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Jonathan Lichtenstein (Playwright)
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Agent:
Gemma Hirst
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| Jonathan is an award winning playwright currently under commission with Theatre Clywd for his latest play. Jonathan's last play, MEMORY, premiered at Theatre Clywd to critical acclaim, then transferred to the 59E59 Theatre in New York as part of the 'Brits off Broadway' Season. It will tour London, Edinburgh and around Wales later this year. |
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Theatre
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Theatre Includes: THE PULL OF NEGATIVE GRAVITY won a Fringe First for 'innovation and outstanding new writing' at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it played at the Traverse Theatre. Further productions were staged at 59E59 Theatre in New York and the Mosiac Theatre in South Florida. The play has received four star reviews in The Guardian and The Scotsman as well as glowing reviews in The Independent, The Sunday Herald, The New York Times and Daily Variety. Film rights have been optioned to Squint Films and Jonathan is currently writing the screenplay adaption. The Stage wrote 'Jonathan Lichtenstein has written the first great play about the second Iraq conflict'. The play was pick of the week three times in The Guardian. Joyce Macmillan wrote in The Scotsman 'I doubt though whether any show this year will bring the subject (the human cost of war) closer to home or handle it with more terrifying intensity than Jonathan Lichtenstein's new play...' She went on to talk about '...the blazing conviction and passion that drives it, by the seamless combination of dramatic dynamism and poetic lyricism that pervades Lichtenstein's Welsh inflected language'. His first play STATION opened the new Soho Theatre on Dean Street in London in 2000. The Guardian said 'Beautifully written...a confident debut from the kind of promising new writer Soho is so good at unearthing'. The Stage wrote 'It explores its painful subject with great tact and feeling. Lichtenstein writes with admirable clarity and occasional flashes of grim humour... the play shows not only the search of youth for identity but also the way family memories can haunt subsequent generations'. The Glasgow Herald said 'Station is a finely wrought piece...a sensitive exploration of intimacy, roots, the after effects of displacement, the pain of grief and the hunger to make connections...Eva's personality and ambiguosly fiery relationship with the eager Peter is drawn out with moving delicacy and conviction'. |
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Radio
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Radio Includes: Jonathan has written two radio plays for BBC Radio 4. One is a short 15 minute play broadcast in the spring of 2000 and one an afternoon play HUMAN RIGHTS broadcast in Autumn 2001 and then re-broadcast on Radio 7 as part of Producers Choice in Sping 2004. |