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E V Crowe

E V CROWE

  (1980 - )
Nationality:    British
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Giles Smart

E. V (Emma) Crowe's new play, HERO was developed with the support of the NT Studio and Schauspiel in Frankfurt. thereafter, another new play of hers, LIAR, LIAR, will open at the Unicorn Theatre at the end of January 2013. She made her Royal Court debut in 2010 with KIN (also directed by Jeremy Herrin), and was shortlisted for the Most Promising Playwright at the evening Standard Theatre Awards. Credits elsewhere include YOUNG PReTeNDeR, produced by nabokov at the Edinburgh Fringe and on tour. A graduate of the Young Writer's Programme, she is currently under commission to the National Theatre, Watford Palace Theatre and the Unicorn Theatre. She was on attachment to the Royal Court in the summer of 2007 and is also a graduate of their Young Writers Programme and Super Group. e V is also part of the writing team that's headed up by Jack Thorne for a new 13 part series called GLUe (e4 / eleven Films).

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         Brenda         Doris Day         Hero         I Can Hear You         Just Act, A         Kin         Liar Liar         Live Feed, I'm Going To Show You         Number 1 And Community Hall         One Runs the Other Doesn't         Paperback         Rotor         Rough Cuts         Searched         Sewing Group, The         Virgin         Young Pretender
Brenda

Synopsis:
It's your job to be a person. It's no one else's. Brenda has made a decision. Robert is trying to stop her. An unusual break up is on the horizon. Broke and losing hope fast, this story is about Brenda and Robert. Brenda doesn't think she's a person. Robert thinks he knows what it will take to change her mind. He's ready to try anything. This brave new play will ask us what life could look like free from the everyday challenges of being a person. Brenda's journey into the unknown is more familiar than we all think.

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1st Produced:
Aldeburgh Parish Church Hall, High Tide Festival     11 Sep 2015

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play 70 min one act

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Doris Day

Doris Day
two police officers clash over different expectations of the job

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Part of Charged 2. the heartbreaking truth About the lives of women in the criminal justice system is exposed in these six plays by some of the most exciting And distinctive female voices in British theatre. Commissioned And premiered by Clean Break, A theatre And education company working with women whose lives have been Affected by the criminal justice system. the collection includes: Fatal Light by Chloe Moss; Taken by Winsome Pinnock; Dream Pill by Rebecca Prichard; Doris Day by e V Crowe; Dancing Bears by Sam Holcroft; That Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

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Clean Break

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short play

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Hero

Hero
"We can only do this, if we go by the book. announcing you're gay to minors is not in the book." That's in the other book. Danny's gay, a primary school teacher, and he's not afraid of anything. His colleague Jamie's straight, and thinks he should be. e V Crowe brings her distinctive voice to the story of a heroic modern man

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Play/Drama

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I Can Hear You

I Can Hear You
Tommy is dead. It's always tragic when they die young. People have posted loads of nice stuff on his Facebook page. His sister Ruth has returned for the funeral and wants to get it just right. Proper cutlery and a good spread. The send-off he deserved, and certainly better than they managed when mum died. The following Sunday Ruth's plans to leave again are interrupted as the doorbell rings and in walks a still very much dead, Tommy. E.V. Crowe's naturalistic supernatural play examines what the possibilities are for the women in Tommy's family, and questions if it's as easy for everyone to reveal what it is they want.

Notes:
part of "Midsummer Mischief"

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Contained in: "Midsummer Mischief Four Radical Plays By Women" published by Oberon 2014   

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Genre:
short play 60 min

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Just Act, A

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1st Produced:
Clean Break     2009

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Kin

Kin
a girls' boarding school in the 1990s is no Malory Towers. Whilst Mimi learns her lines for John Proctor in the Christmas play, Janey desperately clings on to her best friend status. e V Crowe's Royal Court debut play is an intricate and anarchic view of what really goes on when ten year olds are away from home.

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Liar Liar

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Acclaimed writer e V Crowe's latest play is a contemporary tale about Grace, a young girl who knows the truth can be dangerous. In a virtual world of texting and Xbox, her relationship between fact and reality stretches, until a series of wilder and wilder lies leads her into a showdown with the police and puts her dad on the line. Where does her allegiance lie and where do the lies stop?

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Genre:
TYA

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Live Feed, I'm Going To Show You

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as part of ROTOR

1st Produced:
Siobhan Davies Studios    

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Number 1 And Community Hall

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Bush Theatre, Wraparound Response And Election Short    

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One Runs the Other Doesn't

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1st Produced:
Royal Court Rough Cuts     2010

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Paperback

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival     01 Aug 2004

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Genre:
short play

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Rotor

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1st Produced:
Siobhan Davies Studios     2010

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Rough Cuts

Synopsis:
Ten of Britain's leading playwrights respond to the 2010 General election. Five nights of ten minute short plays at theatre Local, elephant and Castle. Tue 22 & Thu 24 June at 7pm featuring plays by April de Angelis, Tim Crouch, Michael Wynne, Dipo agboluaje and Leo Butler. Wed 23 & Fri 25 June at 7pm featuring plays by alia Bano, Michael Bhim, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Martin Crimp and Emma Crowe. Sat 26 June at 7pm featuring all plays by the ten writers. Hung Over takes place as part of Rough Cuts, the Royal Court's annual season of work-in-progress, experimental pieces, readings and shorts. Rough Cuts emerges from the year-round activities of the Studio, providing an opportunity for emerging and established artists to develop ideas collaboratively, experimentally and informally.

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Hung Over - 10 Playwrights Respond to the 2010 election

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Ten Min

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Searched

Synopsis:
A new work in progress by E.V. Crowe directed by Carrie Cracknell. Search technology has more power than anyone cares to notice. One worker is sent to remedy a glitch, that irrevocably changes her position within the new order.

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part of Rough Cuts.

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short play 40 min

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Sewing Group, The

Sewing Group, The
'I have spoken very clearly with her and I have told her that she is new here and that she must live how we live.' A woman arrives in a rural village in pre-industrial England. Her desire is to sew and learn from their simple way of life. But the group soon begins to suspect she is not who they thought she was. 'There's no point in just making quilts. They have to serve the village. They have to DO something.'

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1st Produced:
Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Upstairs     10 Nov 2016

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Genre:
short play 40 min

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Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Virgin

Synopsis:
Be careful what you wish for. . .Emily, a busy working mother and commuter, can't wait for broadband to reach her remote country farmhouse. When ambitious young Sally arrives to work with her on the project, she's invited to stay. But being connected means different things to these two generations of women, and Emily finds her ideas of friendship and privacy tested to the limit. . .

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part of Ideal World Season

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nabokov

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Young Pretender

Young Pretender
a young rebel. a brutal victory. a devastating defeat. aged 25, the charismatic Bonnie Prince Charlie laid claim to the thrones of england, Scotland and Ireland in a series of stunning military victories. By the time he was 26, his dreams lay in ruins and he was fleeing for his life. amidst the chaos of war, the Young Pretender is forced to decide how far he is willing to go for the cause the flawed prince is brought to life vividly in this unflinching look at the nature of rebellion.

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Edinburgh Fringe Festiva

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Watford Palace Creative associate nabokov

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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