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Simon Alexander Farquhar is a British writer and broadcaster. His early one-act plays were staged at the Aberdeen Arts Centre, until a radio script set in Cullen, , was picked up by actor and producer Martin Jarvis and commissioned for BBC Radio 4. This was followed by another Cullen-based drama, , set during the dying days of the Sixties and featuring a cameo performance by Twiggy herself. In 2017 he wrote "", which was performed at the Theatre Royal, Dumfries.

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  • سيمون فاركوهار (ar)
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  • سيمون فاركوهار (بالإنجليزية: Simon Farquhar)‏ هو كاتب وكاتب مسرحي بريطاني، ولد في 15 ديسمبر 1972. (ar)
  • Simon Alexander Farquhar is a British writer and broadcaster. His early one-act plays were staged at the Aberdeen Arts Centre, until a radio script set in Cullen, , was picked up by actor and producer Martin Jarvis and commissioned for BBC Radio 4. This was followed by another Cullen-based drama, , set during the dying days of the Sixties and featuring a cameo performance by Twiggy herself. In 2017 he wrote "", which was performed at the Theatre Royal, Dumfries. (en)
  • Simon Alexander Farquhar (15 dicembre 1972) è uno scrittore e drammaturgo scozzese, attore durante il periodo universitario nel gruppo della Università di Dundee Centre Stage. I suoi drammi sono stati rappresentati inizialmente a Cullen – tra cui uno con Twiggy ambientato alla fine degli anni 1960. Altri hanno avuto luogo al Royal Court Theatre di Londra, tra cui con e , diretto da Richard Wilson. Rainbow Kiss è successivamente stato allestito a New York nella primavera del 2008, diretto da Will Frears e prodotto dalla The Play Company. (it)
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  • سيمون فاركوهار (بالإنجليزية: Simon Farquhar)‏ هو كاتب وكاتب مسرحي بريطاني، ولد في 15 ديسمبر 1972. (ar)
  • Simon Alexander Farquhar is a British writer and broadcaster. His early one-act plays were staged at the Aberdeen Arts Centre, until a radio script set in Cullen, , was picked up by actor and producer Martin Jarvis and commissioned for BBC Radio 4. This was followed by another Cullen-based drama, , set during the dying days of the Sixties and featuring a cameo performance by Twiggy herself. His first full-length stage play, the Aberdeen-based Rainbow Kiss, opened at the Royal Court in April 2006. The production starred Joseph McFadden and Dawn Steele and was directed by Richard Wilson, as part of the theatre's 50th anniversary season. Rainbow Kiss opened in New York in Spring 2008, directed by and produced by The Play Company. In October 2006 he was invited to take part in the Old Vic 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala. The annual fund-raising event sees six writers asked to each choose from a pool of available actors and each write a ten-minute play for them overnight which is then learned and performed the following evening on the Old Vic stage. The result was starring Tamzin Outhwaite and Patricia Hodge. He regularly writes for The Guardian, The Independent and The Times. He has also written many articles and appeared on television and radio as a television historian. In 2007 he wrote and presented the documentary Razor Sharp: The Story of Peter McDougall, the Scottish television dramatist, and in 2015, A Sympathetic Eye for BBC Radio 4. His book was published in 2021. His book A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders (2016) tells the story of the crimes of John Duffy and David Mulcahy, and is a memoir of his father, one of the police officers who led the case in the 1980s. It was shortlisted for the 2017 CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction. In 2017 he wrote "", which was performed at the Theatre Royal, Dumfries. (en)
  • Simon Alexander Farquhar (15 dicembre 1972) è uno scrittore e drammaturgo scozzese, attore durante il periodo universitario nel gruppo della Università di Dundee Centre Stage. I suoi drammi sono stati rappresentati inizialmente a Cullen – tra cui uno con Twiggy ambientato alla fine degli anni 1960. Altri hanno avuto luogo al Royal Court Theatre di Londra, tra cui con e , diretto da Richard Wilson. Rainbow Kiss è successivamente stato allestito a New York nella primavera del 2008, diretto da Will Frears e prodotto dalla The Play Company. Nell'ottobre 2006 è stato invitato e prender parte al Gala di beneficenza dell'Old Vic, in cui sei drammaturghi dovevano scrivere un dramma di 10 minuti, scegliendone anche gli attori. Farquhar ha presentato Dream Me a Winter con e Patricia Hodge. Farquhar ha inoltre scritto molti articoli ed è apparso in televisione, promuovendo il dramma TV, in particolare quello degli anni 1970. Nel 2007 ha scritto e presentato il documentario Razor Sharp: The Story of , biografia del drammaturgo scozzese. Nel 2015 ha scritto e presentato A Sympathetic Eye per BBC Radio 4. Il suo libro Play for Today: The First Year 1970-1971 è stato pubblicato nel 2021. Il suo libro A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders (pubblicato nel 2016) racconta la storia dei "killer delle ferrovie" John Duffy e David Mulcahy ed è stato scritto in memoria di suo padre, che fu uno degli ufficiali di polizia che si occuparono del caso negli anni 1980. Il libro venne nominato al CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction nel 2017. Nel 2017 ha scritto l'opera teatrale Wassail Play, messa in scena al Theatre Royal di Dumfries. (it)
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