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Paul Sirett

PAUL SIRETT

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Independent Talent Group Limited  

His theatrical work includes: A Night in Tunisia, World Apart, This Other Eden. He had worked as a Dramaturg on over 50 productions including West End (Vaudeville), Edinburgh International Festival (Royal Lyceum), Soho Theatre Company, Royal Court and Theatre Royal Stratford East. He also worked for the BBC radio and TV as a writer.

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         Bad Blood Blues         Beauty And The Beast         Big Life, The         Clear White Light         Come Dancing         Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, A         CrUSAde         Ghosts In The Gallery         International Cafe         Iron Man, The         Jack and the Beanstalk         Jamaica House         Lush Life         Mandelson Files, The         Mods and Rox         Night In Tunisia, A         Peter Pan         Rat Pack Confidential         Reasons To be Cheerful         Running the Silk Road         Skaville         This Other Eden         Worlds Apart
Bad Blood Blues

Bad Blood Blues
Bad Blood Blues is a powerfullu intense new play that leads us deep into a personal and sexual moral maze while confronting the ethics of HIV/AIDS drug trials in Africa

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Play/Drama. - - AIDS, full length

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Beauty And The Beast

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A popular panto long before it got the Disney treatment. Get ready for some spectacular festive fun as Theatre Royal Stratford East brings you an enchanting new version of this timeless classic. Join Belle on her magical adventures across a strange unfamiliar land. Will our heroine rescue the Beast and save the day, or will the evil witch get her wicked way and ruin all our happy ever afters? This Christmas Beauty & The Beast gets the Theatre Royal Stratford East Treatment in a production that is sure to entertain and delight audiences of all ages. Bursting with great sets, brilliant songs and sensationally slick choreography, this show is the perfect Christmas treat for the whole family.

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pantomime

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Big Life, The

Big Life, The
Think about it. Think what you could achieve without women in your life. If all the time you spent on them, you spent on yourself. Think how much money you could save. Think how much aggravation you could avoid. Journeying over from the West Indies to England, Ferdy, Lennie, Dennis and Bernie are all eager to make successes of themselves and take full advantage of what they think the Big Life has to offer. So they pledge to abstain from women for three years. But Mary, Kathy, Zuleika and Sybil have other ideas. they know that man cannot live by bread alone! Will the men stick with their idea of the Big Life, or will Cupid have the final say?

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book And lyrics by Paul Sirett music by Paul Joseph

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Genre:
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Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Clear White Light

Clear White Light
Alison is heading to her first shift at St Nicholas s Hospital in Gosforth. She's nervous. It's a night shift on an all-male psychiatric unit and she hasn't finished her training yet. But Rod, the senior Staff Nurse, seems to know what to do. Take a deep breath. . .

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based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Fall of the House of Usher

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adaptation

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Come Dancing

Synopsis:
slice of nostalgia for the dance halls of the fifties.

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story music And lyrics by Ray Davies; book by Ray Davies And Paul Sirett

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Genre:
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Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, A

Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, A
A fast-paced road trip on black ice awaits. . .Coming down from a drug-fuelled party, two strangers find themselves hitchhiking and hijacking their way across Poland, as they try to find their way back to reality.

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Original Playwright - Dorota Maslowska. Translated by Lisa Goldman And Paul Sirett. (performed in Polish Warsaw, 2006)

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Genre:
translation

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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CrUSAde

CrUSAde
In CrUSAde a group of Western tourists break down in the West Bank, reacting in different ways to their situation

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Ghosts In The Gallery

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A young woman at the Portrait Gallery at closing time rushes to see her favourite painting which is of Anne Boleyn. As she looks at it hands come out of the painting and grab her

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Polka Theatre, London    

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International Cafe

International Cafe
the short play International Cafe which brings together the stories of a restaurant's staff and customers, and was specifically written to be performed in restaurants.

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Iron Man, The

Synopsis:
Hogarth and his mates gather in a scrap yard to recount the remarkable tales of the IRON MAN. Once upon a time, but not too long ago, the unexpected arrival of the IRON MAN cast a shadow of fear across our small farm community. Together we struggled to trap this giant foe and stop his insatiable hunger for metal. But, when an enormous dragon from outer space threatened to annihilate our planet, it was the IRON MAN who valiantly came to our rescue. Against a backdrop of celestial soundscapes, a deaf and disabled ensemble spins this compelling story with words, signs and an audio descriptive narrative. the Iron Man is a colossal narrative that emerges from the shadows and takes to the air.

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adapted from Ted Hughes

1st Produced:
Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Millennium Plain     12 May 2011

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Graeae Theatre Company

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Jack and the Beanstalk

Synopsis:
Join Jack on an adventure of a lifetime as he climbs his way into a world of ugly ogres, harp shaped divas, Chicken tap dancers and an enormous spider-organ. An unrivalled panto experience. . . expect lots of loud raucous fun, laughter, songs and plenty of chance to join in!

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Paul Sirett with original music and lyrics by Wayne Nunes and Perry Melius

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pantomime

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Jamaica House

Jamaica House
two characters in a tower block that is due to be demolished shortly, deciding whether their lives are worth leaving the building for.

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Wickham House E1, London     1998

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Lush Life

Lush Life
Lotte is a club singer from Newcastle, who's spent a lifetime singing the songs of Ella Fitzgerald. With two kids to support she sings by night and works by day to make ends meet. After a series of bad relationships, Lotte meets Michael, a charismatic art dealer from London and her luck seems to have changed for the better. But when he disappears without explanation, she follws him to America where she must make a pilgrimage of her own. Beside the grave of Ella Fitzgerald, the extraordinary events and scenes of Lotte's life are revealed.

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Mandelson Files, The

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BAC , London >>>     1998

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Mods and Rox

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Mod, Cyril battle the Rockers on Brighton Beach and at Regent Street Underground station. His friend Christiano is in love with Rox and asks Cyril to help him. But Cyril secretly adores Rox

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New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich    

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Night In Tunisia, A

Night In Tunisia, A
plays on a stage split between past and present, and describes the fall of a great jazz musician through self-doubt and guilt.

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Peter Pan

Synopsis:
Step through the gates of Williamson Park and fly, with Peter and Wendy, into Neverland. It's the story we've always wanted to stage in the park. JM Barrie's tale of enchantment, magic and bravery; of pirates and fairies, sweethearts and sword fights. Peter Pan is one of the most popular stories in the history of British literature and this year the Dukes will create Neverland in the stunning surroundings of Williamson Park. Let your imagination fly as we take you on a wonderful adventure that will stay in your heart for years to come. Memories will be made, laughs will be had and the park will come alive this summer.

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from the play by J M Barrie

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Lancaster: Williamson Park     06 Jul 2010

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adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Rat Pack Confidential

Rat Pack Confidential
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. they were the most famous entertainers on the planet and they made the rules. their world was full of charisma, talent and charm, gambling, private jets, drink, drugs and girls to excess.

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from book by Shaun Levy

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Reasons To be Cheerful

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It's 1979. Ian Dury and the Blockheads' new single REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL (part 3) is climbing the charts. Labour has just lost the recent election to the Tories. Vinnie and his mates are big Ian Dury fans and they are desperate to see him at the Hammersmith Odeon but the gig is sold out. Vinnie will do anything to get tickets, but life is complicated. His dad is dying; the girl he loves is going out with his boss at the supermarket, and his own band never stops fighting. But the opportunity to get tickets for the gig arises and events take a surprising turn. Set during a time of political change and economic hardship, Dury's songs provide a powerful political and emotional backdrop to this coming-of-age tale.

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  11            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Running the Silk Road

Running the Silk Road
In the year of the Beijing Olympics, a group of friends from London set themselves an epic challenge - to run the ancient Silk Road trading route to China, carrying an 'alternative' Olympic flame. Once on the road, complications and conflict test friendships and soon threaten their chances of success. Weaving in and out of the contemporary story are magical and timeless Chinese myths

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Skaville

Skaville
about desire, escape, violence and music in the late seventies, as a stranger arrives in town to transform the fortunes of a lonely man's record shop.

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This Other Eden

This Other Eden
This Other Eden portrays the disastrous personal and political divisions within a classical string quartet.

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Duke Of Cambridge, London     1994

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Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart interweaves the fates of five detainees and the officers handling them, with the Tibetan folk tale of Sukyi Nyima

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