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EMMA RICE |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
Emma trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Gardzienice Theatre Association, Poland. She has worked extensively with Kneehigh Theatre, Theatre Alibi and Katie Mitchell. Choreography includes projects with the RSC, Welsh National Opera, Northern Stage and West Yorkshire Playhouse. Direction includes The Itch, Pandora's Box (coproduced with Northern Stage), Wild Bride (The Shamans, Budapest), Tristan & Yseult, The Wooden Frock, nominated for Best Touring Production 2004 TMA Theatre Awards, The Bacchae, and The Red Shoes for which she won Best Director 2002, Barclays TMA Theatre Award. Emma has recently become Artistic Director at Kneehigh Theatre.
Plays by Emma Rice
Bacchae, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leeds: West Yorkshire Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UP >>> | 24 Sep 2004 | ||||
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| 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 | #48294 | |||
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Genre: | Off Beat Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides. Version by Carl Grose, Anna Maria Murphy, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre | |||||
Synopsis: | a fun production of The Bacchae with dire warnings about the dangers of binge drinking | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Brief Encounter | ||
| 1st Produced: | 29 Sep 2007 | |||||
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| 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 | #82228 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | adaptation by Emma Rice from the play Still Life and screenplay by Noel Coward | |||||
Synopsis: | Love is in the air! The forbidden passions of Brief Encounter have been refreshingly restaged by Kneehigh Theatre in this glorious new production, which will give you a great reason to fall in love with theatre all over again. "I want to remember every minute. Always. Always to the end of my days" Set in the 1930s, a chance encounter at a railway station changes the lives of two people forever. When kind handsome doctor Alec removes a small piece of grit from the eye of wife and mother Laura, they embark on an illicit romance that is doomed to be thwarted by convention. | |||||
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Cymbeline | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20 Sep 2006 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57497 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Shakespeare. Adapted by Emma Rice; written by Carl Grose | |||||
Synopsis: | Twenty years after his two sons disappeared, King Cymbeline's only daughter Imogen plans to marry against his wishes. Enraged, Cymbeline banishes her childhood sweetheart Posthumus from court. He flees to Italy and makes a wager he'll soon regret. Cymbeline's new queen plots with her ghastly son Cloten. Emperor Caesar is on the war-path. And poor Joan (who's just got back from the Costa de Sol) hasn't got a clue what's going on! Kneehigh turn their unique storytelling style to one of Shakespeare's least performed plays. In a script packed with heart-stopping poetry and characteristic charm, their irreverent adaptation plays fast and loose with the Bard. The result is a wild, giddy and elemental adventure that swings from tragedy to comedy and back again. Never has confusion been such fun! | |||||
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Don John | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford-upon-Avon, Courtyard | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Kneehigh in assciation with the Royal Shakespeare 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 | #94346 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | By Emma Rice words and poems by Anna Maria Murphy | |||||
Synopsis: | inspired by the Mozart/Da Ponte Don Giovanni. The action is set in 1978. Thus Don Juan, a nomadic libertine accompanied by his friend Nobby, cuts a swathe through the female population of a small country town during the winter of discontent. | |||||
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Matter Of Life And Death, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 03 May 2007 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62851 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Tom Morris and Emma Rice | |||||
Synopsis: | It is 1945. A young airman jumps to certain death from his burning aircraft. Following an angelic blunder, caused by a classic English pea-souper. Peter Carter miraculously survives and finds June in the flesh. But things are not so simple. To stay alive, Peter is forced to take himself, and the heavenlv authorities, to the Universal Court of Appeal. | |||||
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Nights At The Circus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20 Jan 2006 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47661 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | In this dazzling homage to theatre Tom Morris and Emma Rice use a unique blend of story-telling, stage-craft and song to dramatise Angela Carter's popular and highly-regarded novel. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's 1899 and all of Europe is agape at the arrival of the new century. The world crackles with possibilities and people dance to the irresistible rhythms of money, sex, love and freedom. Swinging above them all is a showbiz sensation: a fierce, vulgar, pant-droppingly sexy trapeze artist called Fevvers. | |||||
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Oedipussy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northampton: Royal Theatre, Guildhall Road, Northampton NN1 1DP >>> | 03 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | Royal & Derngate, Northampton co-production with Spymonkey | |||||
| 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 | #134885 | |||
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Genre: | physical comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Spymonkey and Emma Rice | |||||
Synopsis: | an outrageous no-holds barred subversion of the quintessential Greek tragedy - a tale of forbidden lust, accidental incest, violent murder and the ultimate dysfunctional family. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pandora's Box | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northern Stage (previously known as Newcastle Haymarket Playhouse) | 23 Mar 2002 | ||||
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| 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 | #124694 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Author Margaret Wilkinson. Conceived and created by Neil Murray and Emma Rice. Acclaimed visual theatre company, Northern Stage Ensemble and Kneehigh Theatre has joined forces to create a grotesque cabaret - the tantalisingly sensual, darkly comic and monstrously musical world of Lulu. Commissioned by Hall for Cornwall | |||||
Synopsis: | Best known as Pabst's 1929 silent movie classic starring Louise Brooks, Pandora's Box is based on Wedekind's notorious Lulu plays. In a cracked music hall of singing and dancing, where fire-breathing lovers howl at the moon, Lulu dangles her legs over the side of a dark mattress, a cigarette smouldering between the fingers of one hand. Her powdered face is the only bright spot in a dark room and she is smiling. She is waiting for you. Recommended for ages 15+ Contains strong sexual imagery. | |||||
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Red Shoes, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | STERTS, Liskeard, Cornwall | 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29454 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | adapted by Anna Maria Murphy, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre from Hans Christian Anderson | |||||
Synopsis: | "One dance was not enough for our heroine, The Girl and one poem was not enough for me. As I wrote they danced their way out onto the page." | |||||
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Tristan And Yseult | ||
| 1st Produced: | Restormel Castle, Lostwithiel, Cornwall | 2003 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48295 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | musicians 7 chorus | |||||
Notes: | written by Carl Grose, Anna Maria Murphy, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre | |||||
Synopsis: | a tale of extra marital ardour about the unloved as well. Harks back to the earliest, oral versions of an ancient Cornish story. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Feb 2011 | |||||
Company: | Kneehigh | |||||
| 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 | #124695 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | ensemble | |||||
Notes: | Kneehigh, directed and adapted by Emma Rice, music by Michel Legrand, lyrics translated by Sheldon HarnickThe film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, directed by Jacques Demy, was released in 1964 starring 19-year-old Catherine Deneuve. The film went on to be nominated for five Academy Awards and won the 1964 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The Academy Award-nominated song I Will Wait for You has been recorded by many artists including Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Tony Bennett and Liza Minnelli. | |||||
Synopsis: | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg traces the story of French auto mechanic Guy Fouchier who's fallen in love with 17-year-old Genevieve Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy leaves for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Genevieve vow to remain lovers. After discovering she's carrying Guy's child, she must choose between waiting for his return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 305 | |||||
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Wild Bride, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 12 Sep 2011 | |||||
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| 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 | #50188 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adapted by Emma Rice, text and lyrics by Carl Grose, music by Stu Barker | |||||
Synopsis: | in this story of truth, love and heartbreak we meet our young heroine who, having escaped the clutches of both the devil and her father, sets out into the wilderness on a brave journey of discovery. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wooden Frock, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leeds WYP Courtyard | 2003 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43731 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | adapted by Tom Morris, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre from original sources | |||||
Synopsis: | instead of a slipper, there is a ring - a far more potent sexual symbol. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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