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Lydia Adetunji

LYDIA ADETUNJI

  
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Lydia won the Almeida Theatre's Write competition in 2006, and subsequently completed attachments to both the Royal Court and the National Theatre Studio. Her first full-length play FIXeR premiered at the Hightide Festival in Suffolk in May last year. FIXeR was also chosen as an outstanding example of intenational Theatre at the National Play Festival in Brisbane, 2010. Other work has included FLOOR 44 and TRICKSTeR, both produced at the Young Vic as part of aTC's Play Size, CantON KITTY, performed at the Globe, and HOT, a site-specific piece for the Oval House Theatre. She was also commissioned by Oran Mor in Glasgow to write a new play for the Play, Pie and a Pint season last year. Lydia's noir script Necropolis was fourth on the 2008 Brit List, an industry poll of the best unproduced screenplays in the country, now under option to Stealth Films. She was on ChAnnel 4 / Paines Plough's Future Perfect 2008 scheme for emerging writers. Lydia has been made Pearson Writer in Residence for Paines Plough where she is working on a new play. She wrote a short play as part of the Tricycle Theatre's WOMeN, POWeR aND POLITICS season and a new full length commission for the same Theatre. On screen she is developing an original screenplay with Cowboy Films and BBC Films .

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         Bread On The Table         Calculating Kindness         Canton Kitty         Fixer         Floor 44         Foreigner, the         Hot         Trickster

Bread On The Table

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Playwrights Inua Ellams, Neil LaBute, Bola Agbaje, Clare Bayley, Lydia Adetunji and Pedro Miguel Rozo have joined forces with a team of scientists to present the world premiere of Mouthful, a series of plays tackling the global food crisis, at the Trafalgar Studios in September. Forming the centrepiece of Metta Theatre's 10th anniversary celebrations, the project follows four very different individuals. Sebastian is travelling to Nigeria in search of his steak-loving missing friend, GoGo is sacrificing everything for a glass of water, Erica is trying to win her daughter's affections with the rare delicacy of the last potato and Rashida just wants to eat her chocolate bar in peace. Directed by Poppy Burton-Morgan, the politically provocative piece was produced in collaboration with six of the world's top scientists  Professors Tim Benton, Kamal Bawa, Suzanne Filteau, Ilkka Hanski, Molly Jahn and Tim Lang  and aims to explore the global food crisis in a theatrically imaginative production. Talking about the project, Professor Benton, UK Champion for Global Food Security, said: "Our food impacts on our health and well-being, the planet's well-being and our eating habits affect the livelihoods of others throughout the world. Mouthful innovatively explores our food system and the way our demand may affect our futures."

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in collaboration with Professor Suzanne Filteau

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Calculating Kindness

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Explores the extraordinary life of American scientist George Price (1922-75), who lived yards from CPT in Tolmers Square. Price formulated an equation widely acknowledged as the mathematical explanation for the evolution of altruism - something science had been trying to do since Darwin. The magnitude of this discovery shook Price's atheism to the core. Three years later, Price was discovered in a squat having taken his own life.

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Canton Kitty

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Fixer

Fixer
Chuks wants to run a bar. He wants to make money and send it to his family. But Chuks used to be a fixer, a go-between for foreign journalists and local groups. When militants attack a new oil pipeline, British journalists and international spin doctors rush to the scene: everyone wants the inside story. as more players get involved, the stakes get higher. they'll make it worth his while, but if Chuks joins the game, will he ever be able to leave? What am I supposed to do? When everything is stinking like shit, you think only me I will smell like perfume? Set in northern Nigeria against a backdrop of global turmoil and corruption, Fixer is a fast-paced Drama that asks questions about integrity, loyalty and the price of human life.

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a new version was produced At Oval House theare, London on 21 June 2011

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Floor 44

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Foreigner, the

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part of "Table Plays". Drama brought to your table by members of our Hoard Festival company; short monologues from characters inspired by the Staffordshire Hoard.

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Hot

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Trickster

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