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James Phillips

JAMES PHILLIPS

  (1977 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Independent Talent Group Limited  

James Phillips is Lecturer in the School of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania

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

         Camelot: The Shining City         City Stories         Hidden In The Sand         McQueen         Rubenstein Kiss, The         White Whale, The         Wind In the Willows, The

Camelot: The Shining City

Camelot: The Shining City
Camelot: The Shining City is a modern re-telling of the myth of King Arthur

Notes:
written for a company of over 150 actors

1st Produced:
Shefield People's Theatre     09 Jul 2015

Organisations:
Slung low

1st Published:
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama   978-1474272742

Music:
-

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Genre:
epic story

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

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City Stories

City Stories
What happens when someone tells you that you re the answer to the riddle of life? What happens when a stranger in Starbucks gives you something that will change your world forever? What happens if the world starts to fall asleep, hour by hour? City Stories is a new type of cabaret drama, a sequence of interwoven love stories, and a love-letter to London. Composed up of five discrete yet interwoven stories, each taking the form of a monologue or duologue, and performed with specifically composed songs, City Stories looks at a variety of experiences of love and loss via a range of people living in the UK s capital. Elegantly written and beautifully constructed, these pieces look at the varieties of love and how it might save us, showing James Phillips s writing at his very best.

Notes:
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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (2 Feb. 2015)   978-1474245562

Music:
-

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Genre:
cabaret drama 60 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Hidden In The Sand

Hidden In The Sand
A passionate love story set between London and Cyprus. Alexandra, a refugee from the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, has made a home in London and cocooned herself from ghosts of the past. There, she meets Jonathan, an English classical scholar, who falls deeply in love with her. Against a backdrop of war and the partition of countries, can love overcome the grief of the past?

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Sally Humphreys Productions Ltd and Arden Entertainment

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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McQueen

McQueen
A beautiful and haunting voyage into the visionary imagination and dark dream world of the late Alexander McQueen, fashion's greatest contemporary artist. "I've got a 600-year-old elm tree in my garden. I made up a story: a girl lives in it and comes out of the darkness to meet a prince and becomes a queen." Alexander McQueen, 2008. A mysterious girl has been hiding in a tree in McQueen's Mayfair garden for the past eleven nights, secretly watching him as he struggles to find inspiration for his new collection. Tonight she climbs down and breaks into his house to steal a dress she could never afford to buy, in the hope of becoming someone special. He catches her, but instead of calling the police, he takes a chance and lets her stay. Together, they go out onto the streets of London and into the whirlwind of McQueen's life. As the girl begins to unravel before him, it becomes clear that she needs more than her dream dress to see her through the night. With its beauty, the world invites us all to live another day, and with each other, two troubled souls may just find the comfort they so desperately crave. This is a moving, poetic and unmissable insight into the fairytale landscape of McQueen's genius, as glimpsed at in his iconic fashion shows.

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Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
biographical play 95 min one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  ensemble dancers

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Rubenstein Kiss, The

Synopsis:
Retells the story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the American-Jewish couple who were found guilty of trying to pass on their country's nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union and sent to the electric chair in 1953.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Hampstead, London     17 Nov 2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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White Whale, The

Synopsis:
Slung Low's new version of Melville's Moby Dick. You are given a set of headphones. When you put them on you can hear all the actors like they're whispering in your ear. There's music too, a soundtrack. You take your place by the side of the canal and get ready to watch the action. It's not just a play, it's an adventure: and it's happening right in front of you. Live. In the future we hunt whales for the oil in their bodies. Just like they did in centuries past. The oil of a single whale can run an army for a week. This is new science. This is our future. So we send gangs of men out onto the dark, cold sea to bring back the things we need. The crew of the Pequod are going to sea because it's their job. But Ahab, captain of the Pequod, is not going to sea for the oil or for the money. Ahab is going for revenge. Revenge on the vast whale that took him down into the black depths of the ocean. Revenge on the greatest whale in all the oceans: a perfectly white whale. And Ishmael, a young man new to whaling, he's going to sea seeking a hunter's violence, trying to stop the thoughts of violence in his heart. And we are all going with them.

Notes:
written by James Phillips

1st Produced:
Beeston Festival     14 Jun 2014

Organisations:
Slung Low

1st Published:
Methuen Drama   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Wind In the Willows, The

Synopsis:
Toad, Badger, Mole and Rat are about to embark on an epic adventure. . . but little do they know it. Join these four friends as they find themselves fighting with the weasels of the wild wood, a much more sinister furry being, defending Toad Hall and their right to picnics, pickled eggs and lashings of cheese.

Notes:
from book by Kenneth Grahame

1st Produced:

Organisations:
NSDF10 Ensemble

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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