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Steve Thompson

STEVE THOMPSON

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Independent Talent Group Limited  

Steve trained on the RADA playwrights' course. His first pI.ay, Damages, was commissioned with the support of the Peggy Ramsay Award. It was performed at the Bush Theatre in 2004 and won the Arts Council's Meyer-Whitworth Award for new writing. In 2005 he was made Pearson writer in residence at the Bush. He has developed a three part serial for the BBC, a single Drama for Granada, a film for Channel S and is writing on the new Carnival/ITV serial Whistleblowers, due for broadcast in 2007. Steve is married to the media barrister Lorna Skinner and they live in Heitfordshire with their three children.

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

         Damages         Feed The Beast         No Naughty Bits         Roaring Trade         Song Of the City         Whipping It Up

Damages

Synopsis:
virilically funny play about newspaper tabloid morality. Do we or don't we print this nude picture of a television celebrity? Cui Bono? Who will profit? Who will suffer? Does it matter?

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Bush Theatre, London >>>    02 Jun 2004

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Josef Weinberger, London, 2004   -

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Feed The Beast

Synopsis:
You're asking me to waste my time making sure some newspaper isn't going to be mean? Michael is moving into Number 10 Downing Street and there will be no charm offensives with this Prime Minister, not with a country to run. There's no time for lunches with the press while there are children living in poverty. And there's certainly no time to comment on a minister's illicit affair while the country needs more nurses. But when his family's private life looks set to be the next big story, Michael seeks help from a press secretary who advises, "Feed the beast before it turns on you." Can Michael keep politics centre stage or will he become the big story himself? Feed The Beast is a fiercely funny look at the rocky relations between our press and politicians in a world of spin-doctors and Leveson Inquiries.

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Nick Hern Books, London   -

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Genre:
political satire

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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No Naughty Bits

No Naughty Bits
Inspired by a true story, this gloriously funny play investigates the nature of comedy, the operation of censorship, and the complex misunderstandings implicit in the Anglo-American relationship. In December 1975, Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast coast to coast in the US. It was the Pythons' first time on a major network. . . but somebody cut out all the naughty bits! Undismayed, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam flew to New York to persuade the network to reinstate the cuts - and, somewhat by accident, found themselves at the centre of a landmark court case concerning freedom of expression and the protection of artistic integrity. . .

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Roaring Trade

Roaring Trade
Fast-paced and astute, Roaring Trade exposes just how far people go for the highest-risk jobs in the City. Pressure is mounting on the bond traders' floor and millions stand to be lost or won. Jess is playing FTSE with the clients, PJ's practising his poker face for bonus day, and superstar trader Donny's in danger of losing his crown to the new boy. Could they be headed for more than a financial crisis?

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Paines Plough/Soho Theatre

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Song Of the City

Synopsis:
jaunty musical number in two parts, Song of the City, handily breaking down the timeline of the crisis
- Corinne Salisbury, British theatre Guide

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Part of Soho theatre's season "Everything Must Go" Short rapid response pieces relating to the economic crisis.

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Genre:
Short play

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Whipping It Up

Whipping It Up
It's a week before Christmas, and the new Tory government is facing dissent over its latest Bill. With a majority of only three, the Whips' office is out in full force, and they'll stop at nothing to keep the strays in line. But they're in for a long night: boy scouts are rioting in Whitehall, the PM's golfing with the President, five Tory rebels are on the loose and the Chief Whip's playing at Santa - could this be the beginnings of a leadership challenge? Whipping It Up is a fast-moving switchback of a play, with more twists and double-bluffs than a poker game between conmen.

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Genre:
satirical farce Satire

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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