LUCY KIRKWOOD |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd |
Lucy Kirkwood is an East London born playwright. She won the PMA award in 2006. She is a writer on the Channel 4 programme Skins and is currently resident writer at Clean Break theatre company. Her first full professional production, Tinderbox,was directed by Josie Rourke and performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2008. Her adaption of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler,entitled Hedda, was directed by Carrie Cracknell and performed at the Gate Theatre later that year. She is currently working on a Sloan commission for the Manhattan Theatre Club and a full-length one-woman show for Clean Break, as well as various television and film projects.
Plays by Lucy Kirkwood
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | commissioned by Latitude Festival, Suffolk | |||||
| 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 | #88109 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | By Lucy Chillery, Ben Ellis, Stacey Green, Lucy Kirkwood, Ben Schiffer | |||||
Synopsis: | An evening of heart break and misery | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Beauty and the Beast | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Cottesloe, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 24 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421578 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121703 | |||
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Genre: | Family Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | devised by Katie Mitchell and Lucy Kirkwood, book by Lucy kirkwood | |||||
| Wild and lively, the production explodes with music and magic, story-book sets, shadow puppetry and a 150-piece orchestra in an 18-inch box! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Bloody Wimmin | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Jun 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421165d | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113150 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Women, Power & Politics: Then | |||||
Synopsis: | The protests at Greenham Common were a political landmark of the eighties. But how much did Greenham impact the fight for nuclear disarmament, the progress of the women's movement and the culture of protest itself? What is the legacy of Greenham Common?&It's very easy to laugh at passion'. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Freelancers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 24 Hour Company (London, UK, United States) | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 24 by 24: The 24 Hour Plays Anthology, Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9709046-9-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106479 | |||
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Genre: | 10-12 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 2 females | |||||
Notes: | In 1995, a group of writers, directors and actors gathered on Manhattan's Lower East Side for what was supposed to be a one-time-only event: write, direct, produce and perform new plays with the span of 24 hours. More than a decade and just over 300 plays later, The 24 Hour Plays have been produced on Broadway, in London, Los Angeles, Chicago and across the globe. | |||||
| Josie arrives home to find that her entire flat has been cleaned out by her ex-fiance. Luckily, a voice from above sends her help in the form of two free-lancers, though Josie has no idea what services exactly they are meant to provide. Still, Terence and Margery are there to facilitate, to enable, to plant the seeds and watch them bloom. A play about the wonderful surprises that life brings when you let go. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Guns Or Butter | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Oct 2007 | |||||
Company: | Terror 2007 presented by Sticking Place | |||||
| 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 | #75699 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | brings us up to date with a glimpse of stir-crazy soldiers in Iraq. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Hedda | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gate, London | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89303 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | In Lucy Kirkwood's version of Hedda Gabler, Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine is relocated to present-day London, to startling effect. Hedda, still mourning for the father she adored, returns from honeymoon with a husband she doesn't love, to a flat and a pregnancy she doesn't want. Trapped by her past and terrified of her future, bored by her life but too cowardly to walk away from it, she finds herself caught between three men. And in the end, something has to give. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Housekeeping | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Mar 2011 | |||||
Company: | Reclaim Productions, in association with Meeting Point Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430630 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126112 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Theatre Uncut. Across the country thousands of people are involved in protests and debates, sparked into action by the largest cuts to public spending since World War Two. Theatre Uncut is a national theatre event in response to these cuts, bringing together some of the UK's leading dramatists. | |||||
| Lucy Kirkwood's moving, funny Housekeeping sees a debt-ridden family forced to sell their grandmother, a woman who has seen both the Jarrow March and the Putney Debates | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 292 | |||||
it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Oct 2009 | |||||
Company: | Clean Break | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781848420816 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104632 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| A luminous journey exploring the life of Dijana Polancec: professional romantic, eternal optimist and accidental prostitute. 'I know exactly how much I am worth. I am worth one thousand euros because that is how much Babac paid for me. To put this in easy language, that is like two-and-a-half iPhones.' | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Joker Jim And The Little Missus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Anglo American Rep | |||||
| 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 | #71367 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Little Girl Who Asked Too Many Questions, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Clean Break | |||||
| 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 | #63265 | |||
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Genre: | short piece One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of PS a short post-show event featuring four pieces commissioned / selected by Clean Break | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Psychogeography | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20 Oct 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 | #89130 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Part of the Broken Space Season - plays that are performed either with domestic lighting or in semi-darkness | |||||
Synopsis: | tracking the power shifts between a young couple - a hard nosed career woman and her unemployed partner - as the look over a derelict property that she wants to buy. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Small Hours | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3EU >>> | 12 Jan 2011 | ||||
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 | #120340 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime | |||||
Synopsis: | 4am. It feels like everyone else in the city is asleep. Usually this woman would be asleep too. . . Tonight she is watching the QVC shopping channel in her nightdress. Come and join her, take a seat in her room. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Terror 2011 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Oct 2011 | |||||
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 | #133097 | |||
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Genre: | short horror | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | The UKs only annual season of horror theatre returns for its 8th year. A controversial event that has consistently sold out and divided critics, prepare to be both terrified and thrilled by an evening of twisted tales, cabaret and Halloween oddities. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Tinderbox | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Apr 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #80790 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Fast, wild and farcically funny, Lucy Kirkwood's first full-length play is a disturbing vision of a dystopian future. Sometime in the 21st Century, England is dissolving into the sea. Amidst the chaos, one man clings to his traditional British values and his love of meat. For Londoner Saul Everard, his butchers shop is an empire that he will do anything to preserve, including moving it to Bradford. An outlaw Scottish artist swims Hadrian's Channel from Scotland to England and seeks refuge in Saul's shop. There's rioting on the streets and the police are onto him but Saul's meaty little realm may be the last place to seek sanctuary. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Umbilical Project, The - Cut Geronimo | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Kandinsky | |||||
| 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 | #56113 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Theo's world is slowly disintegrating and all Ben has to offer are mix tapes and a single, meaningless word. An exploration of love and loss when you can't get your stories straight. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Umbilical Project, The - Uncut Geronimo | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Kandinsky | |||||
| 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 | #56114 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two casts, two crews and two directors will stage two independent productions of one new play during August 2006 at two different venues. | |||||
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you big beautiful thing | ||
| 1st Produced: | Camden Roundhouse, London | 01 Dec 2009 | ||||
Company: | Dirty protest 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 | #107860 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of: ten writers presented their short scenes of 'Dirty Protest'. Given the theme 'out with the old' and four weeks, each writer had to create a piece using up to three actors, no longer than ten minutes and no shorter than three minutes. Showcasing an evening of intrigue, playfulness and threat | |||||
Synopsis: | whilst seemingly starting on the familiar ground of a couple breaking up, jumped out of the box to end with an excellent monologue (very well played by Lizzy Watts) describing the young woman's love for London landmark The Gherkin | |||||
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