Name Barrie Keeffe Plays Chorus Girls Children Sam Keeffe, Tom Keeffe | Movies The Long Good Friday Role Dramatist | |
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Notable work(s) The Long Good Friday, Barbarians, Gimme Shelter Awards Paris Critics Prix Revelations, Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award Spouse Verity Bargate (m. ?–1981), Jacky Stoller Books My Girl 2, The long Good Friday, Barrie Keeffe Plays: On, Keeffe Plays: 1: One Gim, Bastard angel Similar People John Mackenzie, Phil Meheux, Ray Davies, Bob Hoskins | ||
Barbarians by barrie keeffe produced by tooting arts club
Barrie Colin Keeffe (born 31 October 1945) is an English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his screenplay for the 1981 film The Long Good Friday.
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- Barbarians by barrie keeffe produced by tooting arts club
- 1970s joint stock theatre barrie keeffe william gaskill
- Career
- Personal life
- Theatre plays
- Film and TV
- Television series
- Radio plays
- Film
- Novels
- Theatre adaptations and direction
- References
1970s joint stock theatre barrie keeffe william gaskill
Career
Born in London, Keeffe was educated at East Ham Grammar School and joined the National Youth Theatre as an actor, after working as a journalist. His first television play The Substitute was produced in 1972, his first theatre play Only a Game in 1973 and he became a full-time dramatic author in 1975: his theatre plays have been produced in 26 countries. He is also a screenwriter, notable for the films The Long Good Friday (1981) and Sus in 2010 (the latter adapted from his own play of the same name).
Keefe's writing has been noted for touching on political themes. Gimme Shelter addressed class, Barbarians was Keeffe's attempt to "capture the energy of punk" and addressed unemployment, Sus concerned institutionalised racism in the police, and Better Times was about the 1921 Poplar Rates Rebellion.
Keeffe was writer-in-residence at the Shaw Theatre in 1977, resident playwright with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1978, and associate writer at the Theatre Royal Stratford East from 1986 to 1991. He taught dramatic writing at City University, London (2002–06), was Judith J. Wilson Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge (2003–04), visiting lecturer and patron of Writing for Performance at Ruskin College, Oxford (2003–04), and writer in residence at Kingston University, London (from 2011). He has led the Collaldra Writers School and Retreat, Venice since 2007.
He was a United Nations Ambassador in 1995 (UN 50th anniversary year) and was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters at Warwick University in 2010. He received the Paris Critics Prix Revelations in 1978 and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1982. He is represented by The Agency, London.
Keeffe's Barbarians trilogy was revived in London in 2012 and 2015 by Tooting Arts Club and also in 2015 at the Young Vic. Sus was revived at the Young Vic in 2009, and toured the UK in 2010.
Personal life
Keeffe is married to the film and television producer Jacky Stoller. When his second wife, the novelist and theatre director Verity Bargate, died in 1981, he became the guardian of her two sons Sam and Tom.