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Peter Straughan

PETER STRAUGHAN  (1968 - )

 Nationality:    British
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Gateshead-born writer Peter Straughan has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The film has also been nominated for a BAFTA for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay, and for the 2012 London Film Critics Circle Awards - Film of the Year, British Film of the Year, Screenwriter of the Year and the 2012 London Evening Standard Film Awards - Best Film.

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 Bones         Cold         Ghost of Federico Garcia Lorca Which Can Also Be Used as a Table         NE1         News From The Seventh Floor         Noir         Philosophers         Regime Change         Rhyme for Orange, A         When We Were Queens

Bones

Synopsis:
It''s the 1960s and we''re in the back of a porn cinema in Gateshead. Abel Stein takes a dislike to a cockney punter, knocks him out and stuffs him in a cupboard. Then they find out that the infamous Kray twins are in town. What do you do when you''ve inadvertently kidnapped England''s scariest man?

Notes:
Music Ollie Fox

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Vol XXII (2002) Page 0347

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Cold

Synopsis:
In the north of England, within the walls of a secure hospital, four young men have all been detained indefinitely for a range of barbarous and indecent acts. Reuben, Kellor and Grass are child killers, arsonists and defilers. But Stark is really mad - he believes they can play Beethoven's 15th. Cold is black comedy about a string quartet composed of disturbed and disturbing psychopathic young men. . .

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Ashton Group

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Ghost of Federico Garcia Lorca Which Can Also Be Used as a Table

Synopsis:
Lorca returns as a ghost. A witty kaleidoscope of vibrant, often disjunctive, imagery they explore Lorca's life and tragic death. From his friendship with Dali and Bunuel, to his role in the republic's travelling theatre company 'La Barraca' and his struggle for individual and sexual freedom in an age characterised by violent oppression.

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Organisations:
Foolsyard Theatre

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NE1

Synopsis:
life on Tyneside in the year 2000

Notes:
part of A show of 12 monologues

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Organisations:
Live Theatre Company

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Genre:
short monologue

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News From The Seventh Floor

Synopsis:
News from the Seventh Floor is inspired by and made for Clements, Watford's 100-year old department store. An audience of 30 will be invited on a night-time journey through the store, a familiar world made strange and eerie, whilst encountering characters and stories scattered through time. News from the Seventh Floor combines elements of film noir, classic ghost story and is informed by extraordinary stories from generations of Clements staff and customers.

Notes:
By Bridget O'Connor And Peter Straughan; Music Ollie Fox

1st Produced:
Clements Department Store, Watford Palace Theatre, Watford    12 May 2003

Organisations:
Wilson and Wilson Company

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Vol XXIII (2003) Page 0667

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Noir

Synopsis:
Noir is a new millennium, film noir style, multi character, comic thriller. With the mood of "The Maltese Falcon", the humour of "The Office", and the pace of a Tarantino film, Noir transports you through a comically dark, emotionally charged night in the theatre. We meet Ray, (who to most people is just a security guard at a department store, but, in his own mind is a highly skilled private investigator), and George, (owner of a highly successful electronics franchise who suspects his lecturer wife is having an affair with a student). Witnessing George's depths of despair, Ray embarks on a very sensitive investigation through mistaken identities, morally-ambiguous low lifes from the dark and gloomy underworld of violent crime and corruption, stuffed dogs and adult chat lines. It'd be a killer of a film! Like the classic film noir developed during and after World War II, Noir takes advantage of the post-war/terrorism ambience of anxiety, pessimism, and suspicion, by flipping it on it's head in ways both hilarious and scarily familiar.

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1st Produced:
Newcastle Playhouse    09 May 2002

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Vol XXII (2002) Page 0655

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Philosophers

Synopsis:
Be part of the audience for a live broadcast of three new short plays by Sean O'Brien, Julia Darling and Peter Straughan. Each writer will create a new play about a philosopher who has had a connection with Newcastle or the North East. The plays promise to give a surreal and humorous view of the philosophers and their beliefs.

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Presented by BBC Radio and Live Theatre

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Genre:
short play

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Regime Change

Synopsis:
A contemporary thriller which examines the role of idealism in leading us into violence and betrayal. In a small family-run hotel in Istanbul, poised between two continents, two discreet British residents play out a bitter power struggle over a good-looking young student. In the process they reveal a different and terrifying world.

Notes:
Rehearsed reading prior to recording the play for broadcast on BBC Radio 3

1st Produced:
Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon    06 Oct 2006

Organisations:
RSC Acting company

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Genre:
thriller

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Rhyme for Orange, A

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Notes:
won the 1997 North East People's Play Award At the People's Theatre

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Play/Drama

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When We Were Queens

Synopsis:
About a group of lads employed in Shakespeare's original performing company. But they're growing up and a new crop of young soft-skinned boys is on the look out for their parts.

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1st Produced:
Forum 28, Barrow-in-Furness    29 Jan 1999

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