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Sasha Dugdale

SASHA DUGDALE

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Judy Daish Associates Ltd  

Sasha Dugdale was born in Sussex. Between 1995 and 2000 she worked for the British Council in Russia, where she set up the Russian New Writing Project with the Royal Court Theatre. She currently works as a translator and consultant for the Royal Court and other theatre companies. Many of her translations have been staged, one of which, Plasticine by Vassily Sigarev, won the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. She has published two collections of translations of Russian poetry and, with Carcanet, three collections of her own poetry, Notebook (2003), The Estate (2007) and Red House (2011). In 2003 she received an Eric Gregory Award.

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         (in search of) Tomorrow - This Elephant Speaks Ukrainian         Ahasverus         Beyond the Track         Black Milk         Bullet Collector, The         Emigrants         Galka Motalka         Grain Store, The         Harvest, The         How I Ate A Dog         July         Khomenko Family Chronicles, The         Ladybird         Oxygen         Pacific Island         Plasticine         Playing the Victim         Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha         Terrorism         U         We Shall Overcome

(in search of) Tomorrow - This Elephant Speaks Ukrainian

Synopsis:
Despite running for under half an hour, it manages to be a state of the nation play and also present a tender view of the complicated life of Lesley Hart's Olya, a divorcee with a young daughter.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Natalya Vorozhbit

1st Produced:
[script in hand] Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival     19 Aug 2015

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
translation 30 min

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ahasverus

Synopsis:
a drunken homecoming party spins out of control with heartbreaking consequences

Notes:
Original Playwright - Vassily Sigarev

1st Produced:
Play Reading At Attic Theatre, Cox's Yard, Stratford-Upon-Avon     2009

Organisations:
RSC

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

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Beyond the Track

Synopsis:
In this cinematic epic, a family tragedy forces five year old alina to live near a disused railway line with her aunt Irma.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Yaroslava Pulinovich

1st Produced:
Play Reading At Attic Theatre, Cox's Yard, Stratford-Upon-Avon     2009

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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Black Milk

Black Milk
offers another worm's eye view of post-Communist Russia as seen from the bottom of the heap. the setting is a remote railway station in a remote part of the 'Boundless Motherland'. Stranded there are a young spiv, selling overpriced toasters to the local peasantry, and his heavily pregnant wife. they don't like the place, they don't like the people, and they don't much like each other. . .

Notes:
Original Playwright - Vassily Sigarev

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2003   978-1854597304

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Bullet Collector, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Yury Klavdiev

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Genre:
Translation

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Emigrants

Synopsis:
Russian emigres in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Roma is at work in his hair salon. His Father is making a matchstick model of the Kremlin. Anna and Mark are rehearsing for a concert. Then they hear the news - Russia has disappeared there is only a huge hole where it once was

Notes:
Original Playwright - Pavel Pryazhko

1st Produced:
U S Tour     2013

Organisations:
Actors Touring Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

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Galka Motalka

Synopsis:
at an olympic training academy in an eastern-european Republic, Galka-Motalka is the new girl. She soon learns that athletes are different from ordinary school kids and they will do anything to get ahead.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Natalya Vorozhbit

1st Produced:

Organisations:
a collaboration between Manchester School of Theatre & the Royal exchange

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Grain Store, The

Grain Store, The
Ukraine 1929. as Stalin launches the first of his Five-Year Plans, a closeknit rural community stands unwittingly in the path of his drive to create a thriving socialist Soviet Union. the outcome is catastrophic. What begins for the people of the village as an amusingly alien concept rapidly becomes an unstoppable force for change. Robbed first of their land, then their religion and independence, the whole country soon becomes engulfed by a tragedy that will scar a nation for generations.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Natalya Vorozhbit

1st Produced:

Organisations:
RSC

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  16            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Harvest, The

Synopsis:
It's harvest season and egor, Valerii, Ira and Lubya are picking apples and packing them into boxes for cash. It's easy money, out in the open and really cool actually. I mean, how hard can picking apples be, right? Yeah, everything's going to be cool

Notes:
Original Playwright - Pavel Pryazhko

1st Produced:

Organisations:
eastern EURopean Readings

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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How I Ate A Dog

Synopsis:
a monologue about life in the Russian Navy and the best way to cook a dog.

Notes:
Original Playwright - evgeny Grishkovets (Russia)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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July

Synopsis:
a disturbing and poetic journey into the mind of a psychopathic killer by one of Russia's leading playwrights

Notes:
Original Playwright - Ivan Vyrypaev

1st Produced:
Play Reading At Attic Theatre, Cox's Yard, Stratford-Upon-Avon     2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Khomenko Family Chronicles, The

Khomenko Family Chronicles, The
takes us to the Ukraine for Natalia Vorozhbit's lighthearted and touching family portrait pitched against the darker milestones of global history. as Lyosha lies in hospital counting the days to his next birthday, his parents relate stories about the world outside and from their family histories. Stories marked by signicant dates, 26 April 1986 and 11 September 2001

Notes:
Original Playwright - Natalya Vorozhbit

1st Produced:

Organisations:
International Playwrights: a Genesis Project

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>    978-1840028089

Music:
-

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Genre:
translation One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1g

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Ladybird

Ladybird
Waters' focal figure is Geoff Fallon: an MeP fighting to draw attention to the plight of the survivors of a civil war, between the Muntu majority and the Kanga minority, in the fictional African state of Irundi. But Fallon's battle against Brussels bureaucracy is intercut with his experiences as an idealistic young teacher working in Irundi under the patronage of a local Muntu farmer, Jean Kiyabe. the Guardian

Notes:
Original Playwright - Vassily Sigarev

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2004   978-18545978-85

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Oxygen

Synopsis:
This unique play, set in modern-day Russia, is essentially a live concept album; the audience is guided through the evening by an onstage DJ. there are ten tracks - scenes that are constructed like prose songs. the story revolves around two lovers - Sasha and Sasha - dealing with their class differences, a murder, and their inextinguishable passion. the story is told by two actors who have their own history, and who repeatedly cross the traditional boundaries delineating character and narrator, public performer and private person.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Ivan Vyrypaev

1st Produced:
Capital Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th Street, Se Washington, Dc     07 May 2012

Organisations:
Taffety Punk

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  DJ

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Pacific Island

Synopsis:
a remote garrison in the Pacific Ocean begins to put on a play. Behind the scenes a love story develops which has horrific consequences

Notes:
Original Playwright - Alexander Arkhipov

1st Produced:
Play Reading At Attic Theatre, Cox's Yard, Stratford-Upon-Avon     2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Plasticine

Plasticine
In a faceless city in the depths of present-day Russia a young boy dies. Women in the street are drunk, fight and demand sex. the schoolboy Maksim makes his way through this urban hell, drawn into it one moment, repelled the next. His only retreat is into a private world moulded by himself, out of which springs a final act of reckless courage.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Vassily Sigarev

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2002   978-1854596901

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  doubling

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Playing the Victim

Playing the Victim
a young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. a particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat his owm

Notes:
Original Playwright - Presnyakov Brothers, the

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Told by an Idiot

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2003   978-1854597595

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha

Synopsis:
In a modest home on the outskirts of Kiev, Katya and Oksana are busy preparing a funeral meal for their beloved Sasha. A husband, a stepfather, an Army colonel. He was all these things until he dropped stone cold dead on the bathroom floor. But Sasha isn't going without a fight. His women need him. His country needs him. Now more than ever. He and the others must return; they must march again. They have a solemn oath to uphold. It's time for the sixth wave of mobilisation. Line up!

Notes:
Original Playwright - Natalya Vorozhbit

1st Produced:

Organisations:
A Play, A Pie and A Pint and the University of Edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play in translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Terrorism

Terrorism
Six scenes from urban life. Delayed passengers grumble about a bomb scare at the airport. a man and a woman commit adultery. Office workers bicker while one of their number quietly exits to hang herself. Two grannies in a playground complain about their menfolk and make fun of a man seated on the next bench. Policemen in their barracks scrap amongst themselves. the passengers on the plane finally prepare for take off. By the end we realise these apparently random scenes are in fact linked by an almost invisible thread, subtly indicating that we bear responsibility for one another even in our soulless urban limbo.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Presnyakov Brothers, the

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2003   978-1854597311

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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U

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Olga Mukhina

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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We Shall Overcome

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwrights - Presnyakov Brothers

1st Produced:
U K Tour     09 Mar 2002

Organisations:
Royal Court Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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