Stephen Plaice

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Full Name	Stephen Plaice
Occupation	Dramatist
Date Of Birth	Sep 9, 1951(1951-09-09)
Age	73
Birthplace	Watford
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Virgo

Stephen Plaice Biography

Stephen Plaice is one of the most popular and richest Dramatist who was born on September 9, 1951 in Watford, United Kingdom.

Stephen Plaice was born in Watford UK in 1951 and attended Watford Grammar School for Boys. He went on to study German and Comparative Literature at the Universities of Sussex, Marburg and Zurich. An extensive account of his student days in Germany was given in The Romantic Road, a series of five programmes broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2009 and repeated in 2016. He was co- translator of Ernst Bloch’s The Principle of Hope (Blackwell 1986) and of Bloch’s Heritage of our Time (Blackwell 1991). In the 1980s, with the poet Sean O’Brien, he was co-founder of the literary magazine The Printer’s Devil.

Stephen Plaice (born 9 September 1951) is a UK-based dramatist and scriptwriter who has written extensively for theatre, opera and television. In 2014 he was appointed Writer in Residence at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He became Professor of Dramatic Writing at the school in 2018.

Stephen Plaice Net Worth

Stephen Plaice is one of the richest Dramatist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stephen Plaice 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hot House, an opera about the Covent Garden Theatre’s Old Price Riots of 1809 with music by Julian Grant, was commissioned by the Education Department of the Royal Opera House as part of the Cultural Olympics and premiered on the main stage in July 2012. Plaice’s opera-theatre piece In & Out of Love, a sequence of opera duets embedded into a narrative about two singers and starring Marcia Bellamy and Red Gray, toured the South East of England in the spring of 2013 and also in 2014 in an expanded version. This RedBlonde production was followed in 2015 by Bouffe, again featuring Bellamy and Gray, together with Lila Palmer and John Grave. This told the story of the diva Hortense Schneider’s rise to prominence in Offenbach’s Bouffes Parisiens. This was successfully revived in the Brighton Festival in 2016.

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Plaice has also written extensively for music theatre. He collaborated with Yusuf Islam on the early drafts of Moonshadow, the Cat Stevens musical, and took over the book of Daddy Cool, the Frank Farian musical, starring Michelle Collins, Harvey and Javine, which was staged at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 2006 before transferring to a purpose-built Theaterpalast in Berlin the following year. In 2009, with the composer Richard Taylor, he adapted Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book for the Castle Theatre, Wellingborough, and this was followed at the Castle in 2010 with a musical adaptation of Robin Hood, with the composer Grant Olding. Plaice is currently collaborating with the writer Zoe Palmer to create a musical about Will Marion Cook, the first composer to bring black musicals to Broadway. This is provisionally entitled Darktown is Out Tonight .This is currently in development at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. ‘String’, a community opera for Hailsham, book and lyrics by Stephen, music by Tony Biggin, is also currently in development.

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Steven Ranked on the list of most popular Dramatist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Stephen Plaice celebrates birthday on September 9 of every year.

After working in opera for most of the decade, in 2008 Plaice returned to straight drama and wrote Nemesis, a play which documented the extraordinary marriage between John and Ada Galsworthy. John had been a visitor to Lewes Prison in the early 1900s. The play was given a rehearsed reading at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester. Mick and Me, about the author’s imaginary friendship with a famous rock star in the 1960s, was given a rehearsed reading at Watford Palace Theatre in 2009. In 2012 he wrote Wyatt, a three-hander about Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Tudor poet Thomas Wyatt. This was followed by The Branch, about the British Education Branch’s role in the denazification of post-war Germany. To date, none of these plays has been produced.

Top Facts about Stephen Plaice

1. Stephen Plaice is a UK-based dramatist and scriptwriter born in 1951.
2. He has written numerous plays, screenplays, and adaptations for stage and television.
3. Plaice’s works often explore themes of identity, history, and social issues.
4. He has collaborated with renowned theater companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company.
5. Plaice’s notable works include “The Golden Ass,” “Savage Amusement,” and “The Earthly Paradise.”
6. His writing style combines wit, humor, and thought-provoking storytelling techniques.
7. Plaice has received critical acclaim for his ability to create compelling characters.
8. He has also worked as a translator, adapting foreign plays into English.
9. Plaice’s scripts have been performed internationally in countries like Germany and France.
10. He continues to contribute to the world of theater through his engaging narratives.