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Patrick Marber

PATRICK MARBER

  (1964 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Judy Daish Associates Ltd  

Patrick Marber is the son of Brian Marber, he was born in London on 19th September 1964 and grew up in Wimbledon. He was educated at St Paul's School, Cranleigh School and Wadham College, Oxford. After working as a stand-up comedian he became a writer and cast member on the radio shows On the Hour and Knowing Me, Knowing You, and their television spinoffs. His first play, Dealer's Choice, which he directed, opened at the National Theatre in 1995 and won the evening Standard Award for Best Comedy. His next play Closer, also directed by him, opened at the National Theatre in 1997. It won the evening Standard award for Best Comedy Award, the Critics' Circle Theatre Award and Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and a screen adaptation was released in 2004. His next play Howard Katz opened at the National Theatre in 2001. He has since poured his energy into a burgeoning career as a screenwriter, gaining Oscar nomination for his adaptation of Notes on a Scandal in 2007. His adaptation of Trelawny of the Wells opened at the Donmar Warehouse in February 2013. He married to actress Debra Gillett in 2002 and they have three children. He is a director of Lewes FC and has been a driving force for the club to be community owned.
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         After Miss Julie         Casting         Chain Play, The         Closer         Dealer's Choice         Don Juan In Soho         Hedda Gabler         Howard Katz         Musicians, The         Red Lion, The         Three Days in the Country         Trelawny of the Wells

After Miss Julie

After Miss Julie
Relocates to July 1945. A country house in england. Celebrations for the British Labour Party's election victory are in full swing. the lady of the house, Miss Julie, descends into the servants' kitchen to seek out John, her father's chauffeur. A passionate midsummer night turns to tragedy as they test the limits of their new freedom.

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not a translation but a version of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. BBC TV, 1995

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Tragedy

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Casting

Synopsis:
a throwaway skit on effete TV producers attempting to cast the greatest story ever told. "It was originally published in a magazine and nobody wanted to perform it because it was so short."

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It could be the etchings of a short play or the scribbles of a five-minute sketch which have been abandoned, gathering dust in the back of the drawer. Now these hidden and often forgotten gems have been unearthed for Scenes Unseen at the Tron Theatre. Work from eight of the country's most renowned and up-and-coming writers will be brought together for this collection of scenes and short plays.

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New Inck Theatre / Tron Theatre Company

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4 min sketch

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Chain Play, The

Synopsis:
One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night

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Written By Terry Johnson, Philip Ridley, Charlotte Jones, Lee Hall, Sebastian Barry, Zinnie Harris, Kevin elyot, Nick Dear, Tanika Gupta, Frank McGuinness, Nick Stafford, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Teevan, Patrick Marber, David Lan, Sarah Daniels, Martin She

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Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie

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Play/Drama

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Closer

Closer
A crazy political sexual square dance in which partners are constantly swapped

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Methuen Drama    978-0413709509

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Dealer's Choice

Dealer's Choice
Group of male sad sacks who use poker as an escape from real life

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small scale production in Feb 1994

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Methuen Drama    978-0413714909

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Don Juan In Soho

Don Juan In Soho
Moliere's farcical, tragic, anarchic original of 1665 is relocated to modem day Soho: swank, new hotels and festering old clip joints, crackheads in alleys and cokeheads in clubs. the destitute, the delirious, the broken and the brazen, the hustlers and hoorays, the media movers and merciless whores - all packed into one seething square mile. Don Juan - the infamous amoral hedonist in a society entranced by sensation.
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Original Playwright - Moliere

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Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler
Just married. Buried alive. Hedda longs to be free.

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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen in a version by Patrick Marber from a literal translation by Karin and Ann Bamborough

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adaptation

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Howard Katz

Howard Katz
the eponymous Katz is a foul mouthed Jewish showbiz agent whose life falls apart in a giant menopausal crisis.

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National Theatre, London

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Faber and Faber, London, 2001   978-0571210053

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Genre:
black comedy

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Musicians, The

Musicians, The
the orchestra of Ridley Road, a state school, is to give a concert in Moscow at the european Festival of Youth, playing Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony before an audience of cultural bigwigs. But their instruments have been impounded by Customs. Luckily, Alex, the Russian boy who cleans the hall, is a devout Pinball Wizard fan who comes up with a plan that saves everyone.

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Shell Coonections

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Samuel French, London, 2005   978-0573052538

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Play for young People Youth Audience

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Red Lion, The

Red Lion, The
Small-time semi-pro football, the non-league. A world away from the wealth and the television cameras. A young player touched with brilliance arrives from nowhere. An ambitious manager determines to make him his own. And the old soul of the club still has dreams of glory. A haunting and humorous new play about the dying romance of the great English game - and the tender, savage love that powers it.

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Three Days in the Country

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Russia. A beautiful country estate. The mid-nineteenth century. A handsome new tutor brings reckless, romantic desire to an eccentric household. Over three days one summer the young and the old will learn lessons in love: first love and forbidden love, maternal love and platonic love, ridiculous love and last love. The love left unsaid and the love which must out.

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unfaithful version' of Ivan Turgenev's play

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adaptation 135 min

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Trelawny of the Wells

Trelawny of the Wells
Rose Trelawny is the brightest star in the firmament of the Wells, the theatre company that raised her from birth. But she's prepared to give it all up for the love of her stage door suitor, aristocratic Arthur. His family are less convinced of her charms, however, and her joyful challenge to their dreary, snobby existence shocks them to their core. Trelawny of the Wells is Pinero's love letter to the theatre. Joe Wright (Anna Karenina, Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) is one of our most exciting and visual film directors. This production is a celebration of the enchantment, the vivaciousness, the meloDrama, the music and the irrepressible joy of the Victorian stage.

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Original Playwright - Arthur W Pinero with some most respectful additions and ornamentation by Patrick Marber. Trelawny of the 'Wells', by Arthur Wing Pinero, premiered at the Royal Court theatre, London, in January 1898

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original comedietta

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