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Laurence Marks

LAURENCE MARKS

  
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Literary Agent:    Laurie mansfield Associates

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

         Birds Of A Feather         Dreamboats And Petticoats         Ephesus-Shmephesus         Love Me Do         New Statesman, The         Playing God         Save the Last Dance For Me         Von Ribbentrop's Watch

Birds Of A Feather

Synopsis:
the stars of 1990s sitcom Birds Of A Feather are getting back together for a theatre show. Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson will return as essex sisters Sharon and Tracey, to be joined by Lesley Joseph as man-eating neighbour Dorien. the sitcom ran for nine series from 1989 to 1998.

Notes:
written by Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran, Gary Lawson And John Phelps

1st Produced:
New Victoria Theatre, Woking    26 Mar 2012

Organisations:
Comedy Media Company and Quirky Media Stuff Ltd

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Dreamboats And Petticoats

Synopsis:
the ultimate British rock'n'roll musical set in 1961

Notes:
written by Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran

1st Produced:
Glasgow, King's / Touring    2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ephesus-Shmephesus

Ephesus-Shmephesus
the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the english language. the KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken english.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. the curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, Drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. the voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient Arts of writing and spoken performance

Notes:
Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is A response to the King James Bible book of ephesians. written by Laurence Marks And Maurice Gran

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849432276

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Love Me Do

Synopsis:
Who do you turn to when the world is about to end? In the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, two Americans stranded in London find they can't escape each other. A funny, touching physical theatre production of a play set at the height of the Cold War.

Notes:
written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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New Statesman, The

Synopsis:
Does a leopard ever change his spots? Parliament is in session and one of the shining stars of Blair's New Labour cabinet takes his place in the House. Meet Alan B'stard, impeccably pin-striped, nose aloft, stalking the corridors of power leaving a trail of devastation in his wake. It's a political system with more spin than scruple. Will B'stard - the most depraved and selfish politician of all time - still be on top in Blair's caring New Labour government? Will he find the weapons of mass destruction? Why is Condoleeza Rice in and out of Alan's back door? How did Alan B'stard get into the Labour party? Is anybody safe?!

Notes:
written by Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran

1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Brighton    2006

Organisations:
TRB Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Playing God

Synopsis:
rock star ed announces to his agrophobic younger wife, Claudia, his pal Clive and the latter's high-flying harridan of a spouse Henri that he's got terminal cancer - marital misery, adultery and death ensue

Notes:
written by Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran

1st Produced:
Scarborough, Stephen Joseph    2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Save the Last Dance For Me

Synopsis:
Written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran ( featuring the unmistakable music of Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman, and with authentic recreation of the sound of Rock 'n' Roll, this nostalgic, feel-good journey will transport you back to music's golden era as we follow two teenage sisters through the summer of '63. For the first time without their parents, the siblings embark on a holiday to the seaside. Full of freedom and high spirits they meet a handsome young American who invites them to a dance at the local U.S. Air force base. . . But young love and holiday romance is never as simple as it sounds, and the sisters soon realise that while the world around them is still watching itself in black and white, life and love can be much more colourful. Featuring the classic 60's hits of Pomus & Shuman including A Teenager in Love; Sweets for my Sweet; Turn Me Loose; Here I Go Again; Viva Las Vegas; Little Sister; His Latest Flame; Suspicion; Can't Get Used to Losing You; Save the Last Dance For Me and many more. . .

Notes:
written by Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran

1st Produced:
Nottingham Theatre Royal    16 Apr 2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Von Ribbentrop's Watch

Synopsis:
the credit crunch hasn't done Gerald Roth any favours. He's the proprietor of Grapes of Roth, an up-market wine merchant in a downmarket neighbourhood, and his business is dying faster than he can say Maximin Grunhauser Abtsberg Kabinett 2008. then fate throws Gerald a lifeline. He discovers that his old watch, left to him by his father, is surprisingly valuable. If he sold it in auction his money troubles could be over. Unfortunately, the reason his watch is so collectable is that it was once owned by Hitler's Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, whose initials are engraved inside the case, alongside the sweetest little Swastika. Gerald's secret dilEmma emerges over his family's Passover dinner, but it turns out that he isn't the only Roth with something to hide.

Notes:
written by Laurence Marks And Maurice Gran

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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