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  1. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the film Billy Elliot (2000) and the book and lyrics for its adaptation as a stage musical of the same name. In addition, he wrote the play The Pitmen Painters (2007), and the screenplays for the films War Horse and Rocketman (2019).

  2. Nov 20, 2018 · Hall, best known for the 2000 screenplay for Billy Elliot as well as its Tony-winning musical adaption, recognized not only Chayefsky's eerie prescience, but also "a very robust piece of dramatic...

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  3. Shakespeare in Love. Biography for Lee Hall the Playwright including canon of works, monologues, songs, scenes and quizzes.

  4. Lee Hall is a writer whose work is firmly rooted in the expression of the political through the personal. He is perhaps most associated with the film Billy Elliot (2000), for which he wrote the screenplay, and with Spoonface Steinberg (1997), written for radio and later adapted for the stage.

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    • Methuen Publishing Ltd
  5. Lee Hall’s version of this successful screenplay follows the same story of Shakespeare meeting and falling in love with a aristocratic woman named Viola De Lesseps who wishes she could be an actor, and transforms it for the stage, just as Shakespeare did with stories in his day.

  6. Cooking with Elvis is a dark comedy by playwright Lee Hall which was performed in 1999 in Edinburgh. The farce was adapted from a play written for the award-winning BBC Radio God's Country series and premiered in 1999 in Edinburgh.

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  8. The Pitmen Painters is a play by Lee Hall based on the Ashington Group of painters. Following a sellout run at both the Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne in 2007 [1] and its transfer to the Royal National Theatre, [2] it returned to the National for a limited season before heading out on a UK Tour. [3]

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