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Noah Birksted-Breen

NOAH BIRKSTED-BREEN  (1977 - )

 Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Judy Daish Associates Ltd  

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         Anna         Demob Train, The         Dreams         Foma. Freefall         I Join them         In Blood: The Bacchae         Mums         Natasha's Dream         On the Record         One Hour Eighteen Minutes         Russian National Mail         Slow Sword, The         Techniques of Breathing in an Airlocked Space         Tityus the Irreproachable         We, Children

Anna

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Original Playwright - Yury Klavdiev

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Genre:
Translation

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Demob Train, The

Synopsis:
Russian soldiers recuperating from traumas suffered in Chechnya - the soldiers do not know whether they are still alive or dead

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Original Playwright - Alexander Arkhipov

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Translation

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Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 15 Page 826

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Dreams

Dreams
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Natalia Kolyada

1st Produced:
Sputnik Theatre Russian Festival, London    Feb 2010

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1st Published:
Contained in: "New Russian Plays" published by Sputnik 2013   978-0957614109

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Translation

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Foma. Freefall

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Original Playwright - Yury Muravitsky

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Translation

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I Join them

Synopsis:
a wholehearted account of events in 2005 Ukraine in which time-servers quicly join the protestors once they realise the bandwagon is rolling in their direction

Notes:
Original Playwright - Natalya Vorozhbit

1st Produced:
Tristan Bates, London    2005

Organisations:
New Company, part of Broken Voices

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Genre:
Short Play One act

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In Blood: The Bacchae

Synopsis:
Britains first ever professional Capoeira production based on Euripides epic play comes to Arcola for a limited run as part of the 2009 Brazilian Season. A masterpiece of theatrical intensity grappling with conflicts more relevant today than ever before: religious freedom, political order, apathy and fanaticism. Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art incorporating diverse elements of African culture including dance, music, acrobatics and various fighting forms and the merging of two cultural forms both involving ritual, war and passion.

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Original Playwright - Euripides

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Genre:
piece

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Mums

Mums
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Vladimir Zuev

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1st Published:
Contained in: "New Russian Plays" published by Sputnik 2013   978-0957614109

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Translation

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Natasha's Dream

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Original Playwright - Yaroslava Pulinovich

1st Produced:
Rehearsed reading at Sputnik Russian Theatre Festival, London    Feb 2010

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Translation

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On the Record

On the Record
When Im writing articles, Im not scared at all. Im on a high. Its such a rush. the fear comes later. Sri Lankan brothers Lal and Lasantha dare to publish stories that others wont touch, but at what cost? Meanwhile, in Mexico Lydia uncovers a child pornography ring involving senior politicians, elena has a run in with the Moscow mafia, amira reports direct from the Israeli-occupied territories and Zoriah comes up against the US Military over his Iraq war images. Combining searing verbatim testimony with Dramatic reconstruction, On the Record circumnavigates the globe to bring you true stories of six independent journalists, all linked by their determination to shed light on the truth. exploring human rights through performance, this is iceandfire's fourth production.

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By Christine Bacon And Noah Birksted-Breen

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iceandfire

1st Published:
Contained in: "Testimonial Plays" published by Methuen Drama 2013   978-0435233211

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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One Hour Eighteen Minutes

One Hour Eighteen Minutes
urgent documentary piece by Russian playwright elena Gremina about the final hours of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in police custody in 2009 after uncovering a massive government fraud.

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Original Playwright - Elena Gremina

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Organisations:
Sputnik Theatre

1st Published:
Playdead Press 2012   978-0957449107

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Genre:
translation

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Russian National Mail

Synopsis:
In 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ceased to exist. For its 293 million inhabitants, life would change irrevocably. Some stood poised to benefit from this change-personally, ideologically, financially. Others, especially the elderly, struggled to come to grips with its meaning. the Russian National Postal Service presents the story of one man in the midst of these historical events: Ivan Sidorovich Zhukov. as he gets older, Ivan Sidorovich's world grows smaller and smaller. He has lost his wife and his friends. Post-Soviet inflation has devalued his pension. even his television set has broken down. the routines and the certainties that once sustained him have now completely collapsed.

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Original Playwright - Oleg Bogaev

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Sputnik Theatre

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Slow Sword, The

Slow Sword, The
Viad is a young professional working in Moscow's money markets. He is not yet 25, but already owns his own apartment, has a beautiful girlfriend and a bright future. Yet Viad is consumed by anxiety, a feeling that there is something missing from his life. Disconnecting from his pressured money-oriented existence and the middle-class comforts of yoghurt and yoga, he leaves the safety of his flat and plunges into Moscow's murky by-ways on a quest to find the meaning of life. Here, on the mean streets of Putin's Russia, in the toilets of a taxi office and in the stairwells of run-down suburban flats, he confronts the hoodlums, druggies, beggars, hustlers and lost souls who form part of the new Russia. a former gang member turned playwright, Yuri Klavdiyev's Drama has more than a whiff of authenticity, and his strange, unsettling play is part dream, part nightmare and wholly intriguing. What appears in the early scenes to be an absurdist Drama about the tyranny of the office gradually transforms into a brutal, in-yer-face dissection of the desolation of modern Russia, a place where a taxi driver can drive around with a corpse, the police are more terrified than those they are supposed to protect, and the vulnerable are pissed on. Quite literally. eventually, the whole thing spirals off into more existential territory.
- Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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Original Playwright - Yury Klavdiev. Directed by David M. White

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Sputnik Theatre

1st Published:
Contained in: "New Russian Plays" published by Sputnik 2013   978-0957614109

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Techniques of Breathing in an Airlocked Space

Techniques of Breathing in an Airlocked Space
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Original Playwright - Natalya Moshina

1st Produced:
Sputnik Theatre Russian Festival, London    2006

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1st Published:
Contained in: "New Russian Plays" published by Sputnik 2013   978-0957614109

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Translation

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Tityus the Irreproachable

Tityus the Irreproachable
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Original Playwright - Maksym Kurochkin

1st Produced:
Sputnik Theatre Russian Festival, London    Feb 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "New Russian Plays" published by Sputnik 2013   978-0957614109

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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We, Children

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Original Playwright - Yury Klavdiev

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Genre:
Translation

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