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ROGER SIMEON
(1978 - )Nationality: British
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BA (Hons) Philosophy (Universitat de Girona) and BA (Hons) Journalism (University of Stirling). Writer and playwright with plays premiered in Barcelona (Tu i Jo, Els Convidats, Il·lusions, Economia Fàcil: entrevista al senyor Rocamora, L'urna, L'emú, Egos), London (You and Me, Angeleta & Etelvina), New York (The Swings, The Kitchen) and Shanghai (Romeo and Juliet zai Shanghai). Collaborator of Revista de Letras, Núvol and Faaan! magazines with literature and theatre reviews. After winning several literary contests with his short stories (Premi Districte V, Premi Frederica Montseny, Premi Cercamón&) in 2010, Simeon wins the playwright contest Premi Boira with his play Tu i jo. The following year he premieres a version of this play directed by himself at Institut del Teatre de Vic (Barcelona) and since then the theatre productions and awards have not ceased.
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Angeleta and Etelvina kitchen, the Romeo and Juliet zai Shanghai swings, the You and MeAngeleta and Etelvina
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Puppetry version of the award winning play You and Me. And old couple face the long hours of their days talking about their past, their hopes, their dreams&
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Around the Glove
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Adult puppets
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An isolated street. Two characters unfamiliar to one another are waiting under the rain. Soon, they start talking to each other realizing that they share a common treat: loneliness.??From that point on, the audience learn the story of three characters who are surviving in a contemporary world feeling lonely despite being surrounded by people.?"We are all looking for someone", is the sort of mantra that keeps resounding in their conversations. But there's people who will do whatever it takes to overcome the solitude.??A tragic depiction of a society unable to establish real connections with the other human beings or to hold on happiness. But not everything is what it looks like.
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IATI Theater (New York)
10 Jun 2015
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IATI Theater
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Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageRomeo and Juliet zai Shanghai
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Two actors are getting ready for their performance of Romeo and Juliet in Shanghai but he wonders whether they could make the play a little more Chinese. So, what if Romeo was in fact an Italian laowai (expat) working for an IT company who falls in love with a Chinese ayi (cleaning lady)?
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23 Apr 2016
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Comedy
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Top of Pageswings, the
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A man and a woman meet up in a kid's play zone. What might seem a casual meeting, soon becomes the broken dialogue of two people who know each other too well and who are afraid to hurt themselves. So they talk about everything and nothing. They wander through random topics trying to avoid doing what they are supposed to do: talk about them.
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IATI Theater (New York)
06 Nov 2015
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IATI Theater
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absurdist
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Top of PageYou and Me
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Two elderly sisters in a foreign land live against the backdrop of a battered rug and a mountain of mysterious boxes. They share the intimacy of a life lived together careering between genuine affection and irritated annoyance. The pair shifts between hilarious defamation, tender reminiscing and pure madness. But amidst an ever-changing reality, is this behaviour just eccentricity or something more destructive?
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Written and translated by Roger Simeon, Adapted and directed by Bryony Shanahan. Performed in English with touches of Catalan, Spanish, physical comedy and song
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Little Soldier Productions
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physical comed
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