Originally commissioned by Max Stafford-Clark for the Royal Court in 1982, Rita, Sue and Bob Too caused a sensation on its first performance for its frank portrayal of child sexuality in a northern town; the fact that the play was based on the writer's own experience only added to the furore. 
Eighteen years later, Stafford-Clarke returned with a group of actors to the Bradford estates that Andrea knew. A State Affair by Robin Soans is a record of what they found. 
'A genius straight from the slums' - Shelagh Delaney (on Andrea Dunbar) Mail on Sunday
'This is life, the facts are there... these things do go on - maybe not in every circle, but certainly in mine' - Andrea Dunbar, Yorkshire Post, 1986.
Out of Joint's production of Rita, Sue and Bob Too and A State Affair premiered at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre in October 2000.

Rita, Sue and Bob Too; A State Affair (Modern Plays)

Soans, Robin

Dunbar, Andrea

Humor & Entertainment

Methuen Drama

A companion to Robin Soans’ docudrama The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, this volume collects the actual recipes shared by the people Soans interviewed in Israel and Palestine. The dishes range from carrot cake to kebabs, from falafels to gefilte fish, from tabbouleh to tuna melt. Includes color photographs and commentary on the people who provided the recipes. Winner of a Gourmand Cookbook Award in 2004.

The Arab-Israeli Cookbook: The Recipes

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Aurora Metro Books

The Arab-Israeli Cookbook is a drama created from the everyday realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a research trip to the occupied territories and Israel by the writer Robin Soans and directors Rimi Brihi and Tim Roseman, they met and interviewed people drawn from the widest possible background of culture class and creed. The one unifying feature of these meetings was that the subjects were cooking their daily meals.

The Arab-Israeli Cookbook: The Play Text (Aurora New Plays)

Reference

Talking to Terrorists (Modern Plays)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

On the eve of one of the most important games of his career, Welsh rugby legend Gareth Thomas received a warning: The Sun newspaper was going to out’ him as gay. Working with Thomas himself, and young people in his hometown of Bridgend, playwright Robin Soans has spun a powerful story about sport, politics, secrets, and learning to be yourself.

Crouch Touch Pause Engage (Oberon Modern Plays)

Oberon Books

“I looked around the room and I thought, I’m the only person in this room that hasn’t killed anyone.” Talking to Terrorists is a play commissioned by the Royal Court and out of Joint. The writer, director Max Stafford-Clark, and actors interviewed people from around the world who have been involved in terrorism. They wanted to know what makes ordinary people do extreme things.

Talking to Terrorists (Oberon Modern Plays)

...you'll see them stuck like insects in amber. Like an Ibsen play... haunted for the rest of their lives Life After Scandal takes you behind the closed curtains and beyond the reach of the telephoto lenses to explore our paparazzi-infested world from the other side, as those implicated in some of the most notorious scandals of recent years talk frankly about the events which transformed their lives. This new verbatim play from the writer of Talking To Terrorists and The Arab-Israeli Cookbook uses the subjects’ own words to take an entertaining, compassionate and deeply moving look at the different people, from scorned politicians to powerful PRs, expensive prostitutes to disgraced aristocrats, who find themselves caught up in the modern machinery of scandal. Life After Scandal opened at the Hampstead Theatre in September 2007.

Life After Scandal (Oberon Modern Plays)

A fiercely funny and moving new play, based on real events, about the difficulties of uniting divided racial communities.

Mixed Up North (Oberon Modern Plays)

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