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ELLA HICKSON |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: PFD |
Ella's debut play, Eight, won a Fringe First, The Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award and was nominated for an Evening Standard Award. Since then, Ella has also penned Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios); Soup (Traverse); Hot Mess (Latitude/Arcola Tent) and Boys and spent a year working with the Traverse Theatre as their Emerging Playwright-on-Attachment. Ella is this year's Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Lyric, Hammersmith.
Plays by Ella Hickson
Custard | ||
| 1st Produced: | 03 Dec 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 | #116010 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Old Vic New Voices and Time Warner launch Time Warner Ignite - a two-year programme to spark creativity among 18-25 year old emerging artists with the production of four new plays on Friday 3rd December at 3.00pm at the new Waterloo East Theatre. The 2-year programme offers workshops, commissions and theatrical and film production opportunities to members of The Old Vic's 18-25 year old emerging artists programme - the New Voices Club. Around each of The Old Vic's four annual main-house shows, four Club writers will be commissioned to write a short play response. These plays will be cast with Club actors, directed by Club directors and produced as one-off special industry showings by Club producers in the 160-seater partner venue for the project, Waterloo East Theatre. At each of the eight presentations, audiences will vote for one of the four plays to be adapted into films. Club artists will work with emerging film-makers and industry mentors to create a professional short, which will be uploaded to the partner website. For the final Hollywood twist, four of these films will be selected via an online poll on the website to win a place at a VIP industry screening at Time Warner's New York offices in 2012, hosted by The Old Vic's artistic director, Kevin Spacey. The production on 3rd December will be of plays written in response to the Old Vic's production of Design for Living | |||||
Synopsis: | Christmas Day 1941. The family sit down for Christmas dinner. Baker's enjoying his bowl of custard but he doesn't know what's coming next. A blackly funny piece inspired by 'the vacuous nature of society', the play brings wartime tensions into the family home, where sex, death and longing fight on against secrets and shame. | |||||
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Eight | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Edinburgh University Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Original Works, Los Angeles (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-934962-40-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88775 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | EIGHT swept the board at the biggest arts festival in the world, the Edinburgh Festival, in 2008. An underground hit propagated by sensational word-of-mouth, it went on to win a coveted Scotsman Fringe First Award, the NSDF Emerging Artists Award and the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh' Award, awarded to only one show across the thousands of productions at the festival. aka This Is Eight | |||||
| A collection of endearing characters, hitting adulthood in The Naughties, offer deliciously cynical yet touching snippets of life that question what it is to be 'normal' in a generation where everything has become acceptable. In a decade when the shock factor is hard to come by and the media is scrabbling around in the dirt to find the not-yet-exploited, Eight's characters come from the fringes of a society that has been invaded by normal. From life-partners hanging by Hermes scarves to finding friendship in morgues, Eight looks at the refugees created by the dissolution of social, sexual and national boundaries, resulting in hard-hitting drama that has dared to confront the toughest of topical issues | |||||
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Gift | ||
| 1st Produced: | Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1AZ | 01 09 2011 | ||||
Company: | Headlong | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848422308 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132456 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Decade: Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays. Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company. The writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben Ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood. | |||||
| No-one can forget the moment they heard the news. September 11th, 2001 sent shockwaves across the globe. It was a day that was supposed to change the world forever.Ten years on, a team of major writers and thinkers explore our responses to the defining event of our times in a new production from Headlong, creators of the multi award-winning ENRON. Rupert Goold's theatre company transforms a former trading hall into an immersive theatrical experience, taking you from the tranquil setting of St Katharine Docks on the River Thames to the bright blue skies of downtown Manhattan and beyond. | |||||
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Hot Mess | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hawke + Hunter, Edinburgh: Fringe Festival, Scotland, EUR >>> | 06 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Tantrums Ltd | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421660 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118449 | |||
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Genre: | drama, storytelling | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Hot Mess is a dark and lyrical tale about friendship, loss and loneliness. Twins Polo and Twitch were born with only one heart between them: where Polo is not looking to be loved, Twitch can do nothing but. | |||||
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PMQ | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 24 Nov 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 | #123198 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Theatre503 present a series of short plays which riff on the theme of "Coalition" - both in that they are all products of collaborations between playwrights and artists of other disciplines, and in that they all address in one way or another the new age of coalition government in which we find ourselves. You might say that a theatrical exploration of the current political situation could have come a little sooner; but coinciding as it does with the student riots and the general reaction to the October cuts, this project feels incredibly vital. There are ten pieces of work, split into a Blue Group and a Yellow Group (for Tories and Lib Dems, of course), which perform on alternate nights. | |||||
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Precious Little Talent | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bedlam Theatre (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) | 06 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Tantrums Ltd. | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421660 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101393 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Precious Little Talent is about a father desperate not to forget his daughter and two young people determined not to be forgotten by the world. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 07 Page 368 | |||||
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Soup | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 Mar 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 | #109196 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Soup, is an absorbing story about the return of a young man to his comfortable Morningside home and the confusion his presence brings to his insecure film-critic father. | |||||
Synopsis: | Soup, is an absorbing story about the return of a young man to his comfortable Morningside home and the confusion his presence brings to his insecure film-critic father. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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This is Not the End | ||
| 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 | #101835 | |||
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Genre: | 15 min play | |||||
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Notes: | part of The 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices | |||||
Synopsis: | The subject is the date from hell as pretty Mia meets her new boyfriend Tom's pals. This trio of rugger types had been the self-proclaimed Three Musketeers of drunken foul antics. Tom is joined by a double act who do not hold back on the tasteless but extremely funny jokes. Nor do they spare Mia with their tales of Tom's past conquests. If this is bad enough, Tom's bitter old flame Lisa, who, once she's had a few too many, does not hold back on the hilarious invective. | |||||
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