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SAM HOLCROFT |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd |
Playwright Sam Holcroft was educated in Edinburgh and was part of the Traverse Theatre's Young Writers Group. Her credits includeCockroach (commissioned and co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and Traverse theatre and nominated for Best New Play in the 2009 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland), Ned and Sharon (High Tide Festival), and Vogue (Royal Court and Latitude). She has recently been awarded the prestigious Tom Erhardt Award for up and coming writers.
Plays by Sam Holcroft
Cockroach | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Oct 2008 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company / National Theatre Of Scotland | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781848420328 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89054 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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| A seemingly normal detention in a seemingly normal modern day comprehensive. The valiant teacher battles on with biology revision. She believes only education will set her pupils free. For outside the world is in the middle of a long and bloody war. Despite all her best efforts, all too soon the tide of conflict is lapping at the school gates and one by one pupils and teacher are pulled under, as their hopes and dreams float away from them. But as she has taught them in her biology lesson, like the cockroach, the fittest will survive. She is no longer sure however if tenderness and humanity stand a chance? | |||||
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Dancing Bears | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Nov 2010 | |||||
Company: | Clean Break | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421295 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121787 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 3 of the 4 actors will play male and female | |||||
Notes: | Part of Charged. The heartbreaking truth about the lives of women in the criminal justice system is exposed in these six plays by some of the most exciting and distinctive female voices in British theatre. Commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and education company working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system. The collection includes: Fatal Light by Chloe Moss; Taken by Winsome Pinnock; Dream Pill by Rebecca Prichard; Doris Day by E V Crowe; Dancing Bears by Sam Holcroft; That Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz | |||||
| the violence and twisted loyalty of teenage gangs is laid bare | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 303 | |||||
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Edgar & Annabel | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Paintframe, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 18 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848422193 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128519 | |||
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Genre: | one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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| A young married couple prepare dinner in a smartly furnished kitchen. Annabel is composed, intelligent, in love. Edgar is professional, successful, assured. She's chopping vegetables, he's brought the wine. But something isn't right. In a city not so different from our own capital, a group of freedom fighters attempt to stand up to an Orwellian establishment in increasingly perilous circumstances. Sam Holcroft's ingenious new play paints a picture of a police state in crisis. The story that unfolds brings into question relationships, identities and the very nature of reality itself. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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London Street Sauna | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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 | #75791 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Saul and Gemma are doing just fine living on their own. With no parents on the scene Saul's big sister looks after her teenage brother ok. But when Hailey comes into their lives she stirs up their emotions to test the nature of all our true loves. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ned & Sharon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Halesworth, Suffolk | 2007 | ||||
Company: | HighTide Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66241 | |||
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Genre: | half hour play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A story of love and tenderness about a troubled teenager in a care home. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Old O'Malley | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 20 Aug 2006 | ||||
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 | #96219 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 4 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pink | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 Jun 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421172 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113147 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Women, Power & Politics: Now | |||||
| Two careers hang in the balance. Self-made millionaire Kim Keen is one of the most successful businesswomen in the country. As she prepares to launch her latest range on national television an unexpected visitor arrives in her dressing room with a different set of priorities to promote. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Vanya | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Sep 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 | #101358 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | inspired by Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya | |||||
Synopsis: | Writer Sam Holcroft has condensed the plotting, reducing the dramatis personae to four and concentrating on Chekhov's sexual conveyor belt as the main linking thread. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Vogue | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Latitude Festival | |||||
| 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 | #92185 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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While You Lie | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 Jul 2010 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421240 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116718 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Small lies, little lies, tender lies, well-intentioned untruths. Ana calls Edward's bluff on their disintegrating relationship and enters a deadly truthful world where honesty is celebrated in all of its dangerous glory. They don't make women like Helen anymore: loving mother, home-maker, wife. But beneath the civilised veneer of her life, a dark truth threatens to surface. Two couples explore the threat of honesty and our perverse need for it in this blistering play from one of UK theatre's most exciting new voices. | |||||
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