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Lucy Caldwell

LUCY CALDWELL

  (1981 - )
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    TROIKA  represented by Harriet Pennington Legh

Lucy's first play the RIVeR won her the PMa award for Most Promising Playwright in 2005. In 2007 her play LeaVeS was produced by the Druid Theatre, Galway and the Royal Court Theatre and directed by Garry Hynes. LeaVeS won her the George Devine award in 2006 for Most Promising Playwright, the 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn award and the 2008 BBC Stewart Parker award.. In 2009 her play GUaRDIaNS was produced at the Hightide Festival, directed by Natalie abrahami. Other Theatre credits include the LUTHIeR (Origin Theater Company, New York) in 2009, BOG PeOPLe (Big Telly Theatre Company - Irish tour) in 2006 and CaRNIVaL (Kabosh Theatre Company - Belfast festival) in 2008. Lucy also writes for radio and has had two original radio plays produced by Heather Larmour and transmitted on BBC Radio 4: GIRL FROM MaRS (2008) and aVeNUeS OF eTeRNaL PeaCe (2009). For GIRL FROM MaRS Lucy won the Irish Guild award for Best Radio Play in 2008 and most recently the Richard Imison award in 2009. Currently, Lucy is under commission to write a play, LITaNIeS, for the Royal Court Theatre which will be for their Downstairs Theatre. Birmingham Repertory will produce Lucy's new play, NOTeS TO FUTURe SeLF, in March 2011 followed by a small-scale National tour. Lucy is also a novelist. Her first novel WHeRe theY WeRe MISSeD was published in 2006 and her second novel, the MeeTING POINT is being published by Faber & Faber February 2010. She was shortlisted for the 2006 Dylan Thomas award.

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

         Bog People         Carnival         Guardians         Leaves         Notes To Future Self         River, The         Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard         Spinning the Times

Bog People

Synopsis:
Inspired by the poetry of Seamus Heaney. Bog People is a haunting, evocative sequence of stories about love, violence, mystery and memory. Linked by landscape, the stories are set on a particularly significant piece of Bogland over several different time periods, and the audience becomes detective, piecing together the fragments of the past. Don't miss this unique theatrical experience bringing together Big Telly's reputation for dynamic, contemporary Irish Classics.

Notes:
written by Lucy Caldwell, Nicola McCartney And Francis Turnly

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Big Telly Theatre Company

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Carnival

Synopsis:
an essay inspired by newspaper reports of the plight of starving Balkan illegals, brutalised by destitute racist Romas in a poor circus which is dying the death in rural Italy.
- Ian Hill, British theatre Guide

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1st Produced:
Part Of The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival At Queen's Spiegeltent, Custom House Square, Belfast    24 Nov 2008

Organisations:
Kabosh Productions

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Guardians

Synopsis:
shows how young love can go disastrously wrong

Notes:
second in A Belfast Trilogy that began with Leaves

1st Produced:
Halesworth, Cut    29 Apr 2009

Organisations:
High Tide Festival

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Leaves

Leaves
after attempting suicide during her first term at university, Lori has come back home. Her parents can't fathom what has caused the sudden change in their daughter, and her two young sisters are confused by their feelings of abandonment and betrayal. a poignant family Drama, LeaVeS displays Lucy Caldwell's gift for keenly sensitive observation.

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subsequent production At royal court. Winner of the George Devine Award At the Royal Court

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Druid, Galway

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Notes To Future Self

Notes To Future Self
Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New age movement and the girls have been raised in Goa, San Francisco and Morroco at a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves. then one day Sophie gets ill and the family has to return to Birmingham. Sophie and Calliope are introduced to a strange new world where meditation and tree-hugging are replaced with Maths homework and television. theyre also introduced to Daphne: the grandmother that the girls have never met. and its against this bewildering new backdrop  the normality shes always longed for  that Sophie must come to terms with her own mortality.

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1st Produced:
The Rep @ Mac, Birmingham    03 Mar 2011

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River, The

Synopsis:
This production follows the story of Rose - a young girl who is forced to confront two very different images of her father. She knows him as a man who has a sexual appetite for young women but she remembers him from her childhood as the benevolent teller of fairy stories. then when his teenage lover dies, and ambiguity surrounds his involvement, Rose is torn between the man she remembers and the man she sees before her.

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1st Produced:
Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, Glamorgan    13 Sep 2004

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Ruth is Stranger Than Richard

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Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard

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Two people playing the game and losing it. . .a brief encounter with a stolen credit card. . .a missing cat. . .a woman obsessed with her fish. . .This first event by a new theatre company brings together short plays written by Cardiff based Lucy Caldwell, angharad elen, Viki Holmes Jane Houston and Bethan Lewis. Five pieces of varied length and focus are performed every night in settings that stretch from an isolated cottage in Norway to the streets of Newport.

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written by Lucy Caldwell, Angharad elen, Viki Holmes, Jane Houston And Bethan Lewis

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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

1st Produced:
59e59 theaters, NY, USA >>>    06 Sep 2009

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