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James Yeatman

JAMES YEATMAN

  
Nationality:    British
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James Yeatman's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Beware Of Pity         Dog Show         Limehouse Nights         Project Colony

Beware Of Pity

Synopsis:
Ungeduld des Herzens / Beware of Pity published in 1939, is a tense and claustrophobic account of a young mans slide into a terrible situation, and his inability to extricate himself from it. Its a devastating depiction of honour, love and betrayal, realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the rise of anti-Semitism. Simon McBurney's production will be in German and features the Schaubuhnes ensemble of actors. Young soldier Hofmiller is invited to Baron Kekesfalvas castle. The soirée is a success: Hofmiller manages to entertain with one amusing anecdote after another. Inebriated by his accomplishment, he asks Edith, the hosts daughter, for a dance. But Edith blanches. Hofmiller recognises he has committed a faux pas, but only when the girl9s cousin explains that Edith is paralised does he comprehend the extent of his offence and flees the castle. The following morning he sends flowers and Edith retaliates with an invitation to tea. Soon, Hofmiller is a daily guest at the castle, not noticing that the mentally fragile Edith has fallen desperately in love with him. When Hofmiller understands the truth, he proposes marriage, but once Edith realises that this has only happened out of pity, her initial delight mutates into a despairing rage

Notes:
by Stefan Zweig In a version by Simon McBurney, James Yeatman, Maja Zade and Complicite

1st Produced:
Schaubuhne, Berlin     Feb 2016

Organisations:
Theatre de Complicite

1st Published:
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Music:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dog Show

Synopsis:
The Hong Kong Dog Serial Killer's been at large since the late 1980s. Nobody knows what drives them to leave poison-laced meat on popular dog-walking routes - but they've been killing strangers' pets for more than twenty years. In Dog Show, Kandinsky transposes this bizarre mystery to London, to explore the strange life of dogs in a city home to more than 200,000 of them. Part-silent film, part-thriller, Dog Show considers what man's best friend has to tell us about love and loneliness, the city and the wild - and what it means to be human. Four actors and a musician play an entire community of dogs and their owners. One autumn, the killer strikes.

Notes:
devised by James Yeatman, Zac Gvirtzman, Lisa Kerr, Hamish Macdougall, Ntonga Mwanza, Harriet Webb, Al Smith and Lauren Mooney

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Kandinsky

1st Published:
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Music:
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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  musician

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Limehouse Nights

Synopsis:
We supposedly live in a multi-cultural and multi-racial society but how much do we really understand about those with other skins, other languages and other backgrounds to our own? This play takes us back to 1918 with London celebrating the end of the War to End All Wars and presents the situation then but all too much of what it shows us is still too true today, although the world has become a much smaller place.
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Limehouse Town Hall, London     01 Jun 2010

Organisations:
Kandinsky

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
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Project Colony

Synopsis:
A twist on Franz Kafka's In the Penal Colony. the audience meets at a designated pick up point to partake in this unusual twist on the story of an elaborate torture and execution device. they are then escorted to a 1950s era colonised holiday camp where a travelling salesman has been invited to witness the execution of a condemned prisoner on a tropical island by the machine. Kafka's story is a complex hall of mirrors. Is this a brutal murder or a sacred tradition that's being eroded by modernity? When is it right to step in? As two children mourn their Father a society hangs in the balance; they wait on the word of a foreigner to decide their fate. the audience is exposed to life on the island from both sides of the coin before returning to their pick up point

Notes:
conceived by Hamish MacDougall and James Yeatman after In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

1st Produced:
Trinity Buoy Wharf, London     04 Apr 2013

Organisations:
Fourth Monkey Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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