SHEILA HILL
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Sheila Hill
Check King Coal |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A play about the 1984 Coal Strike: the unions, managers, miners, their wives, police, media, government - looking at the changing behaviour of the main protagonists over the first nine months. Played out as a chess game, each piece can only make set moves. There are two sides, and each moves in turn, strictly according to the rules. Strictly, that is, to begin with. . .. | ||||
Crocodile Looking at Birds |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Dance Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Writer/director Sheila Hill; choreographer Jonathan Lunn; design Rae Smith and Rosa Maggiora; lighting Ben Ormerod; music Anthony Kerr. Performers Jane Dudley, Tim Barlow, Bernadette Iglich, David Hughes, Dan Cerqueira, Finola Cronin. | ||||
Synopsis: The body defines our worlds. Constantly changing, it sparks attractions, love, estrangements, need. From it come our dreams. Within it lies the future. Yet always we inhabit its past. People are talking. Each voice distinct, unique. But as these accumulate, patterns emerge - connecting, shaping. Self-images are in time-lag. Desire is bang up to date. And there's nowhere to hide. The text is part-written, part-edited, from the writer's experiences and conversations since a spinal injury - first as hospital patient, and then throughout the period of recovery and adjustment. It interweaves testimonies from fellow patients with those of the performers, juxtaposing what is normal and expected with the shocks of sudden loss, to better understand both. | ||||
Eye to Eye |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | WIP | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Starting at the beginnings of the mother/child relationship, Eye to Eye documents what happens over seven years, from the vulnerabilities of pregnancy, and the shock of new life, through the adjustment to school and society, and on to the child's early autonomy - approaching this both through the adult's eyes, and also the child's. | ||||
I See Your Beating Heart: a mother's cantata |
| 1st Produced: | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London | 2001 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | cross-art, site-specific | Piece | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Writer/director Sheila Hill; composer/music director Richard Chew; visual artist John Frankland; photographer Hugo Glendinning. A new music work for 3 voices, and piano, cello, violin performed within an installation, created in the central atrium of this busy London teaching hospital | ||||
Synopsis: work about pregnancy/early motherhood (0-2) | ||||
My Parents Never Talk To White People |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | One man show | Show | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Writer/director Sheila Hill; comedian Jag Plah | ||||
Synopsis: A one-man show, where comedian Jag Plah explores the cultural and physical paradoxes of being a Christian son of Indian Sikhs, born with cerebral palsy and a speech defect - yet trying to earn a living as stand-up comic, in'90s Britain. | ||||
Power Project, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Theatre work in Progress | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Four old men talk. A politician. A scientist. An artist. And a doctor. Their unique and particular voices tell of deeply private agonies, obsessions and escapades. But, as these random monologues spill out, they become increasingly interconnected - until a universal, identikit portrait emerges. A portrait of the nature of power. Based on a series of interviews with world leaders (an architect of the atom bomb, a politician central to Middle East peace, an artist whose work outrages 127 countries, a gatekeeper of medical orthodoxy. . ..) - this new work explores how we've got to where we are now, through the hearts and minds of four men who have shaped our lives. | ||||