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Simon Vinnicombe

SIMON VINNICOMBE  

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Playwright Simon Vinnicombe was a Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Finborough Theatre. Previous plays produced at the Finborough Theatre include Cradle Me and Year 10. He won a Peggy Ramsay Pearson Award in 2010 and was a member of the BBC Continuing Drama Writers Academy. Theatre includes Untitled (Brit School commission), Wisdom (Manhattan Theatre Club), Turf (Bush Theatre), The Old Vic 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic), A Night with the Apathists (Union Theatre) and Wilde Tales (Southwark Playhouse). Radio includes Mary Cherry and Hard Road (both for BBC Radio 4).

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 City Love         Cradle Me         Make Me A Martyr         Night With The Apathists, A         Wilde Tales         Wisdom         Year 10

City Love

Synopsis:
Lucy and Jim are alone. To the world they seem to be doing all right: they have jobs, friends, ambitions (well sort of). But inside they are drowning. Until their chance meeting on a London night bus leads to a desperate search for redemption, each through the other. Inevitably, though, their hopes for salvation are dashed as deep-rooted insecurities rise to the surface. An unflinching look at the opposing human needs for companionship and self-destruction. Sharp observations transform the mundane into the epic, and this grim, witty and agonizingly accurate text will pierce the heart of anyone who has ever been in love.

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Vibrant 2012  A Festival of Finborough Playwrights

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Cradle Me

Simon Vinnicombe
In the aftermath of an unspeakable yet avoidable tragedy, a family finds themselves torn apart by grief and turning for comfort to Daniel, the troubled teenage boy who lives next door. Having experienced their tragedy first hand, Daniel shares in their grief in a way that creates an individual bond with each member of the family. However, it is Marion, the dead boy's mother, who expresses her grief through Daniel in a way that will ultimately lead both he and her family on a path that will irrevocably alter the course of their lives forever.

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Methuen Drama    9781408112335

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Make Me A Martyr

Synopsis:
"Have you ever thought that having cancer might be quite good?. . .You could be brave. . .Or dignified. . .You could be something". Zuel's just a normal kid from Mile End - desperately trying to find his place in the world. When charismatic Wasim takes him under his wing and offers him a sense of belonging, events are set in motion that can only end in tragedy. . .

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100 min Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Night With The Apathists, A

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part of ShorTheatre Companyuts 2006

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Short play One Act

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Wilde Tales

Synopsis:
Wilde's sly subversive wit enlivens his plays, but when it came to writing fairy tales for adults he reverted to Victorian morality and sentimentality.

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Adaptations of stories by Oscar Wilde

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Southwark Playhouse, London    2005

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Key Productions

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Adaptation

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Wisdom

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part of the Ernst C. Stiefel 7@7 Reading Series

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Year 10

Simon Vinnicombe
I walk to parks and stare into space. . .just stand there and sometimes I cry, so much that I feel I might not ever stop - I stand in the parks with all the fruit bowls, drinking Special Brew and talking to themselves, I'm like a disappointed old man and I'm fifteen years old - . In the suburbs of south London, Jack moves to a new school where he is confronted by aggression, violence and anger. He dreams that time would speed up and hurry by, but then he meets Jamie. And suddenly she makes him wish time could just slow down and stop. An emotionally-charged, bruising yet tender story of the journey of a year in the life of a fifteen year old boy.

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Methuen Drama    9780413775436

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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