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Marta Emmitt

MARTA EMMITT

  
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Marta Emmitt was born and raised in the US, spending most of her time in Tennessee and Colorado. She has lived in UK for over 25 years, 19 of which have been spent in Oxford. In 2000-2001 her play Cadillac Ranch was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate award where she was then Writer in Residence at Soho Theatre and Writers' Centre. Other plays include: Fenton's, elegy for a Mad Clown, Nunca Mas (Never again), Knock, Knock, Who's there, the Clairvoyance of antelopes, Girls (Sphinx Theatre Company, Southwark Playhouse), Doing It (Sphinx Theatre Company, Greenwich Theatre) and Mister Love. Radio includes Shark's Tooth, BBC Radio 4. She is also a published poet. Marta teaches Creative Writing and Playwriting at St. Clare's International School, runs Drama workshops for children, young adults and adults. She continues to live in Oxford with her husband and two teenage children, running adult self-development workshops in Wiltshire and Cornwall.

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         Cadillac Ranch         Clairvoyance Of Antelopes, The         Doing It         Elegy For A Mad Clown         Fenton's         Girls         Knock, Knock, Who's there         Mister Love         Nunca Mas (Never Again)         Shooting In the Dark         Things That Go Bump         We Might Be Angels

Cadillac Ranch

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Driving in a pick-up truck through the desert, south into redneck Texas, Brad and Chris are Californian Arts students pretending to be cowboys. Brad and Chris's dream is to convince everyone that they are hardened macho men. they've rigged themselves out in broad-brimmed stetsons, checked shirts and Cuban heels. they are also competing for a girl, alex, who has come along for the ride. When this trio stop off at an isolated honky-tonk bar, the guys get dangerously drunk and a twitchy local hick, Paul, joins the queue to slow-dance with alex. as Brad and Chris travel deeper into the wild, their behaviour becomes increasingly uncivilised. That's backed up with a big symbol - the Cadillac graveyard for which they are heading.
Kate Bassett, Daily Telegraph

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shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award

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Clairvoyance Of Antelopes, The

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Doing It

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Elegy For A Mad Clown

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Fenton's

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Girls

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Knock, Knock, Who's there

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Mister Love

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Nunca Mas (Never Again)

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Shooting In the Dark

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Rae has a problem - her family. Her sister is sleepwalking; her mother has her sleaze ball boyfriend and her Father and brother are only interested in booze

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Old Fire Station Theatre, Oxford    16 Jun 1998

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Things That Go Bump

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It's almost 2004 and the world is a frightening place. Or so we're told. Fear circumscribes our lives, controls us and contains us, provokes us into fight or flight or leaves us paralysed with terror. . .and just occasionally sets us free. Observant, humane, and often amusing, these rehearsed readings come from a rich blend of emerging and established female playwrights who have set out to fearlessly articulate, debate, and celebrate an emotion that so powerfully affects us all.

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part of Fear and Loathing in King's Road by Clare Bayley, Marta Emmitt, Rosy Fordham, Elizabeth Lewis, Barbara Norden, llian Plowman and Polly Wiseman

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We Might Be Angels

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James and his best mate Rory embark on an easter a-level crammer course in Oxford. It's easter, exams are looming, and James is set on getting into Oxford - all he needs are those three a's. It should all go according to plan, two weeks of intense revision and James will be on his way to his dream future.?But then he meets Min, and he is initiated into her anarchic world of poetry and passion.

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part of Autumns Writers' Block.

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Reading At Tristan Bates Theatre, London    2006

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Operating Theatre Company, London

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