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Ishwar Maharaj

ISHWAR MAHARAJ

  
Nationality:    English
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Ishwar Maharaj was born in London, where he currently resides. He is an actor / writer and has written six plays : blOOdy hell; nO-bOdy nose, lady Of sOrrOw, fOur wOmen, bOOk Of little things and sOmething sweet. He is currently writing his seventh, Ella GRaY, which will premiere in Finland in October 2008. He started his own production company company O in 2006, which produced lady Of sorrow & bOOk Of little things. He has recently returned from Milan where he premiered sOmething sweet which was a TheatreunO production.

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

         Bloody Hell         Book Of Little Things         Ella Gray         Four Women         Hidden Place         Lady Of Sorrow         No-Body Nose         Something Sweet         Woyzek
Bloody Hell

Synopsis:
a woman goes to hell in search of the Devil expecting him to punish her for taking her own life, but finds Lucifer Lou, the managing director of hell who is in a bit of a flap, because there are far too many people coming to hell and there isn't enough space to accommodate them all.

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1st Produced:
Play Reading At The Actors Centre, London    

Organisations:
company O (www.o-artnow.blogspot.com)

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Music:
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Genre:
absurdist theatre absurd

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Book Of Little Things

Synopsis:
3 stories from 2 different perspectives about 3 women from different periods in history. . .all called Scarlet Billows.1. the pOppy stealer: Scarlet Billows steals poppies from a war memorial to make a shrine to here dead husband. Ghosts, mental fragility, balloons, Vera Lynn and angry statues all vie for Scarlet's attention in this little tale of grief. 2. the army is reality: Scarlet Billows goes to enlist and finds a new improved celebrity army, whose mission is now television. "What better way to serve your country than on T.V?" 3. blueberry hill: Scarlet Billows finds herself kidnapped by her nemesis Scary Bill, a soldier suffering from post traumatic stress. What ensues is farce, death and poetry. . .not necessarily in the order.

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Organisations:
company O (www.o-artnow.blogspot.com)

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Genre:
absurdist theatre absurd

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  6

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Ella Gray

Synopsis:
an old woman in a decadent Parisian Jazz bar in the 1930's, prepares to drink herself to death, but Death is rather busy spreading war propaganda and lusting after young flesh.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Tehdas Teatteri (Www.Tehdasteatteri.Com)     2008

Organisations:
Teatteri Vertigo (www.teatterivertigo.fi)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Four Women

Synopsis:
Four women meet, talk and grow elongated limbs.

Notes:
Shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2007

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
company O (www.o-artnow.blogspot.com)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
absurdist theatre absurd

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Hidden Place

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Krik Festiivaalli, Finland     2010

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama

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Lady Of Sorrow

Synopsis:
a woman with a head full of dreams that threaten to destroy her unless she can relinquish them and a wailing wall that simply won't shut up.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Space, London     2006

Organisations:
company O (www.o-artnow.blogspot.com)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
absurdist theatre absurd

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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No-Body Nose

Synopsis:
Man with a box containing a sneeze attempts to return it to its nose, which is running. . .to catch a train. along the way he ventures into the Dead Wood, home to sibling, rival bakers Handsome & Delicious owners of the Butter My Buns Bakery harboring a dark obsession for noses.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Space, London     2006

Organisations:
TheatreunO (www.Theatreuno.blogspot.com)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
absurdist theatre absurd

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  2

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Something Sweet

Synopsis:
Inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's comment, "I thought I was learning to live, I was only learning to die", sOmething sweet tells the story of Billie RubberNeck being visited by Death, but refuses to let him in, insisting that she has life inside and cannot have them both in the same room, whereupon Death has an epileptic fit on her doorstep forcing her to bring him in and then slowly discovers after tea and small talk that she is in fact dead and more to the point, that Death tricked her and is not diabetic like he said but rather a big nuisance prone to popping up out of the blue when you least expect him and insisting he get his own way. In a parallel universe there is a boy, also called Billy RubberNeck who has an abstract thought about killing himself and needing some ideas on how to do it, goes to seek Death at his house only to find the very eccentric and colourful Mother of Death, who is disgruntled at everyone being obsessed with her son Death and decides that she is going to take matters into her own hands and save this one.

Notes:
Shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2007

1st Produced:
Milan International Theatre Festival     2008

Organisations:
TheatreunO

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
absurdist theatre absurd

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Woyzek

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Georg Buchner

1st Produced:
Brinkhall Manor, Turku, Finland     2011

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
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