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JONATHAN HOLMES |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Dr Jonathan Holmes is a writer, director and founder of arts organisation The Jericho House.
Plays by Jonathan Holmes
Fallujah | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Truman Brewery, London | 2007 | ||||
Company: | ICA with Illium Productions | |||||
| 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 | #64001 | |||
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Genre: | Documentary | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 3 actors on screen, doubling | |||||
Notes: | Harriet Walter, Imogen Stubbs, Dominic Jephcott, Chip Chung, Shereen Martineau, Chris Jarman and Christopher Simpson perform Fallujah, a "testimony" piece about the siege of the Iraqi town, at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, East London, not far from Spitalfields Market | |||||
Synopsis: | The seige of Fallujah constitutes one of the most extensive human rights violations of recent times. Breaching over 70 articles of the Geneva conventions. This play presents testimony from those at the heart of the siege. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Into Thy Hands | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Jun 2011 | |||||
Company: | Jericho House Utopia Season | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408156520 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #127654 | |||
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Genre: | historical drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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| Into Thy Hands is a play about faith, sex, and the translation of the Bible. Set four hundred years ago, it is centred around John Donne and his parallel roles as the first English translator of Galileo, accomplice in the translation of the Song of Solomon, and as the most popular songwriter of the English Court. Set in 1610-11 at the high watermark of the English Renaissance, the play charts the beginning of an English project that would come to dominate the next three centuries. John Donne stood at the nexus of these developments. At various times politician, soldier, poet, musician, lawyer, courtier, theologian and cleric, and as a man born into one of the most distinguished English Catholic families only to die as one of its most renowned Protestants, he lived lives as most shades of English identity. He was also intimately involved with three great English innovations that came to dominate the subsequent life of the country: the Anglican church, epitomised by the King James Bible (1611); the scientific enlightenment, prompted by the work of Francis Bacon and the appearance of Galileos work in English (also 1611); and the great artistic flourishing in theatre, poetry and music. This play is about the collision of those worlds. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 11 Page 591 | |||||
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Katrina | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, london | 01 Sep 2009 | ||||
Company: | the jerico house | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408125496 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102801 | |||
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Genre: | a play of New Orleans | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
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| In August 2005 Hurrican Katrina narrowly missed New orleans. The resulting storms breached rotting levees and emptied neighbouring lake Pontchartrain into the city. Marooned by floodwater that swamped over 80% of their holmes, the inhabitants had to wait a week without food or clean water before their government came to their aid. Katrina uses survivor testimonies and the rich musical tradition of new orleans to tell the story of the immediate aftermath of the hurricane. Staged in a five-story warehouse on london's South bank, Jericho House's new play takes the audience on an odyssey through a drowned city, enveloped in the most immersive of visual and aural designs, in the company of individuals displaced and abandoned within their own city | |||||
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Revolution Square | ||
| 1st Produced: | 12 Mar 2012 | |||||
Company: | Jericho in collaboration with the Bush Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #137950 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
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Synopsis: | December 2011, Russia saw the largest series of demonstrations and protests since the collapse of the Soviet Union 22 years ago. More than 100,000 people took to the streets in temperatures as low as -20C to protest against widespread fraud and an increasingly authoritarian government. On March 4, Vladimir Putin was re-elected for his third term as President against a background of further corruption and repression. | |||||
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