by Sean Foley and Phil Porter

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2013) >>>    978-1783190195

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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Moose

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1st Produced:
Purcell Rooms, London    

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Miser, The

Miser, The
Fanatical about protecting his wealth, the paranoid Harpagon (Griff Rhys Jones) suspects all of trying to filch his fortune, and will go to any length to protect it. A matchmaker motivated only by money, he sets his sights on wealthy spouses for his children, so his riches are safe from their grubby hands. As true feelings and identities are revealed will Harpagon allow his children to follow their heart, or will his love of gold prove all-consuming? Passion and purse strings go head to head in this rip roaring comedy, by France's greatest dramatist.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere. Freely adapted by Sean Foley and Phil Porter

1st Produced:
Bath, Theatre Royal     08 Feb 2017

Organisations:
Mark Groucher

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2017) >>>    978-1786820273

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Painkiller, The

Synopsis:
Dudley is suicidal. And why not? He's Swindon's seventeenth best news photographer, dresses in casualwear, and sings 'Lady in Red' as spiritual salvation. Oh, and his wife just left him. He decides there is only one escape from his pain. Ralph is at ease with the world. And why not? He's the best there is, calls himself 'John Smith', dresses in Armani, and carries a Heckler and Koch PSG1 sniper rifle. But you'd never know. If forced to speak, he would say that he's in the business of 'pain removal'. wo men. Two lonely hotel rooms. An adjoining door. . .On any other day Dudley would have successfully ended things. On any other day Ralph would have successfully ended someone. But not today. . .Today's different. . .

Notes:
Original Playwright - Francis Verber. Adaptation of Veber's 1971 farce 'Le Contrat' (1971). same production reopened in London Garrick Theatre March 17, 2016

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Organisations:
Lyric Theatre

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=3741

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Play What I Wrote, The

Synopsis:
You see, Hamish has written a play, an epic set in the French Revolution, called A Tight Squeeze for the Scarlet Pimple and he wants to see it mounted. Sean, on the other hand, wants them to continue with their double act, even though they haven't worked for two years. He believes that if they perform a tribute to Morecambe and Wise, Hamish's confidence will be restored and the double act will go on. But first, Sean needs to persuade a guest star to appear in the play what Hamish wrote. . .

Notes:
Written by Sean Foley, Hamish McColl And Eddie Braben

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Stop Calling Me Vernon

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lyric Theatre, London    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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