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Jeff Young

JEFF YOUNG

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Berlin Associates  

Jeff Young is an experienced television, stage and radio dramatist from Liverpool. He is one of BBC Radio Drama's most established and acclaimed writers, having written over twenty plays. He is also a renowned playwright, specialising in unique collaborative and site-specific projects. For television, he has written for Casualty, Doctors, Eastenders and Holby City. He is also currently developing original projects with numerous broadcasters and indies and recently completed his first commission for children's television, an episode of Stepping Up for LA Productions/CBBC. Alongside his continuing television, radio and theatre work, he has completed his first feature-length screenplay, The Don (freely adapted from his radio play of the same name). Jeff Young's other recent work includes the book for the stage version of The Who's 1973 album Quadrophenia, which opened at the Theatre Royal Plymouth in May 2009 before embarking on a major UK tour. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/jeff-young/#sthash.Q3VxVuVO.dpuf

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

         Bright Phoenix         Dolls Heart         Hansel and Gretel         Lifehouse         Man In the Moon, The         Quadrophenia         Rag And Bone         River Fever         Secret. . .sshhh, The         Starving Brides, The         Sweet Green Peas         Voyages Of Sinbad the Sailor, The

Bright Phoenix

Bright Phoenix
On the run from tragedy, Lucas escaped Liverpool - then a city cast aside, a city crumbling. Now he's back, the old gang don't rush to welcome him home and ghosts haunt the ruins of their childhood playgrounds. The city chases renaissance: could his love affair with childhood sweetheart Lizzie blossom again too? Bright Phoenix is a wild, dream-like play about the carnival of the city at night; about a gang of rebel kids who still don't quite fit in as grown-ups; and about their love for a dying cinema and their mad plan to bring it back to life like a phoenix. Featuring live music, Jeff Young's epic and poetic play reveals the magic of forgotten places and dreaming beneath the stars

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written by Jeff Young with lyrics by Martin Heslop

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Dolls Heart

Synopsis:
A powerful vision of a macabre world

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Hansel and Gretel

Synopsis:
Candy floss windows and gingerbread walls, Chocolate chimneys and marshmallow doors, But who would live in a house of sweets? Maybe it's children they'd like to eat!?! Take a walk into the forest and you will see, all is not as it's meant to be. . .Hansel & Gretel soon will find, it's friends that matter, no-one's left behind! A tale of bravery, action, adventure and joy, Friendship and fun for every girl and boy, So expect the unexpected in this family festive treat, With songs, dance and laughs that are good enough to eat!

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Written by Jeff Young, Music & Lyrics by Patrick Dineen

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Christmas Show

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Lifehouse

Lifehouse
Ray searches for his daughter even though she is believed to be dead.

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Written by Pete Townsend And Jeff Young

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Pocket Books 1999   978-0743408455

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Man In the Moon, The

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inspired by the city and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore.

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Quadrophenia

Synopsis:
mods, rockers and shiny scooters with music from the Who's 1973 concept album. Set in London and Brighton at the height of the Mod era, Quadrophenia is told through the eyes of Jimmy, a hedonistic style conscious teenager searching for a place to belong and a girl to love. Misunderstood by his parents and stuck in a dead end job, he sets off on a trip to Brighton that will change his life forever. The coming of age story is brought to life in this original stage adaptation of the legendary album. The evocative world of sixties Britain provides a colourful backdrop to Jimmys journey.

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New Adaptation By Jeff Young, John O'Hara And Tom Critchley, From Rock Opera By Pete Townshend

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Adaptation

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Rag And Bone

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part of Anthology, A series of seven plays, by Liverpool writers All inspired by themes from 'Tis Pity She's A Whore

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Slung Low

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short play

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River Fever

Synopsis:
An unlikely father and son reunion in a battered caravan by a fairground scrapyard on the banks of the Mersey. Each has dreams of another life, another place but are forced to confront the past and acknowledge what holds them together and what has driven them apart. All they have in common is the big wide ocean, the song 'Lightning Rod Man' and a little boy in the river. But sometimes dreams are necessary when reality is too painful.

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music by Patrick Dineen

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Secret. . .sshhh, The

Synopsis:
How far would you go to keep a secret? An unimaginable voyage of mishap and discovery - Rich with visual imagery, puppetry, poetry and live music.

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conceived by Jeff Young and Christine Marfleet

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Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (WCMD)/Raymond Edwards Building/Anthony Hopkins Centre, Cardiff    21 Jun 2005

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Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (students)

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Starving Brides, The

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Featuring a unique blend of live contemporary music, choreography, text and projected images. The Starving Brides is inspired by a fantastical but true story of a bizarre and macabre side-show that toured seaside towns in the 1930s. An exhilarating and moving piece of live theatre unfolded by an actor Esther Wilson, a dancer Paula Hampson and a small orchestra from Heaven.

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music by Jeff Young, conceived by Jonathan Raisin and Jeff Young. aka Starving Babies

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The Hub

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Sweet Green Peas

Synopsis:
An extra ordinary, magical promenade performance that will feed the imagination with wonderful rich visual imagery, puppetry, poetry, live music and adventure!

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St Donats Arts Centre, Cardiff    25 Jun 2002

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Welsh College of Music and Drama

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Voyages Of Sinbad the Sailor, The

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Imagine a life on the high seas filled with action, adventure and adversity! Prepare for an epic adventure with Sinbad as he confronts genies and giants, explores mysterious islands and faraway kingdoms and searches for the thing he wants most; a home. A boy living by his wits on the streets becomes the most famous sailor the world has ever seen

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Written by Jeff Young, Music & Lyrics by Patrick Dineen

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Genre:
Christmas Show

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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