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ZINNIE HARRIS (1973 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd |
'A fledgling writer can go very quickly for from just being a bod to someone who could put "playwright" on their business card (if they had one.) But I think we then have a problem with what comes next.'
Plays by Zinnie Harris
Biohazard | ||
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| 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 | #50020 | |||
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Bomb a partial history, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Feb 2012 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #132694 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
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Notes: | By Lee Blessing, Ryan Craig, John Donnelly, David Greig, Elena Gremina, Amit Gupta, Zinnie Harris, Ron Hutchinson, Diana Son and Colin Teevan | |||||
Synopsis: | The Bomb a partial history is in two parts, and is the political history of the Nuclear Bomb from 1940 to present-day Nuclear proliferation and its implications for the world now. Each of the two parts can be seen on consecutive nights or on an afternoon and evening over the weekend | |||||
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By Many Wounds | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15686 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | story of love and loss painting a haunting picture of a family dealing with grief | |||||
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Chain Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie | |||||
| 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 | #15687 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Written By Terry Johnson, Philip Ridley, Charlotte Jones, Lee Hall, Sebastian Barry, Zinnie Harris, Kevin Elyot, Nick Dear, Tanika Gupta, Frank McGuinness, Nick Stafford, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Teevan, Patrick Marber, David Lan, Sarah Daniels, Martin She | |||||
Synopsis: | One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National Theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night | |||||
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Doll's House, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #89124 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | Nora loves her husband above all else. When he was ill, she fraudulently borrowed money to save his life and has been secretly working to pay back the debt ever since. With her husband Torvald receiving a promotion, the end of the struggle is in sight, but when Torvald's employee Krostag begins to blackmail Nora, her world begins to fall apart. | |||||
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Fall | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87959 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Politics, justice and revenge collide in a tense new thriller by Zinnie Harris and directed by the Traverse's Artistic Director Dominic Hill. Fall is the last play in a group of three individual plays that examine the transforming effects of war. Midwinter and Solstice were commissioned and performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004 - 05. Fall is presented in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company. | |||||
Synopsis: | To make your future, do you have to murder the past? In the aftermath of a horrific civil conflict, a new country is preparing for the mass execution of its war criminals. Kate knows nothing and everything about it. She knew one of the guilty men for 15 years and never suspected a thing. As the city burns and the new government struggles to look credible to the rest of the world, Kate gets tragically caught up in their conspiracy. | |||||
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From Elsewhere: The Message. . . | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Feb 2012 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431521 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136671 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of The Bomb a partial history. FIRST BLAST: Proliferation | |||||
| In a lab in Birmingham two physicists uncover something. If their calculation is right, it will change the course of the war, if anyone will listen. | |||||
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Further Than The Furthest Thing | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15688 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | RNT & Tron Theatre | |||||
Synopsis: | On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well as beyond. Further Than The Furthest Thing is a beautifully drawn story evoking the sadness and beauty of a civilisation in crisis. | |||||
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Garden, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Mar 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #102105 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of The World is Too Much, Theatre for Breakfast | |||||
Synopsis: | Bras all over the place !! We are just creatures in the end aren't we? Nothing special. The same as the pigs and the flies. We fucked it. We tried to put it right, we didn't manage. Maybe its time just to be one of them again. Extract from The Garden | |||||
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Gravity | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Edinburgh International Festival commission | |||||
| 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 | #15689 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | musicians | |||||
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Synopsis: | The text consists of seven youthful meditations on love, life, the universe and ev&ything, delivered by three actors playing a man, a woman and their child; and after every monologue or brief dialogue, a string trio plays a short piece by Adanila. | |||||
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Julie | ||
| 1st Produced: | N Edinburgh Arts Ctr / touring | 2006 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
| 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 | #57206 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - August Strindberg (Miss Julie) adapted by Zinnie Harris, literal translation by Hanna Slattne | |||||
Synopsis: | highly politicised new version in which the action is relocated to rural Scotland during the great Strike of 1926. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Midwinter | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15690 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A pedlar announces that the war is over; and as the soldiers return in the fragile peace that follows, the starving people are left to build new lives, to forge new identities. Written in a spare and lyrical language, Midwinter is a play about now, about love, self and a world made from conflict. | |||||
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Nightingale And Chase | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15691 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | 'Played this game. Inside, with the other girls. The 'he is going to meet you' game. The 'he is going to meet you with flowers' game. The 'he is going to turn up in a limo' game. The 'he is going to bring champagne' game. The 'he is going to cover you in kisses, or cum, or love bites or bloody Belgian chocolate' game, doesn't matter but when you walk out of those gates. He is going to be there, that is the game.' Chase is waiting to be released from prison. And Nightingale is there to meet her. Everything is under control and they're both going to get it right. This time. | |||||
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Panel, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 Jun 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421172 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113146 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Women, Power & Politics: Now | |||||
| he last candidate has just left the room and the door is shut. The clock is ticking, there's a train to catch, and the panel must decide who to appoint. But what is really motivating them, and whose agenda will prevail? | |||||
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Silver Whale Fish | ||
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| 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 | #50021 | |||
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Solstice | ||
| 1st Produced: | Other Place Theatre, Stratford, UK | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49569 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | a protagonist prophesises that what has began as a quarrel between neighbours in a small, faraway place will become a vast international conflict in which 'lots of people will die' | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Some Kind Of Dawn | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #50019 | |||
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Wheel, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2ED >>> | 07 Aug 2011 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571282159 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129090 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 1b 1 g | |||||
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| Beatriz and her sister Rosa are happily preparing for Rosa's wedding. Their world is turned upside down when the groom arrives, pitchfork rabble in tow, ready to occupy their farm. A little girl stumbles into their world, lost and looking for her father. In a moment of determination Beatriz takes the girl to find him - and so begins an unimaginable journey. Beatriz and her charge, in their need to survive, witness more than anyone ever should. | |||||
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