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Elinor Cook

ELINOR COOK

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  (agent: Fay Davies)

Elinor Cook is a British playwright. A former senior reader at the Royal Court Theatre, she won the Old Vic New Voices Time Warner Ignite 3 competition and the 2013 George Devine Award.

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         Boy Preference, The         End Of the Alphabet, The         Girl's Guide To Saving The World, The         Greek Tragedy         Head Music         Image Of An Unknown Young Woman         Neither Have I Wings to Fly         Ten Weeks         This Is Where We Got To When You Came In         Toxic Love from Anna

Boy Preference, The

Boy Preference, The
Set in the near future where the birth of a baby boy is a cause for celebration and the birth of a girl is ignored, the play explores what happens when a group of young women with a strange glow around them suddenly appear. Are they the missing women?'

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National Theatre Connections

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  14            Female:  4            Other:  -

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End Of the Alphabet, The

End Of the Alphabet, The
the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the english language. the KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken english.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. the curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, Drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. the voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. all the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush theatre and Westminster abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient Arts of writing and spoken performance

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Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is A response to the King James Bible book of Zechariah

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849432276

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Girl's Guide To Saving The World, The

Synopsis:
Jane and Bella are best friends. They're starting a revolution. But they're falling out of step. Toby dreams of babies, buggies, and home improvement. But he can't even father his cat. And that boy keeps telling Jane to take what she wants. But what is that, exactly? Three thirty-somethings attempt to make sense of their own uncertain worlds. Even if it means losing sight of each other in the process. A frank and funny new play about friendship, feminism and what it means to be successful.

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Halesworth, The Cut Dance Studio     10 Apr 2014

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High Tide Festival Theatre

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90 min Play/Drama

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Greek Tragedy

Synopsis:
study of holiday romance with a wholly unexpected supernatural twist

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part of Word:Play 2

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Box of Tricks

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Genre:
15 min play

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Head Music

Synopsis:
Leah is a professional pianist finding it difficult to connect with music. When she plays, every note chimes with past regrets and thoughts of him. With music no longer the food of love, discordant harmonies abound in this comic, disordered love story.

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Box of Tricks

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short play

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Image Of An Unknown Young Woman

Image Of An Unknown Young Woman
She is a young woman in a yellow dress. She has been shot by the police. As a video goes viral, she quickly becomes an icon of resistance and a revolution begins to stir. Ali and Leyla are panicking - they uploaded the footage and now the authorities are after them. Across town, Yasmin is desperate to know if her missing mother is still alive. Halfway around the world, a woman in London wants to help. As a tornado of dissent and violence spreads, everyone's life is going to change.

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Nick Hern Books (4 Jun. 2015)   978-1848424883

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  chorus

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Neither Have I Wings to Fly

Synopsis:
A boat, a baby and a betrayal: three desperate people who'll do whatever it takes to escape a treacherous world.

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Ten Weeks

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Ten weeks, ten commandments, a ten million pound turnover. It's Week One of a dizzyingly popular crash course in Christianity. There's pizza, live music, lively debate and - sometimes - there's insurrection. A new play about faith, community and capitalism.

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Paines Plough

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This Is Where We Got To When You Came In

Synopsis:
allow your curiosity to lead you through the building that has been the home of the Bush for the last 39 years. Stolen kisses in the corner and furrowed brows on the fire escape - encounter the past and dance with the future - what will you take from this place, and what will you leave behind? Don't miss this interactive journey through the old Bush theatre, giving you the chance to take your last, or perhaps even first, steps around the building before the doors close after 4 decades of performances.

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non zero one

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site specific piece

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Toxic Love from Anna

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part of Word:play

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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