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Jonathan Moore

JONATHAN MOORE  

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  represented by Julia Kreitman


An award winning playwright, Jonathan Moore has written eleven stage plays since his play "Treatment" was first performed at The Edinburgh Festival. Subsequent performances have taken place at the Gate theatre, the Donmar, London, and a BBC Film version starring Moore and Gabriel Byrne. This powerful and angrily poetic play was acclaimed as "one of the most disturbing and exhilarating plays in London" (Mark Lawson, The Independent). He has recently finished the second draft of a new play commission. He has written as well for TV, film and the BBC, and several texts for contemporary opera for major British and International Opera Houses. See credits for details. At the beginning of his career, Jonathan was the recipient of an Arts Council Bursary as Writer In Residence at The Albany Empire, the community theatre in Deptford, South East London. He worked with local writers in developing new scripts. Moore's plays have been performed at the Donmar, Gate Theatre, the Almeida (opera text), Royal Exchange, and the Edinburgh Festival. He is the recipient of numerous commissions, including a National Theatre commission. He wrote several episodes of "Crown Court" for Granada TV, "Treatment", a BBC Film, and "Horse Opera" a Western filmed opera shot in Tucson, Arizona for Channel 4 with music by Stewart Copeland. A collection of Moore's plays has been published by Aurora Metro Press. He has most recently finished co-writing "On The Verge", the TV comedy pilot.

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

 Behind Heaven         Fall From Light         Mad God         Obstruct The Doors, Cause Delay and Be Dangerous         Regeneration         Street Captives         This Other Eden         Treatment

Behind Heaven

Synopsis:
Two young bohemians smoke pot all day in their London flat til their sinister, suave neo fascist landlord and his sidekick arrive to discuss back rent...

Notes:
This black comedy was selected as Time Out Critics Choice No 1. " With this play, Moore forges a new form of social satire".

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Genre:
Play/ black comedy/ satire

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Fall From Light

Fall From Light
A young working class composer writes a new opera. The Director of the Opera House rejects it. His lover, a young Opera diva, takes him to the housing estate (project) where she grew up. There they are confronted by a gang...

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Contained in: "Three Plays" published by Aurora Metro 2002   978-0953675722

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7 or 8            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mad God

Synopsis:
A new eco, anti corporation cult arrives in the City. The powerful status quo is threatened.

Notes:
adaptation of The Bacchae. This play is a mixture of poetry and dialogue. High octane, passionate emotion and ritual. Explores sensuality and the balance between logic and emotion

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4 or 5            Female:  8 and over( depending on size of female chorus)            Other:  -

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Obstruct The Doors, Cause Delay and Be Dangerous

Synopsis:
A group of young people are in hiding in a bunker as they wait for the Bomb to drop. They make broadcasts to the nation via their station "Radio Free London"

Notes:
This play caused a bit of a stir as a fight broke out on the first night in London.

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Organisations:
Cockpit Theatre Company

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Male:  8 to10 or more             Female:  8 to10 or more            Other:  -

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Regeneration

Synopsis:
A young man works and lives in a scrapyard, where the play is set. He falls in love with the college educated daughter of his Boss, the owner of the yard ( a local criminal). He's not happy...

Notes:
The play was performed to a soundscape composed by industrial percussionists Test Dept

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Half Moon Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Street Captives

Synopsis:
Charles, the wealthy owner of a wine bar is enjoying a quiet day's fishing on a private stretch of river in Englands green amd pleasant land. An outsider arrives. Does he have a license...?

Notes:
This angry and funny play was given several revivals, most notably by the Royal Exchange and Moores own production at The Gate Theatre Notting Hill , with an original soundtrack by Ben Watkins and Youth ( of the band Killing Joke which was released as an album )

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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This Other Eden

This Other Eden
A story of an Irish immigrant woman married to an English husband with two grown up children. A powerful urban drama with a wonderful central female role.

Notes:
This angry and funny play was given several revivals, most notably by the Royal Exchange and Moores own production at The Gate Theatre Notting Hill , with an original soundtrack by Ben Watkins and Youth ( of the band Killing Joke which was released as an album )

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Organisations:
Soho Theatre Company

1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays" published by Aurora Metro 2002   978-0953675722

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Treatment

Treatment
Liam is part of a violent street gang but wants to escape. Encounters with a young woman and a Catholic priest change his life. Trapped between two worlds, he must choose between the dark allure of violence and the healing power of love

Notes:
This play was very well received by audiences and public alike. It is poetic, angry violent, spiritual and ritualistic. It was filmed by BBCtv starring Gabriel Byrne and Moore.

1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival    Aug 1981

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays" published by Aurora Metro 2002   978-0953675722

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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