Original screenplay in English. Adapted from my play of the same name. Short Synopsis While the Americans try to obtain the release of their Embassy personnel held hostage in Teheran, the Shah of Iran is the guest of General Torrijos of Panama, guarded by Colonel Noriega. Three dictators (past, present and future) on a small
Tumult in the Clouds
Only Connect
Mobile phones, internet, text messages, e-mails, chats : the means of communication multiply but do we communicate any more effectively as a result ? Six characters in search of love meet up, seduce each other, fall in love, fall out of love, argue, hate each other, split up, meet someone else and start again. False identities, true
The Water is Wide
Full-length original screenplay in English. Romantic comedy
Losers
While the England football team is busy getting eliminated from the World Cup and there are riots going on in nearby boroughs, Lennon’s second-hand record shop is under threat of being developed into the kitchen of an Italian restaurant run by his not-quite half-brother, Georgette… Extract : GEORGETTE Well then? Pause What’ve you got to say
Living The Lie
The starting point for Living The Lie is a true story: after twenty years of pretending to be a doctor working for the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Jean-Claude Romand murdered his parents, wife and children and set fire to his house. He failed to kill himself and so was subsequently brought to trial and
De Nouvelles Vies
Three women are about to give birth on a rainy 31st of December. France 3, MFP Productions. Directed by Stéphane Kurc. With Isabelle Candelier, Hélène Vincent, Marie-Sohna Condé, Julie Dray, Jean-Yves Bertheloot, Marc Citti, Alexandre Hamidi, Ouassini Embarek, Nathalie Besançon, Laure Duthilleul  
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
A neuropsychiatrist deals with two patients traumatised like her by the Second World War and explores the working of human memory both individual and collective. “To restore the human subject at the centre – the suffering, afflicted, fighting, human subject – we must deepen a case history to a narrative or tale…” from “The Man
Les Âmes Fortes
Directed by Raul Ruiz. MDI Productions. Screenplay adapted from the novel by Jean Giono: Alexandre Astruc, Eric Neuhoff, Alain Majani, Mitch Hooper. With Laetitia Casta, Arielle Dombasle, Frédéric Dieffenthal, John Malkovitch, Charles Berling, Christian Vadim. Official selection Cannes 2001.  
le théâtre de l’intime
After Only Connect, the first Body and Soul/Corps et Âme production, (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMitchHooper), and before tackling Shakespeare, I want to look at a number of plays dealing with the theme of the couple: two by Harold Pinter, « The Lover » and « Ashes to Ashes », one by James Saunders, « Bodies », one by Roland Schimmelpfennig, « Peggy Pickit », and two of mine, “Living The
le chantier Shakespeare
This is a long-term goal for the company: to stage Shakespeare’s plays in both English and French and to use this experience to create new, original, large-scale work, including a series of bilingual plays, the Borderline trilogy. SHAKESPEARE (dossier Macbeth et Comme il vous plaira)