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John Wright

JOHN WRIGHT

  
Nationality:    British
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John Wright's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Baby Boomers         Don Juan         Evocation Of Papa Mas         Facing It Out         Fragility Of X, The         I Can't Wake Up         King Arthur         On the Verge of Exploding         Summer House, The         Travelling Bag, The         You Haven't Embraced Me Yet

Baby Boomers

Synopsis:
A stunning piece of physical theatre, Baby Boomers substitutes language for balloons, and blends mask, puppetry and extreme balloon modelling to tell stories of love, loss and regret. What do you do after a tragic event if you can get over it but your partner just can't? Where can you go, what can you do? Acclaimed director, John Wright co-founder of Trestle and Told by an Idiot tells the heart warming story of a young couple from their first meeting and follows them through the life they make together. But a tragic loss is set to change their lives forever and force them to make a choice.

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Don Juan

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1st Produced:
BAC , London >>>    1996

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Devised Piece

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Evocation Of Papa Mas

Synopsis:
When the plantation owner, Mr Walker, kills a penniless street beggar trying to court his daughter, he's haunted to the grave and into the spirit world beyond - to a point where carnival is his only option. Set in a cartoon world, The Evocation of Papa Mas is a love story and a mischievous parody which is sometimes surreal, sometimes beautiful and poignant, yet shocking and raucously funny at the same time.

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written by John Wright, music by Felix Cross

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Organisations:
Told By An Idiot Theatre Company

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Genre:
Piece with text Piece

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Facing It Out

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London International Mime Festival. The first Festival took place at The Cockpit Theatre and Arts Centre, London NW8, in January 1977. In that year the event was called The Cockpit Festival of Mime and Visual Theatre. It is now the longest running festival of its kind in the world. With the exceptions of 1983 and 1986, the Festival has taken place each year, featuring, in addition to workshops, films, debates and special events, performances by the following artists and companies.

1st Produced:
London International Mime Festival    1997

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Genre:
mime

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Fragility Of X, The

Synopsis:
When a woman and her autistic teenage son reach breaking point, they set off on an extraordinary journey. Bursting with the ambivalent and chaotic feelings of a parent/child relationship and underscored with a theatrical style that relishes treating the darkest of material with the lightest of touch. A funny, bleak yet strangely life-affirming production about boundaries, freedom, relationships and art. Unblinkingly unsentimental, funny, alarming and provocative.

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Coal is interested in taking human stories And making theatre that is dark, funny And daring  in both subject matter And form. Coal Aims to make theatre that is imaginative And challenging whilst remaining Accessible to wider Audiences. At the heart of the work is the performers relationships with the Audience And with each other.

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Coal Theatre

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I Can't Wake Up

Synopsis:
The Glumov family has fallen on hard times but by wit, cunning and flattery Yegor soon worms his way into the influential society of the newly rich. A satirical comedy. But the secrets they tell him end up in his diary, and his diary has been found! Backstabbing, greed, blind ambition and some wonderfully odd characters combine with Told by an Idiot's bold energy to create a truly theatrical, heartfelt and touching piece that is as provocative and pertinent as it was in 1868.

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devised by John Wright based on An original story by Paul Hunter

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Told By An Idiot

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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King Arthur

Synopsis:
If we were to stumble upon a cave and find a king asleep with all his knights, talking in his sleep, remembering, what would there be worth hearing in that ancient dream for us now? Jamie Crawford has delved into the earliest sources as well as subsequent re-workings to find a living connection between the Arthurian story and 21st century Britain. By turns playful, tragic and mysterious, this spirited new show cuts through the cliches surrounding King Arthur, bringing to life the passions and flaws that beset the Fellowship of the Round Table from its inspired rise to its violent fall. the show deals with the central story of the Arthurian cycle; from Arthur's conception to his passing, focussing on Arthur himself, Morgana, Merlin, Mordred, Guinevere and Lancelot. Among the episodes covered are, the sword in the stone, the lady of the lake, the Holy Grail and the final battle at Camlann, as well as many lesser known parts of the story.

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written And performed by story-teller Jamie Crawford, composed in collaboration with John Wright, June Peters And Hugh Lupton

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Genre:
Youth Audience

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On the Verge of Exploding

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Summer House, The

Summer House, The
Three men arrive by car at a remote house in the countryside. Who are they? Where are they? Are those stuffed beavers on the wall? then the Vikings arrive. A comedy thriller about men, myths and the weather and how it blows all the other stuff away anyway.

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Devised by Will Adamsdale, Neil Haigh, Matthew Steer And John Wright (founder member of Trestle And Told By An Idiot)

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Organisations:
Fuel

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849431750

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Genre:
comedy thriller

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Travelling Bag, The

Travelling Bag, The
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Plautus

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Plautus the Comedies volume Four" published by Johns Hopkins Press 1995   978-0801850738

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Genre:
Translation

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You Haven't Embraced Me Yet

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Told By An Idiot Theatre Company

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