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Michael Mclean

MICHAEL MCLEAN  (1980 - )

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  


Litherland-born Michael was a finalist in the 2003 BBC New Comedy Awards for sketch writing at the Edinburgh Festival. His sketch was broadcast on BBC Three. Soon after, he joined the Everyman's Young Writers Programme, during which time he was invited to attend residential workshops with the London Royal Court Theatre. His first pLay,JoyAbove, was given a rehearsed reading at the Liverpool Everyman as part of Everyword 2005. The Electric Hills was written while Michael was one of three Henry Cotton writers on attachment at the Everyman and Playhouse in 2005 and lead to readings of the play in the summer of 2006 at both the Everyman and Soho theatre in London. His radio play, No Timewasters, was written for the BBC Stages of Sound project and was broadcast in November 2006. He is currently developing projects with Lime Pictures and BBC Radio Drama.

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 Ducks, The         Electric Hills, The         Grotesque Chaos         Joy Above         Milky Night

Ducks, The

Synopsis:
in a series of short, spare and increasingly raw exchanges, we glimpse the solitude and boredom of two unemployed men. An uneasy friendship is established as they drain a lake by day and sit in the pub by night, only for an inevitable but still unsettling divide to become apparent.

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Part of Miniaturists 14 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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Electric Hills, The

Synopsis:
"Still does a bit me dad. Not often. Does discos and that and singing when he can. Hard for him. You know. . .'showbiz." Kelisha's dad was Top of the Pops. One hit wonder. 80s floor filler. Now he's over the hill, sleeping all day and running dead discos at night. First performed as part of the Everyword festival, The Electric Hills is the world premiere of a new Liverpool play by Michael McLean, a graduate of the Everyman and Playhouse Young Writers Programme and Henry Cotton Writers on Attachment Scheme 2006. An offbeat comedy drama about ambition, family and keeping the dream alive.

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Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse

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Genre:
Comedy

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Grotesque Chaos

Synopsis:
about controversial Liverpool councillor Derek Hatton

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Liverpool Everyman Theatre's Annual Everyword festival for new writing And Aspiring writers has been relocated to the Liverpool Playhouse for this year while the Everyman undergoes extensive refurbishment.

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Nabokov

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Joy Above

Synopsis:
Christmas in Liverpool. In the season of goodwill three loners are thrown together. Will trust be betrayed or kindness repaid? Faith in human nature is there to be lost or found

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Part of the Everyword 2005 Festival

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Milky Night

Synopsis:
piece took us into the wasting lives of dreaming, displaced, working class girls forever stuck in a Milky Night
- Sacha Voit , British Theatre Guide

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part of There is Nothing There (scheduled 7.45pm) presented A different showcase of young people's ideas. In A two hour performance (without interval) four plays were woven together 'about finding your way in A mad world. . . It's All part of growing up, isn't it?'. In this mad world five friends find themselves involved in A protest march with dire consequences, three goth friends find one of their group is going out with A vampire who's Also the school geek, three drug Abusing girls dream Away their life outside A factory lot And finally two old friends find that connection is much more than Facebook posts And text messages.

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