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Gordon Steel

GORDON STEEL

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Alan Brodie Representation Ltd  

Gordon Steel burst on to the Theatre-scene with his first play, DEAD FISH, which won a Fringe First Award at the 1993 Edinburgh Festival. It toured nationally and was the beginning of a fruitful relationship with Hull Truck Theatre. Since then Gordon has written LIKE A VIRGIN, STUDS, A PAIR OF BEAUTIES, ALBERT NOBBS, KISSING MARRIED WOMEN, A KICK IN the BAUBLES and WILDE BOYZ for Hull Truck Theatre. Gordon is also the author of JUMPING the WAVES which was commissioned for the opening of the Arc Theatre. Gordon has also worked extensively as a director, and directed the premieres of LIKE A VIRGIN, A PAIR OF BEAUTIES, DEAD FISH, STUDS, ALBERT NOBBS and KISSING MARRIED WOMEN. .For television, Gordon wrote COCK AND BULL which was included in the ChAnnel Four Sitcom Festival. He is currently developing some new ideas for television, including an adaptation of STUDS. Gordon is a lifelong supporter of Middlesborough Football Club.

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

         Albert Nobbs         Cock & Bull         Dead Fish         Grow Up Grandad         Jumping the Waves         Kick In the Baubles, A         Kissing Married Women         Like A Virgin         Pair Of Beauties         Studs         Wilde Boyz

Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs is not enjoying his retirement - he is bored out of his mind and endlessly nagged by wife Connie. then Connie dies in a road accident and Albert must face life without her. But Connie returns as a ghost and sets about organising things for Albert - including setting him up with her best friend Rose

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Black comedy

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Cock & Bull

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Dead Fish

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Edinburgh Festival     01 Aug 1993

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Grow Up Grandad

Grow Up Grandad
Poppy is eleven and has attitude. When she finds herself living with her cantankerous grandfather, a man she neither likes or loves all hell breaks loose. Something of a hermit, a man living in the past who sees very little good in anything or anybody, Ken is suddenly and unexpectedly confronted by a tornado of energy who can't sit still and asks too many questions. He is a man with no television, no computer and no patience, and while their relationship is volatile it's also very funny and strewn with moments of real tenderness. Grow up Grandad is an inter-generational story that deals with love and loss, hope and sadness as the relationship between Poppy a Grandad is first thrown together and eventually torn apart.

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Arc, Stockton-On-Tees     03 Sep 2015

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Steelworks Theatre Company

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Josef Weinberger Ltd (2016) >>>    978-0856763625

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Jumping the Waves

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the story of an impending marriage through the eyes of a disillusioned mother, excited daughter and stage night antics.

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Arc, Stockton-On-Tees     13 Jan 1999

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Kick In the Baubles, A

Kick In the Baubles, A
tale of tinsel strewn Drama

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Josef Weinberger 2007   978-0856767949

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Kissing Married Women

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Like A Virgin

Like A Virgin
A romp through the bubble-gum years of teenage life. Angela and Mazine, besotted with Madonna, play truant from school, form a band, attempt to write songs and, with haribrushes in hand, live out their adolescent dreams of becoming famous. Meanwhile Angela's mother, Viv, struggles to come to terms with her marriage break-up and her daughter's explosive lifestyle, as the play rollercoasters through hope, sex, ambition, despair, and, most of all, love.

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Pegasus Theatre, Oxford     18 Sep 1998

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Oberon, London, 2000   978-1840021400

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Pair Of Beauties

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Take two modern day girls of questionable intelligence and add the prospect of fame through becoming a model and you have the plot of this play. Whether it was worth the effort of writing the play in the first place is solely the opinion of the audience that views the play. In this case the audience at the Hull Truck theatre thought it was, as they reacted to the comedy written into the script. Whether it's everyone's cup of tea is open to question. It's one of those plays you have to try and then make your own opinion.

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Studs

Studs
This football match started late and ran into extra time. Yes, Studs is about football and all that is imagined goes on off the pitch, but is it true to life? probably, almost certainly not, but Gordon Steel the author has seized on isolated incidents and made an entertaining play from them. Get past the swearing and you get the time honoured story of relationships.

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Wilde Boyz

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Harry's wife has a passion for Bobby Diamond. Bobby is doing very well on a reality television talent show - even though he is not a very good singer. So Harry forms a pop group with some friends even though they can't sing either - because if Bobby can succeed why not them?

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