|
Nick Payne (born in 1984) is a British playwright and screenwriter, studied at the University of York and subsequently at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He is also a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writer's Programme. Payne's first play ''If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet'' which won the George Devine Award opened at the Bush Theatre in October 2009 and received a very strong response from critics with the ''Evening Standard'' calling it "a comic tour de force" and the ''Financial Times'' "a knockout". In September 2012 it was staged at New York's Laura Pels Theatre, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.〔(''Financial Times'' review of New York production, 24 September 2012. )〕 Payne's second play ''Wanderlust'' opened in September 2010, directed by Simon Godwin, at the Royal Court Theatre upstairs and also garnered excellent reviews. In November 2010, Payne was shortlisted for the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award,〔("Nick Payne Shortlisted for Evening Standard Award" ), curtisbrown.co.uk, November 22, 2010, accessed December 19, 2010.〕 but lost out to Anya Reiss. He took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project ''Sixty Six Books'', for which he wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible.〔http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/writers/〕 ''Constellations'' opened at Royal Court Theatre on 13 January 2012.〔("Nick Payne's Constellations Reviews" ), www.curtisbrown.co.uk, February 1, 2012〕 Directed by Michael Longhurst and starring Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins, it explores love, friendship and the notion of free will against the backdrop of quantum physics. It was extremely well received, with Charles Spencer in the ''Daily Telegraph'' commenting that "Nick Payne’s drama lasts just over an hour but packs in more than most shows manage in three times that length. It is playful, intelligent and bursting with ideas, but also achieves a powerful undertow of emotion"〔(''Daily Telegraph'' review of ''Constellations'', 20 Jan 2012. )〕 while Paul Taylor in the ''Independent'' wrote that "one would be hard put to begin to do justice to the dazzling way it creates it own rules, while at the same time being wise enough not to jettison the old rule book either".〔(''Independent'' review of ''Constellations'', 20 Jan 2012. )〕 It transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in November 2012. That month it won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play. In January 2013 Payne revealed that a film adaptation was under way.〔(''Independent'' profile of Nick Payne, 2 January 2013. )〕 This plan was later shelved. In August 2013 his play ''The Same Deep Water As Me'' opened at the Donmar Warehouse, with a cast including Nigel Lindsay, Daniel Mays and Marc Wootton. In January 2014 ''Blurred Lines'', a piece he devised with the director Carrie Cracknell, opened at the National Theatre's Shed. In 2014, two episodes of ''The Secrets'' which were written by Payne will be broadcast on BBC One. ''Incognito'' was a co-production between Live Theatre, nabokov, HighTide Festival Theatre and in association with The North Wall in spring 2014, which previewed at Live Theatre in April 2014, before going to HighTide Festival and The North Wall, Oxford. It returned to Live Theatre in May and then had a sell-out run at The Bush Theatre, London. The American premiere of ''Constellations'' opened on Broadway in January 2015 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, starring Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson. ''Constellations'' reunites Gyllenhaal with Payne and Longhurst, who are also making their Broadway debuts with the production. The three previously collaborated on the American premiere of ''If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet''. It will be directed by Michael Longhurst.〔("Jake Gyllenhaal Will Make Broadway Debut Starring in Nick Paynes 'Constellation' " ) playbill.com〕 ==Works== * ''Flourless'' rehearsed reading at the Soho Theatre 2006 * ''Lay Down Your Cross'' rehearsed reading at the Royal Court Theatre 2007 * ''Switzerland'' Hightide Theatre Festival 2008 * ''If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet'' Bush Theatre commissioned by Paines Plough 2009 * ''Starling'' reading at Royal Court as part of the Royal Court Young Writers Festival 2009 * ''The Lost Mariner'' 2010 * ''Interior'' adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck's book The Gate Theatre 2010 * ''Wanderlust'' 2010 * One of the short plays forming part of Sixty Six Books'' Bush Theatre * ''Constellations'' 2012 Royal Court Theatre * ''The Same Deep Water As Me'' 2013 Donmar Warehouse * ''Incognito'' 2014 Hightide Festival and Bush Theatre * ''The Art of Dying'' 2014 Royal Court Theatre 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nick Payne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|