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Anna Ledwich

ANNA LEDWICH

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Anna Ledwich's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Crossing Lines         Dream Story         How does a Snake Shed its Skin?         Lulu
Crossing Lines

Synopsis:
When war is declared in 1914 the townspeople of a West Sussex city gather to send off the brave boys. 1939 they are doing it again. 2019 a new threat - people are uprooted boarders collapse. There is one route to safety and one means of finding out what is happening - the airwaves - but are they to be trusted?

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1st Produced:
Chichester Youth Festival    

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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dream Story

Synopsis:
Through a simple sexual admission, a husband and wife are driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge. their mutual confessions signal a surrendering to their most illicit fantasies, feeding an extraordinary and dangerous sexual awakening.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler

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Genre:
adaptation

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How does a Snake Shed its Skin?

Synopsis:
Margaret Thatcher is on a diet. Virginia Woolf is in a bucket. Marilyn Monroe is reading the dictionary. So what is this woman doing with her head in a filing cabinet? A show about definitions and diagnoses created from the diaries, letters and to-do lists of this peculiar trio. Written and performed by Susanna Hislop and directed by Anna Ledwich. Developed with support of BAC, Yard Theatre and National Theatre Studio. Masterful. . . Switches deftly between the tragic and comic' (Pick of the Fringe, Observer on Slip of Steel's first show).

Notes:
written by Susanna Hislop and Anna Ledwich

1st Produced:
Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival     01 Aug 2014

Organisations:
Slip of Steel / Susanna Hislop

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy, Physical theatre, 1 hour

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Lulu

Synopsis:
Initially banned for its perceived immorality, LULU follows the fortunes and ultimate tragedy of a young woman, a femme-fatale, who skips from one husband to the next leaving a trail of broken hearts and broken bodies in her wake.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Frank Wedekind

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Headlong

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
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