Roy Smiles

Roy Smiles is an English playwright and singer-songwriter from Ealing, West London. He is also an occasional actor.

Roy Smiles
Born1966
London, England
OccupationDramatist, playwright, songwriter
Years active1987–present
Websitehttps://roysmiles.bandcamp.com

Smiles has written twenty six theatre plays & six radio 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.[1] He has released eight albums of self-penned songs.[2]

Career

His first play staged in 1992 at the Battersea Arts Centre, Schmucks was about a fictitious meeting between Groucho Marx and Lenny Bruce.

In 2002 he played the role of Itzak Heller, a Jewish collaborator, in Roman Polanski's The Pianist.

Smiles's stage and radio plays focus largely on biographical subjects such as Albert Camus (The Weight Of Days), Evelyn Waugh (Waugh in Winter), the Beyond The Fringe team (Good Evening),[3] Arthur Miller/Marilyn Monroe (Reno),[4] George Orwell (Year of the Rat),[5] Tony Hancock (The Lad Himself),[6] Robert F. Kennedy (The Last Pilgrim),[7] PG Woodhouse (Plum)[8] and the Enola Gay (Bombing People). 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.[9] 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.[10][11] Six of his plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Year of the Rat, Ying Tong, Pythonesque and Kurt & Sid are published by Oberon Books.[12] Ten Plays by Roy Smiles was published by Oberon Books in 2018.[13]

Plays

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References
  1. Spencer, Charles. "Kurt and Sid at the Trafalgar Studios, review". Telegraph. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  2. "Music | Roy Smiles". Roysmiles.bandcamp.com. 1 June 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  3. "Cumberbatchweb – Review of Good Evening – A Tribute to Beyond the Fringe". Benedictcumberbatch.co.uk. 2 February 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  4. "Reno | Fringe Guru". Brighton.fringeguru.com. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  5. Alfred Hickling. "Theatre review: Year of the Rat / West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds | Stage". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  6. Cavendish, Dominic. "Edinburgh 2012: The Lad Himself, Gilded Balloon, review". Telegraph. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  7. "The Last Pilgrim at White Bear Theatre – Fringe – Time Out London". Timeout.com. 6 October 2010. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  8. "PLUM – A regular wheeze plus facts and irony". Theatreview.org.nz. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  9. "Theatre review: Pythonesque". The Scotsman. 2 August 2009. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  10. Michael Billington. "Ying Tong, New Ambassadors, London | Stage". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  11. Charles Spencer. "The genius – and the torment – of Spike Milligan". Telegraph. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  12. "Roy Smiles". Oberonbooks.com. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  13. "Roy Smiles: 10 Plays". Oberon Books. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  14. "Roy Smiles". Playwrights. Doollee. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  15. Gable, Jeremy (1 December 2008). "Schmucks". EDGE Philadelphia. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  16. "Review of The Court Jester". Cix.co.uk. 1 December 1994. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  17. Michael Billington (29 October 2004). "Ying Tong, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds | Stage". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  18. "The Ho-Ho Club – King's Head Theatre – Your London Reviews". IndieLondon. 5 November 2006. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  19. "New Zealand Theatre: theatre reviews, performance reviews". Theatreview. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  20. "Theatre review: Pythonesque – News". Scotsman.com. 2 August 2009. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  21. "Danny Dyer Plays Vicious in Kurt & Sid Premiere – – News". Whatsonstage.com. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  22. "New Zealand Theatre: theatre reviews, performance reviews". Theatreview. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  23. "The Last Pilgrim, by Roy Smiles « Fringe Report". Fringereport.wordpress.com. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  24. Paul Taylor (2 November 2011). "Burlesque, Jermyn Street Theatre, London (4/5) – Reviews – Theatre & Dance". The Independent. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  25. Cavendish, Dominic (23 August 2012). "Edinburgh 2012: The Lad Himself, Gilded Balloon, review". London: Telegraph. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  26. "Plum". The Court Theatre. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  27. "Reno". The Latest. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
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