NINA RAPI
| Nationality: | Greek British |
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Plays by Nina Rapi
Angelstate |
| 1st Produced: | Betsey's Salon (short version) | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Arts Council of England | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | non-naturalistic | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Angelstate was awarded a Theatre Writing Bursary by the Arts Council of England 1998; and a London Writers prize for its extract CONFESSION 1999. 'There's a very distinct and brilliantly unsettling world in both of these plays (Edgewise and Angelstate) - | ||||
Synopsis: A meditation on loss, guilt and the memory of love. | ||||
Critical Moments |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly Theatre | 1999 | ||
| Company: | Womens' Theatre Workshop | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | three stylised shorts for the theatre | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Three short plays inter-connected by the themes of love, loss and desire | ||||
Dance Of Guns |
| 1st Produced: | Jackson's Lane Theatre, London | 1992 | ||
| Company: | Broadsword T.C | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | social realism | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: The play was commissioned by Broadsword T.C. and had a London Tour, including Oval House Theatre, Kings Head theatre, colleges and community centres. Quotes on Dance of Guns: ". . .pertinent. . .excellently staged. . .really moving." Cherry Smyth, CITY LIMITS, | ||||
Synopsis: A play about conflicting loyalties in a family of women during the Greek Civil War. | ||||
Dangerous Oasis |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | Lunar T.C | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: The play was commissioned by Lunar T.C. and performed as part of the Award Winning Women's Work Season, 1993. Quotes on Dangerous Oasis: " . . .inspirational." Michael Billington, THE GUARDIAN, 1993. " . . .sensitive. . .powerful. . . excellent. . ." Carole Woddis, | ||||
Synopsis: A monologue exploring the passionate, nomadic life of cross-dressing adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt. | ||||
Dream House |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| Company: | Aspect T.C. | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | non-naturalistic theatre play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Dreamhouse was commissioned by Aspect T.C. It was N.R.'s first production of a full-length play. Quotes on Dreamhouse: " The play unravels with the compulsive integrity of a Greek tragedy." Cherry Smyth, CITY LIMITS, 1991. " atmospheric and economical, h | ||||
Synopsis: Three sisters and their mother live in a state of perpetual childhood. Messenger is their only contact with the outside world.A play about secrets, dreams and the power of androgyny. | ||||
Edgewise |
| 1st Produced: | Gate Theatre & TheatreLab (staged reading) | 2003 | ||
| Company: | TheatreLab | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Urban Realism | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Edgewise had a writers' reading at Battersea Arts Centre, 1996; it was also selected for Eros Theatrou, I.T.I. & I.W.P.F. 2000; also Edgewise was to be the first play of a trilogy on the theme of borders, in a proposal N.R. was asked to put forward to the | ||||
Synopsis: Families are where you get pushed to the edge. . .Manos returns home after 7 years of immigration in the States. Home is a small border town in the North of Greece. He wants, at 29, to leave behind him a life of law-breaking and alienation. He wants to belong and 'make good'. His sister, Daphne, however and his brother Elias have other plans. His mother, father and his father's sister, a 'seer', watch on seeing nothing until their world collides with the force of trying to escape the inescapable. | ||||
Gentle Persuasion |
| 1st Produced: | - | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | SubVerse, short play | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A young peace activist is being interrogated for⬦what exactly? - Inspired by the Tali Fahima case | ||||
Ithaka |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
| Company: | Women's Theatre Workshop | |||
| 1st Published: | in Seven Plays by Women, Aurora Metro, 1991, winner of the Raymond Williams Award | - | ||
| 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: | non-naturalistic theatre play | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Ithaka was the first play N.R. wrote. The play was successfully produced at the University of Reading, 1995. Quotes on ITHAKA. "theatrically inventive, often surreal, witty and funny. . ." David Hunter, literary manager, Bush Theatre, 1990. " . . .strong dia | ||||
Synopsis: A young woman's quest for love and freedom. . . | ||||
Johnny Is Dead |
| 1st Produced: | ETC theatre | 1990 | ||
| Company: | London First One Person Play Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Quotes: ON JOHNNY IS DEAD "A powerful and inspiring play in search of freedoms long forgotten. " PARIKIAKI Newspaper, 1991. "Nina Rapi has succeeded in creating a female character, whose despair makes her oscillate between silent containment and manic beh | ||||
Synopsis: Hara keeps setting dinner for two, even though her womaniser and bully of a husband has long since died. She's got some standing up to do before she can 'knife him' out of his omnipresence. | ||||
Josie's Restrooms |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | Mardi Gras Arts Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica, ed. Rose Collis, Robinson | 2000 | ||
| 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: | Monologue - dark comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A rough trade performance piece with its tongue in all the right places. . . Josie is a toilet attendant with a bruised past and grand ideas for a bright future. . .where fantasy and reality collide. | ||||
Lovers |
| 1st Produced: | Gielgud Theatre, West End Shorts | 2001 | ||
| Company: | London New Play Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | extract published in Dummy Magazine | 1999 | ||
| 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: | Urban Realism | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Lovers' full-length version was a top finalist at the FuturePerfect competition 2000, 'hotly debated to be a winner' according to the judges, and was given a rehearsed reading at the Three Mills Studio as a result. | ||||
Synopsis: A stylised take on an intense sexual relationship between two women. A play about lovers as enemies, friends as family, family as friends. | ||||
No Trouble |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | Soho Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | theatre play - dark comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: No Trouble was developed with a bursary and dramaturgy from Soho Theatre, London 2001. This play is N.R's only unfinished play | ||||
Synopsis: Thanos Katou is preparing to stand for the next elections as a Mayor in his small, border town in the North of Greece. The 'Albanian invasion' is a big issue. His agenda is to control this wave, while staying humanitarian. His headstrong daughter Tasia, throws everything in the air by starting a relationship with Arif, an illegal immigrant Albanian. Drastic measures are required. | ||||
Pain(ting) With Colour |
| 1st Produced: | Warwick Arts Centre | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Boundless T.C. | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Dance Performance with text | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: This production was the result of a long collaboration with the company. Ideas were initially exchanged to establish common themes. N.R. then provided text, the company improvised on it and created scenes. These scenes inspired further text, which in turn | ||||
Synopsis: A dance-performance with text and music, exploring sexual dynamics in homo/hetero/bi permutations in all their intensity, ambiguity and obsession. | ||||
Stella |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - J Kabanellis. STELLA was written in 1954 for Melina Merkouri, as a play. Instead of a play production though, a film was created instead. The film became a 'cult classic'. The play was only performed for the first time in Greece, in t | ||||
Synopsis: A play about Stella, a moody bar singer, a dreamer and a free spirit, and her nemesis Miltos. . .a passionate and tightly structured melodrama in Tenessee Williams vein, where classic masculinity and femininity collide with tragic consequences | ||||
Tricky |
| 1st Produced: | Tart Gallery | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Salon Shorts | |||
| 1st Published: | New Monologues for Women, ed. Haring-Smith & Engelman, Heinemann | 2005 | ||
| 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: | monologue - dark comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Blue is trying to escape her obsessive lover who follows her everywhere, only she is obsessed with her herself. . . Who is stalking whom? | ||||