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BETH STEEL |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Beth was born in Nottingham and was part of the Invitation Group for Emerging Writers at the Royal Court and the writer's attachment programme 503/five at Theatre503. Her first full length play, Ditch, opened at the HighTide festival 2010 and transferred to the Old Vic Tunnels.
Plays by Beth Steel
2001 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Jan 2010 | |||||
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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 | #110063 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | children | |||||
Notes: | part of "Decade" by Amy Rosenthal, Beth Steel, Nimer Rashed, David Eldridge, Lou Ramsden, Fraser Grace, April de Angelis, Richard Marsh, Phil Porter and Rex Obano. Much has changed in the world since our current millennium dawned in 2000. Theatre503 presents ten short plays by ten different playwrights, each encompassing a year of the so-called noughties and encourages the audience to reflect over the past decade whilst taking in a great evening of theatre. | |||||
Synopsis: | George W Bush sits alongside a teacher laboriously guiding her kids through a reading exercise before being told by an aide what's just happened to the World Trade Centre | |||||
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All I Want for Christmas | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 Dec 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 | #107459 | |||
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Genre: | Christmas Shorts | |||||
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Notes: | Written by Beth Steel, Louise Ramsden, Nimer Rashed, Rex Obano and Richard Marsh | |||||
Synopsis: | five fiendishly funny shorts on the true meaning of everyone's favourite holiday. Twisted and touching, All I Want For Christmas is the tale of everyday people struggling to survive in a winter wonderland. Meanwhile in Santa's grotto, the elves have decided enough is enough. Brought to you from five of the country's hottest writers and the home of fearless new theatre. If you're counting the days till Christmas is over, then this is the show for you. | |||||
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Ditch | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk | 30 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | High Tide Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408131381 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114729 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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| "I've listened to all the stories of my generation, then watched 'em get sick or fade away. And it wasn't this world that killed 'em. It was the other& the memory of it." Britain, the near future. Much of the country is underwater and the government has been reduced to a group of fascist strongmen. In a rural outpost of the state, the men patrol the moors for illegals whilst the women run a self-sufficient farm to provide what all they need to survive. The living conditions are harsh, every meagre ration is grown from scratch and they must battle with inclement weather and a draconian government. As their numbers dwindle, they struggle to retain a semblance of civilisation in the face of the inevitable onset of global war. Stark and imperative, but shot through with a sense of warm compassion, Beth Steel's debut play Ditch is a clear-eyed look at how we might behave when the conveniences of our civilisation are taken away, and a frightening vision of a future that could all too easily be ours. Ditch is a brutal and uncompromising play, with a grounded, earthy sense of humanity. The result is both heart-rending and chilling, depicting a convincing, bleak vision of the future. | |||||
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Lynndie England | ||
| 1st Produced: | Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1AZ | 01 09 2011 | ||||
Company: | Headlong | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848422308 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132469 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of Decade: Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays. Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company. The writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben Ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood. | |||||
| No-one can forget the moment they heard the news. September 11th, 2001 sent shockwaves across the globe. It was a day that was supposed to change the world forever.Ten years on, a team of major writers and thinkers explore our responses to the defining event of our times in a new production from Headlong, creators of the multi award-winning ENRON. Rupert Goold's theatre company transforms a former trading hall into an immersive theatrical experience, taking you from the tranquil setting of St Katharine Docks on the River Thames to the bright blue skies of downtown Manhattan and beyond. | |||||
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