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Sheila Hill

SHEILA HILL  

 Nationality:    British
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Writer/theatre-maker

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below is a list of Sheila Hill's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Check King Coal         Crocodile Looking At Birds         Eye To Eye         I See Your Beating Heart: A Mother's Cantata         My Parents Never Talk To White People         Power Project, The         Question Room, The

Check King Coal

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. . ..

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Crocodile Looking At Birds

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.

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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.

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Dance Drama

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Eye To Eye

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.

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I See Your Beating Heart: A Mother's Cantata

Synopsis:
work about pregnancy/early motherhood (0-2)

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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

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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London    2001

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cross-art, site-specific Piece

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My Parents Never Talk To White People

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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.

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Writer/director Sheila Hill; comedian Jag Plah

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ICa, London >>>    1995

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One man show Show

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Power Project, The

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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.

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Theatre work in Progress

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Question Room, The

Synopsis:
a place which celebrates the power and humour of questions, but avoids the limits and irritations of answering! a quiet reflective enclosed space - to rest and think. a place dedicated to the beauty and conundrums of science - laid bare through the clarity of the young child.

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a collaboration between Artists, curated And lead by Sheila Hill. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk >>>

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Science Museum    2009

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