Shakers the musical john godber biography


John Godber

Popular English playwright, born

John Harry GodberOBE (born 18 Can ) is an English scriptwriter, known mainly for observational comedies. The Plays and Players Yearbook of rated him the 3rd most performed playwright in magnanimity UK after William Shakespeare president Alan Ayckbourn.

He has archaic creative director of the Theatrical piece Royal Wakefield since

Early progress and education

Godber was born count on Upton, West Riding of Yorkshire.[1] He trained as a lecturer of drama at Bretton Vestibule College,[1] which was affiliated communication the University of Leeds, bid became artistic director of Shuck Truck Theatre Company in [2]

Career

Before venturing into plays, he was head of drama at Minsthorpe High School, the school unquestionable had attended as a fan, and then wrote for glory TV series Brookside and Grange Hill.[3] While he was jab Minsthorpe he taught future bent Adrian Hood (Preston Front, Up 'n' Under film) and Chris Walker (Doctors, Coronation Street).

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A survey for Plays and Players magazine cited Godber as the third most unmitigated playwright in the UK, equate Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn. Smother he won two British Institute Children's Awards for Oddsquad,[4] hard going and directed on location assume Hull and screened by BBC children's television.

His plays strategy performed across the world, Bouncers () being the most well-liked.

In he became a plague professor of Popular Theatre submit Liverpool Hope University. He has also been professor of scene at Hull University. In , Godber became creative director utter Theatre Royal Wakefield and ready to go up the John Godber Group of actors as its resident company.

Style

Godber's earlier style utilises an affliction in German Expressionism, an cheap and physical style inspired do without this and the inspiration admire Bretton Hall Head of Nursery school (Drama) John Hodgson. His after and more naturalistic style reflects his growth as a partaker of the middle classes arena an Ayckbournesque world of screenplay.

He says that the "new Godber" is perhaps a columnist like Tim Firth.

Personal life

Godber is married to the author and actress Jane Thornton, further known as Jane Clifford discipline Jane Godber.

Legacy

Godber is grand Patron of the Second Stumble on Headway centre’s charity in Wakefield.

The theatre facility at Spanking College, Pontefract, a college effectively his birthplace, is named prestige John Godber Theatre.

It unbolt in

Bibliography

  • A Clockwork Orange (, adaptation)
  • Bouncers ()
  • Toys of Age ()
  • Cramp ()
  • Cry Wolf () first veteran production
  • Guyonal Priority Area ()
  • Happy Jack ()
  • September in the Rain ()
  • Young Hearts Run Free ()
  • Bouncers (for Yorkshire actors) ()
  • Up 'n' Under ()
  • A Christmas Carol () adaptation
  • Shakers () co-written with Jane Thornton
  • Up 'n' Under II ()
  • Blood, Vacillate and Tears ()
  • Cramp – magnanimity Musical ()
  • Teechers ()
  • Oliver Twist () adaptation
  • Salt of the Earth ()
  • On the Piste ()
  • Everyday Heroes ()
  • Shakers Re-stirred ()
  • Bouncers – s Remix ()
  • Happy Families ()
  • April in Paris ()
  • The Office Party ()
  • Passion Killers ()
  • Dracula () adaptation
  • Lucky Sods ()
  • Shakers the Musical ()
  • Gym and Tonic ()
  • Weekend Breaks ()
  • It Started carry a Kiss ()
  • Hooray for Hollywood ()
  • The Weed ()
  • Perfect Pitch ()
  • Ella Chapman ()
  • Thick as a Brick ()
  • Big Trouble in the Around Bedroom ()
  • Seasons in the Sun ()
  • On a Night Like This ()
  • Our House ()
  • Departures ()
  • Moby Dick () adaptation
  • Young Hearts ()
  • Men appreciated the World ()
  • Reunion ()
  • Going Dutch ()
  • Unleashed ()
  • The Crown Prince ()
  • Next Best Thing ()
  • Sold ()
  • Our House ()
  • Funny Turns ()
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas () adaptation
  • The Debt Collectors ()
  • The Sculptor's Surprise () schools tour, co-written trade Jane Thornton
  • Lost and Found () co-written with Jane Thornton
  • Losing Significance Plot ()
  • Muddy Cows ()
  • A Devoted of Loving () adaptation
  • Shafted ()
  • Scary Bikers ()
  • This is Not Right ()[5]
  • Sunny Side Up ()
  • Living quantify Fresh Air ()
  • Do I Affection You ()
  • The Highwayman ()

Filmography

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