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NOAH BIRKSTED-BREEN |
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Plays by Noah Birksted-Breen |
On The Record | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL >>> | 20 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | iceandfire | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130317 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | By Christine Bacon and Noah Birksted-Breen | |||||
Synopsis: | When Im writing articles, Im not scared at all. Im on a high. Its such a rush. The fear comes later. Sri Lankan brothers Lal and Lasantha dare to publish stories that others wont touch, but at what cost? Meanwhile, in Mexico Lydia uncovers a child pornography ring involving senior politicians, Elena has a run in with the Moscow mafia, Amira reports direct from the Israeli-occupied territories and Zoriah comes up against the US Military over his Iraq war images. Combining searing verbatim testimony with dramatic reconstruction, On the Record circumnavigates the globe to bring you true stories of six independent journalists, all linked by their determination to shed light on the truth. Exploring human rights through performance, this is iceandfire's fourth production. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 15 Page 826 | |||||
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Russian National Mail | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Sputnik Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43935 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Oleg Bogaev | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ceased to exist. For its 293 million inhabitants, life would change irrevocably. Some stood poised to benefit from this change-personally, ideologically, financially. Others, especially the elderly, struggled to come to grips with its meaning. The Russian National Postal Service presents the story of one man in the midst of these historical events: Ivan Sidorovich Zhukov. As he gets older, Ivan Sidorovich's world grows smaller and smaller. He has lost his wife and his friends. Post-Soviet inflation has devalued his pension. Even his television set has broken down. The routines and the certainties that once sustained him have now completely collapsed. | |||||
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Slow Sword, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Sputnik Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78133 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Yuri Klavdiyev | |||||
Synopsis: | Viad is a young professional working in Moscow's money markets. He is not yet 25, but already owns his own apartment, has a beautiful girlfriend and a bright future. Yet Viad is consumed by anxiety, a feeling that there is something missing from his life. Disconnecting from his pressured money-oriented existence and the middle-class comforts of yoghurt and yoga, he leaves the safety of his flat and plunges into Moscow's murky by-ways on a quest to find the meaning of life. Here, on the mean streets of Putin's Russia, in the toilets of a taxi office and in the stairwells of run-down suburban flats, he confronts the hoodlums, druggies, beggars, hustlers and lost souls who form part of the new Russia. A former gang member turned playwright, Yuri Klavdiyev's drama has more than a whiff of authenticity, and his strange, unsettling play is part dream, part nightmare and wholly intriguing. What appears in the early scenes to be an absurdist drama about the tyranny of the office gradually transforms into a brutal, in-yer-face dissection of the desolation of modern Russia, a place where a taxi driver can drive around with a corpse, the police are more terrified than those they are supposed to protect, and the vulnerable are pissed on. Quite literally. Eventually, the whole thing spirals off into more existential territory. | |||||
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