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Robin French

ROBIN FRENCH  

 Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  


Robin French was born and raised in Edgbaston, Birmingham: Studied modern and medieval languages at Cambridge University and playwriting on the Royal Court Young Writers' Programme. Plays include: Bear Hug (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs and subsequent productions in Italy, Germany, Ireland and Poland), Africa and Pigeon (Flight 5065 on the London eye), and Breakfast Hearts/Choirplay (Theatre 503). Robin was chosen by The Observer as one of the country's most promising talents and is currently under commission from Paines Plough. Television includes: co-writing with evening Standard critic Kieron Quirke:Trinity (eight part Drama, begins 20 September 2009 on ITV2), Roommates(13 part sitcom, aBC Family, to be aired 2009), Bash (sitcom pilot) and I Dream (both BBC); script editor on two series of Man Stroke Woman for Golden Globe winning producer ash atallA. Robin has twice been named a 'hot-shot writer' by Broadcast magazine.

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 Africa And Pigeon         Bear Hug         Breakfast Hearts         Choirplay         De Miraculis Sui Temporis         Gilbert Is Dead         Heather Gardner         Murder At Gobbler's Wood         Peckham: Soap Opera         Red Helicopter, The

Africa And Pigeon

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Flight 5065 on the London Eye, London    -

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Bear Hug

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Paranoid, anxious and alienated - and that's just how the parents feel. What about teir son Michael? He's not well and it's going to take more than love and understanding to make him better.

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part of Young Playwrights' Season 2004

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Breakfast Hearts

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Choirplay

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De Miraculis Sui Temporis

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Gilbert Is Dead

Gilbert Is Dead
The play is a tragi-comedy about evolution. Set in London in the early 1860s, we follow eminent taxidermist Lucius Trickett, who finds himself on a mission from Queen Victoria to help explorer Gilbert Shirley find the mysterious ghost loris - a primate that proves Darwin's theory wrong and thus that God exists. . .

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Methuen Drama    978-1408127780

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comedy Drama

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Heather Gardner

Heather Gardner
Thrilling, enigmatic, destructive, Heather Gardner brings to life one of Ibsen's most irresistible heroines in a fresh and stylish new version. It's September 1962. Beautiful socialite Heather returns from her honeymoon to her dream home in Edgbaston where Neville Chamberlain once lived  but nothing is turning out as planned. Heather soon finds herself on a spiral of self-destruction, caught between her old flame Alistair Lambart and the clutches of the predatory solicitor Peregrine Brand. There can be only one outcome.

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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. A version of Hedda Gabler by Robin French

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Birmingham: The Old Rep    14 Mar 2013

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Birmingham Repertory Theatre Compan

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Murder At Gobbler's Wood

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Playwrights, Robin French, Dennis Kelly And enda Walsh, perform exclusive extracts.

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Peckham: Soap Opera

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The lives and loves of Peckham locals will be played out in an omnibus of ten 5 minute episodes. Each episode will be performed by actors from the local community. Somewhere between Peckham High Street and Rye Lane: after an immigration raid at Lashanna's underground hair salon, Ravi encourages her to relocate to the basement beneath Amir's corner shop (unbeknownst to Amir of course). Above ground Ed scouts for a job, though Amir puts him off the scent. Across the way Glenda, Job Centre co-worker Elaine and Joey make a discovery which may force them into a morning commute to Lewisham. While over at the station, Linda loses her cat, but falls for a dapper stranger whose pin-striped garms are new to the Rye.

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Part of Royal Court's Open Court season. Author Bola Agbaje (lead writer). Author Rachel De-lahay (lead writer) with Brad Birch, Alice Birch, Adam Brace, Robin French, Lucy Kirkwood, Chloe Moss, David Watson and Roy Williams

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Royal Court, London    02 Sep 2013

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5 min play

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Red Helicopter, The

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Remember the exodus? Bad Tuesday. London went mad. . ..That day, hope collapsed. . ..people turned into animals. Somebody had to do something. It's 2072 and following a cataclysmic economic and social decline, the UK has been abandoned by its inhabitants in a mass exodus. almost everyone got out. The only people left were society's outcasts - the criminals, the mentally ill, the unwanted children. In a disused office somewhere in the ghost city of London lives a group of twenty young people. They were all children in care. either abandoned or orphaned, nobody loved them enough to take them on a plane and get them out of the country. Now they live in their own little society - a society that has survived, thanks to the organisational and political skill of their charismatic leader, a sixteen year old who calls himself 'daddy'. Daddy is a ruthless operator, whose rule is marked by superstition, violence and fear. This is the story of the rebellion that topples him.

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65 min Youth audience

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