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URSULA RANI SARMA (1978 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd represented by Mel Kenyon |
Ursula Rani Sarma is an award-winning playwright who has been Writer in Residence for The National Theatre Studio London, Paines Plough Theatre Company London and The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Centre. She has written for The National Theatre London, The Abbey Theatre Dublin, Origin Theatre Company NewYork, The Traverse Theatre Scotland and The American Conservatory Theatre San Francisco. Oberon Books publishes The Magic Tree (Djinn Theatre Company/Cork Midsummer Festival) and The Dark Things (Traverse Theatre), which won Best New Play and Best New Production at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (2010). Other plays include RIOT (A.C.T. San Fransisco/Theatre Royal Bath); Birdsong (The Abbey); The Exchange (Eugene O'Neill Theatre Centre); The Spider Men (NT Connections); The Parting Glass (53E53 Theatre New York); Blue (Cork Opera House) and Orpheus Road (Paines Plough). Ursula is currently on attachment at the Soho Theatre and developing new work for The Traverse Theatre and The Abbey Theatre.
Plays by Ursula Rani Sarma
Birdsong | ||
| 1st Produced: | Abbey, Dublin | - - - | ||||
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 | #125885 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | not sure about this play, doollee | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blue | ||
| 1st Produced: | Half Moon Theatre, Cork Opera House, Ireland | Jun 2000 | ||||
Company: | Cork Opera House | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840022698 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30763 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| In 'Blue' three childhood friends spend their last year together in the isolated sea-side town in which they live. In an effort to console their sense of worthlessness, they devise a deadly daily ritual. Together they jump from a point where the cliffs are forty feet above the ocean. In those panicked seconds, plummeting at full force towards the sea, Joe, Des and Danny believe that anything is possible, and that their hopes and dreams may just come true. . . | |||||
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Dark Things, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Oct 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840029673 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105334 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Daniel is famous. He has walked away from disaster and turned it into art. As he prepares for the ultimate exhibition of his life, the headlines proclaim him unbreakable. But inside, Daniel is falling apart. LJ has always been a survivor, in total command of her emotions. Since being bound to Daniel by a freak accident, she cant quite seem to get her heart under control. Steph wants to be special, to have her photo in the paper for once, and not just because shes Daniels sister. Can Karl, who claims to be in production, invent a future where they both get recognised? | |||||
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Exchange, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center - Waterford, CT, USA >>> | 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 | #125886 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gift | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jan 2001 | |||||
Company: | Belltable Arts Centre | |||||
| 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 | #30764 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A son returns from his missionary life in Africa to lay to rest the body of his dead father. Locked away in the small antechamber of the church where he is about to say the funeral mass, the details of his troubled childhood come back to haunt him. What boy could live a normal life with a father who keeps dead bodies in the basement? What kind of mother takes to her bed for ten years? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Like Sugar on Skin | ||
| 1st Produced: | UCC Dramat, Granary Theatre, Cork. ISDA, Galaway | 1999 | ||||
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 | #125889 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Magic Tree | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Aug 2008 | |||||
Company: | Djinn Theatre Company in Co-Production with Cork Midsummer Festival and Belltable Arts Centre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840028669 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88218 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Which comes first, loneliness or violence? This is the story of love born in a very dark place between a man who wants to belong and a woman who wants to be forgotten. On a stormy night, they shelter in an abandoned summer home and tentatively discover what it is that they have in common. But just when it seems something beautiful might emerge, the opposite appears. The Magic Tree is an exploration into human behaviour at a time when humanity seems determined to endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past. It looks at why good people are capable of doing bad things and asks if love alone can save us. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Orpheus Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | Paines Plough Theatre, London | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 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 | #125888 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Parting Glass, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 59E59 Theaters | - - - | ||||
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 | #125887 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three brothers meet to fulfil the terms of their father's will so that they can get their inheritance | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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RIOT | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Conservatory Theatre San Francisco | Mar 2010 | ||||
Company: | Co-commission Bath Theatre Royal and A.C.T | |||||
| 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 | #125884 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Spider Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bury St Edmunds: Theatre Royal, 6 Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP331QR >>> | 23 Mar 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 | #55898 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Shell Connections | |||||
Synopsis: | An act of rebellion goes horribly wrong. David wants Michael to camp in the woods all night to teach their parents a lesson, but Michael just wants to go home. The boys' disappearance and the eventual realisation that David is never coming back force their friends to reassess their values, to find their own identity beyond the whitewash of the label 'teenager' and to search for their own truth amidst the chaos of peer pressure, a sometimes dangerous world and the need to be loved. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Touched | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hillstreet Theatre, Edinburgh | Aug 1999 | ||||
Company: | Granary Productions and Djinn Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840022698 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39670 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| In '. . .touched. . .' Cora and Mikey yearn for Dublin, for a life without darkness , without secrets, without despair. The young sister and brother make a pact to escape, but their flight to Dublin leads them straight into the hands of the street wise, money-hungry Macca, a horrific crime and a city that was far from the paradise they had dreamt about. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wanderings | ||
| 1st Produced: | Granary Theatre, Cork, Ireland | Nov 2000 | ||||
Company: | Asylum Productions and Djinn Productions | |||||
| 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 | #49582 | |||
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Genre: | Series of short individual plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Three short plays on the subject of love. 'Wandering' - A woman betrays her husband in a morning ritual of adultery. 'Swept' - A couple who collide in the early hours of the morning and argue themselves into a romantic entanglement. 'Our place' - A young girl discovers the meaning of false promises and heart break. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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When The War Came | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tristan Bates, London | 29 Mar 2005 | ||||
Company: | New Company, part of Broken Voices | |||||
| 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 | #49583 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Broken Voices | |||||
Synopsis: | adopts a folksy tone to present a parallel between violent conflict and the disintegration of a couple's relationship. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Without You (Dough is Rising, The) | ||
| 1st Produced: | (work in progress) Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, Scotland, EUR >>> | 30 Oct 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 | #109250 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | This autumn, the Traverse is launching a new season of Friday lunchtime theatre and discussion. Feed your body, mind and soul as leading actors perform a new full-length play, script-in-hand, or playwrights discuss the most pertinent issues in theatre today. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Yerma | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leeds: West Yorkshire Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UP >>> | 05 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430432 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115707 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca. The first production to be supported by the Quercus Trust | |||||
| Lorca's beautiful and savage play is transplanted from the suffocating heat of Spain to a barren landscape much closer to home, bringing Yerma's anguish at her childlessness into heart-breaking focus. Suffocating in a life void of passion, Yerma turns to unconventional sources for answers. Her innocent yet controversial actions send shockwaves through a tiny and stagnant community. Desperate and unbearably lonely, Yerma commits the ultimate act of rebellion, setting her free yet sealing her unhappy fate forever. | |||||
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