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Grace Barnes

GRACE BARNES

  (1965 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Theatrical Rights Worldwide  

Director and playwright Grace spent most of her young life, from the age of 7, in Lerwick. Her written work includes: Auld Lang Syne, Traverse Theatre Company, Highland Shorts Season; Wave Me Goodbye, Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh; Lavender Blue, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh and Zander's Boat for Skeklers Theatre Company. Adaptations include Treasure Island for Pitlochry Festival Theatre, and Jackie Kay's Trumpet for Skeklers. For Lung Ha's Theatre Company, Grace wrote Fergus Steps Out. She contributed to Babylon Burning at Theatre Workshop. Her play Angels' Wings was part of the 2006/2007 A Play, A Pie and A Pint' season at Oran Mhor in Glasgow. Other work includes script for the musical Nevermore (2006), and Crossing (2009) at Signature Theatre, Washington DC.

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

         Angels Wings         Another Lovely War         Auld Lang Syne         Babylon Burning (Another Lovely War)         Bima And Bramati         Black Dove, The         Crossing         Fergus Steps Out         Highland Shorts         Lavender Blue         Nevermore         Oyster Wars         Red Priest, The         Treasure Island         Trumpet         Wave Me Goodbye         Zander's Boat
Angels Wings

Synopsis:
Mark is a barman in a posh St. Andrews hotel. He tells his friend Steve of an encounter with a grief stricken female guest

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short play

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Another Lovely War

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1st Produced:
Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh     2007

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Auld Lang Syne

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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh     1999

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Babylon Burning (Another Lovely War)

Synopsis:
attempts a panoramic history of the Iraq war to date.
Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

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devised by Robert Rae And co-written with Ghazi Hussein, Grace Barnes, Andrew Dallmeyer And Dick Barbor. Based on musical Oh What A Lovely War

1st Produced:
Edinburgh, Theatre Workshop     2006

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Community Piece

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Bima And Bramati

Synopsis:
Two accidental ward mates embark on an existential expedition. their goal - the window at the end of the corridor. their means - stolen sugarlumps and twisted imagination. they may be ageing amputees on life support machines, but what the hell; their future lies beyond the threshold. But how to cross it? a critical, political, philosophical, absurd comedy about existence, fear and the will to change

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Original Playwright - Tord Akerbaek. Produced in English At the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh, 2004

1st Produced:
Det Norske Teatret, Oslo     2003

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Det apne Teater

1st Published:
Transit aS, Oslo Border Crossings Publishing), 2004   

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  1m 1f in Fnglish version

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Black Dove, The

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Contained in: "Right On Cue" published by Collins Educational 1989   

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Crossing

Synopsis:
Crossing explores the interwoven stories of eight people from different decades of the past century who come together at a train station. Some are waiting for the train, others are waiting for visitors, a few are just. . .waiting. All of them are searching  for hopes and dreams, for new beginnings, for answers. As their stories are brought to musical life in the train station, the characters discover that, while every life is different, the journey is always the same. With music ranging from gospel to pop to rock, Crossing unites the musical eras through the souls who lived them.

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Book by Grace Barnes . Music and Lyrics by Matt Conner . Additional Lyrics by Grace Barnes

1st Produced:
Signature Theatre, 4200 Campbell AVenue, Arlington, Va     01 Nov 2013

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Genre:
musical 90 min one act

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Fergus Steps Out

Synopsis:
10/664

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written by Clark Crystal And Grace Barnes

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Lung Ha's Theatre Company

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Genre:
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Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Highland Shorts

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George Gunn, Marjory Callander, Duncan McLean, Grace Barnes, Iain F Macleod, Gordon Urquhart, Carol I Walker

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Traverse Publishing, 1999   

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Genre:
Shorts One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lavender Blue

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Nevermore

Synopsis:
Lyrics adapted from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Take a dark and mysterious journey into the life of Edgar Allan Poe. This imaginative musical uses Poe's poetry and short stories as its base and his shifting obsession with the women in his life as its catalyst. With hauntingly beautiful melodies, Nevermore breathes new life into Poe's work and explores a twisted true-life tale that is as bizarre as his classic stories of the macabre.

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Music by Matt Connor; book by Grace Barnes

1st Produced:
Signature Theatre, Arlington     2006

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
apply for a license: www.theatricalrights.com/contact-us/

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Oyster Wars

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North Edinburgh Arts Centre     25 Jun 1905

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Community project 

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Red Priest, The

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workshop/reading at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow     2005

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Treasure Island

Synopsis:
Piracy comes in many forms, especially when good and useful subjects of the realm are blinded by doubloon signs. Lust for gold and the evil that lurks in men's heart - be they doctors, squires, captains or cooks - form the framework of this adaptation.

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from novel by RL Stevenson

1st Produced:
Pitlochry     2005

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Genre:
adaptation

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Trumpet

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Based on the novel "Trumpet" by Jackie Kay

1st Produced:
UK tour     2005

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Skeklers Theatre Company

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Wave Me Goodbye

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1st Produced:
Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh     2001

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Zander's Boat

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Skeklers Theatre Company

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