โ Scribed by Jeffreys, Stephen
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A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016.
Included here are his first big success, Valued Friends, a comedy of manners about the property market which won both the Evening Standard and Critics Circle Awards; a riotous farce set in the time of Elizabeth I, The Clink, in which a stand-up comedian becomes involved in the political skulduggery surrounding the ailing queen; an autobiographical drama set in 1966, A Going Concern, about a washed-up family business; and Jeffreys smash-hit, The Libertine, a Restoration romp about the licentious Earl of Rochester, much revived and also filmed with Johnny Depp.
Rounding off the volume are two previously unpublished plays: Interruptions, inspired by Jeffreys interest in the collective aspect of politics and his fascination with the Japanese aesthetic principle of Jo-ha-kyu; and a very likable, short autobiographical monologue, Finsbury Park.
Together, all six plays represent the impressively wide range of topics and styles that Jeffreys can embrace. Above all, each one of them is intensely and enjoyably theatrical to its very core.
I had the great pleasure of working with Stephen Jeffreys on his play, The Libertine. Would that all playwrights had his openness, his talent, his hard-headedness, his experience, his enthusiasm, his complexity, and perhaps best of all his talent and interest in eliciting the best in others - John Malkovich
Stephens plays always bear the kitemark of unique, handcrafted quality - Ian Rickson
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Stephen Jeffreys plays includeThe LibertineandI Just Stopped By to See the Man(Royal Court);Valued FriendsandA Going Concern(Hampstead);Bugles at the Gates of Jalalabad(part of the Tricycle Theatres Great Game season about Afghanistan);The Convicts Opera(Out of Joint);Lost Land(starring John Malkovich, Steppenwolf, Chicago);The Art of War(Sydney Theatre Company) andA Jovial Crew(RSC). His adaptation of DickensHard Timeshas been performed all over the world. He wrote the filmsThe Libertine(starring Johnny Depp) andDiana(starring Naomi Watts). He co-authored the Beatles musicalBackbeatwhich opened at the Citizens Theatre and went on to seasons in Londons West End, Toronto and Los Angeles. He translatedThe Magic Flutefor English National Opera in Simon McBurneys production. For eleven years he was Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre where he is now a member of the Council. His celebrated playwriting workshops have influenced numerous writers.
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