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Caroline Bird

CAROLINE BIRD

  (1986 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

Caroline Bird was born in 1986. She grew up in Leeds and attended the Steiner School in York and the Lady eleanor Holles School before moving to London in 2001. She studied English Literature at Oxford University and was president of the Oxford Poetry Society. She has given poetry readings at the Royal Festival Hall (with Elaine Feinstein), Latitude Festival, the Wellcome Collection (with Don Paterson), St Hilda's College, Oxford (with Wendy Cope), the Wordsworth Trust (with Gillian Allnutt), Cheltenham Festival (with Clare Pollard) and Ledbury Festival, amongst others. She is currently one of the writers-in-residence for the charity First Story. Caroline Bird has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize twice & has also won an eric Gregory Award (2002), the Foyle Young Poet of the Year award two years running (1999, 2000), was a winner of the Poetry London Competition in 2007, and the Peterloo Poetry Competition in 2004, 2003 and 2002. Caroline was on the shortlist for Shell Woman Of the Future Awards 2011. Caroline's poems have been published in several anthologies, including Oxford Poetry 2008, and are published regularly in PN Review, Poetry Review, the North magazine. A member of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, Caroline is also a playwright. In 2011, Caroline's contribution was included in Bush Theatre's project Sixty Six Books.

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

         Agamemnon         Chamber Piece         Foundation, The         Special Boy, A         Trial Of Dennis the Menace, The         Trojan Women, The         Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The

Agamemnon

Agamemnon
Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter, Clytemnestra must try to stop him, Iphigenia must accept her fate, the Chorus must watch. Ships lie dormant in harbours, and thousands of troops sit on the shore, growing restless and unruly. Helen is gone, and pursuit of her has been stalled by windless seas. To raise the winds to send his fleet to Troy, Agamemnon is commanded by the gods to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia. But his deceit of his wife, Clytemnestra and the killing of his child, will end up tearing him and everything around him to pieces. Euripides' story of a father moved to murder his daughter, Iphigenia at Aulis, is one that has been reinvented and retold anew throughout history. The Iphigenia Quartet sees four of the UK's most exciting and radical playwrights - Caroline Bird (Agamemnon), Suhayla El Bushra (Iphigenia), Lulu Raczka (Clytemnestra), and Chris Thorpe (Chorus) - create explosive responses to this classical tragedy. Each play is a reimagining this story of familial catastrophe from the differing perspectives of the key characters in the play: Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia and the Chorus.

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Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-1783193202

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classic tragedy

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Chamber Piece

Chamber Piece
In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain has reinstated the death penalty. Relatives are weeping in the witness gallery, the journalist clicks her pen and the prison governor gives the thumbs up. Rapist murderer Richard Sanger is strapped to the gurney. Chamber Piece depicts a modern, British execution. How would it look? How would we feel? And what could possibly go wrong?

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Secret Theatre, a season of work which will be developed over a number of months by a resident company of twenty artists. Led by Lyric Hammersmith Artistic Director Sean Holmes, the season presents the actors, writers, directors, designers and dramaturgs with a unique opportunity to interrogate and challenge the way in which British theatre is made.

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Oberon Books (2013) >>>    978-1783190706

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piece

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Foundation, The

Foundation, The
the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the english language. the KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken english.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. the curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, Drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. the voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. all the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush theatre and Westminster abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient Arts of writing and spoken performance

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Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is A response to the King James Bible book of Leviticus

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849432276

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Special Boy, A

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When her special-needs brother falls victim to a practical joke, Tansy's hairdressing salon becomes an interrogation room.

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The Vault (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)     2009

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Bird and Hope

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Trial Of Dennis the Menace, The

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Based on original characters from the Beano series, written by Caroline Bird with original music by Matt Rogers, the Trial of Dennis the Menace features an hour of music, words and action for Beano-lovers big and small.

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Imagine Children's Festival

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TYA musical

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Trojan Women, The

Trojan Women, The
the war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its people burn. Inside the prison, the city's captive women await their fate. But their grief at what has been before will soon be drowned out by the horror of what is to come, as the Greek lust for vengeance consumes everything man, woman and baby in its path. This caustic and radical new version of euripides classic tragedy comes from one of the UK's most exciting young poets, Caroline Bird. It is an intense, gripping look at what happens when the world collapses.

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Original Playwright - Euripides

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Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849435048

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adaptation

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Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The

Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The
A cyclone sweeps 12 year old Dorothy Gale and her cheeky little dog Toto far-far away from their grey, boring lives. Dorothy didn't mean for her house to land on the Wicked Witch of the East. And she'd rather keep her trainers than wear Ruby slippers. But here she is, in the gloriously multicolour land of Oz, ready for an adventure. Along the yellow brick road to the Emerald City she meets plenty of new friends and a few enemies. Will she escape the clutches of the Wicked Witch of the West? Join Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion this Christmas for a brand new re-twisted production of the classic children's story. Expect magic, mayhem and new music in this festive treat for adventurers aged 7+ (and their families).

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Oberon Books (2015) >>>    978-1783199822

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Genre:
adaptation

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