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Samantha Ellis

SAMANTHA ELLIS   (1975 - )

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

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:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

short play

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

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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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Almonds

1st Produced:

Network Theatre

2005

Company:

Floodtide Theatre

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#63909

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Genre:

short play One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

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.

Further Reference:

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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Candy Jar, The

1st Produced:

Playroom, Cambridge

1996

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#63912

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

An artist, his models and a wry look at Generation X and the politics of kitsch.

Further Reference:

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SAMANTHA ELLIS

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:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#63908

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Genre:

short play

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

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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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Cling To Me Like Ivy

1st Produced:

Birmingham: The Door, Rep, England, EUR >>>

11 Feb 2010

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Nick Hern Books, London (2009) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1848420656

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Samantha Ellis

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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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Feel the Plastic

1st Produced:

Camden People's Theatre

1998

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#63911

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

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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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Martin's Wedding

1st Produced:

BAC, London, EUR >>>

2004

Company:

Blind Summit

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#63910

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

2

Parts other:

1 puppet

Notes:

-

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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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Patching Havoc

1st Produced:

Theatre 503, London (Latchmere Theatre) >>>

2003

Company:

Theatre 503/Liquid Theatre

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#10937

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

What do you do when your fiance thinks he's the messiah?

Further Reference:

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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Postfeminism

1st Produced:

Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL >>>

20 Jun 2010

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#139214

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Genre:

short play

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

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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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Scattering

1st Produced:

Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL >>>

28 Jan 2007

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#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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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Startle Response

1st Produced:

Young Vic Theatre, London (workshop) >>>

2007

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#72258

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Genre:

short play One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

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.

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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Sugar and Snow

1st Produced:

BBC Radio 4

2006

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#63907

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Genre:

radio play Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

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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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Unfinished

1st Produced:

Liverpool: Everyman, England, EUR >>>

06 Jun 2007

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#72257

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Genre:

short play

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

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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SAMANTHA ELLIS

Use Me As Your Cardigan

1st Produced:

Jackson's Lane, London

2002

Company:

The Miniaturists

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#10938

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Genre:

dark comedy Comedy

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A dark comedy about postnatal depression.

Further Reference:

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