Simon Bent

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Simon Bent
OccupationScreenwriter, playwright
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish

Simon Bent is a British screenwriter and playwright, notable for work including BBC TV drama Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006), the screenplay for the feature film Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000), and the Joe Orton biographical play Prick Up Your Ears based on John Lahr's book.[1][2]

Theatrical productions[edit]

He wrote the theatre adaptation of A Prayer for Owen Meany (2002), staged at the Royal National Theatre and in America in Washington, Boston, Philadelphia.[citation needed] Elling (2007) opened at the Bush Theatre with John Simm and Jonathan Cecil[3] and transferred to the Trafalgar Studios; later it was produced in Australia and on Broadway.[citation needed] Prick Up Your Ears was produced in 2009 at the Comedy Theatre with Matt Lucas.[4][5] The Tall Boy, 2019.[6]

Plays[edit]

  • "Knuckle Butty"
  • "Wigan kiss"
  • "Evacuees" Spectrum Theatre Company
  • "Full Fathom Five" Royal National Theatre Studio
  • "The Blood of Others" Royal National Theatre Studio, Arcola Theatre,2005
  • "Bad Company", Royal National Theatre 1991, Bush Theatre 1994[7]
  • "Goldhawk Road",(1996), Bush Theatre
  • "Wasted" Old Red Lion Theatre 1993
  • "A Prayer for Owen Meany", (2002) Royal National Theatre
  • "The Associate" (2002), Royal National Theatre[8]
  • "The Escapologist" Suspect Culture, Theatre Royal Plymouth,2006
  • "Shelter" Royal National Studio, This England, 1990; Royal National Theatre, BT Connections, 1998
  • "Under the Black Flag", Globe Theatre 2006[9]
  • "Branded", Old Vic, New Voices, 2008
  • "Elling", Bush Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Ethel Barrymore Theatre,
  • "Accomplicies" Sheffield Crucible 2000[10]
  • "Sugar, Sugar" Bush Theatre 1998
  • "The Mighty Walzer" Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester 2016[11]
  • "The Tall Boy", for Tandy Cronyn 2014

Television and film[edit]

Awards[edit]

He was nominated for the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer at the 2003 BAFTA Awards, for Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry.[citation needed], ELLING, Winner Best Comedy, Whatsonstage Award 2008

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kellaway, Kate (4 October 2009). "Prick Up Your Ears (Review)". The Guardian (UK).
  2. ^ Charlton, James Martin (10 November 2009). "British theatre is wrong about Joe Orton". The Guardian (UK).
  3. ^ Gardner, Lyn (1 May 2007). "Elling (Review)". The Guardian (UK).
  4. ^ Benedictus, Leo (5 October 2009). "What to say about ... Prick Up Your Ears". The Guardian (UK).
  5. ^ Billington, Michael (1 October 2009). "Prick Up Your Ears". The Guardian (UK).
  6. ^ "The Tall Boy Reviews".
  7. ^ "THEATRE / The last resort: Bad Company - The Bush". The Independent. 12 February 1994. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  8. ^ Costa, Maddy (21 August 2002). "The Associate (Review)". The Guardian (UK).
  9. ^ Coveney, Michael (23 July 2006). "So that's why he's called Long John ..." The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  10. ^ Gardner, Lyn (4 November 2000). "Bent's brutal, chilling play". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  11. ^ Hickling, Alfred (6 July 2016). "The Mighty Walzer review – Jacobson's ping-pong comedy is a smash on stage". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 June 2023.

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