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Tim Supple

TIM SUPPLE

  
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Tim Supple is one of the world's leading Theatre directors and creators. His widely-acclaimed works include Twelfth Night (Channel 4 film), Tales from Ovid, A ServANT to Two Masters (both RSC) and a multi-lingual A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dash Arts/world tour).

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         Accidental Death Of An Anarchist         Beasts And Beauties         Billy Budd         Grimm Tales         Haroun And the Sea Of Stories         Jungle Book, The         Midnight's Children         More Grimm Tales         One Thousand and One Nights         Tales from Ovid

Accidental Death Of An Anarchist

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Dario Fo; translation by Gillian Hanna

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    -

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Beasts And Beauties

Synopsis:
Children loved every minute of this show, either shivering with pleasurable terror, growning with pleasurable delight or laughing uproariously at disaster. they were treated to serial killing, cannibalism, decapitation, baby snatching, a naked bottom and the gratuitous ill treatment of a delightful pig.
Charles Spencer, daily Telegraph

Notes:
retold by Carol Ann Duffy, Adapted by Melly Still And Tim Supple. Includes the following Dramatisations/stories: Blue Beard; the Husband Who Was to Mind the House; the Three Wishes; Beauty And the Beast;; the Emperor's New Clothes; Toby And the Wolf; the Juniper Tree; the Girl And the North Wind

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Faber and Faber, London, 2004   -

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Billy Budd

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Grimm Tales

Synopsis:
When did somebody last tell you a fairytale? This hour-long midday treat of selected Grimm Tales is quirky, imaginative, 3-dimensional storytelling at its best. A vibrant young cast present a living storybook for all ages.

Notes:
Carol Ann Duffy's Adaptation plus the Dramatization by Tim Supple And the Young Vic Company

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1st Published:
in collected Grimm Tales, Faber, London, 2003   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Haroun And the Sea Of Stories

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Notes:
written with David Tushingham, from Salman Rushdie's Haroun And the Sea Of Stories

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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1998   -

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Jungle Book, The

Jungle Book, The
Mowgli was still a toddler when he was lost in the jungle - his parents feeing the tiger, Shere Khan. there, Mowgli was brought up by wolves, and educated by the bear Baloo and the panther Bagheera.He was happy while growing up and learning the ways of the jungle -and his name was soon known amongst all the animals. But Mowgli'sgrowing fame provoked resentment and envy, and his life was soon threatened from all sides. . . First published in the late 1890s, Rudyard Kipling's two Jungle Books have enchanted generations of children and adults. Often describedas an allegory for the society and politics of the time, the Jungle Book has now been adapted by critically-acclaimed South African playwright, Craig Higginson. the play asks: Who is your family? Those who look the same as you or those who love and nurture you? Here, the tales become a powerful examination of an emerging democracy, and the forces that threaten it. Based on a version by the celebrated director Tim Supple, this adaptation was first staged at Johannesburg's Market theatre in 2008. This powerful and magical version of a much-loved classic is as resonant now as it was when it first appeared - both within South Africa and beyond its borders.

Notes:
adapted by Craig Higginson from A version by Tim Supple from the novel by Rudyard Kipling

1st Produced:
Market Theatre, Johannesburg    10 Oct 2008

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849430104

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Midnight's Children

Synopsis:
Midnight's Children is a complex work combining three main tales: the turbulent history of twentieth-century India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: the saga of a Muslim family: the story of one man, Saleem Sinai, whose telepathic powers allow him to communicate with other children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15 1947.

Notes:
Dramatised By Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade And Tim Supple. From novel by Rushdie

1st Produced:
Barbican, London >>>    18 Jan 2003

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Genre:
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More Grimm Tales

Synopsis:
Great theatre is as fleeting as it is thrilling. It exists in the spaces between actors and audience and is as elusive and silvery as the paths that wind through dark woods of fairy tales. the great thing about Carol Ann Duffy's re-telling of these Grimm tales is the generous energy with which it enfolds each in its own style. Duffy and director Tim Supple go the whole journey with the brothers Grimm into the bright, warped world of a child's imagination.' Guardian

Notes:
Carol Ann Duffy's Adaptation plus the Dramatization by Tim Supple And the Young Vic Company; includes Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White And Rumpelstiltskin

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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1997   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights
One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers. Written by Arabic writers from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab Empire, the One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad night after night, under sentence of death, to the king Shahrayar who has vowed to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. Shahrazad prolongs her life by keeping the King engrossed in a web of stories that never ends - a fascinating kaleidoscope of life, love and destiny. the tales that unfold are erotic, violent, supernatural and endlessly surprising. the web of tales woven by Shahrazad were exoticised and bowdlerised in the West under the title of the Arabian Nights. This adaptation unearths the true character of One Thousand and One Nights as it is in the oldest Arabic manuscripts. In turns erotic, brutal, witty, poetic and complex, the tales tell of love and marriage, power and punishment, rich and poor, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. the great cities and thriving trade routes of the Islamic world provide the setting for these stories that employ supernatural mystery and intense realism to portray the deep and endless Drama of human experience.

Notes:
Tim Supple from Hanan Al-Shaykh stories

1st Produced:
Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity    11 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Dash Arts

1st Published:
Methuen Drama, London   978-1408159613

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large mixed cast

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Tales from Ovid

Synopsis:
takes 10 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, as translated by Ted Hughes, and adapts them for the stage. This is an evening that stands as astern warning about the dangers of excess and desire: Myrrha's illicit lust for her father, which sees her entombed in a tree like a mummy; the desire of both Echo and Narcissus, which is so strong that it destroys them; Midas's foolishness and greed; and Tereus's rape of Philomela, which leads to a gruesome revenge.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

Notes:
adapted from Ted Hughes's versions of the Metamorphoses by Simon Reade And Tim Supple

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  doubling

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