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Philip Ralph

PHILIP RALPH

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Julia Tyrell Management  represented by Julia Tyrell

Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, Currently developing a single event piece for Hat Trick/C4 about 7/7 and a feature film with Kevin Macdonald attached to direct, via Young Films. Recent television credits include episodes of HOLBY CITY and DOCTORS. Phils play DEEP CUT, commissioned by Sherman Theatre, was a hit at Edinburgh in 2008 and received four star reviews across the board winning a Fringe First and a Herald Angel. Mark Lawson said "Never before have I been so moved, or enraged, by a play..." The play was picked up and developed as a feature script by Revolution Films. In 2005 Phil starred in a one-man show HITTING FUNNY (produced by Volcano Theatre), which he also wrote, which toured the UK and played for 3 weeks at the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Fringe. He was a writer on attachment at Soho Theatre in 2002 and his first play MR NOBODY premiered there in June 2003. Phil graduated as an actor from RADA in 1992.

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

         Deep Cut         Hitting Funny         Mr Nobody         One Eyed Man Project, The

Deep Cut

Synopsis:
Don't embellish. Don't exaggerate. Tell the truth. Stick to it.' 18 year old Private Cheryl James from Llangollen was one of four young soldiers who died from gunshot wounds at Deepcut Barracks between 1995 and 2002. Cheryl's parents wanted answers from the people responsible for their daughter's care. But how do you begin to grieve when no-one seems to have a proper explanation? What would give you the determination to continue asking awkward, demanding questions? Taken from original source material and powerful first hand testimonies, Deep Cut is a bold and compelling account of one family's journey through a time they thought they'd never experience, to places they hoped they'd never be.

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Sherman Cymru

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Genre:
verbatim play

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Hitting Funny

Synopsis:
Hitting Funny is a provocatively filthy one-man show about a stand-up comic on the ropes. Comedian Chris Rich pushes humour beyond its acceptable limits in the search for an authentic voice. A dark, funny, twisted, moving play, exploring what we choose to laugh at and why. Serious comic theatre for adults only. From sport to sex, from paedophilia to coprophilia, from Al Qaeda to President Blair - join Chris Rich at the end of a gruelling nationwide tour, as he brings his hilarious new show, Things I Don't Understand, to the world's Comedy Capital.

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Volcano Theatre

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Solo Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mr Nobody

Synopsis:
Tommy has lost his memory. When a woman comes forward claiming she's his wife, he says he doesn't know her.Who is telling the truth?

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Play/Drama

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One Eyed Man Project, The

Synopsis:
Recipient of an Arts Council Wales Creative Wales Award for 2011, Philip Ralph - award winning writer of Deep Cut and associate artist with Swansea's Volcano theatre Company - will present a series of totally improvised, unscripted spoken word performances in Swansea and Cardiff in May and June 2011. Working in spaces that have never been performed in before, the aim is to explore if it is possible for the worlds of stand-up comedy, performance art and theatre to collide to create something totally unique - a forum for people to share and vent their deepest fears, worries, joys, hates and loves through the medium of a performer. Each performance of the One Eyed Man Project will be unique and will take as its source material the events of the day just gone - not just in the wider world, but in the lives of the performers and audience. Phil comments: Lately we have never seemed to be so close together and yet so far apart as people. So, this project is an experiment to see if it is possible to offer performances that work specifically for the group of people in the audience at that time - and which speaks directly and specifically to their concerns, worries, fears and needs. As a performer, one always works for the audience but never more clearly than in this case. I'm trying to have a conversation - as all performers are - and the experiment is reliant upon the raw materials of performer and audience meeting together in a space.
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Noah's Yard, Uplands, Swansea    18 May 2011

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Genre:
improvised piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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