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SUE LENIER
(1957 - )Nationality: English
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Literary Agent: Futerman & Rose Associates
Sue Lenier's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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Bed And Breakfast Burglar, The Doctor's Orders Eden Song Fool And His Heart, A Foreplay Knight Fall Manshop Not Waving But Drowning VirtualBed And Breakfast Burglar, The
Synopsis:
Victor and Connie dreamed of making a fortune when they bought a beautiful but dilapidated house in Margate. Instead, as the world collapses into credit crunch, they've ended up with a mountain of debt. When they catch Martin burgling their dream home, it seems like the last straw, especially as the local police won't even answer their phone. But then Martin offers an unexpected route out of their private hell.
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1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Margate
2009
Organisations:
Net Curtains Theatre
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageDoctor's Orders
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Genre:
Farce
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageEden Song
Synopsis:
Two men find themselves alone in a barren world. they manage to trap a woman. and then their problems really start.
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Sue Lenier is the playwright, which is All the information Anyone who saw her last year's Knight Fall needs to send him lickety-spit to the Mandela theatre. . .a sardonic feminist Anticipation of the relations of man And woman. Lenier walks worthily in the Twain-Thurber tradition. . .a fine script - the Scotsman; "Funny And brutal. . .and like All the best black comedy there is A twist. Recommended"- Radio Forth; Thought-provoking contemporary Analogies Are combined with wonderfully comic moments in this Already highly Acclaimed play, which I recommend you to see" - Review 88.
1st Produced:
Mandela Theatre, Edinburgh
1986
Organisations:
Sex War Theatre
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageFool And His Heart, A
Synopsis:
Geoffrey's got a dicky heart and is under orders to stay at home. He hates the idea. and so does his wife. and his heart's none too thrilled either.
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Directed by current Head of BBC radio Drama - Alison Hindell
1st Produced:
Bbc Radio Three
1991
Organisations:
BBC Radio Productions Drama now
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Genre:
Radio Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageForeplay
Synopsis:
alistair wants a baby. Janey's not so sure. they go to a sex therapist for help. But by the time they're finished, it's the therapist who needs help.
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Theatre Lumenis
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageKnight Fall
Synopsis:
an arthurian comedy. To avoid marriage to Lancelot, Isouda sets him the apparently impossible task of finding the Grail. To further handicap him, she gets the gay Gawayne and geriatric Parsifal to accompany him. Despite being cheated by peasants and quickly becoming lost they do eventually reach the Grail castle. Parsifal sees the Grail and disappears. Lancelot and Gawayne return, Lancelot claiming to have killed the Grail. at court Isouda and Morgan Le Fay trick Lancelot and run off on a quest themselves.
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Has the stuff of greatness, moving between slapstick, satire And high spirituality- Irish Times; "a very, very funny play" - Radio Forth; "a very Attractive play which has so much to offer in comment About our own times" - Owen Dudley edwards on Critics Forum, BBC Radio Three. Translated into Flemish by Alice Holemans, Knight Fall has Also been performed in Belgium.
1st Produced:
Demarco Gallery Theatre, Edinburgh
1985
Organisations:
Sex War Theatre in association with Richard Demarco Gallery Productions
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageManshop
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2010
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Script Readers
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Genre:
Rehearsed Reading
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageNot Waving But Drowning
Synopsis:
Vera is rich and bored. Her life drifting aimlessly, her dreams long abandoned. She yearns for passion and change. What she gets is a run-down hotel room, a flooded toilet and a surly plumber. and when change does come, it's not the way she dreamed it.
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Net Curtains Theatre
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Synopsis:
Zak is a geek. With spots. Who never gets the girl. But not tonight. Tonight Zak is feeling confident. He's finally met someone on Facebook. Tonight Zak is going to stop being a virgin. Sitting in the empty restaurant he had hoped to impress her with, Zak boasts to the waitress about his new girlfriend. the lonely waitress is impressed. Until reality starts to intrude . . .
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Zeitgeist Theatre
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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