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Dawn King

DAWN KING

  (1978 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Berlin Associates  represented by Julia Mills

Playwright Dawn King is currently Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Finborough Theatre. Dawn's play Foxfinder won the Papatango writing competition in 2011 and was produced at the Finborough Theatre where it was critically acclaimed and sold out. Foxfinder won Dawn the Most Promising Playwright award at the OffWestend Awards 2012. She was one of ten writers chosen for the BBC WritersRoom 10 scheme, and through this received a seed commission to write for West Yorkshire Playhouse. Previous plays include Water Sculptures/ZOO double bill (Union Theatre), Face Value (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), and Doghead Boy and Sharkmouth Go To Ikea (the Junction, Cambridge). Dawn writes regularly for BBC Radio and her short film the Karman Line will premiere at film festivals this year.

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

         [Untitled]         Arrival With Baggage         Bitches Ball, The         Brave New World         Chickpea         Ciphers         Confessional         Dinosaur         Doghead Boy And Sharkmouth Go To Ikea         Dystopia987         Early One Morning As the Sun Set         Face Value         Faster         Foreverland         Foxfinder         Foxtrot         Garlic         Hacked         How To Live Forever         Little Deaths         Salt         Water Sculptures         Winter Tales         Worms         Zoo
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Synopsis:
War rages. Society is crumbling. What happens at the Zoo? Workshopped and developed at the Royal Court

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Arrival With Baggage

Synopsis:
When Will turns up on alistair's doorstep covered in bruises and saying everything is OK, alistair is completely out of his depth.

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1st Produced:
Rehearded Reading Royal Court, London     2002

Organisations:
Royal Court New Writing Festival

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Bitches Ball, The

Synopsis:
Poet, courtesan, actress, royal mistress: Mary Robinson had a rather more exotic life than her name suggests, and it's told with fitting colour by Penny Dreadful, a company that gives obscure historical characters the devised treatment. Director Mick BarnFather brings to this comic biography all the physical zaniness and invention you would expect of his Complicite and Peepolykus credentials. Mira Dovreni's Mary begins the story with little more than a bundle of rags, pissing in a bucket; in an opium fug, we follow her flashback journey through eighteenth-century celebrity. Whirling us along through an endlessly surprising set -from Mary's schoolroom to her much-frequented boudoir - a comic ensemble create both high society and low, their caricatures as vibrant as their stripy pantaloons, and sing dirty ditties in Mozartian counterpoint.
Emma John, Time Out London

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1st Produced:
Hoxton Hall, London     23 Oct 2006

Organisations:
Penny Dreadful Theatre Company

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Brave New World

Synopsis:
Some of the most serious dilemmas facing the world, including genetic engineering, globalisation and the powerlessness of individuals against an all-powerful establishment, were foreseen in Aldous Huxley's famous novel. Now, in this stage adaptation, a new generation brings Huxley's dramatic and prophetic vision into the 21st century.

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Touring Consortium Theatre Company

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adaptation

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Chickpea

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part of Upstart Undiscovered

1st Produced:
Union Theatre, London, Eur >>>     04 Oct 2006

Organisations:
part of ShorTheatre Companyuts 2006

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Short play One act

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Ciphers

Ciphers
"Most of what she told me about herself is a cover story. She is a British Intelligence Officer. How far would she go to get information out of me? the answer is, quite far". A young woman is found dead. Her sister sets out to find out what happened, and stumbles into a world of secrets and subterfuge that makes her question who Justine really was. How well can you ever know someone who lies for a living?

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Confessional

Synopsis:
We never really know what goes on behind closed doors; what secrets lay hidden in the deepest, darkest drawers. Down the shadowy, winding streets of Battersea, lost in the smog of the city, sits theatre503, home to Confessional; a series of five short plays which entice you into a world full of secrets, lies, obsession and sex. Sit tight as we take you on a journey into the dark, cobwebbed corners of your mind! We hope you're sitting comfortably. . .

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A series of 6 short plays: by Georgina Burns, Tom Morton  Smith, Lucinda Burnett and Dawn King.

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Dinosaur

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Genre:
short play

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Doghead Boy And Sharkmouth Go To Ikea

Synopsis:
Disaffected youth meet wage slave and try to eat him.

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1st Produced:
Hotbed At The Junction, Cambridge     01 Jul 2006

Organisations:
Menagerie Theatre Company

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Dystopia987

Synopsis:
An illegal rave held in an industrial warehouse

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Early One Morning As the Sun Set

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Zephyr in Zanussi dance company. Dawn King worked with dancers to create text pieces And scenes.

1st Produced:
Oxford House, Bethnal Green, South Hill Park, Bracknell & Whitechapel Gallery     01 Dec 2005

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Face Value

Synopsis:
Ophelia is a good actress, or at least she used to be. But old age is looming, she's received terrible reviews in her latest role and her daughter has packed her bags and moved out. a surgical 'new look' might be the only way to restore her confidence. Martin never misses one of Ophelia's performances. If Ophelia needs someone to reassure her that she's still attractive, still brilliant, still popular, who better than her biggest fan? But can Martin and Ophelia take each other at face value.

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Faster

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collaboration with the theatre company Filter. Dawn King was one of two writers who worked on the first two stages of this devised show.

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BAC , London >>>     2002

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during the Opera Festival

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Foreverland

Synopsis:
Inside the high walls of luxury community Vantage Heights, called "Foreverland" by those who live outside it, billionaire playboy Adam Boreal lives an unchanging life of excess waited on by his servant Mai. When his family decide to curb his behaviour by cutting off his allowance, he's forced to grow up in the most painful way imaginable. A new play about wealth, privilege and our fear of ageing.

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Vibrant 2012  A Festival of Finborough Playwrights

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Foxfinder

Foxfinder
William Bloor, a foxfinder', arrives at Sam and Judith Covey's farm to investigate a suspected contamination. He is driven by his education and beliefs to unearth and destroy an animal that threatens man's civilisation, and to remain free from its influence himself. as his investigations proceed, the events that follow change the course of all their lives - for ever.

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part of LabFest. Winner of the 2011 Papatango New Writing Competition(Finborough theatre 29 Nov 2011)

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Upstart Theatre

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Genre:
comic Drama

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Foxtrot

Synopsis:
First stage of new devised play set during the Second World War.

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1st Produced:
Development Stage At Trestle Arts Base     01 May 2007

Organisations:
Soma Theatre

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Garlic

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1st Produced:
Rehearded Reading Soho Theatre, London     2002

Organisations:
Soho Theatre Writer's Festival

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Hacked

Synopsis:
all across London, phones are being hacked. Only now it's playwrights stealing the stories of brave volunteers. Will they score a scoop, or will they have to use a little artistic licence? and which will make the better story: the facts or the fiction?

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Playwrights: Ben ellis, Marcelo Dos Santos, Dominic Cavendish, Dawn King, Anna Jordan, Matt Hartley. Curated by Derek Bond And Lisa Cagnacci

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Genre:
collaborative piece

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How To Live Forever

Synopsis:
a love, incest, body swapping, blackly funny horror play about a young Doctor whose selfishness makes monsters out of those in love with her.

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1st Produced:
Extract Performed At Hampstead Theatre Start Night     01 Oct 2004

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Little Deaths

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1st Produced:
Theatre Tent, Latitude Festival, Suffolk     01 Jul 2006

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nabokov

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Salt

Salt
The government offers young people the chance to train for work abroad. Once they are all on board a ship taking them to this opportunity things change

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Contained in: "National Theatre Connections 2019" published by Methuen Drama   

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Water Sculptures

Synopsis:
a flood destroys the 2012 Olympics and most of London with it. an artist, an athlete and an office worker find themselves on a rooftop, struggling to deal with their changed world. a surreal and darkly comic exploration of how we cling to our dreams, and how we cope without them

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part of London Caliing

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Upstart Theatre

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Winter Tales

Synopsis:
Five specially commissioned plays from five extraordinary writers. Returning to the tradition of winter storytelling, which spawned the Turn of the Screw and a Christmas Carol, Firstborn theatre's next show Winter Tales will see us taking over a Central London pub to stage an evening of 5 chilling short stories told all around the building over the festive period. With mince pies and mulled wine to start, live music following, and a working bar throughout, this will be a cozy festive treat with a rich dark centre. Storytelling theatre at its simple best.

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written by Billy Barrett, Elizabeth Heery, Dawn King, Ant Stones And Cathy Thomas

1st Produced:
The Kings Arms, 11A Northington Street, London Wc1N 2Jf     04 Dec 2010

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Firstborn Theatre

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Worms

Synopsis:
an event where writers wrote pieces in response to current events, which were performed a week later.

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nabokov

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Zoo

Synopsis:
In the middle of an unidentified conflict, the animals in the park Zoo have found themselves abandoned. One last keeper stands between them and the outside world. When two mysterious strangers arrive in the middle of the night, the Tiger, the Chimp and the Slow Loris are forced to choose between the apparent safety of their cages and the uncertain freedoms of the outside world

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Imaginative, darkly comic And original, ZOO was read At the Royal Court theatre in 25 Apr 2003, then played As part of the ShortCuts Festival At the Arcola theatre And Hackney empire. This is its first full production

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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