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Greg Freeman

GREG FREEMAN

  
Nationality:    British
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Greg Freeman edited and adapted the only ever successful version of an American Sitcom 'Who's the Boss' which became 'the Upper Hand' (ITV). He has since developed a career in the Theatre. Writing credits include the Time Out Critics Choice shows of No Picnic. . . Doig. . . and Beak Street A (Tabard Theatre), Last Bus to Paradise (Underbelly, co-wrote and winner of the London New Play Festival) Take (Old Red Lion) Kathmandu (Menier Chocolate Factory and Pleasance Edinburgh) and Wake up and smell the coffee (New End Theatre).

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

         Ballad Of Robin Hood, The         Beak Street         Dogstar         Doig! the Musical (With No Singing No Dancing And Very Little Music)         Kathmandu         Last Bus to Paradise         No Picnic         Spite the Face         Study in Scarlet, A - The First Adventure of Sherlock Holmes         Take         Underbelly         Wake Up And Smell the Coffee

Ballad Of Robin Hood, The

Synopsis:
Robin Hood - people's hero or a common thief? You decide in this rollicking, rambunctious tale of the day that Robin Hood came to Southwark. Immerse yourself in the ample hospitality of Rosie Bailey, landlady of Southwark's famous Tabard Inn, transported for your convenience to Southwark Playhouse. Settle down in your favourite corner with an ale or a mulled wine and see Robin Hood's untold story of derring-do played out. . .It's 1380 and London is bursting at the seams with foreigners - Norman, Angles and Saxons inhabit every dive, including this one. The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer - despite Robin's best efforts to reverse the trend. Tempers are frayed. Meanwhile, her outspoken politics have gotten Marion into trouble. And as it's partly Robin's fault it falls to him do the decent thing. But might this Marion find it just a bit, well, patronising to be rescued? With swordplay, songs, sheriffs and satire as sharp as an arrow, The Ballad of Robin Hood guarantees to keep you a-quiver with excitement all evening long.

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Organisations:
Tacit Theatre

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Genre:
Christmas show 70 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Beak Street

Synopsis:
In the world of 'noir' shadows, mean streets and gangster cats, only one thing is really certain, cats, they ain't known for their loyalty. So when his prize fighting mouse disappears in mysterious circumstances, the Beak Street Cat knows he was screwed over. Bankrupt, humbled, deserted by his gang, he sets out to regain his power and nail the cat who betrayed him. Blood will be shed, friendships tested, but ultimately the Beak Street Cat will uncover the truth, and like the fur ball from hell, it will be hard for him to swallow. It's a story of dog eat dog in a cat world.

Notes:
based on A painting 'sicilian Cats' by Ian Heath

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Organisations:
Deadwood Productions Ltd

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dogstar

Synopsis:
In a hot, dusty, western saloon, a mysterious stranger discovers everything in town has to be paid for. Water, urinating. . .even dying. And like almost every mysterious stranger, who happens to be just passing through, he is inextricably drawn into a battle to save the town. But it's a town where bitterness is dormant. It's a town where greed is the only measure of value. It's a town where folk are crazier than popcorn on a hot stove. Greg Freeman returns once more to the Tabard with his latest outlandish comedy, which delves, into mankind's obsession with ownership.

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Doig! the Musical (With No Singing No Dancing And Very Little Music)

Synopsis:
the evils of capaitalist greed and celebrity culture are ripped to shreds.
- Tamara Gausi, Time Out London

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Organisations:
Basic Theatre

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Genre:
Satire

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Kathmandu

Synopsis:
a darkly funny tale of how the tormented become the tormentor. Four characters each plague one another's thoughts. Teasing, taunting, questioning they prowl through each other's minds in a surreal carousel of internal dialogue.

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Organisations:
City Stages

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Music:
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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Last Bus to Paradise

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1st Produced:
Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    

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Music:
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No Picnic

Synopsis:
an allegorical comedy that explores the crisis of conscience of teddy bears.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
McMaC and Redbear Collective

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Spite the Face

Synopsis:
ethan cannot smell. His life stinks. a seven day experiment sees his nose removed, grafted onto a pig's bum and replaced by a computer. Outwardly disfigured, inwardly fulfilled, Ethan rediscovers aroma and himself. then someone kidnaps the pig

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Organisations:
Stage D'Or

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Study in Scarlet, A - The First Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

Synopsis:
A young and ambitious Holmes at the outset of his career meets a war-ravaged, disenchanted Watson - discharged from the army after the horrors of the Afghan war - aimlessly floating around London and fast running out of money. A gruesome discovery in a derelict house in Camberwell sets them on a trail of intrigue and revenge, which leads through Victorian London's murky underbelly across the world to a Mormon settlement in Utah. Join Holmes and Watson as they take their first steps together towards becoming one of literature's most iconic duos.

Notes:
adapted from the story by Arthur Conan Doyle by Lila Whelan and Greg Freeman

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Organisations:
Tacit Theatre

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  with doub;ling

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Take

Synopsis:
One night Wanda and her car are swept into space by unseen aliens. Though scared, Wanda is happy to have escaped from difficult marriage to Colin. Unfortunately to her horror, Wanda discovers Colin hiding in the the boot of her car. Trapped in space, they are forced to confront themselves and the meaning of trust.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Melissa Simmonds

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Underbelly

Synopsis:
Commissioned piece for 1998 London New Play Festival - slip under the skin of conformity and peer into the guts of late 90's life.
- http://www.arts-archive.co.uk/index.php?pg=12&action=work&genre=P&gname=Play&wid=S5400

Notes:
written by Dean Barker; Tamsin Hollo; Adam Smethurst; Monica Dolan; Greg Freeman

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Genre:
Piece

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Wake Up And Smell the Coffee

Synopsis:
the female praying mantis bites the head off the male as they copulate, but the death throes increase the intensity of the thrusting. For Harry, a womanising, narcoleptic businessman, this encapsulates human relationships: men live for sex, women try to emasculate them, and both wrestle with their inner animal. In Greg Freeman's comedy, Harry banters about such matters with his friends at a coffee shop while being plagued by dreams of his apparently homicidal ex-wife, Hanny. Dominic obsesses about his ex-wife's decision to neuter their cat; there is more castration anxiety here than in Freud's collected case studies. Meanwhile Georgie, attracted to Harry, tosses in observations about how men me ruled by their penises, but at least not how they always leave the toilet seat up.
- Ian Johns, the Times

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Someone else

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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