Forthcoming Productions
Mick and Me
A rehearsed reading of Stephen Plaice's new play will be held at Watford Palace Theatre on May 20th at 7.30. Tickets £3.
Set in 1964, a Watford schoolboy strikes up an unlikely friendship with one of the members of a touring band on the verge of international success. Mick is as trapped by his celebrity status as his new friend is by existentialist isolation in his home town. They realize they both want a piece of each other's life.
Stephen Plaice is a dramatist working in film, theatre and opera. In the last decade he has become one of Britain's leading librettists and bookwriters for musical theatre.
Stephen is currently writing the script for Ed Blum’s new feature film The Laughter Clinic. Their previous collaboration, the short film The Last Post, was nominated for a BAFTA.
Stephen is also currently working with Sir Harrison Birtwistle on Angelfighter, an oratorio for the Bach Festival in Leipzig for 2010. This is Stephen’s third collaboration with Birtwistle.
Stephen's five episode travelogue for BBC Radio 4 – From Watford To Weimar, a journey through the cities where the great German philosophers lived and worked, is scheduled for broadcast in August this year.
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*Stephen's most recent opera production Confucius Says (2008), created with the composer Richard Taylor for Hackney Music Development Trust, has won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Education category.
* Stephen has been commissioned (again with the composer Richard Taylor) to write a new adaptation of The Jungle Book for The Castle, Wellingborough. It will open in December 2009.
* Stephen has also been commissioned by the prestigious Lisbon arts centre Culturgest to write the libretto for a new Luis Tinoco chamber opera entitled Between You and Me, scheduled for production in early 2011.