Richard Bean
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‘… put your hands together for Sheffield’s very own, born down the Eccy Road, in S11, he’s in heaven, he’s in the second round, he’s in his own town, not wearing a dressing gown, he’s the son of his folks, it’s Dylan Spokes!’ Dylan isn’t your typical snooker player. He’s a vegetarian, for starters. This is the biggest week of his life and everybody wants a piece of him – his ex-con Dad, local gangster Waxy Chuff and the snooker corruption squad. A world première from Richard Bean, The Nap is a laugh out loud comedy thriller about love, honour and not getting snookered.
Great Britain
Richard Bean’s fast and furious new play is an narchic and foulmouthed satire about the press, the police and the political establishment. Paige Britain is the ambitious young news editor of The Free Press, a tabloid newspaper locked in a never-ending battle for more readers.
The Big Fellah
Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Theatre Play 2011Young New Yorker Michael Doyle decides to live up to his Irish heritage by joining the IRA. He’s recruited by Costello, the charismatic ‘Big Fellah’, who wants to use Doyle’s brownstone apartment in The Bronx as a safe house for an escaped killer. But it soon becomes clear that someone is leaking information to the FBI… Set among Irish Americans in New York, Richard Bean’s dark, glinting, funny play spans three turbulent decades. A boisterous and witty story of loyalty, disillusionment and betrayal.‘This is the funniest play about Irish troublemakers since Bill Morrison’s ‘Flying Blind’… The West End surely beckons.’– Michael Coveney, What's On Theatre ‘Bean’s play is very funny, full of sharp contrasts between grim hilarity and gut-wrenching reversals.’ – The Stage ‘One moment you’re exploding with mirth at its sly abrasive wit, the next its choking the laughter out of your throat. Directed with thrilling energy and searing precision by Max Stafford-Clark’ CRITICS CHOICE 4 STARS- Time Out
Pitcairn
‘It is as if we find ourselves at the beginning of time…’ It’s 1789. Ideas of revolution and democracy are in the air. In the South Pacific, Fletcher Christian overthrows Captain Bligh in the famous mutiny on The Bounty. With the ship’s crew and their Tahitian lovers and followers, Christian sails to the fertile and remote island of Pitcairn. But his dream of creating a society of equals is blown off course: by the greed and suspicions of the sailors, and by the Tahitian’s adherence to their hierarchy and traditions. With salty humour and growing horror, and inspired by littleknown events, Richard Bean charts a colony’s descent from a new Eden to a brutal dystopia.