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Mark O'Thomas

MARK O'THOMAS

  
Nationality:    British
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One of the few playwrights working in the devised Theatre domain, O'thomas's Time Out Critics' Choice Piranha Lounge best demonstrates his use of the interplay between text and physical performance. He is actively engaged in research into the writer's role.

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below is a list of Mark O'Thomas's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         147         Agreste - Drylands         Almost Nothing         At the Table         Book of Disquiet         Chet Baker: Speedball         Dona Flor & Her Two Husbands         Down Dog         False Feeding         Food For Thought         Maria Alves         One Four Seven         Piranha Lounge, The         Portugal         Salvador         Tia Maria         Viva Maria!
147

Synopsis:
OneFourSeven explores the memories and recollections of Angelo Walker, a young immigration officer who tries to come to terms with the onset of a serious illness. Through a series of waiting rooms, the audience are presented with colourful and poignant moments from the life history of one man and his family

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Agreste - Drylands

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In the drylands of a secluded land, a man and woman see each other across a fence and fall in love. Moreno's play won the Shell Prize for Best Play and Best Director in 2005 in his native Brazil and here the storytelling form provides an incredibly open forum for devised performance.

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by Newton Moreno

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Almost Nothing

Synopsis:
Antonio and Sara are being playful as they prepare to go to bed, but they cannot ignore what lurks outside. In a world where a life can mean almost nothing, just how far does one have to go to keep the demons at bay?

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Original Playwright - Marcos Barbosa

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At the Table

Synopsis:
six men's lives collide in a web of fear, duty and responsibility. Encounters twenty years apart show the reverberations from an undisclosed incident as Luis and Marcio try to come to terms with their past.

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Original Playwright - Marcos Barbosa

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Book of Disquiet

Synopsis:
Listed as one of the Guardian's top 100 books of all time, Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet was discovered in a trunk in his apartment in Lisbon after his death in 1935. Part novel, part memoir, part philosophical meditation on the futility of living, Pessoa's Livro defies definition and endures as a testament to modernist writing. Why do I feel strangely drawn to the kind of people I'd usually run a mile from? Religious fundamentalists, for example. At least those guys make an effort. they yearn for what they really don't know. the rest of us cross the stage as walk-ons, extras, without any lines. Satisfied with the pompous solemnity of the crossing itself.

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Translated And Adapted by Mark O'thomas from Fernando Pessoa's novel Livro do Desassossego

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Chet Baker: Speedball

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A performative response to the life of Chet Baker, inspired by his music, images and musical scores of the time. Nine scenes each take a piece of music and reveal a segment of Baker's life, re-imagined and re-presented in a jazz cocktail.

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606 Jazz Club     20 Nov 2007

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London Jazz Festival 2007

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Post-modern theatre, jazz

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Dona Flor & Her Two Husbands

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takes place in the Brazilian city of Salvador. It tells the story of a woman torn between the ghost of her passionate but relentlessly unreliable first husband, Vadinho, and the second - the attentive, studious yet sexually redundant Teodoro. Each of the husbands represents two different worlds, two approaches to love and life.

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from Jorge Amado novel

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Down Dog

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False Feeding

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Food For Thought

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Maria Alves

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One Four Seven

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Piranha Lounge, The

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Give the password at the door and you too can become a patron of the Piranha Lounge. It's a gjostly down-at-heel joint with stuffed toys and curious winged creatures mounted on the walls and a reular cast of lovelorn desperados gathered around its card table. - Shore, Time Out London

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Version of magic realist Murilo Rubiao Stories

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Portugal

Synopsis:
International writers join up with their British counterparts to bring their experiences to the Royal Court. What is life really like for those living in todays austerity. Daily dispatches from Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain will invade the Jerwood theatre Upstairs. "With unemployment reaching almost 30% in Greece, soup kitchens springing up and immigrants being physically assaulted by Neo-Nazis on a regular basis it seems like the right time to put the lives of those affected by the eurozone crisis centre-stage at the Royal Court. Collaborating with writers from the countries on the frontline of austerity and using a variety of theatrical forms we will bring the PIIGS into the heart of London for a week of tragedy, comedy and rage" - Alexi Kaye Campbell, Playwright

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Sandra Pinheiro (Lisbon), April De Angelis (London), Translated by Mark OThomas

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Salvador

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Tia Maria

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Viva Maria!

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