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Deborah Bruce

DEBORAH BRUCE

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

Deborah Bruce is a theatre director and writer from London. Her first play, Godchild was staged at Hampstead Theatre in October 2013, and her play The Distance was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2013. She is under commission from the National Theatre and the Royal Court. (photo by Lesley Bruce)

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

         Distance, The         Godchild         Joanne         Light, The         Same

Distance, The

Synopsis:
Good friends should be there for one another - no matter what. But when Bea returns home after three years abroad having made a bold choice about her life, old friends struggle to support her. Or even to understand. One night in Brighton, things threaten to slide into chaos... A comedy about motherhood (and fatherhood); about keeping control and letting go. Relationships are hard: long-term ones harder still. What does it take to really go the distance?

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shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2013

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Nick Hern Books, London   -

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Godchild

Godchild
A sharp, dark comedy that explores the inescapable difference between feeling 19 and being 19. Lou is getting on with her life, carefree and without ties. But this abruptly comes to a halt when her 19 year old god-daughter Minnie moves in to take up a place at university. Minnie's arrival shines a harsh light into the corners of Lou's life - revealing it to be not as it seems. Her relationships are complicated, her neighbours are closing in on her, and the clock is ticking. What does it mean to be a grown up

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Genre:
dark comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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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?

Notes:
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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Clean break

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London   978-1848425446

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Genre:
Play/Drama 75 min

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Light, The

Synopsis:
Jack's getting married to Charlie, but there's something missing. Is she doing the right thing? Is she doing the right thing with the right person? Is she doing the right thing with the right person for the right reasons? How does she know if everything's going to be alright? The Light examines our need for reassurance when we are embarking on one of life's big decisions. Inspired by Julia Darling's poem Two Lighthouses.

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Part of "Rendezvous". Poet, novelist and playwright Julia Darling died at the age of 48 in 2005, having been diagnosed with breast cancer in late 1994. From 2000 to 2002 she was writer-in-residence at Newcastle's Live Theatre. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of her death, Live has commissioned five women writers, both established and emerging but all with a connection to the region, to write short plays inspired by her work.

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Genre:
short play

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Same

Same
When Josie dies in an old people's home, her grandchildren gather to share their memories of her, and her fellow residents feel the effects of her death as her funeral takes place. Is the gulf between the young and old as wide as it feels, or are we fundamentally the same inside whatever age we are?

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Each year the National Theatre invites ten writers to create new plays for young people to perform. This spring 230 youth theatre companies will present the premieres of these plays in Venues from Scotland to Cornwall and Northern Ireland to Norfolk. Each company will also perform at one of 26 Connections festivals in professional theatres across the country, and ten companies will go on to perform at the National Theatre. Connections celebrates great new writing for the stage  and the energy, commitment and talent of young theatre-makers.

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NT Connections

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Published by Methuen Drama (as part of NT Connections 2014 collected works)
Nick Hern Books, London (2014) >>>    978-1848424081

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Genre:
TYA

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Male:  2-5            Female:  4-8            Other:  -

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