ZINNIE HARRIS (1973 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Zinnie Harris
Biohazard |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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By Many Wounds |
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | story of love and loss painting a haunting picture of a family dealing with grief | |||||
Chain Play, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
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| Notes: | Written By Terry Johnson, Philip Ridley, Charlotte Jones, Lee Hall, Sebastian Barry, Zinnie Harris, Kevin Elyot, Nick Dear, Tanika Gupta, Frank McGuinness, Nick Stafford, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Teevan, Patrick Marber, David Lan, Sarah Daniels, Martin She | |||||
| Synopsis: | One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National Theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night | |||||
Doll's House, A |
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
| Synopsis: | Nora loves her husband above all else. When he was ill, she fraudulently borrowed money to save his life and has been secretly working to pay back the debt ever since. With her husband Torvald receiving a promotion, the end of the struggle is in sight, but when Torvalds employee Krostag begins to blackmail Nora, her world begins to fall apart. | |||||
Fall |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | Politics, justice and revenge collide in a tense new thriller by Zinnie Harris and directed by the Traverses Artistic Director Dominic Hill. Fall is the last play in a group of three individual plays that examine the transforming effects of war. Midwinter and Solstice were commissioned and performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004 - 05. Fall is presented in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company. | |||||
| Synopsis: | To make your future, do you have to murder the past? In the aftermath of a horrific civil conflict, a new country is preparing for the mass execution of its war criminals. Kate knows nothing and everything about it. She knew one of the guilty men for 15 years and never suspected a thing. As the city burns and the new government struggles to look credible to the rest of the world, Kate gets tragically caught up in their conspiracy. | |||||
Further Than The Furthest Thing |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | RNT & Tron Theatre | |||||
| Synopsis: | On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well as beyond. Further Than The Furthest Thing is a beautifully drawn story evoking the sadness and beauty of a civilisation in crisis. | |||||
Garden, The |
| 1st Produced: | 22 Mar 2010 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | part of The World is Too Much, Theatre for Breakfast | |||||
| Synopsis: | Bras all over the place !! We are just creatures in the end arent we? Nothing special. The same as the pigs and the flies. We fucked it. We tried to put it right, we didnt manage. Maybe its time just to be one of them again. Extract from The Garden | |||||
Gravity |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
| Company: | Edinburgh International Festival commission | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | musicians | |||||
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| Synopsis: | The text consists of seven youthful meditations on love, life, the universe and ev&ything, delivered by three actors playing a man, a woman and their child; and after every monologue or brief dialogue, a string trio plays a short piece by Adanila. Joyce Mcmillan, Scotsman | |||||
Julie |
| 1st Produced: | N Edinburgh Arts Ctr / touring | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - August Strindberg (Miss Julie) adapted by Zinnie Harris, literal translation by Hanna Slattne | |||||
| Synopsis: | highly politicised new version in which the action is relocated to rural Scotland during the great Strike of 1926. | |||||
Midwinter |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A pedlar announces that the war is over; and as the soldiers return in the fragile peace that follows, the starving people are left to build new lives, to forge new identities. Written in a spare and lyrical language, Midwinter is a play about now, about love, self and a world made from conflict. | |||||
Nightingale And Chase |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | 'Played this game. Inside, with the other girls. The 'he is going to meet you' game. The 'he is going to meet you with flowers' game. The 'he is going to turn up in a limo' game. The 'he is going to bring champagne' game. The 'he is going to cover you in kisses, or cum, or love bites or bloody Belgian chocolate' game, doesn't matter but when you walk out of those gates. He is going to be there, that is the game.' Chase is waiting to be released from prison. And Nightingale is there to meet her. Everything is under control and they're both going to get it right. This time. | |||||
Silver Whale Fish |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Solstice |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | a protagonist prophesises that what has began as a quarrel between neighbours in a small, faraway place will become a vast international conflict in which 'lots of people will die' | |||||
Some Kind Of Dawn |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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