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Sebastian Rex

SEBASTIAN REX  

 Nationality:    British
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Sebastian Rex, a finalist for Best Director at the OffWestend.com Theatre Awards (2010) and current nominee for Best Choreographer (2012), is the Artistic Director for Acting Like Mad and Sebastian Rex Dance Group as well as being literary manager at the Space.

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

         $ellebrity         Beadie         Boy Dreams, The         Breakfasts         Broken Mirror         Dreamashers         Fulfil Me Fully, Phil         Hopeiness         Living With. . .         Meeting Yourself In Sumatra         Mind the Gap         Other Side of the Sunset         Patient Number Five         Playing With. . .         Snobs         Spare         Stage         Toy Boy         TragiComedy of Mac-Beth         Under the Bridge         Woyzeck, The         You Got It

$ellebrity

$ellebrity
A sharp satire dealing with modern commodities and questioning the ownership of celebrity culture. If celebrities sell themselves as a commodity, does the public not have the right to claim ownership of them? A star is tied to a chair in the basement by a girl who rents him out to a friend as a way of making her money back.

Notes:
-"Hilarious And Cheeky" (the Stage)

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Organisations:
Acting Like Mad

1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays By Sebastian Rex" published by Playdead Press   978-0957449138

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Genre:
satire, short play

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Beadie

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-    2012

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Boy Dreams, The

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Original Playwright - Hanoch Levin

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Translation

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Breakfasts

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-    2012

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Broken Mirror

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-    1994

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Dreamashers

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-    2011

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Fulfil Me Fully, Phil

Fulfil Me Fully, Phil
Suffering a minor existential crisis, Phil creates man. From that moment on, Phil hasn't got a moment's peace. Husband wants a wife, Wife wants a baby, Captain wants to kill, Chairman wants money, Doctor wants to cure, Whores have a penchant for caviar and Russian men, Fatso wants to eat and Sister Father to worship. Mankind's exhaustive demands are pretty hard to meet. As creations turn against creator, the play enters a new realm where fulfilment, purpose and satisfaction are fully tested -with alarming results. Witty, surreal and eerily relevant, Fulfil Me Fully, Phil inverts the wants and needs of our very make-up be it religion, reproduction, or excellent cake.

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Acting Like Mad

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Contained in: "Three Plays By Sebastian Rex" published by Playdead Press   978-0957449138

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Genre:
play with songs

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Hopeiness

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-    2005

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Living With. . .

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Living With. . . is a symbolistic dark comedy tackling ideas of addiction, disease, trust, the choices we make and how they affect us. It tells the story of a man forced to leave his beautiful flat and move into a new flat with 3 hedonistic beings who torture each other and him. Will he be able to overcome his demons and learn to live with them, or will they beat the life out of him?

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". . .what is ingeniously managed throughout the play is the sharp comedy that comes from his torments, As when one of the play's three girls smashes A bottle over his head, or Another crams A fistful of cake into his ever-open mouth. these episodes come As excellent theatrical surprises." Jeremy Kingston (of the Times)

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Acting Like Mad

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Genre:
Dark comedy / one act-

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Meeting Yourself In Sumatra

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-    2000

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Mind the Gap

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A two-handed, one act play dissecting a male/female relationship through the interactions of both the couple themselves and their friends and family. Linked through the medium of London Underground platform announcements and games, they try to survive the gap in their lives.

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-"A fascinating And far from straight-forward play" (Running in Heels)

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Acting Like Mad

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Other Side of the Sunset

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-    2006

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Patient Number Five

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-    1997

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Playing With. . .

Playing With. . .
A double-bill of two one-act dark comedies where playing games is the only way of communication and violence is a necessity. the cast doubles in both plays.

Notes:
-"An oddly disturbing piece, At times very funny" (What's on Stage)

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Organisations:
Acting Like Mad

1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays By Sebastian Rex" published by Playdead Press   978-0957449138

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Genre:
Dark comedy

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Snobs

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-    2012

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Spare

Spare
How to screw up a society in 40,320 ways. . ."I don't care what causes things because caring won't do any good. there is no reason for anything. these things happened. they just did. Nothing caused them. they just happened" A raw, provocative and absurd look at power and control. the play is written in gender-neutral language, and is open for interpretation.

Notes:
A brave And daring new Approach to theatre (Total theatre)

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Organisations:
Acting Like Mad

1st Published:
Contained in: "The Woyzeck/Spare - Two Plays by Sebastian Rex" published by Playdead Press 2012   978-0957285965

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Stage

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-    1995

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Toy Boy

Synopsis:
the only purpose in the existence of Toby - an emotionless being who can only converse in rhyme - is to please others. However, as he falls in love and starts to develop his independence, the people who need him struggle to let him go until the tragic ending.

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-"and it is ideas of this sort, plus good use of swift scenes, that make Toy Boy An interesting, if finally puzzling work." Jeremy Kingston (of the Times)

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Acting Like Mad

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Genre:
Dark comedy / one act

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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TragiComedy of Mac-Beth

TragiComedy of Mac-Beth
In a small room, Mac and Beth sit. They type. Words. They long to find more meaning in their lives, looking to emulate their Supervisor, the Man Behind the Door. Into their world come Ste, Whit and Che; three childish creatures who prophesied that the couple will become great - if they are willing to kill for it. And so begins a journey into their worst nightmares. Based on Shakespeare's great tragedy, this sparse re-imagining is told with only five characters and set in the minds of a frustrated, sleep-deprived pair. The TragiComedy of Mac-Beth couples some of Shakespeare's most powerful verse with Rex's acerbic contemporary language. Reality and hallucination merge in this unique piece of theatre, as Mac and Beth begin to feel the vice-like grip of past sins and the harrowing consequences of murder

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Acting Like Mad

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Playdead Press 2013   978-0957679269

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Genre:
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Under the Bridge

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-    1996

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Woyzeck, The

Woyzeck, The
"Well, this was a fascinating case. A fantastical case, almost. A decent murder. A real murder. A wonderful murder. A true murder in all its senses. If I'm perfectly honest with you all, this is as lovely a murder as any of us could ever wish or hope to witness." the Woyzeck only wants to live his life and support his lover and their child. But society has other ideas for him. On the eve of Buchner's bicentenarary this modern interpretation of the play pits Woyzeck against all the other characters in his life who push him to the point of madness.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Georg Buchner

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Organisations:
Acting Like Mad

1st Published:
Contained in: "The Woyzeck/Spare - Two Plays by Sebastian Rex" published by Playdead Press 2012   978-0957285965

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Genre:
adaptation

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You Got It

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1st Produced:
-    2000

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