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Clara Brennan

CLARA BRENNAN

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  represented by Jessica Cooper

Clara Brennan is a playwright and TV drama writer. As a playwright her work has been performed at the Soho Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, York Theatre Royal, The Dukes Theatre, the Arcola Theatre and the Traverse Theatre, and her plays include Rain, Portmanteau, Monogram, Bud Take The Wheel, I Feel A Song Coming On, Hi Vis and Spine. In 2012, she was awarded the OffWestEnd Adopt a Playwright Award for her play The Vendor. In 2013, Clara was awarded the ChAnnel 4 Screen-writing Prize and is working on an attachment with the Soho Theatre. For stage, she is working on a commission for the Drum Theatre, Plymouth. For screen, her current commissions include an original TV drama, The Berserkers, with Patrick Spence for C4. She is also studying for a PhD and her thesis explores Empathy and the Performance of Human Rights.

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below is a list of Clara Brennan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Births, Marriages And Deaths         Boa         Bud Take the Wheel I Feel A Song Coming On         Curator, The         Hi Vis         Monogram         Pachamama         Portmanteau         Rain         Spine         Vendor, The         Wing, The

Births, Marriages And Deaths

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Boa

Boa
'I told the guy sometimes your arm around my neck felt like. . .a feather boa. . .and sometimes it felt like a big ol' snake. Squeezing the life outta me.' One transatlantic marriage. Three continents. Two wars. Boa is an acerbic, warm and honest account of a husband and wife whose relationship spans thirty years of love, laughter, addiction, and warfare.

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[reading] High Tide Festival 2014

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Oberon Books (2014) >>>    978-1783192113

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Bud Take the Wheel I Feel A Song Coming On

Bud Take the Wheel I Feel A Song Coming On
Deep in the English countryside, a small village, a gay son, a daughter who won't speak and a thatcher who hates Thatcher collide under the looming presence of a defunct paper mill in a darkly comic drama. Bud Take the Wheel is an exceptionally written tale of a family at odds with itself and the changing world. At its heart is the wish of every young person who grew up rural anywhere - the need for flight, the wish to escape. Bud Take the Wheel chews up rural entrapment, spits up countryside cliches and writes a twisted love song to our green and pleasant land

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[Shaw Theatre, London, 28 Jul 2010]

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Reclaim Productions Ltd/SPL

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849430760

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comic Drama

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Curator, The

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Soho Theatre Studio, London    -

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the Miniaturists 28

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Hi Vis

Hi Vis
Lesley Hart plays the mother of a teenaged girl with severe mental problems. After these become too much for the family, she is put into an under-funded institution. This proves too much for the girl, who has particularly negative emotional reactions every time that her parents visit. Their solution is to dress as clowns, making some symbolic comments about the system that makes such actions necessary- Philip Fisher, British Theatre Guide

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Part of theatre Uncut. Across the country thousands of people Are involved in protests And debates, sparked into Action by the largest cuts to public spending since World War Two. theatre Uncut is A national theatre event in response to these cuts, bringing together some of the UK's leading Dramatists.

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Reclaim Productions, in association with Meeting Point Productions

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Monogram

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Pachamama

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This is something if an oddity, apparently featuring a family of unorthodox Gods and particularly Capital, a previously unknown deity. We see them struggling to come to terms with poverty and pinning their hopes on a magical Golden Child.

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In four years, Theatre Uncut has become established as one of the Fringe highlights. With a serious political agenda and a fund of excellent playwrights, it succeeds far more often than makes sense given its brief to create rapid response pieces. The first programme in 2014 gave the writers a theme of "Knowledge is power. Knowledge is change". The company also sought a fresh venture and the intention is to develop the five short pieces (average 15 minutes) into a single play that will eventually tour. In the meantime, Hannah Price directed a quartet of actors in the Traverse Bar. Each of Jade Anouka, Nalini Chetty, Finn den Hertog and Iain Robertson has several moments to shine during an enjoyable and challenging 75 minutes.

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short reading

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Portmanteau

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Part of Miniaturists 28 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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the Miniaturists 28

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Rain

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Two plays interwoven using the same characters. By the lake a young couple realise they might not grow old together. a lyrical exploration of loss and love. Declan Feenan's Lough and Clara Brenan's Rain.

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Real Circumstance With York Theatre Royal in association With escalator east to edinburgh

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Spine

Spine
Spine charts the explosive friendship between a ferocious, wise-cracking teenager and an elderly East End widow. Mischievous activist pensioner Glenda is hell-bent on leaving a political legacy and saving Amy from the Tory scrapheap because there's nothing more terrifying than a teenager with something to say. In this era of damaging coalition cuts and disillusionment, has politics forgotten people? Can we really take the power back? Amy is about to be forced to find out.

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[Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 31 Jul 2014] Theatre Uncut co-artistic director Emma Callander said, "theatre Uncut was created to raise debate and galvanise action around political issues that affect all of our lives. We do this by making our plays available to as many people as possible. "We feel honoured to be working with writers of such high calibre and it thrills me that performances of these powerful short plays will be happening simultaneously across the world, from Scarborough to South Africa. "With the continued cuts to public services in the UK against a landscape of civil unrest and enforced austerity across the world, the need to speak out in resistance is stronger now than ever before."

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Theatre Uncut

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Oberon Books (2014) >>>    978-1783191666

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Vendor, The

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Verity Bargate Award Finalist

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Wing, The

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A Father and daughter square off over Page Three and the English Defence League as their wildly different reactions to austerity are revealed.

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part of Theatre Uncut. Theatre Uncut was established in 2011 to encourage debate and galvanise action around political issues that affect all of our lives.

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political piece

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