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Rosemary Jenkinson

ROSEMARY JENKINSON

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Rosemary Jenkinson is an ex-civil servant from Belfast who studied Medieval Literature at Durham University. Her collection of short stories, Contemporary Problems iS/os. 53 & 51, was published by Lagan Press in 2004. Her previous writing experience includes numerous short stories that have won the Northern Short Story Competition and the Black Hill Books Short Story Competition. Her stories have been published in Cutting the Skin: an anthology of iS/ew Irish Writing, the Sunday Tribune (short listed for the Hennessey award) and the Fish anthology as editor's Choice. Her poetry has been published in Lonely Poets' Guide to Belfast.

Research:    http://www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=11363

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         Basra Boy         Bonefire, The         Bruised         Cars         Come to Where I am From         Cuchullain         Dealer Of Ballynafeigh, The         Fourplay         Johnny Meister And the Stitch         Meeting Miss Ireland         Outcast         Planet Belfast         Spinning the Times         Stella Morgan         White Star Of the North         Winners, The

Basra Boy

Synopsis:
Speedy and Stig have been best friends since their first sling shots, but now Stig wants to leave Speedy's dead-end street fights to fight in Basra. Rosemary Jenkinson's darkly comic new play looks at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and their impact on the streets of Belfast. Josh Sticklin stars in this one-man tour de force by one of Ireland's most exciting playwrights.
- dctheatrescene.com

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1st Produced:
Church Street Theater, 1742 Church St, Washington, DC    40575

Organisations:
the Keegan Theatre

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69 min Play/Drama

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Bonefire, The

Synopsis:
across Belfast, the Loyalist community is steadying itself for the orgiastic drug-fest that is the sacred and glorious Twelfth ofJuly. as 'the Boney' looms larger day by day, UDa wannabes are drawn like moths to a flame. Up in the flats, hardman Tommy thinks Leanne is more like his ma than his sister, but in her head Leanne is anything but maternal. and when Tommy's pal Davey arrives with a mysterious new woman, it only takes a spark to ignite the Bonefire.

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Organisations:
Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin

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Play/Drama

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Bruised

Synopsis:
Tinderbox is delighted to present Bruised, a gripping and highly original new play set in Northern Irelands near future. the play is a fast moving and challenging portrayal of ordinary men and women who face impossible decisions when everything they believed in suddenly seems to be crumbling. the year is 2068. Scientific progress is changing how we live and how we die. New discoveries about human memory are even threatening our sense of who we are.

Notes:
written by Maria Connolly, Stacey Gregg, Rosemary Jenkinson, And Maria McManus. Featuring live music from star composer / performer Ruby Colley, And starring Richard Clements, Maggie Cronin, Susan Crothers, Ruth Lehane And Jack Quinn

1st Produced:
Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, Ireland    39721

Organisations:
Tinderbox Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  doubling possible

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Cars

Synopsis:
a multi-sensory and multi-media perfomrance made up of a series of short plays on the theme of poverty

Notes:
part of 1 in 5. the title of the project is taken from official statistics estimating one in five people in Northern Ireland to be living in poverty.

1st Produced:
site-specific piece at Roe VAlley Hospital, site of the former Limavady Workhouse, Limavady, County Derry.    24 Nov 2011

Organisations:
Kabosh

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Genre:
short play

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Come to Where I am From

Synopsis:
Sixty one playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them. At 14 theatres from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays will be performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. Come To Where I'm From is a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home is really where the heart is.

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1st Produced:
Ransom Productions at the ISLAND Arts Centre, Lisburn, Antrim    26 Jun 2010

Organisations:
Paines Plough

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Genre:
short play

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Cuchullain

Synopsis:
Meet aaron, our Belfast hero who can't pay his drug dealer and won't get a soul numbing job - so he dares to take on the welfare state

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1st Produced:
Church Street Theatre, 1742 Church St NW, Washington, DC    09 Jun 2012

Organisations:
Keegan Theatre

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Genre:
80 min one act

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dealer Of Ballynafeigh, The

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finalist in the King's Cross Award for New Writing 2009

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Fourplay

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written by Stacey Gregg, Maria McManus, Rosemary Jenkinson And Maria Connolly

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Johnny Meister And the Stitch

Synopsis:
Two bad lads try to avoid each other, but it's not easy; after all, you have to show your face. Brutal Belfast tragedy.

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1st Produced:
the Mac, Hurst House, 15-19 Corporation Square, Belfast BT13aJ, Co. antrim    25 Nov 2008

Organisations:
Jigsaw Theatre Productions

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Meeting Miss Ireland

Meeting Miss Ireland
Kathy Ireland is desperate to find a man - and to lose her pot-dealing brother.

Notes:
part of the Fairer Sex play-readings

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Genre:
short romance

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Outcast

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Verity Bargate Award Shortlist, 2007

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Planet Belfast

Planet Belfast
about a woman named Alice  Stormont's only Green MLA who must toe a delicate line between large, sectarian power bases in order to promote an environmental agenda in Northern Ireland. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contemporary-irish-plays-9781472576682/#sthash.ReWsxrWZ.dpuf

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1st Produced:
Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC), Belfast    19 Feb 2013

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Spinning the Times

Synopsis:
When a Palestinian luthier, a London songwriter, a time traveler, a troubled teen, and a New Yorker dream of music, escape, and home, they are drawn together by the global media, even as their communities and lives are shattered by the events it depicts. a play for five voices by five acclaimed Irish playwrights, Spinning the Times is a tapestry of five short plays woven from articles in the New York press.
- press release

Notes:
written by Geraldine Aron, Lucy Caldwell, Rosalind Haslett, Rosemary Jenkinson, Belinda McKeon

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Genre:
short plays

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Stella Morgan

Synopsis:
Rosemary Jenkinson. Set in moden day Belfast, the play examines the lives of two outsiders through intermingling monologues - an Irish fortune teller and her drug dealing son.

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Organisations:
Keegan Theatre's New Island Project

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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White Star Of the North

Synopsis:
1912. the most famous year in Belfasts history, the year of the Titanic and the Ulster Covenant. In a lower middle class house in Belfast, the Protestant Massey family, father, son and daughter, are torn apart by fears of Home Rule in Ireland and religious discrimination. against this troubled backdrop, two of the Massey family set out to start new lives in America, the land of civil and religious freedom, and of infinite opportunity. the ship they sail upon is the Titanic. On that fateful night, Crawford Massey acts in a way that will impact on the rest of his life. . . This poignant new play looks at the political tensions that drove us to emigration and blows apart the myth of heroism on the Titanic. In a strait-laced society that cares more for appearances and allegiances and laws than it does for the truth, survival becomes everything.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  doubling

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Winners, The

Synopsis:
Eddie is depressed. He is in debt, the wolves are at the door and hes thinking of ending it all. If only he could win the lottery, that would solve all his problems. Or maybe he could just pretend hes won?

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1st Produced:
the Mac, Hurst House, 15-19 Corporation Square, Belfast BT13aJ, Co. antrim    01 Feb 2008

Organisations:
Ransom Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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