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ALL SCRIPTS AVAILABLE FROM METHUEN drama, OBERON CLASSICS and SAMUEL FRENCH FEELGOOD
3rd May - 9th June |
Theatre The world premiere of Alistair Beaton’s new play, 'CALEDONIA', was staged at this year's Edinburgh International Festival (2010). It was a co-production between the EIF and the National Theatre of Scotland. Alistair Beaton’s satirical comedy KING OF HEARTS was seen at London’s Hampstead Theatre in 2007, directed by Max Stafford-Clark and Ramin Gray. It opens in a new German production in Berlin in November 2009. Alistair is the author of the hit West End play FEELGOOD, which won the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award in 2001 and has since been seen in America, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Portugal, Estonia, Finland and Hungary. In 2004 he wrote the anti-war satire FOLLOW MY LEADER (Birmingham Rep & Hampstead Theatre). With Ned Sherrin he co-wrote THE RATEPAYERS’ IOLANTHE and THE METROPOLITAN MIKADO, as well as the musical SMALL EXPECTATIONS. In 2007 his translation of THE ARSONISTS by Max Frisch ran at the Royal Court Theatre. His new English version of THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR by Nikolai Gogol was first staged at Chichester festival Theatre, directed by Martin Duncan. In Spring 2008 it ran at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He has also created new English versions of DIE FLEDERMAUS and La vie Parisienne.
Alistair Beaton's latest translation is The Caucasian Chalk Circle, which premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2009. The play toured until the end of November. |
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