What was the first play written by the screenwriter of Danny Boyle's directorial debut?
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John Hodge (screenwriter) John Hodge (born 1964) is a British screenwriter and dramatist, most noted for his adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel "Trainspotting" into the script for the film of the same title. His first play "Collaborators" won the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Play. His films include "Shallow Grave" (1994), "Trainspotting" (1996) "A Life Less Ordinary" (1997), "The Beach" (2000), "The Final Curtain" (2002), and the short film "Alien Love Triangle" (2002).
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Shallow Grave Shallow Grave is a 1994 British black comedy crime film that marked the cinematic directorial debut of Danny Boyle with an original screenplay by John Hodge. The film also provided starring roles for the then relatively little-known actors Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Kerry Fox.
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The Royal Master The Royal Master is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by James Shirley, and first published in 1638. The play is "ranked by many critics as Shirley's ablest work in romantic comedy...It is a play notable for well-knit plot, effective scenes, pleasing characterization, clever dialogue, and poetic atmosphere."
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Emma (play) Emma (or Emma: A Play in Two Acts about Emma Goldman, American Anarchist, its full title) is a play by historian and playwright Howard Zinn (1922–2010). It was first performed in 1976.
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The Jew (play) The Jew is a comedy written by playwright Richard Cumberland and first presented at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in May 1794. The play is notable as the first play in the English theatre to portray a Jewish moneylender as the hero of a stage production. An adaptation of the original play along with a facsimile copy of "The Jew" was published in 2012 as "Sheva, the Benevolent".
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Rebecca Lenkiewicz Rebecca Lenkiewicz (born 1968) is a British playwright. She is best known as the author of "Her Naked Skin" (2008), which was the first original play written by a living female playwright to be performed on the Olivier stage of the Royal National Theatre.
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There Shall Be No Night There Shall Be No Night is a three-act play written by American playwright Robert E. Sherwood.
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My Zinc Bed (play) My Zinc Bed is a play by the British playwright David Hare. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2000 and its three characters were played in that production by Tom Wilkinson, Julia Ormond and Steven Mackintosh, with Hare himself directing. It was adapted into a television film in 2008.
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The Covent-Garden Tragedy The Covent-Garden Tragedy is a play by Henry Fielding that first appeared on 1 June 1732 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane alongside "The Old Debauchees". It is about a love triangle in a brothel involving two prostitutes. While they are portrayed satirically, they are imbued with sympathy as their relationship develops.
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Millions (2004 film) Millions is a 2004 British comedy-drama film directed by Danny Boyle, and starring Alex Etel, Lewis Owen McGibbon, and James Nesbitt. The screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce adapted his novel while the film was in the process of being made. The novel "Millions" was subsequently awarded the Carnegie Medal. This is Danny Boyle's only film not R rated by the Motion Picture Association of America.
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The Slab Boys Trilogy The Slab Boys Trilogy is a set of three plays by the Scottish playwright John Byrne. The trilogy was originally known as "Paisley Patterns". The three plays which make up the trilogy are: The Slab Boys, Cuttin' a Rug, and Still Life. The trilogy tells the story of a group of young, urban, working-class Scots during the period 1957–1972. "The Slab Boys Trilogy" was revived in 2003 by the Traverse Theatre starring Paul Thomas Hickey and Iain Robertson in the lead roles. This is the first time that the Traverse Theatre have ever done a revival and it was received to great critical success. In April 2008, the Traverse Theatre premièred "Nova Scotia", the fourth part of "The Slab Boys" story which follows the characters of Phil, Spanky and Lucille into the 21st century.
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Between Riverside and Crazy Between Riverside and Crazy is a 2014 play by playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor Stephen Adly Guirgis. The play
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Tommy Murphy (Australian playwright) Tommy Murphy (born 1979) is an award-winning Australian playwright, screenwriter, adaptor and director . He is best known for his stage and screen adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoir "Holding the Man". His most recent play is "Mark Colvin's Kidney" (2017).
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The Time of Your Life The Time of Your Life is a 1939 five-act play by American playwright William Saroyan. The play is the first drama to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The play opened on Broadway in 1939.
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Sapho and Phao Sapho and Phao is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by John Lyly. One of Lyly's earliest dramas, it was likely the first that the playwright devoted to the allegorical idealisation of Queen Elizabeth I that became the predominating feature of Lyly's dramatic canon.
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The Hothouse The Hothouse (1958/1980) is a full-length tragicomedy written by Harold Pinter in the winter of 1958 between "The Birthday Party" (1957) and "The Caretaker" (1959). After writing "The Hothouse" in the winter of 1958 and following the initial commercial failure of "The Birthday Party", Pinter put the play aside; in 1979 he re-read it and directed its first production, at Hampstead Theatre, where it opened on 24 April 1980, transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre on 25 June 1980, and it was first published, also in 1980, by Eyre Methuen. The play received its American premiere at the Trinity Repertory Company in 1982. Pinter himself played Roote in a subsequent production staged at the Minerva Theatre, in Chichester, in 1995, later transferring to the Comedy Theatre, in London.
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Kieron Barry Kieron Barry is a British playwright.
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The Play (film) The Play is a 2013 Bengali murder mystery thriller film written and directed by Ranjay Ray Choudhury. The film features Rajesh Sharma, Indrasish Roy, Mumtaz Sorcar in the lead roles.The film revolves around a theatre group where the entire theatre group gets devastated by a series of murders.The filming began in December 2012 and was wrapped up by January 2013. The film was released on 6 December 2013.
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Fatal Attraction (play) Fatal Attraction is a 2014 play adapted from his original screenplay by James Dearden. It is based on the 1987 film "Fatal Attraction", and it opened in London's West End at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 25 March 2014, following previews from 8 March.
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This Is Our Youth This Is Our Youth is a play by American dramatist and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1996 and on Broadway in 2014.
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The Natural Son The Natural Son is a comedy play by the British writer Richard Cumberland. It was first staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in December 1784. The play is notable for the return of the popular character Major O'Flaherty from Cumberland's 1771 play "The West Indian".
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His Dark Materials (play) His Dark Materials is a play written by British playwright Nicholas Wright adapted from the Philip Pullman fantasy novel trilogy of the same title. The production premiered in the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Theatre, London, in 2003. Due to the complications in staging a piece containing the narrative of three books, the play was performed in two parts in alternate performances. The play is published by Nick Hern Books.