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Stuart Slade

STUART SLADE

  
Nationality:    British
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Playwright Stuart Slade is the creative director of a film company. He has worked with the Tricycle Theatre on several films (including one broadcast on BBC1), as well as with the Vaudeville Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket and the Royal Shakespeare Company; and has directed commercials for Hovis, French Connection, BT, Barclays, Fedex, Accenture and others. Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body is Stuart's first full length play. His first short play, the World's More Full of Weeping, was performed at a Rapid Write Response Night at Theatre503 earlier this year, also directed by Dan Pick.

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

         BU21         Cans         Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body

BU21

BU21
Six young people are caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in the heart of London. By turns terrifying, inspiring, brutal, heart-breaking and hilarious, BU21 is verbatim theatre from the very near future. Stuart Slade's play comprises six interlinking monologues.

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Kuleshov

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Genre:
modern drama, six monologues

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Cans

Cans
Jen's Dad is dead. To make matters worse, Uncle Len has made it his mission to help her get over it. Hiding from a very hostile world in a very shitty garage, Len and Jen down cider, drown mice, talk crap, mend cats, share painful secrets, tell appalling jokes, and try to work out whether either of them has any kind of future whatsoever.

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Nick Hern Books (6 Nov 2014)   -

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Genre:
comedy

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Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body

Synopsis:
A cellar in Afghanistan. Two soldiers and a TV news journalist have been taken hostage by Al-Qaeda. How do you face the obscene reality of your own imminent execution? there are three basic possibilities: total psychological collapse, pragmatic resignation, or chin up, move on, make the best of it, have a laugh. How do you kill time until the time you're killed?

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Vibrant 2013  A Festival of Finborough Playwrights

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