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CORA BISSETT |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Amanda Howard Associates |
Cora Bissett is an award-winning actor and theatre director, who trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Having worked widely as an actress for 14 years, she attained the Arches Award for Directors in 2009 and devised her debut production Amada which toured nationally. She launched her own company, Pachamama Productions in 2010, for which Roadkill was the flagship production. As an actress, she recently filmed the 9th and 10th series of Rab C. Nesbitt for the Comedy Unit/BBC, played in David Mackenzies 2011 feature You Instead and also recently starred in the international tour of Midsummer, for which she won the 2009 Stage Best Actress Award and will go on to open at Sydney Opera House in January 2012.
Plays by Cora Bissett
Amada | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #67042 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | vocalist, guitarist | |||||
Notes: | The Arches Award for Stage Directors - in association with NTS Workshop and Traverse Theatre - offers two emergent, Scottish-based directors the chance to stage a fully-funded production. This year's winners are Cora Bissett and Rosie Kellagher and their productions will be presented at the Traverse as a double bill. Previous winners include Neil Doherty's Tone Clusters and Davey Anderson's Snuff which appeared at the Traverse during the 2006 and 2005 Fringe Festivals. | |||||
Synopsis: | Amada is inspired by a tale from Chilean writer Isabel Allende. Using the remarkable singing voice of 'Basque-wegian' Nerea Bello, intense physical performance, visual poetry and Spanish guitar, Cora Bissett will recreate the colour, passion and sensuality of Latin America. Cora is an actor and musician who has played with the bands Swelling Meg, Arab Strap and Mogwai. Recently she's had key roles in multi-award winning film Red Road and NTS' Wolves in the Walls. | |||||
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Love's Time's Beggar | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #99289 | |||
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Notes: | devised and presented by Ankur Productions Adult Theatre Workshop with Cora Bissett | |||||
Synopsis: | If you had a solitary memory to sustain you in the afterlife, what would it be? Love's Time's Beggar pitches five individuals headlong into a heavenly waiting room and demands they choose. | |||||
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Roadkill | ||
| 1st Produced: | Meet at the Traverse Box Office to be transported to the production's off-site location in Edinburgh | 40401 | ||||
Company: | Ankur Productions and Pachamama in association with Tron Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431989 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117269 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | male doubling | |||||
Notes: | written by Cora Bissett with text by Stef Smith. Rights: c/o Richard Jordan richard.jordan@virgin.net. Five previews at Tron glasgow in June 2011 as part of Refugee Week. | |||||
| In Benin City, a young girl struggles to support her family. A world away, in an Edinburgh tenement, 'aunty' Martha arranges a job and flight for her. Based on the experiences of young women trafficked to Scotland, Cora Bissett's explosive production, combining direct, chilling performances with video,animation and music, thrusts you into the brutal, complex and hidden world behind the newspaper headlines on sex-trafficking. | |||||
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Whatever Gets You Through The Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL, Scotland >>> | 26 Jun 2012 | ||||
Company: | Vital Spark | |||||
| 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 | #140053 | |||
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Notes: | Created by Cora Bissett with Swimmer One and David Greig | |||||
Synopsis: | Featuring exclusive new words and music by Errors, Alan Bissett, Rachel Sermanni, Withered Hand, Annie Griffin, Meursault, David Greig, RM Hubbert, Wounded Knee, Alan Spence, Ricky Ross, Conquering Animal Sound, Emma Pollock, Isabel Wright, Kirstin Innes, Swimmer One, Bigg Taj, Stef Smith, Eugene Kelly, Douglas Maxwell, Talkingmakesnosense, David Ireland, Kieran Hurley. Some of Scotland's most distinctive novelist, poets, musicians, songwriters, playwrights and you: a nation of people, awake in the dark, waiting for the light to come. Whatever Gets You Through The Night is an ambitious new multi-disciplinary live event featuring actors, visuals by Kim Beveridge, aerial work, new writing by some of Scotland's top novelists, poets and playwrights, and a whole album's worth of original music by acclaimed Scottish musicians, some of whom will perform live in the show. Created by Cora Bissett with Swimmer One and David Greig, the show will be quite unlike anything else a visual and aural banquet blending circus, cabaret, and a host of stories all of which take place across Scotland between the hours of midnight and 4am. A heartfelt goodbye on the shore of Loch Lomond, an Skype affair between two people who never meet, a man searching for a lover in 'the palace of light', a character lost in a virtual reality game world, and an homage to the joys of chips and cheese& Come and meet lost souls, party animals and dreamers in a snapshot of an entire nation at its most vulnerable and revealing. As well as the live show, this unique, groundbreaking project also takes the form of a book, an album (released by Biphonic Records) and a film (directed by Daniel Warren) which will premiere at the Summerhall venue during this year's Edinburgh Fringe before going on tour. | |||||
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