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Stephen Wyatt

STEPHEN WYATT

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Valerie Hoskins  

Stephen Wyatt has been working in Theatre, radio and television for longer than he cares to remember. His television work includes CLAWS (BBC 1 1986) about vicious feuding in a cat club and contributions to CASUALTY and DOCTOR WHO. His radio work includes adaptations (OBLOMOV, VANITY FAIR, MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET, SKETCHES BY BOZ) and original work (FAIREST ISLE, GRAY's ELEGY, A GAME OF MARBLES, DR BRIGHTON AND MR HARDING.)

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         After Shave         Brighton Rock         Burglar's Opera, The         Come In, Mr Spartacus, Your Time Is Up!         Double Standards         Example         Exit, Pursued By Bear         Friends In High Places         Glitter Balls         I Love You, Maria Callas         Keep the Home Fires Burning         King Of the Last Days         Lullaby For Mrs Bentley         Magic Cabbage, The         Melmoth: the Wanderer's Dream         Monster         Nightspot         Paradise         Parting Shots From A Hero         Pick Yourself Up         RIP Maria Callas         Rogue's Progress, The         Rose And the Ring, The         Standard Bearer, The         Take Diogenes         Told Look Younger         Visigoth By Any Other Name, A         Witch Of Wapping, The         Working Woman, A

After Shave

Synopsis:
an all female cast looks at men and their attitude to women

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1st Produced:
Apollo Theatre, London    1977

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Genre:
All-musical revue

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Brighton Rock

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Stage Adaptation of Graham Greene's novel.

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Burglar's Opera, The

Synopsis:
Stolen from an idea by W.S.Gilbert with music nicked from Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Notes:
Written with Jeff Clarke

1st Produced:
Opera Della Luna, Chipping Norton Theatre    2005

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Genre:
Comic Opera Opera

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Come In, Mr Spartacus, Your Time Is Up!

Synopsis:
the Praetor in charge of the games is ordered to keep the people occupied as the Goths approach Rome

Notes:
companion piece to Visigoth

1st Produced:
Scottish Society Of Playwrights    1974

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Genre:
satirical comedy One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Double Standards

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Play/Drama

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Example

Synopsis:
Documentary play about the Craig and Bentley murder case

Notes:
in collaboration with the Belgrade Coventry TIE team

1st Produced:
Tour Of Coventry Schools    1975

Organisations:
Belgrade Coventry TIE

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Genre:
Youth Youth Audience

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Exit, Pursued By Bear

Synopsis:
About student emotional Dramas

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Genre:
Comedy

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Friends In High Places

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Notes:
scenario And some lyrics

1st Produced:
Friends Road Show    1976

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Genre:
Cabaret Style

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Glitter Balls

Synopsis:
Gang warfare cabaret style

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1st Produced:
Bubble Theatre, London    1982

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Genre:
Cabaret Style

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I Love You, Maria Callas

Synopsis:
for a man whose two passions are opera and "cottaging"

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Genre:
Monologue Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Keep the Home Fires Burning

Synopsis:
about strikes in the munitions factories in Coventry during World War I

Notes:
in collaboration with the Belgrade Coventry TIE team

1st Produced:
Tour Of Coventry Schools    1975

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Genre:
Youth Youth Audience

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King Of the Last Days

Synopsis:
about Jan of Leyden and millennial cults

Notes:
music by Nic Rowley

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Genre:
Youth Musical Youth Audience

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Lullaby For Mrs Bentley

Synopsis:
Documentary play about the Craig and Bentley murder case, and exploration into the law and order issues of the 50's, 60's and 70's

Notes:
music by Nic Rowley

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Genre:
Song cycle

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Magic Cabbage, The

Synopsis:
about Jenny's adventures in pursuit of a cabbage that becomes magic by mistake

Notes:
for 4-6 year olds

1st Produced:
Unicorn Theatre, London    1978

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Melmoth: the Wanderer's Dream

Synopsis:
A treatment of archetypical Gothic themes

Notes:
from Maturin's novel "Melmoth the Wanderer"

1st Produced:
Strathclyde Theatre Group, Glasgow    1977

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Monster

Synopsis:
Uses the convention of the horror story to examine the way in which prejudice and bigotry can build up

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1st Produced:
York Theatre Royal    1978

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Nightspot

Synopsis:
about the rise and fall of the Kray twins, set in a night club

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1st Produced:
Greenwich Youth Theatre    1979

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Genre:
Play with songs Play with Music

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  30 young people

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Paradise

Synopsis:
Based on Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames.

Notes:
written with Jane Gibson, Sue Lefton And Anthony Ingle

1st Produced:
Lamda, London    2001

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Genre:
Musical

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Parting Shots From A Hero

Synopsis:
About the last days in Paris of John Paul Jones, hero of the American War of Independence.

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Genre:
Solo Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Pick Yourself Up

Synopsis:
Moliere's Medecin Malgre Lui transferred to the 30s world of Fred Astaire and Sigmund Freud with songs by Porter, Kern and Gershwin.

Notes:
Revivals At Kings Head. 1985-87

1st Produced:
Bubble Theatre, London    1984

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Genre:
Musical

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RIP Maria Callas

Synopsis:
David discusses death, disease, cottaging and Maria Callas

Notes:
Revised Hen And Chickens 1992

1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London    1990

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1st Published:
Contained in "R I P Maria Callas Monologues for Other Stage and Radio" published by SJW Publishing, 2008   -

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Genre:
Monologue Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Rogue's Progress, The

Synopsis:
the career of Jonathan Wild the great thieftaker

Notes:
After Fielding's novel

1st Produced:
Bubble Theatre, London    1983

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Rose And the Ring, The

Synopsis:
Based on the fairy story by W.M.Thackeray.

Notes:
Written with John Cooper

1st Produced:
Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York    2006

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Genre:
Musical for young people Musical

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Standard Bearer, The

Synopsis:
George is touring West Africa with a programme of Shakespeare but all is not well backstage.

Notes:
Revised version. Man in the Moon 2001

1st Produced:
Man In The Moon Theatre, London    2001

Organisations:
CNC Productions

1st Published:
in R.I.P Maria Callas: Monologues for stage and radio,    -

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Genre:
Monologue Play/Drama

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Take Diogenes

Synopsis:
the characters make an unsuccessful attempt to tell the story of Alexander the Greek and Diagnose the Cynic

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1st Produced:
Quipu Productions, Little Theatre    1973

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Genre:
Historical Play

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Told Look Younger

Synopsis:
After spending many years alone following the death of his long-term lover, Colin is suddenly planning to marry his recent boyfriend, a nineteen year-old Turkish boy called Achmet. Is it love, lust or loneliness which drives him? Is Achmet simply a gold-digger in search of a UK passport? Will his decision affect the friendship with his two trusted friends?

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Organisations:
Eldarin Yeong Studio / Theatre Alive!

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Genre:
one act comedy 90 min

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Visigoth By Any Other Name, A

Synopsis:
A Roman poet attempts to justify his existence to a marauding Visigoth

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1st Produced:
Scottish Society Of Playwrights    1974

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Genre:
satirical comedy One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Witch Of Wapping, The

Synopsis:
about 17th Century Witch trials

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1st Produced:
Half Moon Ytp Tour    1980

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Genre:
Youth Youth Audience

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Working Woman, A

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An Adaptation for the stage of Zola's L'Assommoir.

1st Produced:
Courtyard, West Yorkshire    1992

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published under title L'Assommoir, lulu pubications,    -

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