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''[BLANK]'' is a 2019 play by Alice Birch. The play consists of 100 unrelated scenes from which a director may pick and choose. Its 2019 premiere at the Donmar Warehouse in London was in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of Clean Break (theatre company), Clean Break. Development The play's 100 scenes run over 400 pages and all explore what happens when and after a woman goes to prison. Birch's writing was inspired by her work with Clean Break and women affected by the criminal justice system. Production history Prior to the play's official premiere, the Royal National Theatre, National Theatre's youth festival Connections staged a version of ''[BLANK]'' in 2018. Maria Aberg directed the premiere of ''[BLANK]'' at the Donmar Warehouse in London, which officially began its run on October 17, 2019. This production was produced by the theatre company, Clean Break, which works with women affected by the prison system, and celebrated their fortieth anniversary. The premier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Birch
Alice Birch (born 1986) is a British playwright and screenwriter. Birch has written several plays, including ''Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.'' for which she was awarded the George Devine Award, George Devine Award for Most Promising New Playwright, and ''Anatomy of a Suicide'' for which she won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Birch was also the screenwriter for the film ''Lady Macbeth (film), Lady Macbeth'' and has written for such television shows as ''Succession (TV series), Succession'', ''Normal People (TV series), Normal People'', and the Peabody Award-winning miniseries ''Dead Ringers (miniseries), Dead Ringers''. Early life Birch spent the first five years of her life living with her family at the rural commune Birchwood Hall, near Malvern, Worcestershire, Malvern. Because her parents were unmarried, they decided to give Alice and her sister the surname Birch after the commune's name. At 18, Birch joined the Royal Court Theatre’s young writers programme and spent a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashna Rabheru
Ashna Rabheru (born 1996/1997) is an English actress. On television, she is known for her roles in the Channel 4 drama '' Indian Summers'' (2015–2016) and the BBC Three horror series '' Red Rose'' (2022). Early life and education Rabheru was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire and grew up in the Brighton Hill area. She has a brother. Rabheru attended Queen Mary's College. She took classes at the Hunt Academy for Young Actors (HAYA) and the Identity Drama School. She balanced sitting her AS-Levels with filming ''Indian Summers''. She went on to graduate from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting. Career At the age of 17, Rabheru signed with Identity Agency Group and subsequently landed her debut television role in the Channel 4 drama '' Indian Summers'', which premiered in 2015, as Shamshad Dalal, a role she would play for both series. After graduating from drama school, Rabheru made her professional stage debut in ''Trojan Horse'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clean Break (theatre Company)
Clean Break is a women's theatre company based in London, focused on telling the stories of imprisoned women. History Clean Break was started in 1979 by prisoners at HMP Askham Grange, who expanded the prison's annual Christmas show into ''Efemera'', a two-hour show about prison life. It was later performed for a two-night run at York Arts Centre, which made its 21 cast members the first British prisoners to perform onstage outside of a prison. Upon their release, founders Jenny Hicks and Jackie Holboroug formed the theatre company, Clean Break, in order to tell the stories of women in prison. In 1998 the company moved from its base in Camden to a refurbished building in Kentish Town. Productions Productions include Sam Holcroft's ''Dancing Bears'' at the Soho Theatre, ''Little on the inside'' by Alice Birch at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014, and ''Pests'' by Vivienne Franzmann (a co-production with Royal Court Theatre and Royal Exchange Theatre). '' LANK' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate O'Flynn
Kate O'Flynn (born 1986) is a British actress. She is known for her performance in National Theatre's production of ''Port'' for which she received a Critics' Circle Theatre Award in 2013, as well as starring roles in plays '' A Taste of Honey'' in 2014, and '' The Glass Menagerie'' for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2017. O'Flynn currently stars in '' Everyone Else Burns'' (2023–present) and has had recurring roles in '' Landscapers'' (2021) and '' My Lady Jane'' (2024) as well as appearing in the films '' Happy-Go-Lucky'' (2008) and '' Bridget Jones's Baby'' (2018). Education and training O'Flynn attended Manchester's Royal Exchange youth theatre as a teenager, before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Career O'Flynn's first professional role was in Mike Leigh's 2008 film '' Happy-Go-Lucky''. Later that year, her performance in '' The Children's Hour'' with the Royal Exchange Theatre Company won her the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Plays
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. They, along with the Hawthornden Prize, are Britain's oldest literary awards. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom, the prizes were founded in 1919 by Janet Coats Black in memory of her late husband, James Tait Black, a partner in the publishing house of A & C Black Ltd. Prizes are awarded in three categories: Fiction, Biography and Drama (since 2013). History From its inception, the James Tait Black prize was organised without overt publicity. There was a lack of press and publisher attention, initially at least, because Edinburgh was distant from the literary centres of the country. The decision about the award was made by the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh. Four winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature received the James Tait Black earlier in their careers: William Golding, Nadine Gordim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caryl Churchill
Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non- naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.Caryl Churchill profile ''Encyclopædia Britannica''; accessed 26 January 2018. Celebrated for works such as '' Cloud 9'' (1979), '' Top Girls'' (1982), '' Serious Money'' (1987), '' Blue Heart'' (1997), '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe is a theatre and opera house in Karlsruhe, Germany. It has existed in its present form and place at Ettlinger Tor since 1975. Achim Thorwald became the Theater manager, Intendant in summer 2002 and held that post until the end of the 2010/11 season. Peter Spuhler succeeded him at the beginning of the 2011/12 season and continues to serve in that post. The Staatstheater is a ''Dreisparten'' venue, housing three performance genres: musical theatre, ballet and theatre, as well as the studio stage in Karlstraße. The ''Badische Staatskapelle'' (orchestra) and the ''Badische Staatsopernchor'' (opera chorus) are resident companies of the theatre. History City architect Friedrich Weinbrenner constructed the first predecessor of the ''Badisches Staatstheater'' in 1808 near the castle. In 1810, it became the ''Großherzogliches Hoftheater'' (Grand Ducal court theatre). During a performance on 28 February 1847, a fire broke out destroying the buildi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, dramatised, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Radio drama includes plays specifically written for radio, docudrama, dramatised works of fiction, as well as Play (theatre), plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre, and opera. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s, radio drama began losing its audience. However, it remains popular in much of the world. Recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors, lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemima Rooper
Jemima Rooper (born 24 October 1981) is an English actress. Having started as a child actress in television series, she has appeared in numerous film and theatre roles. Early life Born in Hammersmith, London, Rooper is the daughter of TV journalist Alison Rooper. She attended Redcliffe Gardens School in Chelsea and the Godolphin and Latymer School. While working on '' The Famous Five'', she passed eight GCSEs with A* and A grades. From there she went to MPW sixth form college where she got three A-grade A levels. Rooper bought her first home at the age of 19. Career Rooper expressed a wish to be an actress at the age of nine and contacted an agent. Her first professional roles were in the 1993 film '' The Higher Mortals'' and the 1994 film '' Willie's War''. In 1996, she appeared in all episodes as George in Enid Blyton's ''The Famous Five''. She said: After several small roles in British TV series, Jemima took the role of Nicki Sutton in the popular Channel 4 teenage s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Letang
Petra Letang (born 4 May 1979) is a British actress. She played Naomi Julien in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' (2005–2007) and Adele Effanga in ''Holby City'' (2014–2016). Early life Letang is from Plaistow, East London. She is of Dominican descent. She took acting classes at the Anna Scher Theatre school in Islington. Career Letang played Donna Lewis in the Channel 5 soap '' Family Affairs'' in 1999, and the character Pauline in the BBC2 drama '' Babyfather'' in 2002. Other television credits have included '' Jonathan Creek'' (2004), ''The Bill'' (2005) and '' The Last Detective'' (2005). She also appeared in the British film '' Wondrous Oblivion'' in 2003. In 2005, Letang was cast as Naomi Julien — the lesbian lover of Sonia Fowler ( Natalie Cassidy) — in BBC's ''EastEnders''. She left the role in 2007, reportedly because scriptwriters had "run out of ideas for her". Prior to this, Letang had gone public with her fears that her character would be axed follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donmar Warehouse
The Donmar Warehouse is a 251-seat, not-for-profit Off-West End theatre in Covent Garden, London, England. It first opened on 18 July 1977. Sam Mendes, Michael Grandage, Josie Rourke and Michael Longhurst have all served as artistic director, a post held since March 2024 by Tim Sheader. The theatre produces new writing, contemporary reappraisals of European classics, British and American drama and small-scale musical theatre. As well as presenting at least six productions a year at its home in Covent Garden, as well transferring shows to the West End, Broadway and elsewhere. History Theatrical producer Donald Albery formed Donmar Productions around 1953, with the name derived from the first three letters of his name and the first three letters of his friend, ballerina Margot Fonteyn. In 1961, he bought the warehouse, a building that in the 1870s had been a vat room and hops warehouse for the local brewery in Covent Garden, and in the 1920s had been used as a film studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
