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Brian Mitchell

BRIAN MITCHELL

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Noel Gay Organisation  

Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon's The Opinion Makers, their musical comedy, is in co-production with Mercury Theatre, Colchester and Derby Theatre for autumn. Their sequence of short comic plays, Seven Studies in Salesmanship, opened in Brighton Fringe to rave reviews, and goes to full production this autumn with the support of Derby Theatre and Create Theatre, Mansfield. Following two tours, their play Big Daddy Vs Giant Haystacks, winner of FringeGuru Editor's Choice and the Buxton Fringe Award for Best Theatre Production, plays Assembly Festival, Edinburgh, 1st -26th August. In 1992 they founded the award-winning sketch group The Ornate Johnsons. They co-wrote The Cheeky Guides to Student Life and To Love, were head sketch writers on Radio 4's Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up and BBC1?s Live and Kicking, as well as the TV comedy shows Slightly Filthy (LWT) and The Ornate Johnsons' Edwardian Spectacular (BBC 4); and share a string of writing credits for the stage including Those Magnificent Men (The Story of Alcock and Brown), which toured nationally twice and played Edinburgh Festival in 2011, receiving 5 Star reviews.

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

         Big Daddy Vs Giant Haystacks         Hood         October Revolutions, The         Opinion Makers, The         Saul         Seven Studies in Salesmanship         Those Magnificent Men         Very Important Postman, A

Big Daddy Vs Giant Haystacks

Synopsis:
A new comedy about two fat men "pretending" to fight each other in the name of sport gets five bouts at Buxton Fringe. Big Daddy Vs Giant Haystacks is the story of how millions of people tuned in to Saturday afternoon television in the 1970s and '80s to watch Shirley Crabtree and Martin Ruane wrestling.

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written by Brian Mitchell And Joseph Nixon

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hood

Synopsis:
Based on the legend of Robin Hood, a specially commissioned play will premiere at the Theatre Royal in September. In a unique collaboration, the Theatre Royal will be working with local theatre company, New Perspectives, and seven of the region's most talented playwrights to create a series of new stories, taking the world's most famous folklore hero on a journey through a century and a half of Nottingham's vibrant and colourful history from 1865 to the present day.

Notes:
written by Andy Barrett, Tim Elgood, James Graham, Laura Lomas, Mufaro Makubika, Brian Mitchell, Joseph Nixon

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Organisations:
New Perspectives Theatre Company

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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October Revolutions, The

Synopsis:
Fogeyish scriptwriter Philip and eager, young art student Kath hover frustratingly in that awkward region somewhere between friendship and love. He is twenty-nine going on forty, and she a nineteen-year-old with far more experience and wisdom than her years. Over the course of three meetings in three parks over three Octobers, they jockey, vie, scheme and battle for position, with comical, and sometimes brutal, results. Can the romantic setting of the Blue Peter Italian Garden bring the outcome Philip so ardently desires? Or will his hopes remain sunken? the October Revolutions is a touching, hilarious and often cringe-inducing portrayal of just how rubbish humans can be in the pursuit of love. It is also a unique experiment in theatre; each night the three scenes are played in a different order - in a process of continual revolution - giving up to six versions of the play.

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Nightingale Theatre

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Opinion Makers, The

Synopsis:
When the utterly incompetent team at Fernsby Market Research find themselves facing the stiffest challenge of their professional lives - to report what the British Public really think of world famous ?Doctor Campbell's Lotion' in readiness for a re-launch - there's only one thing for it; make it all up! After all, that's what market research companies do, isn't it?

Notes:
written by Brian Mitchell And Joseph Nixon

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Organisations:
New Perspectives Theatre Company

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Genre:
musical comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  with doubling

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Saul

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1st Produced:
Southwark Playhouse, London     1998

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Seven Studies in Salesmanship

Synopsis:
You're an individual. You like to do your own thing. Nobody can tell you what to do. You walk your own path and make your own rules.

Notes:
written by Brian Mitchell And Joseph Nixon

1st Produced:
Brighton Festival     15 May 2013

Organisations:
Foundry Group

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Genre:
comedy

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Those Magnificent Men

Synopsis:
Those Magnificent Men is a hilarious spiffing yarn of the bravery of two plucky British pioneers, Captain John Alcock, a dashing WW1 fighter pilot, and his intrepid companion Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, navigational genius despite a gammy leg, as they attempt to compete in a race to fly non-stop across the Atlantic. At stake is a £10,000 prize offered by Lord Northcliffe from the Daily Mail and, more importantly, the honour and pride of the British spirit of adventure.
- Robin Strapp, British theatre Guide

Notes:
written by Brian Mitchell And Joseph Nixon

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Organisations:
New Perspectives Theatre Company

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Very Important Postman, A

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Notes:
written with Joanna Neary

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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