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Jeffrey Mayhew

JEFFREY MAYHEW

  
Nationality:    British
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Jeffrey Mayhew has had a wide ranging musical and theatrical career in every sense. He has designed and directed well over 200 youth and community performances from devised pieces to grand opera in venues ranging from village halls to the Cottesloe. Musical theatre has included Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes and West Side Story. He has taught widely, running the theatre at Christ's Hospital, and also in locations as disparate as remote settlements in the Finnish archipelago and closed institutions in Romania where he also trained the first cohort of drama teachers. He directed and acted in Garner's Cyril's Little Moments of Weakness and Strength to considerable critical acclaim; the British Theatre Guide placing it in the top five of its five star reviews that Edinburgh season. He has recently been very busy as a character actor (Malvolio, Peter Quince and Bashmakin for Practical Productions, Clifford Broughton for Theatre of the Damned) and returned this year to the sell out revival of The Great Gatsby at Wilton's Music Hall where he devised and lead the immersive element and was repetiteur for the a capella singing. For Theatre of the Damned he scored and musically directed the recent sell out The Horror! The Horror! and The Final Curtain also at Wilton's and Edinburgh and has recently directed the critically acclaimed production of The Ghost Hunter (London, Edinburgh and UK Tour.) His music has been widely played, broadcast, recorded and published and set for exams both by the ABRSM and Trinity Guildhall.

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

         Bright Is the Ring Of Words         Cinema In South Georgia, A         Cooking With Puccini         Enchanted Ottoman, The         Final Curtain, The         Horror! the Horror!, The         Roses in December         Self Assembly         Swift

Bright Is the Ring Of Words

Synopsis:
Not sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, but sex, booze and opera. An ageing, fallen singing star confronts a young, hopeful comedian forced into caring for the singer by a community service order. --

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Bare Bawds

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cinema In South Georgia, A

Synopsis:
An exciting, new piece of ensemble theatre written by Jeffrey Mayhew (Swift, Bright is the Ring of Words,) and Susan Wilson (daughter of whaler William Watt). Based entirely on first-hand accounts they bring to life the experiences; bitter, hilarious, rueful and heart-warming, of some of the last men to follow the millennia-old tradition of hunting the whale. It is a celebration, in words and song, of four Eyemouth men, who, at differing points in their lives, in different ways and with differing attitudes and outcomes risked their lives among the Antarctic ice floes.

Notes:
written by Susan Wilson and Jeffrey Mayhew

1st Produced:

Organisations:
The Braw Buoys

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Theatre

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cooking With Puccini

Synopsis:
the celebrated composer is taken from whatever limbo he inhabits and finds himself on a modern day chat show. This show looks at the lives of the famous and invites them to share their favourite recipes with the studio audience. During the process the man, his life, loves and music come under scrutiny. Fame, creativity and moral responsibility are all considered through the medium of high comedy as the wisecracking, womanizing Puccini confronts his own persona.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theatre Tours International

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dark Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Enchanted Ottoman, The

Synopsis:
the dreamed or imagined events of a single night where all the toys come alive help a little girl to come to terms with her own predicament and better understand the world around her.

Notes:
book and lyrics by Jeffrey Mayhew; music by Stephen Buckman

1st Produced:
Christ's Hospital Theatre, Horsham     36/2005

Organisations:
Bare Bawds

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Children's Opera

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  flexible

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Final Curtain, The

Synopsis:
It's 1924 and Alfred Brownlow's music hall troupe is in trouble. Audience numbers are down, the critics are sharpening their knives and the wolves are at the door. But there's always time for one more show, and they've got a hell of a performance for you this evening! Inspired by a sell-out run at Wilton's Music Hall in 2012, The Horror! The Horror! - The Final Curtain is an all new evening of ghoulish mayhem and music hall glee. - See more at: http://www.youthmusictheatreuk.org/blog/tag/horror-horror-final-curtain#sthash.fz5gZZZK.dpuf

Notes:
Jeffrey Mayhew is composer and lyricist. The book is by Stewart Pringle and Tom Richards

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Organisations:
Theatre of the Damned

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Horror! the Horror!, The

Synopsis:
It's 1904 and an East-London Music Hall is closed for refurbishment. they're tearing up the floorboards, bringing down the balcony and digging deep into the mouldering foundations. Upstairs they're having an open rehearsal for the new season and you're all invited. they're trying for something a little different this winter: the comedians have some vicious new material, the magician has pulled something rather nasty out of the hat and they're getting through chorus girls at one Hell of a rate.'

Notes:
piece by Tom Richards, book by Stewart Pringle, music/lyrics by Jeffrey Mayhew

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theatre of the Damned

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
75 min horror piece

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Roses in December

Synopsis:
A father and son look out over the sea. . .The son is the father's carer. In a kaleidoscope of short episodes their past is uncovered and with it the charting the gradual reversal of their roles.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Bare Bawds

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Self Assembly

Synopsis:
He is reluctantly, and under duress, putting together a flat-packed DIY furniture kit. As he does the reality dissolves and, at each stage of construction, the man and his wife go back into their past, re-living the major moments and reviewing their relationship.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Arundel Festival, Arundel     2008

Organisations:
Drip Action

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Light comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Swift

Synopsis:
In this piece he is at last alone and facing the abyss, in constant fear of the madness that will soon overwhelm him. His own life and his Gulliver alter ego become enmeshed as events unfold and intertwine with the contents of his Will, for it is set on the day when this was, indeed, completed. Deeply acerbic, truculent but very, very funny Swift could be thought of as the perfect dinner party guest provided you could be sure he was on his best behaviour. For this show you join him when he is absolutely, definitely not on his best behaviour - and all the more entertaining.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Bare Bawds

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dramatised biography Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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