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Graham Swannell - Playwright
It's difficult to find out any biographical information about Graham Swannell who is a very private person. He is married to the stage and film actress Nicola Pagett and they have a daughter. He has written extensively for radio and co-authored Diamond Behind My Eyes with his wife in 1997. His first play was a musical about the Ipswich Town Football club in 1974. After A State of Affairs (1985) he wrote The Light of Day (1987), Marrakech (1989), The Border (1990) and Hyde Park (1992). There seems to have been little output from him since the late nineties.
A STATE OF AFFAIRS 1985 Lyric Hammersmith and the Duchess Theatre, London. New Productions: Tour England, Norway, Belgium, Israel, Ireland, South Africa, Iceland, Austria, New Zealand, Holland.
‘Sharp, funny and pleasing idiomatic. Peter James’s well-observed production constitutes and impressive compendium of bluff, deceit, confession, desperation and love. Ibsenism writ small, but effective.’
Michael Coveney, The Financial Times.
‘Like Thurber cartoons or Sondheim songs, all of Swannell’s sketches are reports from the battlefront of the sex war.’
International Herald Tribune.
‘A sardonic knowledge of the bed as a centre of comic embarrassment. It goes to the heart of the matter.’
John Barber, The Daily Telegraph.
‘Knows every crater in the conjugal battlefield. His writing is extremely sharp in showing how thought becomes bent in the closed world of marriage: how dangerous explosions of truth are apt to be followed by a lying afterthought, and how arguments that sound plausible in the privacy of your own head, bite the dust when spoken aloud.’
Irving Wardle, The Times.
It's difficult to find out any biographical information about Graham Swannell who is a very private person. He is married to the stage and film actress Nicola Pagett and they have a daughter. He has written extensively for radio and co-authored Diamond Behind My Eyes with his wife in 1997. His first play was a musical about the Ipswich Town Football club in 1974. After A State of Affairs (1985) he wrote The Light of Day (1987), Marrakech (1989), The Border (1990) and Hyde Park (1992). There seems to have been little output from him since the late nineties.
A STATE OF AFFAIRS 1985 Lyric Hammersmith and the Duchess Theatre, London. New Productions: Tour England, Norway, Belgium, Israel, Ireland, South Africa, Iceland, Austria, New Zealand, Holland.
‘Sharp, funny and pleasing idiomatic. Peter James’s well-observed production constitutes and impressive compendium of bluff, deceit, confession, desperation and love. Ibsenism writ small, but effective.’
Michael Coveney, The Financial Times.
‘Like Thurber cartoons or Sondheim songs, all of Swannell’s sketches are reports from the battlefront of the sex war.’
International Herald Tribune.
‘A sardonic knowledge of the bed as a centre of comic embarrassment. It goes to the heart of the matter.’
John Barber, The Daily Telegraph.
‘Knows every crater in the conjugal battlefield. His writing is extremely sharp in showing how thought becomes bent in the closed world of marriage: how dangerous explosions of truth are apt to be followed by a lying afterthought, and how arguments that sound plausible in the privacy of your own head, bite the dust when spoken aloud.’
Irving Wardle, The Times.
