Roy Smiles

Roy Smiles
Born	London, England
Occupation	Dramatist, playwright, songwriter
Years active	1987–present
Website	https://roysmiles.bandcamp.com

Roy Smiles is an English playwright and singer-songwriter from west London. He is also an occasional actor. He has recorded a number of self-released albums.^[1][2][3] His albums Autumn Song and Bremen are released on Native Records. ^[4] Smiles has written a number of plays, the best known of which is Kurt and Sid, a 2009 London West End production about the fictional meeting of Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain.^[5][6][7] His plays have been staged in a number of countries.

Career

Smiles has had twenty six stage plays produced & six radio plays broadcast. On largely biographical subjects such as Lenny Bruce, Janis Joplin, the Beyond The Fringe team,^[8] Arthur Miller,^[9] George Orwell,^[10] Tony Hancock,^[11] Robert F. Kennedy^[12] and the Enola Gay. A number of his plays have debuted or transferred to theatres around the world, such as Pythonesque, the story of the Monty Python team, which opened in South Africa before moving to Edinburgh as part of the Fringe Festival.^[13] Ying Tong - A Walk With The Goons, the story of Spike Milligan's nervous breakdown whilst writing The Goon Show, was staged at West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2004, transferring the following year to the New Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End before touring the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.^[14][15]Year Of The Rat, Ying Tong, Pythonesque and Kurt & Sid are published by Oberon Books.^[16]

Plays

A complete list of Smiles’ staged plays, followed by the place and date of their original productions:^[17]

Schmucks[18] - Battersea Arts Centre, London, 8 July 1992 Roberto Calvi Is Alive & Well - Finborough Theatre, London, 14 October 1992 Top of the Town - Kings Head Theatre, London, 1992 Idiot's Waltz - Finborough Theatre, London, 9 September 1993 The Court Jester - Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, London, 13 December 1994[19] Danny Boy - Etcetera Theatre, London, 1994 The Boys of Summer - Old Red Lion Theatre, London, 11 July 1995 Dinner with the Borgias - Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, London, 8 December 1995 The Promised Land - Kings Head Theatre, London 1995 Get It While You Can, A Conversation With Janis Joplin - Etcetera Theatre, London, 3 November 1996 The Exiles (or Highgate Shuffle) - Hen and Chickens Theatre, London, 30 November 1997 Stand-Up - Old Red Lion Theatre, London, 23 March 1999 Bombing People - Jermyn Street Theatre, London, 22 August 2000

Sick Dictators - Jermyn Street Theatre, London, 31 July 2001 Lunatic's Tango - Hen and Chickens Theatre, London, 26 April 2002 Ying Tong: A Walk with the Goons[20] - West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, 22 October 2004 The Ho Ho Club (formerly Stand Up)[21] - Kings Head Theatre, Islington, London, 26 June 2006 Good Evening - Theatre-on-the-Bay, South Africa, 2007 Year Of The Rat[22] - The Forge at The Court Theatre, Christchurch, New Zealand, 19 October 2007 Pythonesque[23] - Theatre-on-the-Bay, South Africa, 2008 Kurt and Sid[24] - Trafalgar Studios, London 9 September 2009 Backstage[25] - The Forge at The Court Theatre, Christchurch, New Zealand, 30 October 2009 The Last Pilgrim[26] - The White Bear Theatre, London, 28 September 2010 Burlesque - A Musical[27] (co-written with Adam Megiddo) - Jermyn Street Theatre, 9 November 2011. The Lad Himself[28] - The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Festival, 1 August 2012. Plum - The Court Theatre, Christchurch, New Zealand, 9 August 2014.[29] Reno - The Rialto Theatre, Brighton, 16 December 2014.[30]

References

1. https://roysmiles.bandcamp.com/
2. https://www.jamendo.com/artist/435531/roy-smiles?language=en
3. https://www.reverbnation.com/roysmiles
4. >https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/bremen/id901152131
5. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/sep/16/kurt-and-sid-review
6. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/6198258/Kurt-and-Sid-at-the-Trafalgar-Studios-review.html
7. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8243769.stm
8. http://www.benedictcumberbatch.co.uk/2013/02/02/cumberbatchweb-review-of-good-evening-a-tribute-to-beyond-the-fringe/
9. http://brighton.fringeguru.com/reviews/brighton-2015/reno
10. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/mar/14/theatre
11. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/edinburgh-festival-reviews/9494725/Edinburgh-2012-The-Lad-Himself-Gilded-Balloon-review.html
12. http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/the-last-pilgrim
13. http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/theatre-review-pythonesque-1-766204
14. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/feb/15/theatre1
15. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3637241/The-genius-and-the-torment-of-Spike-Milligan.html
16. https://www.oberonbooks.com/roy-smiles.html
17. "Roy Smiles". Playwrights. Doollee. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
18. Gable, Jeremy (2008-12-18). "Schmucks". EDGE Philadelphia. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
19. Review of The Court Jester
20. Michael Billington (29 October 2004). "Ying Tong, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds | Stage". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
21. "The Ho-Ho Club - King's Head Theatre - Your London Reviews". IndieLondon. 2006-11-05. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
22. "New Zealand Theatre: theatre reviews, performance reviews". Theatreview. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
23. Published on Friday 21 August 2009 18:55 (2009-08-21). "Theatre review: Pythonesque - News". Scotsman.com. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
24. "Danny Dyer Plays Vicious in Kurt & Sid Premiere - - News". Whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
25. "New Zealand Theatre: theatre reviews, performance reviews". Theatreview. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
26. "The Last Pilgrim, by Roy Smiles « Fringe Report". Fringereport.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
27. Paul Taylor (2011-11-28). "Burlesque, Jermyn Street Theatre, London (4/5) - Reviews - Theatre & Dance". The Independent. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
28. Cavendish, Dominic (23 August 2012). "Edinburgh 2012: The Lad Himself, Gilded Balloon, review". London: Telegraph. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
29. https://courttheatre.org.nz/show/plum/
30. Reno - The LatestThe Latest

External links

• Roy Smiles at the Internet Movie Database