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 ''Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry'' (1973) is the penultimate novel by the late British avant-garde novelist B. S. Johnson. It is the metafictional account of a disaffected young man, Christie Malry, who applies the principles of double-entry b ...

'' (2000), and the

Joe Orton John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his death in 1967, was short but highly influential. During this brie ...

biographical play ''

Prick Up Your Ears ''Prick Up Your Ears'' is a 1987 British film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Bennett, based on the 1978 biography by John Lahr. The film stars Gary ...

'' based on

John Lahr John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is an American theater critic and writer. From 1992 to 2013, he was a staff writer and the senior drama critic at ''The New Yorker''. He has written more than twenty books related to theater. Lahr has been ca ...

's book.

Theatrical productions

He wrote the theatre adaptation of ''

A Prayer for Owen Meany ''A Prayer for Owen Meany'' is the seventh novel by American writer John Irving. Published in 1989, it tells the story of John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany growing up together in a small New Hampshire town during the 1950s and 1960s. ...

'' (2002), staged at the

Royal National Theatre The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT), is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. I ...

and in America in Washington, Boston, Philadelphia.{{citation needed, date=July 2012 ''

Elling ''Elling'' is a Norwegian Black comedy film directed by Petter Næss. Shot mostly in and around the Norwegian capital Oslo, the film, which was released in 2001, is primarily based on Ingvar Ambjørnsen's novel ''Brødre i blodet'' ("Blood brot ...

'' (2007) opened at the

Bush Theatre The Bush Theatre is located in the Passmore Edwards Public Library, Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 as a showcase for the work of new writers. The Bush Theatre strives to create a spa ...

with

John Simm John Ronald Simm (born 10 July 1970) is an English actor, director, and musician. He is best known for playing Sam Tyler in ''Life on Mars'', the Master in ''Doctor Who,'' and DS Roy Grace in ''Grace.'' His other television credits include '' S ...

and

Jonathan Cecil Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), known as Jonathan Cecil, was an English theatre, film, and television actor. Early life Cecil was born in London, England, the son of Lord David Cecil and the grandso ...

and transferred to the

Trafalgar Studios Trafalgar Theatre is a new West End theatre in Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square, in the City of Westminster, London. It is set to open in spring 2021 following a major multi-million Pound sterling, pound restoration project aiming to reinstate ...

; later it was produced in Australia and on

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.{{citation needed, date=July 2012 ''

'' was produced in 2009 at the

Comedy Theatre The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011,

with

Matt Lucas Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He is best known for his work with David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy series '' Little Britain'' (2003–2006, 2020) and '' Come Fly ...

. The Tall Boy, 2019.

Plays

* "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,https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-the-last-resort-bad-company-the-bush-1393706.htmlknuckle * "Goldhawk Road",(1996), Bush Theatre * "Wasted" Old Red Lion Theatre 1993 * "A Prayer for Owen Meany", (2002)

* "The Associate" (2002),

{{cite news, last=Costa, first=Maddy, title=The Associate (Review), url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2002/aug/21/theatre.artsfeatures3, newspaper=The Guardian (UK), date=21 August 2002 * "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 The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend, and gra ...

2006,https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/jul/23/theatre * "Branded", Old Vic, New Voices, 2008 * "

Ethel Barrymore Theatre The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a Broadway theater at 241 West 47th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1928, it was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in the Elizabethan, Mediterranean, and Adam styles ...

, * "Accomplicies" Sheffield Crucible 2000,https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2000/nov/04/theatre.artsfeatures * "Sugar, Sugar" Bush Theatre 1998 * "The Mighty Walzer" Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester 2016,https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jul/06/the-mighty-walzer-review-howard-jacobson-royal-exchange-manchester * "The Tall Boy", for Tandy Cronyn 2014

Television and film

(2000) * "Beau Brummel:This Charming Man" (2006) * "The Yellow House" (2007) * "Sex, The City and Me"(2007)

Awards

He was nominated for the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer at the 2003

BAFTA Awards The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Film Awards is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film. The cere ...

, for Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry.{{citation needed, date=May 2020, ELLING, Winner Best Comedy, Whatsonstage Award 2008

References

{{Reflisthttps://www.jimmulligan.co.uk/interview/simon-bent-shelter

External links

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