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Matt Fox

MATT FOX

  (1983 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Madam Renards Ltd

Matt Fox started writing for the theatre as a teenager when he joined a writer's group at Plymouth Theatre Royal. Following a degree in English and an MA in Professional Writing he started to write, produce and direct theatrical productions. Matt has written plays, operas and musical adaptations which have been performed in the UK, US and Australia. His play 'To Sleep' was staged in the West End in September 2013 and toured the UK & Australia in 2014/15. His latest plays 'Family Play' & 'The Life We Lived' are touring the UK simultaneously from January 2016. His best known piece of work is Swindon: the Opera, which was written with internationally acclaimed composer Betty Roe MBE, and performed in July 2012. Matt's work is published by Roister Doister Publishing Ltd and Off The Wall Plays in the UK, and JD Drama Publishing in the USA. Originally from Cornwall, Matt moved to Swindon in 2006, where he now lives with his wife and 2 children. He is a trustee for music education charity the JTPTrust, as well as writer, producer & co-director of production company Madam Renards Ltd. He also previously ran a playwriting course for New College Swindon

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

         Family Play         Life We Lived, The         Madrababes         Nights         One Act Play         To Sleep

Family Play

Synopsis:
What is family? Is there such a thing as a 'normal' family? Family Play takes the idea of how a family should be structured and turns it on its head. Told through the eyes of a worldly-wise 8 year old, Family Play reveals the comedy and tragedy associated with all human relationships. Never shy to deconstruct a dramatic world, Matt Fox deals with the real and surreal in equal measure to reveal the subjectivity of truth behind all family units.

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1st Produced:
Artsite, Swindon     17 Jul 2015

Organisations:
Madam Renards

1st Published:
Roister Doister Publishing, 31st March 2015   978-0992865375

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Life We Lived, The

Synopsis:
The Life We Lived follows the relationship between a funeral director and the woman who will eventually become a corpse in his parlour. An old fashioned love story in many ways, but with strong helping of gallows humour. Michael & Hannah find themselves thrown together, and live out a life of joy and tragedy, which will speak to the romantic and cynic in all of us. The Life We Lived examines life & death, love & hate, potential & disappointment, through gripping story which is both real and imagined. The gift that life brings, as well as the certainty that this gift will be wasted are the crux of a piece which juggles morbid humour and gut wrenching poignancy.

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Genre:
comic love story

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Madrababes

Synopsis:
A fun filled one act musical for six actors, 3F and, er, 2 other F dressed up as men and at least one real man with a real beard. Madrababes was staged in June 2013 in Swindon, as part of Madam Renards Mini Fringe to great reviews!

Notes:
Written with arranger Jessie Thompson. Some musical accompaniment is required from the actors

1st Produced:
Town Hall Theatre, Swindon     07 Apr 2013

Organisations:
Madam Renards

1st Published:
Off The Wall Plays, 20 Apr 2014   -

Music:
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Genre:
Musical Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Nights

Synopsis:
Under the murderous regime of a bitter King, two sisters, Ria and Dee, set about saving the lives of local girls, through Ria's gift for telling stories. Halting the nightly cycle of lust and murder, through a talent for cliff-hanger endings, Dee and Ria survive and thrive. Performed by two singers and two instrumentalists, 'Nights' is a very different, all female adaptation of this famous tale, with a distinctly practical approach to life and surviving men.

Notes:
Written with composer Jessie Thompson

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Organisations:
Madam Renards

1st Published:
Off The Wall Plays, 21 Aug 2015   -

Music:
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Genre:
Opera

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  2 instrumentalists

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One Act Play

Synopsis:
We are greeted by a middle aged couple in bed, roused from their slumber by Dvorak's New World symphony, synonymously paired with Hovis to us Brits, bedecked in nightcaps that even Mrs Bennet would shy away from. Broad Yorkshire accents start the piece right from the off, each character's monologues displaying to the audience their ideas of culture. The woman describes Les Miserables and the benefits of beards, the man speaks of the latest production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. The stereotypical Northernisms continue with talk of whippets, flat caps and pipes, peppered with 'by gums' and 'by 'ecks'. That is until one of the characters shatters the fourth wall by pointing out the audience sitting in front of them. Thus the play starts to descend into unfamiliar territory. The characters discuss the existence of their creator, i.e the playwright himself. Growing ever more bold in their gestures towards their maker they dare to dream of a world outside the bed they woke up in. Even their dreams are clichés, dropped into their head by the writer, with talk of a house in the mountains by babbling brooks. The dialogue descends into a sort of stream of consciousness ramble we might find in Joyce, about how they have come to exist and the basic differences between masculinity and femininity. This mirrors one of the woman's first remarks at the beginning when she says that only a man could have created such a cruel existence. Here is when the play reaches its climax, a cruel twist at the end proves the woman right when they come to escape&

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1st Produced:
Lace Market Theatre     09 Jan 2015

Organisations:
Lace Market Theatre Company

1st Published:
Off The Wall Plays, 8th December 2014   -

Music:
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Genre:
Surreal Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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To Sleep

Synopsis:
Covering one night in the lives of two suicidal strangers, this warm, compassionate and darkly humorous new play explores how people deal with the most difficult human situations. A mesmerising account of how beautiful relationships can develop between different people, no matter how bad their shared experiences might be.

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1st Produced:
Victoria, Swindon     08 Apr 2013

Organisations:
TS Theatre & Madam Renards

1st Published:
Roister Doister Publishing, Jun 2014   978-0992865344

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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