SONJA LINDEN
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Sonja Linden
Are You Sleeping in a Safe Place? |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
| Company: | Wind and Water Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Youth eco-opera | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Asylum Dialogues |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | IceandFire | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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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| Synopsis: | What happens when you meet someone who has fled their country to seek refuge in the UK? What happens when that person becomes your friend and needs your help? Drawn from real life conversations, Asylum Dialogues explores the everyday encounters between asylum seekers and British people, encouraging us to challenge our own preconceptions | |||||
Call Me Judas |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
| Company: | Paines Plough Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Crocodile Seeking Refuge |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | IceandFire | |||||
| 1st Published: | Aurora Metro Publications, | 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 | 3 |
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| Notes: | part of Writers' Block - a week of new work | |||||
| Synopsis: | the central story is that of an asylum lawyer whose dedication to her clients is wrecking her marriage. | |||||
I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | IceandFire | |||||
| 1st Published: | 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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| Notes: | Radio Adaptation: 2003, BBC World Service Drama; (Director Rishi Sankar). | |||||
| Synopsis: | Inspired by real life experiences of Rwandan refugees in the UK, the play tells the story of two people from entirely different worlds who meet at a Refugee centre in London. Juliette is a young Rwandan asylum seeker, determined to write a book on the genocide that killed her family; Simon is a middle-aged failing novelist, whose job is to help people write. The play follows their funny and touching relationship and tackles issues that face many refugees who live in the UK today | |||||
Jewish Daughter, The + Brecht's The Jewish Wife |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
| Company: | Lime Tree Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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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Now And At The Hour Of Our Death |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
| Company: | Trouble & Strife Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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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| Notes: | Time Out Drama Award | |||||
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On A Clear Day You Can See Dover |
| 1st Produced: | 28 Jul 2010 | |||||
| Company: | IceandFire | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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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| Synopsis: | How do you catch a conscience? Is the play the thing? Ice & Fire is a company dedicated to exactly this raising awareness of human rights issues through verbatim theatre. Founder and scriptwriter Sonja Linden exposed on Wednesday night, in a superb and moving one-off dramatisation, the plight of asylum-seekers in Calais, and their absolute and often misplaced faith in England, the promised land. The white cliffs of Dover, on a clear day, can be glimpsed from Calais, symbolic as any rainbow. Kate Kellaway, Observer | |||||
Present Continuous |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | Trouble & Strife Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sanyusha Press, | 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 | - | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | Fringe First Award. BBC Radio 4, 1985 | |||||
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Strange Passenger, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Bottled Notes from Underground LOKI Books, | 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 | |||||
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Welcome To Ramallah |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | iceandfire and York Theatre Royal | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 |
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| Notes: | by Sonja Linden and Adah Kay | |||||
| Synopsis: | It's late afternoon when a Jewish woman arrives at her sisters' home in the occupied city of Ramallah. Dusk settles and with the call to prayer come neighbours, an uncle and nephew, to greet the new arrival. As night falls an unexpected curfew prompts the sharing of old stories that threaten to tear apart the fragile harmony of the sisters' memories. | |||||