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LISA NICOLL (1977 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Both an actress and writer, Lisa trained at Glasgow's prestigious RSAMD in Contemporary Theatre and then at East 15 Acting School, London where she completed an MA in Acting for TV, Radio & Film. Since graduating she has worked on a variety of productions as an actress including CBBC's Balamory and the 10th anniversary UK tour of Trainspotting. As a writer Acceptance was Lisa's first performed play. The play toured Scotland in 2008 and was also performed at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. From the success of the play Lisa was asked to write the diaries about the main character of Scarlet which were published in The Metro Newspaper for ten weeks. She was also then commissioned to write a follow up play Maybe This Time I'll Dance which was performed in Dundee, Perth and Angus. In 2009 The Playwrights' Studio of Scotland awarded Lisa a place on their mentoring Scheme where she is working with Playwright Tanika Gupta on a new play Guilty Truths which will be produced later in the year. During 2008 and 2009 she has also had 5 short plays read at The Traverse Theatre Edinburgh. In June 2009 Lisa's play Daisies was performed at The Centre of Contemporary Arts in Glasgow directed by Arches Theatre Award Winner Sacha Kyle. The quality of Nicoll's writing is striking, simple and emotional without cliche, and with moments of unobtrusive poetry. The Scotsman about Daisies. She is currently working at Castle Huntly Open Prison writing a play with inmates and also has been commissioned to write two plays for young people for The Princes Trust.
Plays by Lisa Nicoll
Acceptance | ||
| 1st Produced: | QGallery Glasgow | Dec 2007 | ||||
Company: | Scottish Tour and Edinburgh Festival | |||||
| 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 | #103152 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One Woman Play - Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Scarlet, 30, since the age of 15 has spent her life trying to fit in and be liked and loved by others - friends, family and men. Pressured by her need to be popular and fit into her surroundings she finds the easiest way to make herself feel confident, strong, chatty and liked is to go out and have a drink. She believes that going out and drinking nearly every night of the week is the way to make her happy and find the man of her dreams. However in reality her health, relationships and self respect are all suffering at the hands of her romantic myths and her wanting to find love and be accepted. She turns up late for work. She spends some mornings being sick on the toilet floor. She has sex with men she shouldn't. Loving texts are sent to men she should not be texting. Some nights she cannot remember getting home. Other nights she is sick in taxis. Finally one night Scarlet ends up so drunk on a street after a night out, that a man who is a complete stranger looks in her bag, finds her address and takes her home. . . | |||||
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Daisies | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #98201 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Written in two poetical interspersed monologues, Daisies follows a couple's relationship and the changes that take place when they have to deal with the much wanted conception, pregnancy, birth and then unexpected death of a newly born child. The play explores how the dreams and wishes of having the perfect family do not always go as planned. | |||||
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Home Run | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL, Scotland >>> | 01 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #132357 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | one woman play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sometimes you have to go back to where it all started to know the truth. . .Lucy sits and waits for her Dad to pick her up. Shes been away from everything for six months. Now shes going home home to where it all began. Sometimes, the way you remember things isnt always the way is actually was. Home Run is a one-woman play about hopes and dreams, letting go, moving forward and taking responsibility. Based on true stories, Nicolls strong narrative captures the everyday balance between humour and hard hitting emotional conflicts. | |||||
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TEN | ||
| 1st Produced: | 15 Nov 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #109248 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
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Notes: | part of a celebration of ten new theatre voices. Ten new ten-minute plays from ten emerging playwrights; all past participants of the Traverse writing workshops or Words, Words, Words. | |||||
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