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COURTTIA NEWLAND (1973 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Courttia Newland was born in 1973 and writes novels, short stories and plays. His first novel, The Scholar (1997), was soon followed by Society Within (1998), Snakeskin (2002) and The Dying Wish (2006). His short stories appear in many anthologies such as: Disco 2000, Vintage New Writers (1998), Afro Beat, Playing Sidney Poitier (1999), England Cal/mg (2001) and 'Whose Story' (The Times, 2006). His collection of short stories Music for the Off-Key was published in the same year. Courttia has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow (2003-4), and held writer-in-residencies for the British Council in both Dublin and Washington DC. He wrote many dramas for the Post Office Theatre prior to B is for Black, which is included in this volume. Since this, his other plays include: Whistling Maggie (2005), Sweet Yam Kisses (2006) with Patricia Cumper and White Open Spaces (2006). He won the Royal Television Society Award for Education for his documentary Guns are Cool and was co-editor with Kadija George of /C3: An Anthology of Black British Writing (2000).
Plays by Courttia Newland
B Is For Black | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Oct 2003 | |||||
Company: | Post Office Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25635 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | examines the fraught and complex relationships between individual, cultural and class identities | |||||
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Far Side, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Post Office Theatre, London | 2000 | ||||
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 | #25636 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | based on the aftermath of the Stephen Lawrence murder. A "Community" trial, bringing together the mothers of a dead black teenager and his supposed killer, and a racist white boy found innocent in court. It is chaired by a town councillor, who has, let us say, overstepped the boundry of this already misconceived set-up. | |||||
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Look To The Sky | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 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 | #132891 | |||
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Genre: | TYA 60 min urban thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In an abandoned building a group of young people are forced to confront the very thing that scares them most. Themselves. The mysterious and complicated culture of inner-city youth is exploded in this gripping new play, which breathes with a raw poetic language and a contemporary soundtrack. Part street vernacular, part theatrical tradition, at times harrowing and at others searingly true - this is a play about the world of the teenage mind. Novelist and writer Courttia Newland deploys an abstract, poetic narrative style to invigorate this physical and fast paced production. | |||||
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Mother's Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Sep 2002 | |||||
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 | #25637 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Question Of Courage, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Courtyard Theatre, Hereford | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Pentabus Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55744 | |||
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Genre: | Short Monologue One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of White Open Spaces - seven plays about race and belonging in the countryside | |||||
Synopsis: | in 2004 Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, asked if the countryside is guilty of a "passive apartheid". Pentabus, BBC Radio Drama and nine writers spent a week in Shropshire exploring this question. These plays are the result. . . | |||||
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Sweet Yam Kisses | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Feb 2006 | |||||
Company: | Kushite Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #60795 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | written by Pat Cumper and Courttia Newland | |||||
Synopsis: | The issue here is love and the show is a response to how unusual it is to see black people in situations of intamacy onstage. | |||||
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Whistling Maggie | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 jun 2006 | |||||
Company: | Post Office Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #55357 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Return | |||||
Synopsis: | Explosive political drama with a child abusing Prime Minister's crimes being brushed under the political carpet. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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White Open Spaces | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 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 | #82911 | |||
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