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NAOMI WALLACE (1960 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency (agent: Ron Gwiazda) |
Naomi Wallace's work has been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. Her major plays include One Flea Spare, In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Things of Dry Hours andThe Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East. Her work has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Kesselring Prize, Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award and an Obie. She is also a recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. Ms. Wallace's award-winning film Lawn Dogs is available on DVD and her new film, The War Boys (co-written with Bruce Mcleod) will be released in 2009.
Plays by Naomi Wallace
And I And Silence | ||
| 1st Produced: | Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED >>> | 10 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | Worn Red Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128189 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | And I And Silence received a reading in last year's Vibrant An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights. | |||||
| Two imprisoned young women, one African American and the other white, form a perilous bond. As they serve time they forge a plan for survival. They practice hard. If they dont get it right theyll lose everything: the outside world is even more dangerous to their friendship than the jail itself. Exploring the fierce dreams of youth and the brutal reality of adulthood in 1950's segregated America, And I and Silence is a dark, often humorous portrait of desire and daring. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 10 Page 505 | |||||
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Birdy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35970 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based On The Novel By William Wharton. Alan Parker's hit film adaptation was set during the United States' Vietnam War but Naomi Wallace's stage version returns to the novel's original Second World War setting | |||||
Synopsis: | Birdy is called Birdy because he adores pigeons (keeping a large collection in his bedroom) and wants to learn how to fly. When falls from a great height he's hardly hurt, and he and his best buddy Al could swear that just for a moment he hovered. In war-time some years later the adult Sergeant Al is brought to the military hospital where a shell-shocked Birdy refuses to speak or eat, adopting a strange crouching position and flapping his arms. His mission is to find the key that will unlock his childhood friend from his apparently disturbed condition, but as time goes by Al starts to wonder if under the circumstances Birdy is better off left as he is - in some sort of peace. | |||||
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Fever Chart, The: Three Versions of the Middle East | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003 >>> | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, USA | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-55936-337-2 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83786 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Three multifaceted works exploring the urgency and complexity of the Middle East's political landscape, through the voices and bodies of the people who inhabit it. In A State of Innocence (1f 2m), an Israeli soldier encounters a mysterious Palestinian woman in a dreamscape of the Rafah Zoo. Between this Breath and You (1f 2m) takes place in a clinic in West Jerusalem, where a Palestinian father, after the death of his son, confronts a young Israeli woman about the meaning of loss. In The Retreating World, an Iraqi bird collector tells of his conscription into Saddam's army and life in the aftermath of the surrender to US forces. | |||||
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Girl Who Fell Through A Hole In Her Jumper, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | London New Play Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35971 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 5 m/f | |||||
Notes: | written with Bruce McLeod | |||||
Synopsis: | In this witty adventure for young audiences by MacArthur "genius" award winner Naomi Wallace, a young girl called Noil finds herself in a strange new place, and must accomplish three and a half magical tasks before she can return home. Noil is clever and resourceful, and with some assistance from a singing narrator and a talking roach, she emerges from the hole in her sweater in time for breakfast | |||||
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Hard Weather Boating Party, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | 33rd Humana Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2009: The Complete Plays, Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113004 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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In The Fields Of Aceldama | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | London New Play Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Best Of The Fest, ed. Phil Setren, Aurora Metro Press, London, UK>>>, 06 Jun 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0951587782 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35972 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| A disturbing portrait of life on a mid-west American farm where Mattie and Henry and their 17-year old daughter Annie attempt to outdo each other in hurtfulness and humiliation | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In The Heart Of America | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - March, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35973 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Can love co-exist with a state of war? Remzi and Craver are soldiers serving in the Gulf. They worship each other's bodies when around them bodies are being destroyed. But after the end of the war, why does Remzi not return to Kentucky, and why have he and Craver been haunted by Boxler and Mae Ling, ghosts from another American battleground? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In The Sweat | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | BT New Connections | |||||
| 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 | #35974 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5 (age 17+) | |||||
Notes: | written by Naomi Wallace and Bruce McLeod; BT/National Connections | |||||
Synopsis: | an uncompromising play for young people, dealing with racism, homophobia and violence. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Inland Sea, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35975 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | We are in the early 1760s and Aquith Brown, younger brother of the famous landscaper, Capability, is trying to create the perfect view from a great house in Yorkshire. There is a village marring this and the villagers seem reluctant to move. A morality play about improving on Nature, THE INLAND SEA is about class, labour and sexuality. It features spirits both living and dead and uncovers a dark crime from the past. | |||||
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Manifesto | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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 | #35976 | |||
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Genre: | T(ext) Shirt Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Anyone can perform this play by an award-winning playwright simply by wearing the t-shirt upon which it is written | |||||
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No Such Cold Thing | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The great game: Afghanistan, Oberon Books, London (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781840029222 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97394 | |||
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Genre: | Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of a three month long festival about the culture and history of Afghanistan. Entitled The Great Game: Afghanistan. The festival will be divided into three parts, each focusing on a period of Afghan history: 1979 - 1996 : Communism, The Mujahideen And The Taliban | |||||
| The thirteenth play about Afghanistan played separately and this review is taken from the text. Naomi Wallace sees the tragedy of the country in human terms. Meena and Alya are teenaged sisters divided by conflict. Meena, at 15 two years the older, has travelled with her father to the West and left Mum and Sis behind. Their reunion is difficult due to the cultural divide, with each promoting what they know. It becomes something much deeper, partly through the catalyst of a US serviceman, Sergio, By an explosive and very moving ending their relationship becomes apparent, as does the pain that this war is causing on all sides. . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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One Flea Spare | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Bush Theatre Plays" Faber, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35977 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 girl | |||||
Notes: | US premiere in spring 1996 at the prestigious Humana Festival in Louisville. It received its New York premiere in March 1997 at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre | |||||
Synopsis: | Hilarious and deeply moving by turns, One Flea Spare is set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London where social roles and the boundaries that describe them have been into chaos. The definition of morality is up for grabs. History is being tantalised. And whilst the wealthy William Snelgrave dreams of sweating, swearing tars, and of how sailors satisfy their "baser instincts" so far away from female company, his own wife, untouched for 40 years, is discovering that her dreadfully burned body may not be numb after all. The human heart craves comfort, contact, tenderness; survival may take many forms | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 07 Page 347 | |||||
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One Short Sleepe | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9709046-8-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96620 | |||
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Notes: | Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays brings together all eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The seven full-length plays and four ten-minute plays represent an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre | |||||
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Retreating World, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840025668 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35978 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of "Two into War" | |||||
| I remember, I remember - everything we say these days begins with "I remember -".' An ex-Iraqi soldier pauses to share his humour, passion and wisdom on conflict - and pigeons! | |||||
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Slaughter City | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35979 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | U.S. Premiere at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge Massachusetts | |||||
Synopsis: | Lives, loves and heartbreaks amid the sweat, blood and gore of an American meat-packing factory | |||||
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Standard Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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| 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 | #35980 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Frustrated by elusive promises of the American dream - fast cars, brand names and easy money - a young man takes his destiny into his own hands | |||||
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State Of Innocence, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49914 | |||
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Genre: | 40 min Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | set in the bulldozed Palestinian zoo at Rafah and centering on a dialogue between agrieving Palestinian mother and a young Israeli soldier. | |||||
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T(ext) Shirt Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1999: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23433 | |||
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Notes: | with plays by David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, Jane Martin, Naomi Wallace, Wendy Wasserstein, and Mac Wellman. | |||||
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Things Of Dry Hours | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pittsburgh Public Theater, USA | 2004 | ||||
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 | #45925 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The play deals with poverty, calling forth hard-time lives during the Great Depression. People scramble and scrape for work. If they can find it. Running like a major thread through the characters' close connection, they must tangle with the theme of populist Marxism finding fertile ground at the point in history which the play calls forth. They must portray simple, not very articulate individuals who cannot debate major issues, yet who belong in that time and place. Overall not a promising situation. Two of those people are black, father and daughter Tice and Cali Hogan, way down on the bottom of that particular food chain. The other person with whom they reluctantly connect is a violence-prone young white man, Corbin Teel. Set in another steel town with vicious labor struggles, Birmingham, Alabama. There former factory hand, sometime churchifying preacher Tice also preaches the gospel according to Marx. His daughter Cali remains sour about all faiths and much else in life, men included, while she scrubs and purifies white peoples' dirty linen to eke out a clean living. They reluctantly open their door to Corbin, a fellow laborer, though no Marxist, seeking asylum after probably killing someone. He brings triple danger, being white, a fugitive and capable of more brutality. When refused sanctuary, Corbin threatens to reveal Tice's involvement with the movement at a time when Tice's life would thereby be in even greater peril. Consequently the three of them tensely remain together. And, eventually Corbin gently, openly hankers after Cali, despite her attempts to avoid him. - alternative newspaper PULP | |||||
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Trestle At Pope Lick Creek, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1998: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35981 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | British Professional Stage Premiere, Traverse 2001 | |||||
Synopsis: | High atop a railroad trestle that spans a bone dry creek, two teenagers plan to race across the bridge against an oncoming locomotive. At first their scheme adds excitement to life in a small factory town during the Great Depression, then sensual experience awakens dangerous passions in an era of stifled ambitions. With theatrical flourish and lyrical finesse, Naomi Wallace delves into a world where people struggle to change lives that bear down upon them | |||||
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Two Into War | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Menagerie Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35982 | |||
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Genre: | Two Monologues | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Gifts of War and The Retreating World | |||||
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War Boys, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "In The Heart Of America and Other Plays" published by Broadway Play Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35983 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Three young Texans spend their nights patrolling the Mexican border to earn $10 bounty for every Mexican they catch crossing it. Every night they swap boasts and banter. But on this evening, they each enter confessional mode, seeking a repeat performance of the night before, and they reveal themselves as deeply damaged | |||||
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