The Creatives
Adapted for the stage by PATRICK BARLOW
Director MARIA AITKEN
Designer PETER McKINTOSH
Lighting Designer IAN SCOTT
Sound Designer MIC POOL
Movement Director TOBY SEDGWICK
Tour Director DAVID NEWMAN
From an original concept by SIMON CORBLE & NOBBY DIMON
Patrick Barlow
Patrick Barlow created the National Theatre of Brent in 1980, in which he plays Artistic Director and Chief Executive Desmond Olivier Dingle. Their legendary two-man epics for the theatre include THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, ZULU!, THE BALCK HOLD OF CALCUTTA, WAGNER'S RING CYCLE. THE MESSIAH (Tricycle Theatre), THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SEX, THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (Tricycle Theatre), LOVE UPON THE THRONE ? THE CHARLES AND DIANA STORY (nominated for an Olivier) and THE WONDER OF SEX at the National Theatre. Their complete history of the world ALL THE WORLD'S A GLOBE (with Jim Broadbent) was transmitted on Radio 4 and won a Sony Gold Award for Best Adapted Comedy and Premier Ondas for Best European Comedy. More recent radio work (with John Ramm and Martin Duncan) includes the COMPLETE AND UTTER HISTORY OF THE MONA LISA which won a Sony Gold for Best Comedy and New York Festival Award for Best Comedy and THE MESSIAH which was transmitted on Radio 4 in Christmas 2006. Most recently the company presented their acclaimed series THE ARTS AND HOW THEY WAS DONE which was transmitted (also on Radio 4) in April 2007. Please refer to nationaltheatreofbrent.com for full and unexpurgated details of the company's work and history.
Besides the National Theatre of Brent, Patrick wrote the libretto for the JUDGEMENT OF PARIS for the Covent Garden Venture (music by John Woolrich) and REQUIEM FOR A RELATIONSHIP for the Gogmagog Theatre Company with music by Django Bates.
Film and television writing includes: THE GROWING PAINS OF ADRIAN MOLE, THE GHOST OF FAFFNER HALL, SCARFE ON SEX, MIGHTY MOMENTS FROM WORLD HISTORY, THE MESSIAH, THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, QUEEN OF THE EAST, VAN GOGH (Prix Futura Berlin Film Festival), FRENCH REVOLUTION!! (Best Comedy Film Jerusalem Film Festival), MASSIVE LANDMARKS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY and THE YOUNG VISITERS adapted from the novel by Daisy Ashford, starring Jim Broadbent and Hugh Laurie.
Apart from National Theatre of Brent, his other radio writing includes THE COMPLEAT LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; THE PATRICK AND MAUREEN MAYBE MUSIC EXPERIENCE with Imelda Staunton.
Publications include: ALL THE WORLD'S A GLOBE, SHAKESPEARE: THE TRUTH!, THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE WHOLE WORLD, LOVE UPON THE THRONE, THE MESSIAH and THE WONDER OF SEX.
Theatre acting includes: THE KNACK, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, LOOT, THE COMMON PURSUIT, SILLY COW and Toad in Alan Bennett's THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS.
Film acting includes: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, NOTTING HILL, THE GIRL FROM RIO, THE DIARY OF BRIDGET JONES, NANNY MCPHEE and most recently Woody Allen's SCOOP.
Television acting includes: TALK TO ME, ALL PASSION SPENT, ARISTOPHANES, COWS, FRENCH AND SAUNDERS, ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS, A BIT OF FRY AND LAURIE, IS IT LEGAL?, GOODBYE MR STEADMAN, HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, MURDER IN SUBURBIA, SHAKESPEARE'S HAPPY ENDINGS, MARPLE, JAM AND JERUSALEM and most recently SENSITIVE SKIN.
Radio acting includes: THE MIDSUMMER MARRIAGE, THE DIARY OF ADAM AND EVE, THE WIZARD OF OZ, CHRISTMAS EVE, RENT, THE FURNITURE PLAY, VOLPONE, JUST PLAIN GARDENING and Terry Pratchett's SMALL GODS. He is a regular contributor to LOOKING FORWARD TO THE PAST and QUOTE UNQUOTE.
Patrick won an Olivier Award and What's Onstage Award for Best New Comedy for his adaptation of THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS.
