Paul Sirett Explained

Paul Sirett is an English dramatist best known for his popular music-related shows. His plays and musicals have been awarded Best Off-West End Musical, Whatsonstage's Best Play, Pearson's Best New Play, City Life's Best Writer & Best Play.

Shows

• Oxy & The Morons – by Paul Sirett, Mike Peters and Steve Allan Jones for New Wolsey Theatre (2017)^[1]
• Reasons To Be Cheerful – featuring the music of Ian Dury and The Blockheads New Wolsey Theatre by Paul Sirett, directed by Jenny Sealey (2010)
• Polish-Speaking Romanians – Dorota Masłowska translated by Lisa Goldman and Paul Sirett
• The Big Life – Paul Sirett nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical 2006^{[2] [3]}
• The Iron Man – adapted from the Ted Hughes story for Graeae Theatre Company
• Come Dancing – Ray Davies and Paul Sirett for Theatre Royal Stratford East
• Jamaica House – Paul Sirett for Theatre Workshop which had a site-specific performance on the top floor of a tower block
• Running the Silk Road by Paul Sirett for Yellow Earth Theatre
• Lush Life – with the music of Ella Fitzgerald Live Theatre, Newcastle 2005.
• The Mandelson Files – short play about Peter Mandelson played at BAC in London.
• Skaville – homage to two-tone and ska
• Crusade – on conflict in the Middle East for Stratford East.
• Worlds Apart – on immigration control Stratford East 1993.
• A Night in Tunisia – about a be-bop saxophonist Stratford East 1992.

See also

• Bliss (British band) Coventry
• Additional guitar on Sue (album) Frazier Chorus 1989

Notes and References

1. Web site: Oxy & the Morons.
2. Theatre Record – Page 700 2005 "The irony absent at the close is touchingly evident at the start which Paul Sirett (book and lyrics) places on the Empire Windrush as it arrives in British waters in 1948, bringing the first Caribbean immigrants to these shores. "We comin to Inglan!"
3. Julie Sanders Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings – Page 1894 0745657656– 2013 "The experiences of the Windrush generation themselves in London and elsewhere were the subject of several ... The Big Life responds to, and takes it stimulus from, this complicated set of inheritances.5 Written by Paul Sirett (the Royal .."