James Martin Charlton

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James Martin Charlton (born 29 July 1966)[1] is an English playwright, theatre director and filmmaker. He was born in Romford, Greater London, United Kingdom in 1966.

Career

His play Fat Souls won the 1992 International Playwriting Festival[2] at Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, where it premièred in 1993. Fat Souls and the plays which followed it - Groping in the Dark and Coming Up - use verse dialogue, soliloquies and emblematic characterisation all strapped to contemporary stories. The spiritual/anarchist strain in his writing continued in Divine Vision, a biographical play about the relationship between William Blake and his patron, William Hayley, and a stage adaptation of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

In 2001, his play ecstasy + GRACE attracted media attention

paedophilia and moral degeneracy. The play went on to receive a mauling by leading critics,[5][6][7] although other reviewers were more enthusiastic.[8] Charlton's subsequent plays include I Really Must be Getting Off, a contemporary gay version of the country house play,[9] Fellow Creature, a short play produced by The Miniaturists[10] and Coward, a speculative play about Noël Coward, first performed in 2012.[11]

Since 1996, Charlton has been artistic director of Friendly Fire Productions.

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His short film Apeth was shown at a number of international film festivals.[14]

He currently lectures in scriptwriting and is Head of Media Department [15] at Middlesex University.

Plays

  • What Are Neighbours For? (Fallen Angel, 1985)
  • Straight to the Top (Etcetera Theatre, 1988)
  • More About the Language of Love (New Copenhagen, 1991)
  • Fat Souls (Warehouse Theatre, 1993)
  • The World & his Wife (White Bear Theatre, 1995)
  • Groping in the Dark (Warehouse Theatre/Mermaid Theatre, 1996)
  • Coming Up (Warehouse Theatre, 1997)
  • Divine Vision (
    Swedenborg
    Hall, 2000)
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (after Bunyan) (Royal Shakespeare Company commission, 2000)
  • ecstacy + GRACE (Finborough Theatre, 2001)
  • Desires of Frankenstein (
    Open Air Theatre
    , 2001/Pleasance Theatre Edinburgh, 2002)
  • I Really Must Be Getting Off (White Bear Theatre, 2005)
  • Whatever (Soho Theatre workshop, 2005)
  • Fellow Creature (Miniaturists at Arcola Theatre, 2009)
  • Coward (Just Some Theatre, 2012)
  • Been on the Job Too Long (TheatreN16, 2015)

Films

  • Best Shot (short, co-writer, 2006)
  • Apeth (short, director/writer, 2007)
  • Academic (short, director/writer/actor, 2011)

References

  1. ^ IMDB
  2. ^ Warehouse ipf history
  3. ^ Thorpe, Vanessa "Horror of Paedophilia is Acted on Stage", The Observer, 25 February 2001 [1]
  4. ^ Halliburton, Rachel "Suffer the Little Children", The Independent, 1 March 2001 [2]
  5. ^ Taylor, Paul, 'Theatre Review: Ecstasy + GRACE, Finborough Theatre', The Independent [3]
  6. ^ Gardner, Lynn, "Ecstasy and Grace", The Guardian
  7. ^ Shuttleworth, Ian, "Review: ecstasy + GRACE", The Financial Times, March 2001 [4]
  8. ^ Berkowitz, Gerald "Ecstasy + GRACE" The Stage/London Theatre Guide [5]
  9. ^ Benet Catty Productions
  10. ^ The Miniaturists - Miniaturists 22 Archived 20 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Just Some present Noel Coward play at Bury, Liverpool & Preston, What's On Stage
  12. ^ Programme, Groping in the Dark, Mermaid Theatre, 1996 Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ Programme, Plastic Zion, White Bear Theatre, 2006 Archived 8 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ imdb Apeth (2007) - Release dates
  15. ^ "Charlton, James". Middlesex University. Middlesex University. Retrieved 11 October 2015.

External links

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