Simon Farquhar

During his time at the University of Aberdeen he was an active writer and performer in the university's drama group, Centre Stage. His early one-act plays were staged at the Aberdeen Arts Centre, until a radio script set in Cullen, Candy Floss Kisses, was picked up by actor and producer Martin Jarvis and commissioned for BBC Radio 4. This was followed by another Cullen-based drama, Elevenses with Twiggy, set during the dying days of the Sixties and featuring a cameo performance by Twiggy herself.[1]

Simon Farquhar

Simon Alexander Farquhar is a British writer.

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.[2][3][4] Rainbow Kiss opened in New York in Spring 2008, directed by Will Frears 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 Dream Me a Winter starring Tamzin Outhwaite and Patricia Hodge.[5]

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 champion of television drama, particularly of the 1970s.[1] 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 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 "Wassail Play", which was performed at the Theatre Royal, Dumfries.

Radio
  • Candy Floss Kisses (2004) — Afternoon Play, BBC Radio 4
  • Elevenses with Twiggy (2006) — Afternoon Play, BBC Radio 4
  • A Sympathetic Eye (2015) - Archive on 4, BBC Radio 4

Stage

Books

Journalism
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References
  1. Harriet Devine Playwrights of the Royal Court 1956-2006, London: Faber, 2006
  2. Charles Spencer "That kitchen sinking feeling", Daily Telegraph, 14 April 2006
  3. Michael Billington "Rainbow Kiss, Royal Court, London", The Guardian, 12 April 2006
  4. Paul Taylor "Rainbow Kiss, Royal Court Upstairs, London ", The Independent, 14 April 2006
  5. "Simon Farquahar", On Air, Wireles Theatre Company
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