Stephen Lowe is an English playwright and director.

Lowe's plays have dealt with subjects ranging from the takeover of Tibet by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 1959 (Tibetan Inroads) to a dying DH Lawrence trying find a publisher for Lady Chatterley

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed privately in Florence, Italy with assistance from Pino Orioli; it could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960...

 (Empty Bed Blues); from Donald McGill

Donald McGill

Donald Fraser Gould McGill, was an English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with a whole genre of saucy seaside postcards that were sold mostly in small shops in British coastal towns...

 postcards (Cards and Kisses on the Bottom) to Dr John Dee (The Alchemical Wedding). His best known plays are Touched

Touched (play)

Touched is a play by English playwright Stephen Lowe.The play opened at the Nottingham Playhouse on 9 June 1977, directed by Richard Eyre. It was revived at the Royal Court in January 1981, in a new production by William Gaskill. Both productions starred Marjorie Yates as Sandra...

, about a group of working-class women in Nottingham at the end of the second world war; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (play)

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a play by Stephen Lowe, adapted from the classic working-class novel, by Robert Tressell.It was first produced by Joint Stock in Plymouth on 14 September 1978, directed by William Gaskill...

, about a group of house-painters in 1906 (adapted from the novel

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a novel by Robert Tressell first published in 1914 after his death in 1911. An explicitly political work, it is widely regarded as a classic of working-class literature.-Background:...

 by Robert Tressell

Robert Tressell

Robert Tressell was the nom-de-plume of Robert Croker, latterly Robert Noonan, an Irish writer best known for his novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.-Early life:...

); and Old Big ‘Ead in the Spirit of the Man, in which football hero Brian Clough

Brian Clough

Brian Howard Clough, OBE was an English footballer and football manager. He is most notable for his success with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. His achievement of winning back-to-back European Cups with Nottingham Forest, a traditionally moderate provincial English club, is considered to be...

 comes back from the dead to inspire a playwright working on his latest play.

He has had plays produced by the Royal Court

Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...

, Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...

, Riverside Studios

Riverside Studios

Riverside Studios is a production studio, theatre and independent cinema on the banks of the River Thames in Hammersmith, London, England. It plays host to contemporary and international dramatic and dance performance, film, visual art exhibitions and television production.-History:In 1933, the...

, Theatre Royal Stratford East

Theatre Royal Stratford East

The Theatre Royal Stratford East is a theatre in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham. Since 1953, it has been the home of the Theatre Workshop company.-History:...

, Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in the vicinity of Swiss Cottage and Belsize Park, in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. In 2009 it celebrates its 50 year anniversary.The original theatre was...

, Joint Stock

Joint Stock Theatre Company

The Joint Stock Theatre Company was founded in London 1974 by David Hare, Max Stafford-Clark and David Aukin. The director William Gaskill was also an important part of the company. It was primarily a new work company....

; and at regional theatres across the country including Scarborough Theatre in the Round

Stephen Joseph Theatre

The Stephen Joseph Theatre is a theatre in the round in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England that was founded by Stephen Joseph and was the first theatre in the round in Britain....

, Sheffield Crucible, Liverpool Playhouse

Liverpool Playhouse

The Liverpool Playhouse is a theatre in Williamson Square in the city of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It originated in 1866 as a music hall, and in 1911 developed into a repertory theatre. As such it nurtured the early careers of many actors and actresses, some of which went on to achieve...

, Derby Playhouse

Derby Playhouse

Derby Theatre is a theatre situated in Derby, England. Formerly known as the Derby Playhouse, it was operated by Derby Playhouse Ltd from its opening in 1975 until 2008, when the company ceased operating after a period in administration...

, Birmingham Rep, Salisbury Playhouse

Salisbury Playhouse

Salisbury Playhouse is a theatre in the county of Wiltshire, it was built in 1976 and has two theatre spaces – the Main House and Salberg Studio ....

 and Plymouth Theatre Royal.

Many of his plays were first produced in his home-town at Nottingham Playhouse

Nottingham Playhouse

The Nottingham Playhouse is a theatre in Nottingham, England. It was first established as a repertory theatre in the 1950s when it operated from a former cinema. Directors during this period included Val May and Frank Dunlop.-The building:...

, at Lakeside Arts Centre or by Lowe’s own company, Meeting Ground Theatre Company. Lowe moved back to Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

 in 1985 to start Meeting Ground, with a group including his wife Tanya Myers. For Meeting Ground's latest project, Lowe is directing Tanya Myers' play Inside Out of Mind.

Lowe has worked with many leading directors including Bill Alexander

Bill Alexander (director)

William "Bill" Alexander Paterson is an award-winning British theatre director.Bill Alexander is an awarding winning British theatre director who has worked extensively with The Royal Shakespeare Company. He was artistic director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre between 1992 and 2002...

, Alan Ayckbourn

Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...

, Annie Castledine

Annie Castledine

Annie Castledine is a theatre director.Her work has included periods with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic. She has been Artistic Director at Theatr Clywd, Mold and at the Derby Playhouse ....

, Jonathan Chadwick, Anthony Clark, Stephen Daldry

Stephen Daldry

Stephen David Daldry, CBE is an English theatre and film director and producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning director.-Early years:...

, Alan Dossor

Alan Dossor

Alan Dossor is a British theatre director.He was artistic director of the Everyman Theatre Liverpool from 1970 to 1975. His production of John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert by Willy Russell transferred to the West End in 1974...

, Richard Eyre

Richard Eyre

Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE is an English director of film, theatre, television, and opera.-Biography:Eyre was educated at Sherborne School, an independent school for boys in the market town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset in south-west England, followed by Peterhouse at the University...

, Bill Gaskill

William Gaskill

William 'Bill' Gaskill is a British theatre director.He worked alongside Laurence Olivier as a founding director of the National Theatre from its time at the Old Vic in 1963...

, David Leveaux

David Leveaux

David Leveaux is a British theatre director who has been nominated for five Tony Awards as director of both plays and musicals...

, and Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle

Daniel "Danny" Boyle is an English filmmaker and producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Trainspotting. For Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle won numerous awards in 2008, including the Academy Award for Best Director...

, who early in his career was assistant director on Lowe’s play Tibetan Inroads. His theatre and television work has featured actors such as Bruce Alexander

Bruce Alexander

Bruce Alexander is an English actor, perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Superintendent Mullet in the ITV television series A Touch of Frost produced by Yorkshire Television in the United Kingdom, in which he acted as the superior of the main character Detective Inspector William "Jack" Frost,...

, Warren Clarke

Warren Clarke

-Biography:Clarke was born in Oldham, Lancashire. His first television appearance was in the long running Granada soap opera Coronation Street, initially as Kenny Pickup in 1966 and then as Gary Bailey in 1968. His first major film appearance was in Stanley Kubrick's controversial A Clockwork...

, George Costigan

George Costigan

-Early life:Costigan was born in Portsmouth and grew up in Irlams o' th' Height and Weaste in Salford. He attended St. Augustine's C of E Primary School on Bolton Road in Pendlebury, then Wardley Grammar School on Mardale Avenue in Wardley near Swinton.-Career:...

, Kenneth Cranham

Kenneth Cranham

Kenneth Cranham is a film, television and stage actor. He starred in the title role in the popular 1980s comedy drama Shine on Harvey Moon. He also appeared in Layer Cake, Gangster No. 1, Rome, Oliver! and many other films. He is probably best known to horror genre fans as the deranged Dr...

, Sharon Duce

Sharon Duce

Sharon Duce is a British actress, .Her biggest role was alongside Ray Brooks in the BBC comedy drama Big Deal .She has also appeared in:*Wycliffe,*The Royle Family*London's Burning,...

, Emma Fielding

Emma Fielding

Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding is an English actress.-Biography:The lapsed Roman Catholic daughter of a British Army soldier, Fielding spent much of her childhood in Malaysia and Nigeria, and a period in Malvern above her grandparents' betting shop...

, Brian Glover

Brian Glover

Brian Glover was an English character actor, writer and wrestler. Glover was a professional wrestler, teacher, and finally a film, television and stage actor. He once said, "You play to your strengths in this game. My strength is as a bald-headed, rough-looking Yorkshireman".-Early life:Glover was...

, Nigel Hawthorne

Nigel Hawthorne

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. For this role he won four BAFTA Awards during the 1980s in the...

, Bill Paterson, Neil Pearson

Neil Pearson

Neil Joshua Pearson is a British actor best known for his work on television.-Biography:Pearson grew up in Battersea, London, the son of a panel beater, who left home when he was five, and a legal secretary, and was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, Suffolk, a boarding school, where he first...

, Kathryn Pogson

Kathryn Pogson

Kathryn Pogson is a film and stage actress. She appeared in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film Brazil. She received a Drama Desk Award nomination for her performance in the 1986 New York production of Aunt Dan and Lemon....

, Linus Roache

Linus Roache

Linus William Roache is an English actor.-Early life:Roache was born in Manchester, the son of Coronation Street actor William Roache and actress Anna Cropper. Roache was educated at Bishop Luffa Church of England School in Chichester, West Sussex and at the independent Rydal School in Colwyn Bay,...

, Colin Tarrant, Marjorie Yates

Marjorie Yates

Marjorie Yates is a British actress most famous for her role as Carol Fisher in the Channel 4 drama Shameless.Yates was born in Birmingham, England, and studied at the Bournville College of Art...

, Harriet Walter

Harriet Walter

Dame Harriet Mary Walter, DBE is a British actress.-Personal life:She is the niece of renowned British actor Sir Christopher Lee, as the daughter of his elder sister Xandra Lee. On her father's side she is a great-great-great-granddaughter of John Walter, founder of The TimesShe was educated at...

 and Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz

Rachel Hannah Weisz born 7 March 1970)is an English-American film and theatre actress and former fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues...

.

Lowe was writer in residence at Riverside Studios from 1982 to 1984, and he has led numerous theatre and writing workshops, including at the National Theatre

National Theatre

National Theatre may refer to: -in Africa:*Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi, Kenya*National Theatre in Accra, Ghana-in Asia:*National Theater and Concert Hall, Republic of China in Taipei, Taiwan*National Theatre of Japan in Tokyo, Japan...

, the Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC Television, the Arvon Foundation

Arvon Foundation

The Arvon Foundation is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom which promotes creative writing. It is based in the Free Word Centre for literature, literacy and free expression in London.-History:...

, Liverpool Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse and Riverside Studios. He has lectured at Dartington College of Arts

Dartington College of Arts

Dartington College of Arts was a specialist arts institution near Totnes, Devon, South West England, it specialized in post-dramatic theatre, music, choreography, Performance Writing and visual performance, focusing on a performative and multi-disciplinary approach to the arts. In addition to this,...

, Birmingham University (on the MA in Playwriting Studies programme), Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham Trent University is a public teaching and research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as a new university in 1992 from the existing Trent Polytechnic , however it can trace its roots back to 1843 with the establishment of the Nottingham Government School of Design...

, Charles University in Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

 and at the Performance Art Academy in Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

. Lowe has been a member of various theatre boards and advisory panels, including Great Eastern Stage Company. he was on the council of Arts Council England, and was Chair of Arts Council England - East Midlands from 2004 to 2010.

Lowe's play Touched

Touched (play)

Touched is a play by English playwright Stephen Lowe.The play opened at the Nottingham Playhouse on 9 June 1977, directed by Richard Eyre. It was revived at the Royal Court in January 1981, in a new production by William Gaskill. Both productions starred Marjorie Yates as Sandra...

 was joint winner of the George Devine Award in 1977, and he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Nottingham in July 2011.

Early life

Lowe was born Stephen James Wright in Sneinton

Sneinton

Sneinton is a south-eastern suburb of Nottingham, England. The area is bounded by Carlton to the north, Colwick to the south, Meadow Lane to the southwest and Bakersfield to the east.-Description:...

, Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

, where his father was a labourer and his mother was a machinist in Nottingham's Lace Market

Lace Market

The Lace Market is an historic quarter-mile square area of Nottingham, England.Once the heart of the world's lace industry during the days of the British Empire, it is full of impressive examples of 19th century industrial architecture and thus is a protected heritage area...

. He graduated from Birmingham University in English and Theatre Studies.

After university, Lowe worked in various jobs while writing, including part-time lecturer, clerk, hospital receptionist, newspaper distributor, advertising manager, housepainter, barman and civil servant. While working as a part-time shepherd in the Yorkshire Dales

Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales is the name given to an upland area in Northern England.The area lies within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire, though it spans the ceremonial counties of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Cumbria...

, he was commissioned by Alan Ayckbourn

Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...

 to write a comedy double-bill, Comic Pictures, and joined his Scarborough Theatre in the Round

Stephen Joseph Theatre

The Stephen Joseph Theatre is a theatre in the round in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England that was founded by Stephen Joseph and was the first theatre in the round in Britain....

 company as an actor and writer. Ayckbourn produced Comic Pictures in 1976.

Lowe took his mother's maiden name as a professional identity in 1976, when he joined Ayckbourn's company..

Peace plays

In the 1980s, Lowe edited two anthologies of peace plays for Methuen. The first volume was of plays by British playwrights, including Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy is a British playwright, novelist, and poet.-Life:Levy's father was a member of the African National Congress, an academic, a historian. The family emigrated to Wembley Park, in 1968...

, Adrian Mitchell

Adrian Mitchell

Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...

, and Lowe himself (Keeping Body and Soul Together). It was published in 1985 during a period of increased tension towards the end of the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

, and Lowe's introduction quoted from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...

 Nobel

Nobel Prize in Literature

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

 acceptance speech, "we, the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too late to engage in the creation of a utopia of a very different kind." The second volume, published in 1990, came out of the new era of glasnost

Glasnost

Glasnost was the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s...

 and a thaw in relations between the two superpowers

Superpower

A superpower is a state with a dominant position in the international system which has the ability to influence events and its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests...

. For this volume Lowe selected plays by two American playwrights, Arthur Kopit and Richard Stayton; and by two Russian playwrights, Fyodor Burlatsky, a former adviser to Kkrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964...

 and Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...

, and Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhaíl Afanásyevich Bulgákov was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.-Biography:Mikhail Bulgakov was born on...

.

Plays

• Cards, Act Inn Theatre, London (1973)
• Comic Pictures (Stars and Cards), Scarborough Theatre-in-the-Round (1976)
• Shooting Fishing and Riding, Scarborough Theatre-in-the-Round (1977)
• Touched
  Touched (play)
  Touched is a play by English playwright Stephen Lowe.The play opened at the Nottingham Playhouse on 9 June 1977, directed by Richard Eyre. It was revived at the Royal Court in January 1981, in a new production by William Gaskill. Both productions starred Marjorie Yates as Sandra...
  
  , Nottingham Playhouse (1977); Royal Court (1981)
• Sally Ann Hallelujah Band, Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Roundabout (1978)
• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (play)
  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a play by Stephen Lowe, adapted from the classic working-class novel, by Robert Tressell.It was first produced by Joint Stock in Plymouth on 14 September 1978, directed by William Gaskill...
  
  , Joint Stock (1978)
• Glasshouses, Royal Court Theatre Upstairs (1981) ; (later retitled:) Moving Pictures, Leeds Playhouse
• Tibetan Inroads, Royal Court (1981)
• The Trial of Frankenstein, Plymouth Theatre Royal (1982)
• Strive, Sheffield Crucible Studio (1983)
• Seachange, Riverside Studios (1984)
• Keeping Body and Soul Together, Royal Court Theatre Upstairs (1984)
• The Storm (adaptation, from Ostrovsky
  Ostrovsky
  Ostrovsky or Ostrovskoy , Ostrovskaya , or Ostrovskoye may refer to:People*Alexander Ostrovsky , Russian dramatist*Arkady Ostrovsky , Soviet composer...
  
  ), RSC Barbican The Pit (1985)
• Desire, Meeting Ground Theatre national tour (1986)
• Demon Lovers, Meeting Ground Theatre national tour (1987)
• William Tell (adaptation, from Schiller), Sheffield Crucible (1987)
• Divine Gossip, RSC Barbican The Pit (1988)
• Paradise, Nottingham Playhouse (1990)
• The Alchemical Wedding, Salisbury Playhouse (1998)
• Revelations, Hampstead Theatre (2003)
• It's Not Personal, Nottingham Playhouse (2004)
• Old Big 'Ead in The Spirit of the Man, Nottingham Playhouse and national tour (2005-6)
• The Fox and the Little Vixen, Tangere Arts tour (2005)
• The Devil's League, in rehearsal at Derby Playhouse when theatre went into receivership; not yet produced (2008)
• Smile, Lakeside Arts Nottingham (2008)
• Glamour, Nottingham Playhouse (2009)
• Empty Bed Blues, Lakeside Arts Nottingham (2009)
• Seance on a Sunday Afternoon, Lakeside Arts Nottingham (2011)

Screenplays

• Cries From A Watchtower, BBC TV Play for Today (1979) Producer Richard Eyre
  Richard Eyre
  Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE is an English director of film, theatre, television, and opera.-Biography:Eyre was educated at Sherborne School, an independent school for boys in the market town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset in south-west England, followed by Peterhouse at the University...
  
  . - A small time watchmaker is hit by the new silicon chip technology.
• Fred Karno's Bloody Circus, rehearsed reading by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Warehouse Theatre (1979); part of Plays that Television Would Not Do series.
• Shades, BBC 2 60 minutes as part of PLAYS FOR TOMORROW series (1981). - The youth of 2001 re-connect with 80's Peace Protestors. Starring Neil Pearson
  Neil Pearson
  Neil Joshua Pearson is a British actor best known for his work on television.-Biography:Pearson grew up in Battersea, London, the son of a panel beater, who left home when he was five, and a legal secretary, and was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, Suffolk, a boarding school, where he first...
  
  .
• Unstable Elements, Film NewsReel/ Channel 4. (1983)
• Kisses on the Bottom, BBC 2 (1984). - A comedy in which the characters of Donald McGill
  Donald McGill
  Donald Fraser Gould McGill, was an English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with a whole genre of saucy seaside postcards that were sold mostly in small shops in British coastal towns...
  
   sea-side postcards come alive (adapted from Lowe's play Cards).
• Tell Tale Hearts, Three part thriller BBC Scotland (1990) Starring Emma Fielding
  Emma Fielding
  Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding is an English actress.-Biography:The lapsed Roman Catholic daughter of a British Army soldier, Fielding spent much of her childhood in Malaysia and Nigeria, and a period in Malvern above her grandparents' betting shop...
  
  , Bill Patterson. Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan. - Investigations of a serial child murderer expose hidden fears in all involved.
• Ice Dance, BBC 1 (1990). Director Alan Dossor
  Alan Dossor
  Alan Dossor is a British theatre director.He was artistic director of the Everyman Theatre Liverpool from 1970 to 1975. His production of John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert by Willy Russell transferred to the West End in 1974...
  
  . Starring Warren Clarke
  Warren Clarke
  -Biography:Clarke was born in Oldham, Lancashire. His first television appearance was in the long running Granada soap opera Coronation Street, initially as Kenny Pickup in 1966 and then as Gary Bailey in 1968. His first major film appearance was in Stanley Kubrick's controversial A Clockwork...
  
  . Producer Mike Wearing. - Two young Nottingham kids try to emulate Torvill and Dean
  Torvill and Dean
  Torvill and Dean are British ice dancers and former British-, European-, Olympic- and World champions...
  
  .
• Flea Bites, BBC 1 (1992). Director Alan Dossor. starring Nigel Hawthorne
  Nigel Hawthorne
  Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. For this role he won four BAFTA Awards during the 1980s in the...
  
  . Producer Mike Wearing. - A Survivor of the camps teaches a young boy the mystery of a flea-circus.
• Scarlet & Black, BBC classical Four hour adaptation (1993). Director Ben Bolt. Starring Ewan McGregor
  Ewan McGregor
  Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish actor. He has had success in mainstream, indie, and art house films. McGregor is perhaps best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting , young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy , and poet Christian in the...
  
   and Rachel Weisz
  Rachel Weisz
  Rachel Hannah Weisz born 7 March 1970)is an English-American film and theatre actress and former fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues...
  
  . Producer Mike Wearing. - Stendahl's
  Stendhal
  Marie-Henri Beyle , better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme...
  
   masterpiece of young love & passion
• Greenstone, ABC/ NZ TV. Eight-hour historical drama with Communicado, the New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
   producers of Once Were Warriors
  Once Were Warriors (film)
  Once Were Warriors is a 1994 film based on New Zealand author Alan Duff's bestselling 1990 first novel. The film tells the story of an urban Māori family, the Hekes, and their problems with poverty, alcoholism and domestic violence, mostly brought on by family patriarch Jake...
  
  . (1999). - The 'adventure' story of the first white settlers and the subsequent colonisation of the land.

Directing

• Shooting Fishing and Riding, Scarborough Theatre-in-the-Round (1977)
• Strive, Meeting Ground Theatre national tour (1985)
• Desire, Meeting Ground Theatre national tour (1986)
• Demon Lovers, Meeting Ground Theatre national tour (1987)
• Inside Out of Mind by Tanya Myers, Meeting Ground Theatre workshop presentation for Nottingham Institute of Mental Health (2011)

Sources

• Faith, hope, and human decency, interview with Lowe by John Cunningham; The Guardian, 19 Jan 1981; p9.
• Lowe, Stephen, Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010 ; online edn, Oct 2010.
• Moving Pictures, Four Plays by Stephen Lowe. London, Methuen
  Methuen
  Methuen may refer to:People*Sir Algernon Methuen , founder of Methuen & Co. Ltd.*Paul Methuen , various British politiciansPlaces*Methuen, Massachusetts, a U.S. cityOther*Baron Methuen, a British title of nobility...
  
  , 1985.
• Old Big 'Ead in The Spirit of the Man, by Stephen Lowe. London, Methuen, 2005.
• Work CV, www.stephenlowe.co.uk
• Lowe, Stephen. Entry by Dan Rebellato, in Companion to 20th Century Theatre, edited by Colin Chambers. Continuum International, 2002; p 457.
• www.insideoutofmind.co.uk
• New play focuses on role of carers, article fromNottingham Evening Post website, 27 Jul 2011.
• Donohue, Walter (edited), The Warehouse: A Writer's Theatre. Theatre Papers no. 8, Dartington College of Arts, 1980.

External links

• Stephen Lowe's website
• Methuen edition of Old Big 'Ead...
• Press reviews of Smile and Empty Bed Blues onLakeside Arts Centre website
• Inside Out of Mind website