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Stephen Papps

STEPHEN PAPPS  

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Stephen Papp's breakthrough role was his award-winning turn as Firpo in Ian Mune's 1992 feature film The End of the Golden Weather. Most recently he has once again teamed with Stephen Sinclair to shoot the feature film Russian Snark (Working title) which is still in post production. Of Blowing It Papps says: "In 1997 I was looking to research the undercover world in New Zealand - I wanted the play to be about an undercover cop. I believed the covertness and therefore loneliness of that world suited the one man show format. So I approached a friend of mine who was an ex-undercover and interviewed him extensively. Stephen (Sinclair) and I then got together and wrote it up as Blowing It. The main strength of the play is to show the actor having to engage all his skills of story-telling, mime and mimicry. Another inspiration for the play piece is the universality of its themes: Loyalty; loneliness; the paradoxes inherant in being an undercover agent and the fear that goes along with doing a life-threatening job."

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

 Blowing It         Third Person Tense

Blowing It

Synopsis:
A brilliant comic portrayal of a multitude of criminal low-lives, from both sides of the law. Follow an undercover cop as he goes seriously off the rails. Mike Fahey, police constable, penetrates the pub underworld of petrol-heads, perverts, pit-bulls and loses the plot at the Queens Arms, Panmure, where it's all goin' down: sex, drugs, violence, Mike goes under, Cheryl goes down, Anal is fingered, and Satan gets CPR! One man's struggle with betrayal and loss of identity that is also an hilarious, affectionate satire on the New Zealand public bar.

Notes:
written by Stephen Sinclair And Stephen Papps. In 1999 Stephen Sinclair directed co-writer Stephen Papps in the debut season of Blowing It which toured nationally before going on to the Edinburgh Festival in 2001, where it received 5 star reviews. It has since toured Australia And Europe.

1st Produced:
New Zealand    1999

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Genre:
Comedy

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Third Person Tense

Synopsis:
Riddled with self-referencing and even a hint of existentialism, Third Person, Tense! is a story shrouded in mystery and contradiction where matters of the heart are mapped on stage in both a comedic and a sorrowful light. Told by one man, direct to the audience, fiction seems to weave itself into the story-tellers life... and like life; no story is ever fully known. An actor wakes to find himself on the set of a theatre, confronted by an audience expecting a show. He has a hangover; a head-injury and a touch of amnesia. He's also very disturbed to find the prone body of a girl on the stage. He can't remember her and can't wake her. Then the phone rings...
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1st Produced:
Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland    16 Oct 2012

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Genre:
60 min piece

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