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Robert Meakin

ROBERT MEAKIN

  
Nationality:    British
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Robert Meakin's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Before Bristol         Death, Sex And Room Service         Jesus: the Wasted Years         Me And Michael: A Motorway Tale
Before Bristol

Synopsis:
It's a quiet day on the Heaton Express. Trumped by their rival for the week's big news story (a murder) they've splashed with the town's fair instead. So the editor peps his team with grand schemes to fill two pages on a man who has changed his name to Mr Christmas and has decorations up all year round. Woodward and Bernstein watch out.
Ben Sloan, Metro London

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Bowman Productions

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Death, Sex And Room Service

Synopsis:
Comedy set inside a plush hotel, focusing on the contrasting lives and conflicts of the various guests, including a publicity-starved ex-soap star, a hard-living rock veteran and the ghost of an electrocuted former marketing manager. (Directed by Anna Barry)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Pentameters Theatre, Hampstead, London     2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  9+            Other:  -

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Jesus: the Wasted Years

Synopsis:
God is a doddery, partially-deaf, grumpy old gent who has been reduced to ineffectually "overseeing" the world, and having to solicit the celebrity inhabitants of Heaven for the opportunity to make public appearances at their "dos". Saint Peter, the semi-Polonius of the piece, patiently takes the deity through his daily schedule, and updates him on the behaviour of his son. This Jesus is a sorry picture: a drunken waster, forever brandishing wine in a water bottle ("one I made earlier"), working his way through Heaven's female A-list, and generally bored and directionless. God, following Peter's advice, makes an appearance on Sky News to try and boost his leadership's flagging reputation. His disastrous, fumbling appearance is the catalyst for Jesus to start considering ousting the old fellow and establishing himself in his place. Meanwhile the devil has managed to sneak his way into Heaven under an alias - but he swears he has renounced his evil ways, and he and Jesus have become good friends. It is their attempted partnership to bid for the leadership of Heaven that is the main meat of the play. the notion is that God is so hopelessly out of touch and unable to play the modern PR game, that the devil winds up looking much the better of the two. It is a neat topical moment when the devil's protestations that he has no intention of challenging God's leadership, only help to increase his popularity among supporters on Earth.
- Corinne Salisbury, British theatre Guide

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Bowman Productions

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Me And Michael: A Motorway Tale

Synopsis:
a comedy of embarrassment presenting the sudden disintigration of Mike's middle-class, middle of the road life after he loses both job and wife.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Bowman Prods

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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