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Lucy Catherine

LUCY CATHERINE

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Julia Tyrell Management  represented by Julia Tyrell

Lucy has written extensively for stage, screen and radio since graduating with a degree in Experimental Theatre from Dartington College of Arts. She began her career as a playwright and is a former writer in residence at the Bristol Old Vic, where she also received a Pearson Television Writer's award. For television, Lucy has written an episode of Lucy Gannon's 6-parter for BBC1, FRANKIE. Also, episodes of CASUALTY and BEING HUMAN and has been commissioned to write a number of original series ideas for BBC in-house drama. Currently she has an original series in development with Kudos, Philippa Lowthorpe attached to direct. She has written extensively for BBC Radio 4 Drama, including Friday Plays, Classic Serial adaptations and Woman's Hour series. Her two part adaptation of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN for the network is to be broadcast in autumn 2012 as well as her half hour 'Gothic Horror'. Her first produced feature film, IN THE DARK HALF, was produced by ifeatures, Matador and BBC Films and premiered at Raindance in 2011. Lucy has a particular love of the horror genre. DON'T LOOK NOW is her favourite film of all time and she would love to meet Guillermo Del Toro. She shares her home with three children, a bulldog, a toy poodle and a talking parrot.

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below is a list of Lucy Catherine's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Sea Life         Tender Prayer, A         Three Short Breaths

Sea Life

Synopsis:
a play about death, coastal erosion and the bleak void within a person's soul. the story concerns three siblings who take the family disfunctionality to vertiginous heights.
Toby O'Connor Morse, Independant

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1st Produced:
Bristol Old Vic Studio    2000

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Tender Prayer, A

Synopsis:
Some things in life defy explanation. Like how the sight of a man in an Elvis suit singing "He ain't Heavy He's My Brother" in a Russian accent could reduce a world-weary critic to tears. for the first time in my life, I cried all the way home from the theatre - and I cannot tell you why. On the surface, a Tender Prayer appears to be nothing more than a nicely crafted little play, but beneath the surface there is a strange emotional alchemy. Jen and Travis have travelled the world, from Goa to Gothenburg. Now they are on a Russian train which maybe going to Novosibirsk or may - like their relationship - be going nowhere at all. as their love affair comes to an end, they are making one last train ride to divide up their communal assets. Not, like most couples, the CD collection and the anglepoise lamp, but the landmarks from their travels: the bars of Prague, the Santander ferry crossing, and Denmark they are interrupted by a progression of alternately morose and comical fellow-passengers), who drench the travellers in vodka and Russian melancholy. the play is about loss, and about letting go. By only sketchily hinting at the bleeding and unresolved wounds inJen and Travis's personal histories, Lucy Catherine strikes a far deeper chord than if she had lost herself in a graphic depiction of her characters' suffering. the audience cannot be simple voyeurs of others' misery; it is too intangible for that. Instead, they are gradually brought to hear the chord it strikes within anyone who has suffered loss and has carried on regardless.
Toby O'Connor Morse, Independent

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1st Produced:
New Vic, Bristol    2000

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Three Short Breaths

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1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    1998

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