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Courttia Newland

COURTTIA NEWLAND

  (1973 - )
Nationality:    English
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Courttia Newland was born in 1973 and writes novels, short stories and plays. His first novel, the Scholar (1997), was soon followed by Society Within (1998), Snakeskin (2002) and the Dying Wish (2006). His short stories appear in many anthologies such as: Disco 2000, Vintage New Writers (1998), Afro Beat, Playing Sidney Poitier (1999), England Cal/mg (2001) and 'Whose Story' (the Times, 2006). His collection of short stories Music for the Off-Key was published in the same year. Courttia has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow (2003-4), and held writer-in-residencies for the British Council in both Dublin and Washington DC. He wrote many Dramas for the Post Office Theatre prior to B is for Black, which is included in this volume. Since this, his other plays include: Whistling Maggie (2005), Sweet Yam Kisses (2006) with Patricia Cumper and White Open Spaces (2006). He won the Royal Television Society Award for Education for his documentary Guns are Cool and was co-editor with Kadija George of /C3: An anthology of Black British Writing (2000).

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         B Is For Black         Estates of the Mind         Far Side, The         Look To the Sky         Manifesto         Mother and Child         Mother's Day         Question Of Courage, A         Sweet Yam Kisses         Trim Palace         Whistling Maggie         White Open Spaces         Women of Troy 2099
B Is For Black

Synopsis:
examines the fraught and complex relationships between individual, cultural and class identities

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1st Produced:
Oval House Theatre, London >>>     01 Oct 2003

Organisations:
Post Office Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Estates of the Mind

Synopsis:
A teenage girl and her mentally unstable boyfriend

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1st Produced:
Post Office Theatre, London     Jul 1998

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Far Side, The

Far Side, The
based on the aftermath of the Stephen Lawrence murder. A "Community" trial, bringing together the mothers of a dead black teenager and his supposed killer, and a racist white boy found innocent in court. It is chaired by a town councillor, who has, let us say, overstepped the boundry of this already misconceived set-up.
Jonathan Gibbs, Time Out

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Organisations:
Post Office Theatre, London

1st Published:
in Hidden Gems vol II edited by Deirdre Osborne, Oberon Books Ltd. (29 Sep 2012)   

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Genre:
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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Look To the Sky

Synopsis:
In an abandoned building a group of young people are forced to confront the very thing that scares them most. themselves. the mysterious and complicated culture of inner-city youth is exploded in this gripping new play, which breathes with a raw poetic language and a contemporary soundtrack. Part street vernacular, part theatrical tradition, at times harrowing and at others searingly true - this is a play about the world of the teenage mind. Novelist and writer Courttia Newland deploys an abstract, poetic narrative style to invigorate this physical and fast paced production.

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Genre:
TYA 60 min urban thriller

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Manifesto

Synopsis:
A group of young men debate the deficits and worth of Black Power

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1st Produced:
Bush Theatre, London    

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Monologue play

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Mother and Child

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Notes:
Performed as part of Lost & Found  Hackney Empires first short play festival

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Genre:
ten min play

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Mother's Day

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Question Of Courage, A

Synopsis:
in 2004 Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, asked if the countryside is guilty of a "passive apartheid". Pentabus, BBC Radio Drama and nine writers spent a week in Shropshire exploring this question. these plays are the result. . .

Notes:
part of White Open Spaces - seven plays About race And belonging in the countryside

1st Produced:
Courtyard Theatre, Hereford     2006

Organisations:
Pentabus Theatre

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Genre:
Short Monologue One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sweet Yam Kisses

Synopsis:
Portrayals of loving black adults are rare on the British stage. Media images dominated by the 'bling bling' culture of violence, discord and disrespect between heterosexual black couples are far more commonplace. Sweet Yam Kisses is a necessary response to the negative portrayal by mass media of 'black love'.

Notes:
written by Pat Cumper, Karena Johnson and Courttia Newland

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Organisations:
Kushite Theatre Company

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Trim Palace

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1st Produced:
Theatre 503, London    

Organisations:
2Heavy Company

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Drama

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Whistling Maggie

Synopsis:
Explosive political Drama with a child abusing Prime Minister's crimes being brushed under the political carpet.
Jonathan Gibbs, Time Out London

Notes:
Return

1st Produced:
Oval House Theatre, London >>>     14 Jun 2006

Organisations:
Post Office Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  extras

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White Open Spaces

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Women of Troy 2099

Synopsis:
A future global war

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1st Produced:
Post Office Theatre, London     31 Jul 1999

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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