Ray Cooney: biography and works

Raymond Cooney was born 30.05.1932 year in London. He graduated from Dulwich College – one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the UK. Married to Linda Dixon in 1962. I have two sons. The eldest, Danny, lives with his wife and two children in Australia, the youngest, Michael, also a writer. In 1995, Cooney published a commentary on its own plays.

Early career

As a teenager, Cooney began his career in the theater. At age 14, he appeared on stage Palace Theatre. It's safe to say that the smell the scenes he imbibed from childhood. Since 1948, ray Cooney plays in theatrical troupes from Worthing to Blackburn and honing his theatrical skills.

In 1956, he received the highest education in Theatre at Whitehall Brian RIX. In 1961 he wrote his first play, “a fortune-Hunter” co-written with Tony Hilton. With him wrote the script Comedy “That section!”. Beginning a career as a playwright has brought West End Theatre 17 the Prime Minister. In London staged over thirty productions as a Director and producer ray Cooney. Plays are listed below:

• They’re Playing Our Song ("They're playing our song”).
• Bodies (“Body”).
• Clouds (“Cloud”).
• Whose Life is it Anyway? ("Whose life is it, anyway?”).
• Chicago (“Chicago”).
• Duet for One (“Duet for one”).

Comedy Theatre

Ray Cooney organized the London Theatre of Comedy under his guidance performed on stage with stars of the West End, and revived again in the play was a resounding success. Cooney and he often played on stage and has written more than twenty new plays, including:

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• Funny Money (“Ridiculous”).
• Out of Order (" No. 13”).
• Passion Play (“passion”).

Comedy Cuny differ in the alignment of the plot and a certain frivolity of language. The characters often pretend to be who do not are actually, and all the more confusing plot. And at some point the viewer the feeling that the whole situation will be improbable. But ray Cooney – a master of his craft and feels the viewer. Knows that will clamp slightly - and get the hatchet job.

As ray says, the viewer is sometimes you want to play fun games. When the viewer goes to the dramatic play, he is no one promises nothing. But Comedy – is another matter. Here you promise that you at least twice, but smile. And indeed it is. At Cuny there is no light comedies where the audience just laughs, his Comedy – “laughter through tears”.

Global recognition

What can we say about the recognition of this great master of Comedy, if his plays have been translated into more than forty languages and played in theatres all over the world! Huge success and recognition of the play written by ray Cooney, “Too married taxi driver”. In London's West end she has held for more than nine years. Below are the film adaptation of the Comedy Cooney in Russian:

• “Too married taxi driver”;
• ‘Funny money";
• “Clinical case”;
• ‘Number 13’.

Awards

The Play ‘Number 13’ award Laurence Olivier in 1999, and in 2000 awarded the title of European best Comedy. “Too married taxi driver" (1983) got the title of most "long-playing" Comedy in England and entered the hundred best plays of great Britain. For merits in the field of drama ray Cooney a high award - the order of the British Empire in 2005.

He invented for his plays incredible ties and interchanges, and the action takes place sometimes in such a rapid pace that the viewer sometimes even the breath to transfer once. No wonder it is in the theater world called the master of farce. The way it is. As an actor and playwright, Cooney has done a lot to make the audience laugh for decades.