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James Martin Charlton (born 29 July 1966)〔(IMDB )〕 is an English playwright, theatre director and filmmaker. He was born in Romford, Greater London, United Kingdom in 1966. ==Career== His play ''Fat Souls'' won the 1992 International Playwriting Festival〔( Warehouse ipf history )〕 at Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, where it premièred in 1993. ''Fat Souls'' and the plays which followed it - ''Groping in the Dark'' and ''Coming Up'' - use verse dialogue, soliloquies and emblematic characterisation all strapped to contemporary stories. The spiritual/anarchist strain in his writing continued in ''Divine Vision'', a biographical play about the relationship between William Blake and his patron, William Hayley, and a stage adaptation of John Bunyan's ''The Pilgrim's Progress''. In 2001, his play ''ecstasy + GRACE'' attracted media attention〔Thorpe, Vanessa "Horror of Paedophilia is Acted on Stage", ''The Observer'', 25 February 2001 ()〕〔Halliburton, Rachel "Suffer the Little Children", ''The Independent'', 1 March 2001 ()〕 due to its portrait of paedophilia and moral degeneracy. The play went on to receive a mauling by leading critics,〔Taylor, Paul, 'Theatre Review: Ecstasy + GRACE, Finborough Theatre', ''The Independent'' ()〕〔( Gardner, Lynn, "Ecstasy and Grace", ''The Guardian'' )〕〔Shuttleworth, Ian, "Review: ecstasy + GRACE", ''The Financial Times'', March 2001 ()〕 although other reviewers were more enthusiastic.〔Berkowitz, Gerald "Ecstasy + GRACE" ''The Stage''/''London Theatre Guide'' ()〕 Charlton's subsequent plays include ''I Really Must be Getting Off'', a contemporary gay version of the country house play,〔( Benet Catty Productions )〕 ''Fellow Creature'', a short play produced by The Miniaturists〔( The Miniaturists - Miniaturists 22 )〕 and ''Coward'', a speculative play about Noël Coward, first performed in 2012.〔(Just Some present Noel Coward play at Bury, Liverpool & Preston, What's On Stage )〕 Since 1996, Charlton has been Artistic Director of Friendly Fire Productions.〔( Programme, ''Groping in the Dark'', Mermaid Theatre, 1996 )〕〔( Programme, ''Plastic Zion'', White Bear Theatre, 2006 )〕 Friendly Fire's productions include ''Gob'' by Jim Kenworth starring ex-Take That star Jason Orange at The King's Head Theatre in 1999, which Charlton directed. He has also directed shows with casts of prisoners at HMP Maidstone, including The Who's Tommy. His short film ''Apeth'' was shown at a number of international film festivals.〔( imdb ''Apeth'' (2007) - Release dates )〕 He currently lectures in scriptwriting and is Head of Media Department at Middlesex University. 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「James Martin Charlton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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