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Jonathan Maitland

JONATHAN MAITLAND

  
Nationality:    British
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Jonathan Maitland is a broadcaster and writer. He reported for Radio 4s Today programme in the 1990s, before co-presenting BBC1s Watchdog and ITV 1s House of Horrors. He has presented ITV1s flagship current affairs show, Tonight, for the last 16 years. He has interviewed, amongst others, Tony Blair, Madonna, Henry Kissinger and Bob Geldof and written for all the national newspapers. He has authored five books, including a best-selling memoir How To Survive Your Mother and Vote For Who?. His co-written screenplay about the footballer Stanley Matthews has been optioned and is in development. Dead Sheep is his first play. - See more at: http://parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/dead-sheep/creatives#sthash.Le7FbHpC.dpuf

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         Audience with Jimmy Saville, An         Dead Sheep

Audience with Jimmy Saville, An

Synopsis:
The story of how one man used fame, intimidation and manipulation to fool the very institutions we trust. Drawing extensively on material from genuine interviews, transcripts and TV shows, this is the first play to explore the most shocking sex scandal of our time: how Sir Jimmy Savile "groomed the nation"

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Cahoots Theatre Company

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Genre:
biographical play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  with doubling

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Dead Sheep

Synopsis:
The true story of how Mrs Thatcher, once the most powerful woman in the western world, was brought down by her one time friend and political soul mate. It is 1989 and a seemingly invincible Prime Minister has sacked Geoffrey Howe, her Foreign Secretary. She apparently had nothing to fear from him: his speaking skills had, famously, been compared to those of a dead sheep. But inspired by his wife Elspeth - whose relationship with Thatcher was notoriously frosty - Howe overcame his limitations to destroy Mrs Thatcher with one of the great political speeches. The staging of Dead Sheep, a drama tinged with tragedy and comedy, coincides with the 25th anniversary of Howe's assassination of his leader. Its themes - loyalty, love, political morality and Britishness - are as relevant today as they were a quarter of a century ago.

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Cahoots Theatre Company

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Genre:
political play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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