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Freddy Syborn

FREDDY SYBORN  

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

 Africker         Anatomy Act         Beast For Thee, A         Crypted         Cut         Excess         Father/Son         Flesh-Eating Jacobean Zombies         Indivisible         Love Story, The         Now the late last winter         Pathological         Re_         Sophrosyne         Tragedy Circus         Wayne

Africker

Synopsis:
In the nineteenth century, it took Europe less than a lifetime to colonise another continent. Today, can History make sense of the Scramble for Africa and the explorers, contractors, queens and killers it took to subjugate 110 million people? Or is History as mad as his characters? Songs, drag queens, murder  historical crimes have modern consequences in this Victorian music hall.

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Anatomy Act

Synopsis:
Stand-up, confession, dissection. Four voices become one anarchic, guilty mind. From '8 Out of 10 Cats' writer and RSC prizewinner Freddy Syborn

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Anatomy Act was written in November 2009 in Gokarna, India. It was first performed in A garage yard in Vauxhall in mid-December 2009. It starred Harriet Green, Adam Lawrence, Freddy Syborn And Jessie Wyld. A second version was previewed At the Etcetera Theatre, London, before running At C Venues over the Edinburgh Festival in August 2010

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Beast For Thee, A

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The play is split into two halves, happening simultaneously. In one, an actress wakes up in a bed  hers or his, she doesn't seem to remember  and remembers her daughter. In the other, a boy wakes his sister as he gets ready to die.

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Pembroke Cellars, Cambridge    Oct 2008

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Crypted

Synopsis:
Interactive tragedy based on the life of Alan Turing, the gay Bletchley Park codebreaker chemically castrated by the government. Crypted is part of Negative Capabilitys double bill by RSC prize-winner Freddy Syborn, co-writer of BBC 3's forthcoming sitcom, Bad Education and a Sky Little Cracker. Praise for previous work, 'One of the most exciting and exhilarating pieces of new theatre at the Fringe...' (BritishTheatreGuide.info). 'Unwavering virtuosity ... magnificent, heartfelt and poetic confessions leave you reeling from such uninhibited honesty' (ThreeWeeks). 'This is a play that touches upon greatness ... a triumph' (Scotsman).

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C venues - C nova, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2012

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Cut

Synopsis:
A mother and son argue about more than their dead dog. A safe takes fifteen minutes to open. A man acts out begging for mercy. People take cuts. Cut is about how you can no longer imagine what it's like to be anyone else because you've lost what it is to be yourself.

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Excess

Synopsis:
Joe tells his sister he's getting a sex change. She overreacts. Excess is a comedy about siblings, sexual identity, drag queens and isolation. It's part of Negative Capability's double bill by RSC prizewinner Freddy Syborn, co-writer of BBC 3's forthcoming sitcom, Bad Education, and a Sky Little Cracker. Praise for previous work: 'One of the most exciting and exhilarating pieces of new theatre at the Fringe' (BritishTheatreGuide.info). 'Unwavering virtuosity ... magnificent, heartfelt and poetic confessions leave you reeling from such uninhibited honesty' (ThreeWeeks). 'This is a play that touches upon greatness ... a triumph' (Scotsman).

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C venues - C nova, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2012

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Father/Son

Synopsis:
The play showed two couples, a father and a son and their respective girlfriends, existing  talking, eating, drinking, having sex  simultaneously across twenty-five years, a conception and a death.

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It was expanded And re-staged in March 2010 At the Etcetera Theatre, London, And As part of the Lost Theatre Festival,

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Corpus Playrooms, Cambridge    Feb 2009

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Flesh-Eating Jacobean Zombies

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In his be-cobwebbed alchemist's workshop, Prince Rodeo plots his revenge upon his father, the king, Elvis, who recently deflowered the object of Rodeo's affection, Lady Danae. But  unbeknownst to him  Jeremy Beadle (the king's jester) and his lover, the firebrand cleric Abu Hamza (Danae's lady-in-waiting), have set in motion a terrible chain of events that culminate in the explosive birth of a zombie that might well annihilate everyone.

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Cambridge    Nov 2007

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Indivisible

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The play was based on Hannah Arendt's The Banality of Evil: Eichmann in Jerusalem. An unnamed war criminal is interviewed by prosecutors after being abducted and taken to a country in which he can be tried. The interviewers are frustrated by his total idiocy.

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Love Story, The

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'You can't love someone you don't understand.' Passion, illness, forgiveness from '8 Out of 10 Cats' and 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' writer, RSC Other prize winner Freddy Syborn: 'Touches upon greatness - triumph' (Scotsman). --

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previewed At the Etcetera Theatre

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Now the late last winter

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Three sisters wait to identify their father's body after a bomb has been set off in London. Penelope is married to a sleazy mayoral candidate. Ariadne is a ghost-writer with three children. Jane is a model. They bicker about the war, bondage and money. A deal is made as the past becomes a trap. They are all haunted, not by the dead man, but by a Ouija board and ice.

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School of Pythagorus, St John's, Cambridge    May 2008

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Pathological

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Paul is a massive liar. He can't get close to women because he is:1) quite strange 2) interested in serial killers (basically a subcategory of 1) 3) a massive liar. He works in a morgue, loves Lethal Weapon, hates TV, can't sing, can't dance and frequently gets on the wrong side of sensitive bouncers. He also can't really act.

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Re_

Synopsis:
RE____ began as a biography of Rev. Harold Davidson, a cuckolded veteran of the Great War who dedicated himself to saving' fallen women. When his overenthusiastic ministrations lead to his own fall, he carved a new career ranting in a cage with two lions in a Skegness amusement park. The lions ate him on 28th July 1937.

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Previewed At the Soho Theatre, And winner of the Quiller-Couch Prize, RE____ Alternates between A late-night TV quiz show And its presenter's home. Ghosts haunt both. Callers try to guess what RE____ really is; strange voices Are put in strangers' skins. A marriage suffocates; A soldier returns, Apparently from the dead. A letter is read And re-read. Shadows resurrect Nebuchadnezzar. Caged Animals Are fed.

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Sophrosyne

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Sophrosyne is a play about family and evil. It's also a comedy. It is Robert's 60th birthday. He lives with his boyfriend, his mad mother and her parrot. His two children come up for the celebrations: his son grows penises on the backs of rats, his daughter believes in God. Robert wants to talk about sex. No one else does. A child has been lost and a poem written, and Robert wants to put a glory-hole through the fourth wall. No one quite knows what to say. We can see the strings of madness, inherited voices and murder.

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Fitzwilliam Theatre, Cambridge    Feb 2009

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Tragedy Circus

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Tragedy Circus came from studying Tragedy in the third year at Cambridge. It featured Prof. Enoch Toffee, a lecherous, perverted maybe-murderer lecturing a hall of punters on tragic subjects as diverse as Shakespeare, the Greek playwright Eurapaedo, the Beegees, Michael Bay and Irish people.

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Peterhouse Theatre, Cambridge    Nov 2008

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Wayne

Synopsis:
Wayne Rooney has lost his mojo. Things don't make sense. He doesn't know who or what he is. He just lies awake at night, listening to his hairdryer, wondering why everyone's started dressing like characters from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Things are getting stranger and stranger, but a group of ghost writers are here to help him understand what he signifies.

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