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Alice Birch

ALICE BIRCH

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Giles Smart

Alice Birch's previous work at the Royal Court includes Peckham: The Soap Opera and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (RSC). Other credits include: We Want You To Watch (National), The Lone Pine Club (Pentabus), Little Light (Orange Tree), Little on the Inside (Almeida / Clean Break), Salt (Comedie de Valence), Many Moons (Theatre 503), Flying the Nest (BBC Radio 4) and Lady Macbeth (BBC Films / BFI / Creative England). Alice was the co-winner of the 2014 George Devine Award for Revolt. She said. Revolt Again and winner of the Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting 2014.

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         [Blank]         Anatomy of a Suicide         Bonfires         Come to Where I am From         Life For Beginners         Light Fittings         Little Light         Little On The Inside         Lone Pine Club, The         Many Moons         Ophelias Zimmer         Peckham: Soap Opera         Revolt. She said. Revolt again         Tom And Sal         We Want You To Watch
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The impact of the criminal justice system on children and adults

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Oberon Books 2018   

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TR 39/2019

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Anatomy of a Suicide

Anatomy of a Suicide
Three generations of women. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful legacy.

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Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Bonfires

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Part of Miniaturists 27 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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short play

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Come to Where I am From

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Sixty one playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them. At 14 theatres from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays will be performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. Come To Where I'm From is a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home is really where the heart is.

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Paines Plough

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short play

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Life For Beginners

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"Some people described a plague, others a cloud. Some people found God, others lost him. Over one hundred people claim the incident caused them to fall in love." Tony meets himself but younger. Emma and Sam meet but can never touch. eva meets Quinn before either goes too far. Nina's not sure she should ever have met James. And Mark tries to stop Hayley making a tit of herself on national TV. In a play that spans all ages we explore the magical and joyful moments in our everyday lives.

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written by By Alice Birch, Ben ellis, Matt Hartley, Lizzie Nunnery and Rex Obano

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Light Fittings

Synopsis:
Have you ever forgotten a face? ever blanked out the past? Peter and Charlotte see their evening turn from reminiscence to regret. Shouldn't you contact that person to tell them you care, however long it's been?

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1st Produced:
Dogstar     2010

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blank pages

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Genre:
Kitchen sink

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Little Light

Little Light
A dark, volatile new play that asks if we can ever let go. Reminiscing. Once a year to tell stories. To share little bits of our little lives. A house by the sea. Teddy wants more light. He's knocked that staircase down. Alison is soaked through. She's livid. Clarissa's ready to burst. They can't keep meeting like this.

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Little On The Inside

Synopsis:
On a patch of green that is nowhere to be found here, two women provide a little comfort for one another. Through stories old and new they occupy an imagined space, and invent a world in which they might live together. But how can they stay in a place that doesn't exist? Hisses like sulphuric acid' (Guardian). Little on the inside premiered at Latitude Festival 2013 and subsequently toured to the Almeida Festival to universal acclaim. Production originally commissioned by the Almeida Festival.

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1st Produced:
Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival     01 Aug 2014

Organisations:
Clean Break

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Genre:
New writing, 40 minutes

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Lone Pine Club, The

Synopsis:
The Lone Pine Club is about freedom. It's based on a series of books by children's author Malcolm Saville.The Lone Pine book series follows the characters as they have adventures in Shropshire, Sussex, Norfolk, Devon and Northumberland. Pentabus are touring the production to National Trust venues in those geographic regions, cementing a link between the local landscape, the books and the production itself. We hope The Lone Pine Club inspires your intrepid youngsters to go out into the natural world to explore and have adventures of their own! - See more at: http://www.dartmooraccommodation.co.uk/whats-on/august/lone-pine-club-buckland-abbey/#sthash.Q2h3SEoq.dpuf

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from the novels by Malcolm Saville

1st Produced:
Carding Mill Valley, Church Stretton     18 Jul 2015

Organisations:
Pentabus Theatre Company

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Genre:
adaptation

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Many Moons

Many Moons
Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to never having it. as these four people move through a July day in London, they orbit each other, unaware that they are hurtling towards one moment that could devastate them all.

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Composer: Richard ellis

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paper/scissors/stone

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Ophelias Zimmer

Synopsis:
I do not know, my lord, what I should think. Katie Mitchell explores Ophelia, freed from Hamlet.

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directed by Katie Mitchell with text by Alice Birch

1st Produced:
Schaubuhne Berlin     Dec 2015

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Genre:
In German with English surtitles.

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Peckham: Soap Opera

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the lives and loves of Peckham locals will be played out in an omnibus of ten 5 minute episodes. Each episode will be performed by actors from the local community. Somewhere between Peckham High Street and Rye Lane: after an immigration raid at Lashanna's underground hair salon, Ravi encourages her to relocate to the basement beneath Amir's corner shop (unbeknownst to Amir of course). Above ground Ed scouts for a job, though Amir puts him off the scent. Across the way Glenda, Job Centre co-worker Elaine and Joey make a discovery which may force them into a morning commute to Lewisham. While over at the station, Linda loses her cat, but falls for a dapper stranger whose pin-striped garms are new to the Rye.

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Part of Royal Court's Open Court season. Author Bola Agbaje (lead writer). Author Rachel De-lahay (lead writer) with Brad Birch, Alice Birch, Adam Brace, Robin French, Lucy Kirkwood, Chloe Moss, David Watson and Roy Williams

1st Produced:
Royal Court, London     02 Sep 2013

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Genre:
5 min play

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Revolt. She said. Revolt again

Revolt. She said. Revolt again
You are expected to behave. . .Use the right words. Act appropriately. Don't break the rules. Just behave. This play is not well behaved. Alice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century and asks what's stopping us from doing something truly radical to change them.

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part of "Midsummer Mischief"

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Genre:
short play 60 min

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Tom And Sal

Synopsis:
the comedy follows Tom and Sally, a married couple with their own television show on cable. the fiercely ambitious duo is desperate to reach the dizzy heights of their rivals, Richard and Judy. However, Tom and Sally aren't helped by their incapable production team, the lack of celebrity guests, cutting edge features, exposure and the simple fact that the two of them are utterly incompetent. Fast, gritty and most importantly, funny, Tom and Sal' explores the underworld of television and the characters that live for that fleeting bite of fame.

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1st Produced:
M+D Room, Exeter University     2008

Organisations:
Ice No Lemon Productions

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Genre:
Comedy

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We Want You To Watch

Synopsis:
This is about pornography. This is an interview. This is an intervention. This is an interrogation. We're recording now. We want to pull its plug out. We want to stop its heartbeat. We want to blow its brains out and begin again. We know exactly what we're doing. We're not stupid.

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by RashDash and Alice Birch

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RashDash

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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