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1996

Faber & Faber, London, 1997

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Adaptation

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Based On The Novel By William Wharton. Alan Parker’s hit film adaptation was set during the United States’ Vietnam War but Naomi Wallace’s stage version returns to the novel’s original Second World War setting

Birdy is called Birdy because he adores pigeons (keeping a large collection in his bedroom) and wants to learn how to fly. When falls from a great height he’s hardly hurt, and he and his best buddy Al could swear that just for a moment he hovered. In war-time some years later the adult Sergeant Al is brought to the military hospital where a shell-shocked Birdy refuses to speak or eat, adopting a strange crouching position and flapping his arms. His mission is to find the key that will unlock his childhood friend from his apparently disturbed condition, but as time goes by Al starts to wonder if under the circumstances Birdy is better off left as he is - in some sort of peace.

Public Theatre, NY

2008

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presented as part of the new Public LAB Series. It uses muscular and poetic writing to find beauty in the unimaginable, and explores political tensions by grounding them in the human issues of love, life, and death. The play specifically focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- nytheatre.com

1994

London New Play Festival

Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2003

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Childrens

Youth Audience

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written with Bruce McLeod

In this witty adventure for young audiences by MacArthur "genius" award winner Naomi Wallace, a young girl called Noil finds herself in a strange new place, and must accomplish three and a half magical tasks before she can return home. Noil is clever and resourceful, and with some assistance from a singing narrator and a talking roach, she emerges from the hole in her sweater in time for breakfast

1993

London New Play Festival

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A disturbing portrait of life on a mid-west American farm where Mattie and Henry and their 17-year old daughter Annie attempt to outdo each other in hurtfulness and humiliation

1994

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American Theatre Magazine, NY - March, 1995

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Can love co-exist with a state of war? Remzi and Craver are soldiers serving in the Gulf. They worship each other's bodies when around them bodies are being destroyed. But after the end of the war, why does Remzi not return to Kentucky, and why have he and Craver been haunted by Boxler and Mae Ling, ghosts from another American battleground?

1997

BT New Connections

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written by Naomi Wallace and Bruce McLeod; BT/National Connections

an uncompromising play for young people, dealing with racism, homophobia and violence.

2002

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Faber & Faber, London, 2002

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We are in the early 1760s and Aquith Brown, younger brother of the famous landscaper, Capability, is trying to create the perfect view from a great house in Yorkshire. There is a village marring this and the villagers seem reluctant to move. A morality play about improving on Nature, THE INLAND SEA is about class, labour and sexuality. It features spirits both living and dead and uncovers a dark crime from the past.

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T(ext) Shirt Play

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Anyone can perform this play by an award-winning playwright simply by wearing the t-shirt upon which it is written

2009

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in The great game: Afghanistan, Oberon Books, London (2009) >>>

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part of a three month long festival about the culture and history of Afghanistan. Entitled The Great Game: Afghanistan. The festival will be divided into three parts, each focusing on a period of Afghan history: 1979 - 1996 : Communism, The Mujahideen And The Taliban

The thirteenth play about Afghanistan played separately and this review is taken from the text. Naomi Wallace sees the tragedy of the country in human terms. Meena and Alya are teenaged sisters divided by conflict. Meena, at 15 two years the older, has travelled with her father to the West and left Mum and Sis behind. Their reunion is difficult due to the cultural divide, with each promoting what they know. It becomes something much deeper, partly through the catalyst of a US serviceman, Sergio, By an explosive and very moving ending their relationship becomes apparent, as does the pain that this war is causing on all sides. .
- British Theatre Guide

1995

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in "Bush Theatre Plays" Faber, London, 1996

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US premiere in spring 1996 at the prestigious Humana Festival in Louisville. It received its New York premiere in March 1997 at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre

Hilarious and deeply moving by turns, One Flea Spare is set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London where social roles and the boundaries that describe them have been into chaos. The definition of morality is up for grabs. History is being tantalised. And whilst the wealthy William Snelgrave dreams of sweating, swearing tars, and of how sailors satisfy their "baser instincts" so far away from female company, his own wife, untouched for 40 years, is discovering that her dreadfully burned body may not be numb after all. The human heart craves comfort, contact, tenderness; survival may take many forms

2008

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Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays brings together all eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The seven full-length plays and four ten-minute plays represent an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre

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American Theatre Magazine, NY - July/August (also Oberon Books), 2003

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Monologue

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Part of Two into War

I remember, I remember - everything we say these days begins with "I remember -".' An ex-Iraqi soldier pauses to share his humour, passion and wisdom on conflict - and pigeons!

1996

Faber & Faber, London, 1996

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U.S. Premiere at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge Massachusetts

Lives, loves and heartbreaks amid the sweat, blood and gore of an American meat-packing factory

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Frustrated by elusive promises of the American dream - fast cars, brand names and easy money - a young man takes his destiny into his own hands

2005

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40 min Play

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set in the bulldozed Palestinian zoo at Rafah and centering on a dialogue between agrieving Palestinian mother and a young Israeli soldier.

1999

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Humana Festival 1999: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 1999

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with plays by David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, Jane Martin, Naomi Wallace, Wendy Wasserstein, and Mac Wellman.

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Pittsburgh Public Theater, USA

2004

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The play deals with poverty, calling forth hard-time lives during the Great Depression. People scramble and scrape for work. If they can find it. Running like a major thread through the characters' close connection, they must tangle with the theme of populist Marxism finding fertile ground at the point in history which the play calls forth. They must portray simple, not very articulate individuals who cannot debate major issues, yet who belong in that time and place. Overall not a promising situation. Two of those people are black, father and daughter Tice and Cali Hogan, way down on the bottom of that particular food chain. The other person with whom they reluctantly connect is a violence-prone young white man, Corbin Teel. Set in another steel town with vicious labor struggles, Birmingham, Alabama. There former factory hand, sometime churchifying preacher Tice also preaches the gospel according to Marx. His daughter Cali remains sour about all faiths and much else in life, men included, while she scrubs and purifies white peoples' dirty linen to eke out a clean living. They reluctantly open their door to Corbin, a fellow laborer, though no Marxist, seeking asylum after probably killing someone. He brings triple danger, being white, a fugitive and capable of more brutality. When refused sanctuary, Corbin threatens to reveal Tice's involvement with the movement at a time when Tice's life would thereby be in even greater peril. Consequently the three of them tensely remain together. And, eventually Corbin gently, openly hankers after Cali, despite her attempts to avoid him. - alternative newspaper PULP

1998

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Humana Festival 1998: The Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 1998

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British Professional Stage Premiere, Traverse 2001

High atop a railroad trestle that spans a bone dry creek, two teenagers plan to race across the bridge against an oncoming locomotive. At first their scheme adds excitement to life in a small factory town during the Great Depression, then sensual experience awakens dangerous passions in an era of stifled ambitions. With theatrical flourish and lyrical finesse, Naomi Wallace delves into a world where people struggle to change lives that bear down upon them

2003

Menagerie Theatre

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Two Monologues

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Gifts of War and The Retreating World

1993

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Contained in: "In The Heart Of America and Other Plays" published by Broadway Play Publishing

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Three young Texans spend their nights patrolling the Mexican border to earn $10 bounty for every Mexican they catch crossing it. Every night they swap boasts and banter. But on this evening, they each enter confessional mode, seeking a repeat performance of the night before, and they reveal themselves as deeply damaged