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Ursula Rani Sarma

URSULA RANI SARMA

  (1978 - )
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  represented by Mel Kenyon

Ursula Rani Sarma is an award-winning playwright who has been Writer in Residence for the National Theatre Studio London, Paines Plough Theatre Company London and the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Centre. She has written for the National Theatre London, the Abbey Theatre Dublin, Origin Theatre Company NewYork, the Traverse Theatre Scotland and the American Conservatory Theatre San Francisco. Oberon Books publishes the Magic Tree (Djinn Theatre Company/Cork Midsummer Festival) and the Dark Things (Traverse Theatre), which won Best New Play and Best New Production at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (2010). Other plays include RIOT (A.C.T. San Fransisco/Theatre Royal Bath); Birdsong (the Abbey); the Exchange (Eugene O'Neill Theatre Centre); the Spider Men (NT Connections); the Parting Glass (53E53 Theatre New York); Blue (Cork Opera House) and Orpheus Road (Paines Plough). Ursula is currently on attachment at the Soho Theatre and developing new work for the Traverse Theatre and the Abbey Theatre.

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         Birdsong         Blue         Dark Things, The         Exchange, The         Gift         Joanne         Like Sugar on Skin         Magic Tree         Orpheus Road         Parting Glass, The         RIOT         Ripple Effect, The         Spider Man, The         Touched         Wanderings         When the War Came         Without You (Dough is Rising, The)         Yerma

Birdsong

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Abbey, Dublin    

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Blue

Blue
In 'Blue' three childhood friends spend their last year together in the isolated sea-side town in which they live. In an effort to console their sense of worthlessness, they devise a deadly daily ritual. Together they jump from a point where the cliffs are forty feet above the ocean. In those panicked seconds, plummeting at full force towards the sea, Joe, Des and Danny believe that anything is possible, and that their hopes and dreams may just come true. . .

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1st Produced:
Half Moon Theatre, Cork Opera House, Ireland     01 Jun 2000

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Cork Opera House

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Oberon Books, London >>>,    978-1840022698

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Dark Things, The

Dark Things, The
Daniel is famous. He has walked away from disaster and turned it into art. As he prepares for the ultimate exhibition of his life, the headlines proclaim him unbreakable. But inside, Daniel is falling apart. LJ has always been a survivor, in total command of her emotions. Since being bound to Daniel by a freak accident, she cant quite seem to get her heart under control. Steph wants to be special, to have her photo in the paper for once, and not just because shes Daniels sister. Can Karl, who claims to be in production, invent a future where they both get recognised?

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Oberon Books, London >>>    978-1840029673

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Exchange, The

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Gift

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A son returns from his missionary life in Africa to lay to rest the body of his dead father. Locked away in the small antechamber of the church where he is about to say the funeral mass, the details of his troubled childhood come back to haunt him. What boy could live a normal life with a Father who keeps dead bodies in the basement? What kind of mother takes to her bed for ten years?

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1st Produced:
Limerick: Belltable Arts Centre, Ireland, Eur     01 Jan 2001

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Belltable Arts Centre

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Joanne

Joanne
Accidents. Puzzles. Coincidences. The moments that have defined her, that have led her to this kitchen tonight, standing in front of me, shaking, saying going back to prison will break her. I can feel the weight of her whole life in my hands. Five characters share a common thread: Joanne. But it's not about her. It's about Stella, whose tomorrow is as far away as winter from summer. It's the way Grace finds her song on the footpath between two cars. It's about Alice's MBA wasted on plugging holes, Kath's patients crawling alongside her after the night shift and it's Becky caught in the crosshairs of what's best and what's right for her students. But what about her? What about Joanne?

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The play comprises five interconnected short plays for a solo performer, written by Deborah Bruce, Theresa Ikoko, Laura Lomas, Chino Odimba and Ursula Rani Sarma.

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Nick Hern Books, London   978-1848425446

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Play/Drama 75 min

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Like Sugar on Skin

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Ucc Dramat, Granary Theatre, Cork. Isda, Galaway     1999

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Magic Tree

Magic Tree
Which comes first, loneliness or violence? This is the story of love born in a very dark place between a man who wants to belong and a woman who wants to be forgotten. On a stormy night, they shelter in an abandoned summer home and tentatively discover what it is that they have in common. But just when it seems something beautiful might emerge, the opposite appears. the Magic Tree is an exploration into human behaviour at a time when humanity seems determined to endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past. It looks at why good people are capable of doing bad things and asks if love alone can save us.

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Djinn Theatre Company in Co-Production with Cork Midsummer Festival and Belltable Arts Centre

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Oberon Books, London >>>,    978-1840028669

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Orpheus Road

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Paines Plough Theatre, London     2003

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Paines Plough

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Parting Glass, The

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Three brothers meet to fulfil the terms of their father's will so that they can get their inheritance

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59E59 theaters
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022    

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Short play

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RIOT

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American Conservatory Theatre San Francisco     01 Mar 2010

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Co-commission Bath Theatre Royal and A.C.T

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Ripple Effect, The

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the Ripple Effect takes place in the future after a war has turned most of the country into a wasteland. Crops and fresh water have been polluted. Each city is divided by a wall. Those who have nothing - the illegal's - on one side and a council of dictators on the other. they are now the law. And they want to spread. Follow the journey of Beth and Christopher, as they take the first steps to breaking down the walls of segregation and isolation in an adventure that has a ripple effect across the country.

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Forming part of the London 2012 Festival, the Ripple Effect is A brand new play funded by the ATG Foundation. This is the first time such A large scale project has taken place Across the UK. the King's theatre has the largest group in the country, with 110 children And young people And is the culmination of the hard work And many hours of rehearsals that All of the participants And Drama workers have put into the project. Starring children And young people from: Duncanrig Secondary, East Kilbride ; the LINKES project, North West Glasgow; Sparc Arts, Alexandria ; Stenhousemuir Primary, Larbert ; Dimension contemporary dance, Clydebank

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Glasgow: Kings Theatre     01 Sep 2012

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Creative Learning Glasgow

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Spider Man, The

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An act of rebellion goes horribly wrong. David wants Michael to camp in the woods all night to teach their parents a lesson, but Michael just wants to go home. the boys' disappearance and the eventual realisation that David is never coming back force their friends to reassess their values, to find their own identity beyond the whitewash of the label 'teenager' and to search for their own truth amidst the chaos of peer pressure, a sometimes dangerous world and the need to be loved.

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part of Shell Connections

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Contained in: "Shell Connections 2006" published by Faber and Faber 2006   -

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Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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Touched

Touched
In '. . .touched. . .' Cora and Mikey yearn for Dublin, for a life without darkness , without secrets, without despair. the young sister and brother make a pact to escape, but their flight to Dublin leads them straight into the hands of the street wise, money-hungry Macca, a horrific crime and a city that was far from the paradise they had dreamt about.

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1st Produced:
Hillstreet Theatre, Edinburgh     01 Aug 1999

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Granary Productions and Djinn Productions

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>,    978-1840022698

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Play One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  doubling possible

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Wanderings

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Three short plays on the subject of love. 'Wandering' - A woman betrays her husband in a morning ritual of adultery. 'swept' - A couple who collide in the early hours of the morning and argue themselves into a romantic entanglement. 'Our place' - A young girl discovers the meaning of false promises and heart break.

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1st Produced:
Granary Theatre, Cork, Ireland     01 Nov 2000

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Asylum Productions and Djinn Productions

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Series of short individual plays

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When the War Came

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adopts a folksy tone to present a parallel between violent conflict and the disintegration of a couple's relationship.

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part of Broken Voices

1st Produced:
Tristan Bates, London     29 Mar 2005

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New Company, part of Broken Voices

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Short Play One Act

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Without You (Dough is Rising, The)

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This autumn, the Traverse is launching a new season of Friday lunchtime theatre and discussion. Feed your body, mind and soul as leading actors perform a new full-length play, script-in-hand, or playwrights discuss the most pertinent issues in theatre today.

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Yerma

Yerma
Lorca's beautiful and savage play is transplanted from the suffocating heat of Spain to a barren landscape much closer to home, bringing Yerma's anguish at her childlessness into heart-breaking focus. Suffocating in a life void of passion, Yerma turns to unconventional sources for answers. Her innocent yet controversial actions send shockwaves through a tiny and stagnant community. Desperate and unbearably lonely, Yerma commits the ultimate act of rebellion, setting her free yet sealing her unhappy fate forever.

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Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca. the first production to be supported by the Quercus Trust

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Oberon Books, London (2011) >>>    978-1849430432

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  2            Female:  7            Other:  with doubling

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