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FIN KENNEDY |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown Group Ltd |
Award-winning investigative playwright and playwrighting teacher. Fin is a graduate of the MA Writing for Performance programme at Goldsmiths College, London. His first play Protection was produced at Soho Theatre in 2003, where he was also Pearson writer-in-residence. His second play How To Disappear Completely & Never Be Found won the 38th Arts Council John Whiting Playwrighting Award, the first time in 40 years that an unproduced play has won. It has since been commissioned by Sam West for Sheffield Crucible. Fin's first play for teenagers is currently touring [Nov 2006]. Locked In, a hip-hop musical for teenagers about pirate radio is produced by Half Moon Young Peoples Theatre. He is also under commission at the Tricycle Theatre developing Babylon, a play about the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad after the 2003 invasion. As well as writing plays Fin also has many years of experience teaching playwrighting at secondary, FE, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He works for schools, youth clubs and theatre education teams across inner city London, and is also a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, Brunel University and Boston University.
Plays by Fin Kennedy
B Minor | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | http://www.finkennedy.co.uk/Theatre/bminor.htm, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #65175 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 actors | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | B Minor is a ten minute play for three characters written in free verse. It is my most performed play. It was first devised in 2003 for the Red Room Theatre Company's conference on political theatre-making Going Public. It was subsequently commissioned by Theatre & Beyond for What Now? a festival of anti-war shorts. It has since been used by Half Moon Young People's Theatre as a creative stimulus for their Careers In Theatre week, and been performed at the Old Red Lion for Nabakov Theatre Company's Shorts night, and at Subverse a monthly night of political playwrighting at Theatre 503. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blitz Spirit | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | http://www.finkennedy.co.uk/Theatre/blitzspirit.htm, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #65174 | |||
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Genre: | monologue Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | What confessions are held in this city's soul? What rifts are to be found in the psyche of this capital, and what should lie undisturbed? And. . ..do you dare to find out? Each performance is a one-to-one, and takes place in the nooks, crannies and quirky spaces of Hoxton Hall. | |||||
Synopsis: | We'd get the call, and turn up to look for survivors. That smell of blood in the air, heavy and sweet. It was the kids what used to get to us. They'd be scattered about, like torn-up teddy bears. | |||||
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East End Tales | ||
| 1st Produced: | Half Moon Young People's Theatre, London | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Mulberry Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors, Methuen Drama, London >>>, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408106730 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85819 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | flexible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| a series of innovative and adaptable monologues portraying life in the east end of London | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Sheffield Theatres | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854599643 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63651 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| The award-winning play that follows one man's desperate attempts to buck the system, and asks what really makes us who we are in the 21st century. John Whiting Award for New Theatre Writing 2005. When a young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear, he pays a visit to a master of the craft in the form of a seafront fortune teller in Southend. Haunted by visitations from a pathologist who swears he is already lying flat out on her slab, he begins a nightmarish journey to the edge of existence that sees him stripped of everything that made him who he was. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Locked In | ||
| 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 | #65173 | |||
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Genre: | teenagers Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 actors | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | On the 20th floor of an abandoned East End tower block, a Caribbean MC and Bengali DJ rip up the airwaves on a leading pirate station. Blaze and Riqi are sick of people telling them what to do go to school, do your exams, blah blah blah & Don't people know talent when they hear it? Their last CD was a massive hit and they're all set to hit the big time with their first live set at Exile FM's birthday bash coming up. Then Zahida comes into their lives and cracks begin to appear in their friendship. When a local gangster asks Blaze for a serious favour, suddenly there's a choice to be made that could split their world wide open. Locked In is a powerful three-hander, developed in direct contact with young people, ensuring authentic language, portraying diverse cross-cultural inner-city life and characters, underscored by a contemporary hip hop soundtrack. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mehndi Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Mulberry Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays. Nick Hern Books, London (2010) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421202c | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70764 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| You are cordially invited to a Bangladeshi mehndi party, to bless Nilufa Begum's wedding. Samosas, chai and long-forgotten secrets will be served. An extraordinary collaboration between award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy and girls from Mulberry School, E1. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Protection | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854597632 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19070 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Tough political play about our crumbling social fabric and the people who have to pick up the pieces | |||||
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Stolen Secrets | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Mulberry Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays. Nick Hern Books, London (2010) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421202c | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88600 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Various requirements (minimum 2-7 performers) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| From the hearts of London's East End, a fistful of urban confessions. Playwright Fin Kennedy and the girls of Mulberry School unmask a city you thought you knew. 'Cracking community theatre' (Herald on 2007's 'Mehndi Night'). www.finkennedy.co.uk | |||||
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Unravelling, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Space@Venue 45 (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Mulberry Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays. Nick Hern Books, London (2010) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421202c | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101413 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | plus 2 or more narrators | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| An east London fabric shop. A mother challenges her daughters to weave her the greatest tale. Their prize? The future. The third groundbreaking collaboration between playwright Fin Kennedy and the girls of Mulberry School. 'A delight' (Scotsman). www.finkennedy.co.uk/theunravelling | |||||
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Unstated: Stories of Refuge | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | The Red Room and TUC | |||||
| 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 | #86164 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | devised by Topher Campbell and written by Fin Kennedy | |||||
Synopsis: | Unstated is based on the true testimonies of the men and women who seek refuge in the UK. Sometimes smuggled, sometimes forced from their own land, they wash up in Britain only to endure more hardship and destitution. A mixture of film and live action, written by Fin Kennedy, (John Whiting Award winner) from filmed interviews and designed by international artist Roney Fraser-Munroe, it aims to debunk some of the myths that surround asylum seekers and expose how we treat some of society's most vulnerable. Unstated has been developed as a collaboration with agencies that work in this area. The company interviewed a range of subjects from individual asylum seekers, workers at Immigration Centres and experts, to offer up a dramatic picture and invite audiences to decide just how fair the system really is. A cast of four actors along with filmed sequences, will appear in this interactive show presented in a promenade space with the venue being turned into a removal centre where audience members will be searched and finger printed as they enter. | |||||
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Urban Girl's Guide to Camping, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 14 Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays. Nick Hern Books, London (2010) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421202c | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117273 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | plus one non-speaking girl | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| In The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping, four young friends leave the city behind and head into the wilderness, but a burning secret threatens to tear their lives apart. A bittersweet comedy about life, love and friendship once school is long gone. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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We Are Shadows | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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 | #86155 | |||
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Genre: | teenagers Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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