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SAMANTHA ELLIS (1975 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Samantha Ellis' plays include Cling To Me Like Ivy (Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Lowry Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth, North Wall), The Thousand and Second Night (LAMDA), A Sudden Visitation of Calamith (Menagerie Theatre), Startle Response (Young Vic Theatre workshop production), Sugar and Snow (Hampstead Theatre/BBC Radio Four), Martin's Wedding (Blind Summit Theatre/BAC), Patching Havoc (Theatre 503) and, for The Miniaturists, the short plays Postfeminism and Scattering (Arcola), Unfinished (Liverpool Everyman Theatre), and Cat in a Sieve (Southwark Playhouse). She has also written short plays for Pursued by a Bear and Floodtide Theatre. She was a MacDowell Colony Fellow and has been in residence at Metal and on attachment at the Soho Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Hampstead Theatre. As a journalist she worked for publications including the Guardian, Evening Standard, Observer, Jewish Quarterly and Prospect She is writing a children's play called Operation Magic Carpet for the Unicorn Theatre and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and a book called How to be a Heroine for Chatto & Windus. Her play The Last Wolf in Scotland will be produced at the Edinburgh fringe in 2012. She blogs at http://samanthaellisblog.blogspot.com.
Plays by Samantha Ellis
Agent 160 Theatre Company: Short plays | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cardiff: Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff CF5 1QE >>> | 17 Feb 2012 | ||||
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 | #139138 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Agent 160 Theatre Company: Short plays. Agent 160 is a new company aiming to address the fact that women write just 17 per cent of all theatre work produced in the UK. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Almonds | ||
| 1st Produced: | Network Theatre | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Floodtide Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #63909 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In 1834 Parliament burns down. In 2005, a woman tries to fight the war on terror with a nut allergy. A play about democracy. | |||||
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Candy Jar, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playroom, Cambridge | 1996 | ||||
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 | #63912 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | An artist, his models and a wry look at Generation X and the politics of kitsch. | |||||
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Cat In A Sieve | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 13 Nov 2005 | ||||
Company: | The Miniaturists | |||||
| 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 | #63908 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 1 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | James VI encounters a witch in a castle in Scotland in 1591. A play about the events which inspired Macbeth. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cling To Me Like Ivy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Feb 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848420656 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99110 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots. Rivka wants the perfect Orthodox wedding. With two weeks to go, she has the man, the dress - and the wig. But when doubt is cast on her wig, everything starts to unravel. Rivka finds herself far from home, up a tree and in the midst of an anti-road protest, not knowing whether she'll be able to go back to where she came from. . . Or even if she wants to. Samantha Ellis' play was inspired by a chance remark by Victoria Beckham in 2004 which sparked a crisis within the Orthodox Jewish community about the wigs worn by married women. | |||||
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Feel the Plastic | ||
| 1st Produced: | Camden People's Theatre | 1998 | ||||
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 | #63911 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Nine months ago, Lara's boyfriend went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back. But then, weeks before she is about to have his baby, her flatmate brings home a stranger. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Martin's Wedding | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Blind Summit | |||||
| 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 | #63910 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 puppet | |||||
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Synopsis: | Fashion photographer Martin (a puppet) wakes on his wedding morning with a hangover. Full of regret, he throws himself out of a window. He hits the ground, bangs his head and when he comes round he can't remember anything. The story of a small man pursued by three women trying to get to the altar to marry a woman he can't remember. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Patching Havoc | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Theatre 503/Liquid Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #10937 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | What do you do when your fiance thinks he's the messiah? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Postfeminism | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL >>> | 20 Jun 2010 | ||||
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 | #139214 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 24 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Scattering | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL >>> | 28 Jan 2007 | ||||
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 | #63906 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 5 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | How can you be a Muslim and a Jew? When Kemal's father tells him he is a follower of 17th century mystic Sabbatai Tsvi, he goes on a journey of discovery to find out who he wants to be. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Startle Response | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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 | #72258 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | a play inspired by a true story of life imitating art. In 1996 a group of Kurdish amateur actors were rehearsing a production of Harold Pinter's Mountain Language. Their rehearsals were raided by police who mistook their prop guns for real ones, and told them to speak no language but English. This story is at the heart of a play about post-traumatic stress disorder, memory, language, loss and assimilation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sugar and Snow | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 4 | 2006 | ||||
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 | #63907 | |||
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Genre: | radio play Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A play about love, coffee readings and freedom, set in a cafe in north London and in the mountains of Kurdistan. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Unfinished | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Jun 2007 | |||||
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 | #72257 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Miniaturists 7 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today | |||||
Synopsis: | contemporary dybbuk comedy, with songs | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Use Me As Your Cardigan | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jackson's Lane, London | 2002 | ||||
Company: | The Miniaturists | |||||
| 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 | #10938 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A dark comedy about postnatal depression. | |||||
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