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Dan Rebellato

DAN REBELLATO  (1968 - )

 Nationality:    English
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Playwright and academic Dan Rebellato is currently Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he teaches British Theatre, playwriting, theory and philosophy, contemporary Theatre, and music & performance. His plays include Static (Suspect Culture & Graeae, 2008), Heres What I Did With My Body One Day (Lightwork, 2005/6), Chekhov in Hell (PlymouthDrum, 2010), Mile End (Analogue, 2007), Beachy Head (Analogue, 2009), Theatremorphosis (Suspect Culture & CCA, 2009), Outright Terror Bold and BrilliANT (NYT/Soho, 2006) and A Modest Adjustment (National Theatre, 2006).

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         #TAG2012         Beachy Head         Chekhov in Hell         Chicks With Flicks         Futurology - A Global Revue         He Sees You When You're Sleeping         Here's What I Did With My Body One Day         I Am Joseph Stalin         Manchester         Mile End         Modest Adjustment, A         Outright Terror Bold and Brilliant         Playlist - New Plays Inspired by Festive Tunes         Rival Queens, The         Showstopper         Static         ThatcherWrite         theatremorphosis         Whistleblower

#TAG2012

Synopsis:
For the last six months, Daniel Bye and I have been secretly writing a play for all the world to see. #tag2012 is a durational Drama, unfolding in real time, existing, at the moment, entirely through social media and the internet. Since roughly September 2011, we have been tweeting unadvertised as various different characters on Twitter. Slowly a story has been emerging from these characters. Some of them have blurred into the non-fictional world, interacting with real people, or being taken as real. I won't list who the characters are; we want people to stumble over them. What do we know? People are disappearing. Mark Yates is the only person who sees the pattern. the government is unconcerned. Of course they are, because Mark Yates is a crank. Or is he? But still people are disappearing: Katherine Rusholme, Crabapple, Trudi Weller, Tam Jones, Sabrina Adeoye, Sarah Fry, Jennie Harris, Anna Foster, Penny Bowles, Brian Jonson, Nick Mercer, Bartley Castle, the list of the disappeared goes on and on. #Tag2012 is a Pilot theatre production in collaboration with Marcus Romer. - http://www.danrebellato.co.uk/Site/Plays/Entries/2012/3/11_tag2012.php

Notes:
written by Dan Rebellato and Daniel Bye

1st Produced:
-    11 Mar 2012

Organisations:
Pilot Theatre

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Beachy Head

Beachy Head
It's been a month since Stephen stepped over the edge. there was no sign - no warning. Amy collects her husband's effects, the things he had with him gathered in a single box. As memories of their last night together rewind, replay and unravel, she is desperate to find out why. Joe and Matt are making a documentary. Whilst reviewing their footage they make a startling discovery that will take their film in an unexpected direction - the blurred image of a man jumping from the cliffs. Beachy Head is a powerful look at the ripple effects of one man's decision. Mixing text, 3D animation and a dynamic physicality,

Notes:
script by Dan Rebellato, Emma Jowett And Lewis Hetherington, Hannah Barker, Liam Jarvis; devised by Analogue

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Organisations:
Analogue/the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich/Escalator East to Edinburgh

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London (2011) >>>    978-1849430128

Music:
-

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Piece

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXXI (2011) Page 0128

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Chekhov in Hell

Chekhov in Hell
I don't know who he is but he's old, he's got to know stuff&he's got to be like wise and stuff yeah? Anton Chekhov, masterful playwright and mirror to Russian society, awakening from one hundred years of sleep, is thrust rudely into twenty first century Britain. Reality shows, fashionistas, Z-list celebrities, illegal immigrants, chuggers and wags. Pole dancing, YouTube, Twitter and 5-a-day. Chekhov in Hell takes you on a whirlwind tour of modern day Britain.

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London (2010) >>>    978-1849431033

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXX (2010) Page 1310; http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXXI (2011) Page 0444

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Chicks With Flicks

Synopsis:
purporting to be a lecture on the 'flick' hairstyle, a series of preposterous mini-lectures introduce songs by various 70s/80s flick-wearing pop stars.

Notes:
written by Jackie Clune And Dan Rebellato

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Guy Chapman Productions

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Music:
-

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Genre:
Stand-up comedy show with music

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Futurology - A Global Revue

Synopsis:
lt is the 14th UN Conference of the Future, and the subject is climate change. the delegates have gathered at their Perspex desks to hammer out a Kyoto-style agreement. but they seem more interested in national rivalries, free-market enterprise and post-conference sex than saving the planet. Only the poor woman from a sinking Pacific island 465 miles south of Fiji has any sense of urgency, and she is as powerless as the rioting mob on the streets outside the meeting room. What turns a white-collar satire into extraordinary theatre is the repeated segues into flamboyant cabaret in Graham Eatough's production for Suspect Culture and the National theatre of Scotland. When the delegates aren't pontificating behind laptops. they are stepping out into tangos, torch songs or gymnastic routines. When they can't settle on a joint manifesto, they break into a rousing sing-along worthy of Chitty Chilly Bang Bang. the procrastination continues while Rome burns, the company presenting a heightened vision of a species running headless into the unknown. uncertain whether to celebrate humanity's gift for artistry and spectacle, or to put an end to mankind for fear of a frightening future. the apocalyptic conclusion shows our egotistical, vainglorious and confused actions for the pathetic gestures they are, though the play's political ambivalence adds more to our eco--confusion than it clarifies.
- Mark Fisher, Guardian

Notes:
script devised David Greig And Dan Rebellato

1st Produced:
Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), Glasgow    10 Apr 2007

Organisations:
National Theatre of Scotland, Suspect Culture and the Brighton Festival

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Music:
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Genre:
comic musical

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  10            Other:  -

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He Sees You When You're Sleeping

Synopsis:
An affluent couple are surprised to read in the newspaper that Santa Claus is coming to town. This leads them to question their relationship, their jobs and their lives. Have they been bad or good? And what will the consequences be?

Notes:
This play is written for PLAYlist a regular portmanteau theatre season, where writers are asked to write plays inspired by particular songs on a certain theme; the stipulation is that the plays should be the same length as the songs. This play, based on the Crystals Santa Claus is Coming to Town, was performed as part of the PLAYlist Christmas edition, at theatre503, South London. It was directed by Derek Bond and performed by Simon Darwen, Abigail Andjel and Santa Claus Himself.

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Here's What I Did With My Body One Day

Synopsis:
Paul Ree's father is French, though he's never visited France because of a family curse. the curse is that they kill French intellectuals in road accidents. Now Paul is a respected Genome scientist and when he is invited to Paris for a symposium on Junk DNA, he takes his father with him. His father soon goes missing and the ghosts of the family's intellectual victims swirl around them, offering testimonies of their lives, as Paul follows a trail of clues to discover a long-hidden family secret.

Notes:
conceived by Andy Lavender; devised by Lightwork Company; written by Dan Rebellato

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Organisations:
Lightwork

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-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 1328; http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVI (2006) Page 0092

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I Am Joseph Stalin

Synopsis:
Stalin's double is woken from his tomb by the hardliners' coup in the Soviet Union in 1991. He recounts his life story; kidnapped from his family home when Stalin became fearful of assassination in the 1930s, he was operated on, his family killed, and he stood in for Stalin at a series of meetings, culminating in the Yalta Peace Conference, at which he realises that Truman and Churchill are also their doubles

Notes:
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Organisations:
London City Theatre

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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XIV (1994) Page 0467

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Manchester

Synopsis:
Two delegates at the 2010 Labour Party Conference in Manchester meet and come up to a hotel room for a quick dirty fuck. He's nervous; she's less so. their reflections on the future of the party give way to a faltering attempt at sexual role play, which takes its own strange turn.

Notes:
Part of Miniaturists 27 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mile End

Synopsis:
Cinematic, explosive and haunting. Analogue take the audience on a devastating journey, inspired by the real life 2002 story of a man who pushed a commuter in front of a tube train in the rush hour. www.analogueproductions.co.uk

Notes:
written by Lewis Hetherington, Emma Jowett And Don Rebellato

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Analogue

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  3

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVIII (2008) Page 0120

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Modest Adjustment, A

Synopsis:
This was a short play based on Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal' which satirically suggested simultaneously curing Ireland's overpopulation and famine by encouraging the Irish to eat babies. In this reworking of the theme, a negotiating team from the World Bank and IMF meet the two senior ministers in an African country and suggest that they farm their children for a global market in human meat. the play is short - around 30 minutes - and was written for the National theatre's G8 Season which ran up to the G8 Summit in Gleneagles in July 2005. the play was performed at the National theatre on the Olivier stage. It was directed by Toby Frow and starred Tom Hollander, Patrick Robinson, Nigel Lindsay, Ian Gelder, and Tanya Moodie. the play was revived (pictured) at the Ohio theatre, New York, as part of Synapse Productions' Ignite season of political Drama. It was described asa 'gem' by the New York Times, and who am I to disagree? - http://www.danrebellato.co.uk/Site/Plays/Entries/2005/6/27_A_MODEST_ADJUSTMENT.php

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Outright Terror Bold and Brilliant

Synopsis:
This was a short play, written in response to the 7/7 London bombings, performed by the National Youth theatre in August 2005, directed by John Hoggarth. It formed part of a three-week season of NYT Shorts, short plays all on the subject of Young People at War', performed at the Soho theatre. John asked me to write this after seeing A Modest Adjustment at the National. I didn't immediately know what I'd write about but then, a few days later, the bombs erupted in London and I felt I couldn't write about anything else. the play has four parts to it. (a) an edited version of the messageboard for the boyband Blue on the morning of 7/7/2005. Blue were due to play that evening at Wembley and the board shows a move from excitement, to fear that the show will be cancelled, to dawning horror and sympathy for the deaths being reported, often expressed in strings of emoticons; (b) a group of fairground designers try to imagine the most terrifying ride possible; (c) a girl gang recall how they managed to bring down a bus; (d) a girl recalls her morning routine. the production was exquisite, one of my most cherished memories of productions of my work. the cast were creative, weird, sassy and funny. they took to the weird dialogue with enormous enthusiasm. John made the Blue messageboard as a kind of chorus, beginning with everyone separate on separate computer keyboards, but then, as the horror sinks in, forming themselves as a community, the keyboards passing between them balletically, to the sound of Blur's 'sweet Song'. the cast was Sally Crawshaw, Rachel Denning, Rory Girvan, Tom Henry, Andrew Kaye, Sam Lindsay, Nadine Milner-Edwards, Simon Smith, Jade Walker. - www.danrebellato.co.uk/Site/Plays/Entries/2005/8/31_OUTRIGHT_TERROR_BOLD_AND_BRILLIANT.php

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1st Produced:
National Youth theatre    Aug 2005

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-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Playlist - New Plays Inspired by Festive Tunes

Synopsis:
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Notes:
This Christmas, Theatre503 presents a special festive edition of its ever-popular PLAYlist. Eight new plays by eight writers, each inspired by a song.

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Genre:
short play

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Rival Queens, The

Synopsis:
the rivalry between Alexander the Great's two wives, Roxana and Statira, unleashes a chain of consequences that leads to Alexander's downfall and death

Notes:
Original Playwright - Nathaniel Lee

1st Produced:

Organisations:
I'm a Camera

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXI (2001) Page 1559

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Showstopper

Synopsis:
Loosely inspired by the story of Marni Nixon, it's the story of a voice-over artist who dubs the singing voices for some performers in some of the great Hollywood musicals - Natalie Wood in West Side Story, Deborah Kerr in the King and I, and Audrey Hepbu

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Arts, London    07 Jan 1997

Organisations:
Guy Chapman Productions

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-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Static

Static
Static is a story of a young woman has lost her husband. Discovering a compilation tape that he made but never gave her, she becomes convinced it contains a secret message. What could the tape mean; and is he trying to communicate with her from beyond the grave? Static fuses music, dialogue, sign language and audio description to explore our complex response to love and loss. It is steeped in a love of music from Sonic Youth to the Smiths, the Ramones to the Rakes and from Girls Aloud to the Goodies.

Notes:
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Organisations:
Suspect Culture and Graeae

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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVIII (2008) Page 0477

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ThatcherWrite

Synopsis:
Loved. Loathed. Lastingly influential. She gave us the right to buy, whilst taking our children's milk; marched some proudly to war, whilst driving others to riot; was honoured by the pomp and regalia of a ceremonial funeral whilst mocked as a burning effigy on the pyre. the Iron Lady who wasnt for turning continues to divide the nations hearts and minds like no other figure in living memory.

Notes:
part of A Festival of Plays Inspired by Margaret Thatcher. In response to the national conversation surrounding Thatchers death, theatre503 has invited a broad spectrum of writers to write a series of short plays looking back at Margaret Thatcher - the woman, the politics and her legacy.

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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theatremorphosis

Synopsis:
Durational performance iteration performed by Stephanie Black, Laurie Brown, Cindy Derby, Maryam Hamidi, Lewis Hetherington, Damien Hughes, Jenny Hulse and Chris Scott.With special thanks to Emma Jowett, Dan Tobin, Nick Moseley and Andy Lavender at Central School of Speech and Drama and Abi Unwin-Smith

Notes:
part of a new collaboration, Stage Fright, an exhibition exploring the nature of theatricality

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Organisations:
Suspect Culture

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-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 0381

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Whistleblower

Synopsis:
A soldier is back from a tour of duty in a foreign war with a terrible story to tell. A young military policewoman has been waiting for the opportunity to make a stand in favour of human rights.

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Genre:
presentation of a work in progress

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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