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Pamela Carter

PAMELA CARTER

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Berlin Associates  

Playwright Pamela Carter lives in London. Her plays produced in the UK include Skane (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs; winner of Berlin Theatertreffen Stuckemarkt 2012), What We Know (Traverse Theatre, edinburgh) and Slope and An Argument About Sex (after Marivaux's La Dispute) for Stewart Laing's untitled Projects. Since 2010, she has been writing for the Swedish conceptual art duo Goldin+Senneby on the Nordenskiold Model, their on-going investigation into algorithmic trading and financial reality. As a Dramaturg, she has worked with companies including the National Theatre of Scotland, Malmo Opera House, and Vanishing Point (Interiors, and Saturday Night). Currently, she is the IASH/Traverse Theatre Creative Fellow at Edinburgh University, and is also under commission to Hampstead Theatre. Almost Here will premiere at the Staatschausspiele in Dresden, Germany in 2013.

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         7734         Almost Near         Argument About Sex, An         Game Theory         Last Of Us         Lines         Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner         Skane         Slope         Soul Pilots         Tomorrow         What We Know         Wild Life

7734

Synopsis:
This unique collaboration pairs acclaimed choreographer Jasmin Vardimon with playwright Pamela Carter to create a new piece of dance theatre at London's Dance House Sadler's Wells. 7734 questions the human forces and weaknesses that have manufactured hell on earth whilst illuminating both our capacity for survival and the poetry of hope.

Notes:
Directed And Choreographed by Jasmin Vardimon. With text by Pamela Carter

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Jasmin Vardimon Company in association with Brighton Dome, Sadler's Wells, La Comete, the Hall for Cornwall and Soho Theatre

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Genre:
Dance theatre

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Almost Near

Synopsis:
Afghanistan. Amongst the debris of a bomb-attack blast, four young British soldiers try to pick up the pieces. The UK. A couple worry about the strange behaviour of their nine year old son and his imaginary friend as their marriage crumbles around them. Separated by 3000 miles, but they are all in it together... Exploring themes of war, trauma, kinship and empathy, Almost Near is a stunning new play about wanting to be a part of something, and what it means to be alive.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Argument About Sex, An

Synopsis:
a response to Pierre de Marivaux La Dispute

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Game Theory

Synopsis:
a compelling, dark, funny and at times disturbing new play about the desire to win measured against the need to reconcile. Game theory examines the difference between saying something and meaning it.

Notes:
written by Pamela Carter And Selma Dimitrijevic

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Organisations:
ek Performance

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Last Of Us

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Lines

Synopsis:
Our soldiers are in their barracks. Waiting. Dreaming. We meet our young lads as civilians and watch them transform into soldiers. They finish their training and are unleashed into an unknown peacetime. But what do soldiers do when there's no one to fight? The Yard's Artistic Director Jay Miller and writer Pamela Carter have been speaking with retired soldiers, children who want to join the army, and soldiers currently serving our country. This is a show that exposes the consequences of peace. The show at The Yard will incorporate explosive techno, angelic choral singing and four young men all desperate to be a hero. Note: Lines is the accommodation in our barracks, where our soldiers sleep. It is where they clean their laundry, their weapons and their bodies.

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner
In 1987 Paul Bright, a radical young Scottish director, set out to stage James Hogg's Confessions of Justified Sinner in a series of events in unusual locations across Scotland. Untitled Projects has been working with the actor George Anton to assemble an archive of these landmark productions. We've found amazing original film footage, and recreated some of our own. We've interviewed those involved in making the work and those who saw it. they've given us old photographs, some anecdotes and some secrets. . .In 2013, we share this material in an exhibition and live performance that celebrate the work of an unsung hero of Scottish theatre. George Anton has worked with some of the world's most famous theatre directors, such as Declan Donnellan and Calixto Bieto. Now George reappraises the reputation of the unrecognised director Paul Bright. George looks back from a personal perspective, exploring the impact Paul Bright and his obsessive methodology had on the lives and relationships of the close knit group he collaborated with. He has discovered much he was unaware of about this innovative highpoint of an ultimately failed career in theatre: illusions lost, love lost, ambitions and dreams unfulfilled. Overwhelmed by these memories Untitled Projects wonder at the lasting legacy of Paul Bright's recklessly ambitious yet incomplete staging of Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

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Untitled Projects has reconstructed Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner with the actor George Anton; writer Pamela Carter; cinematographer Christopher Doyle; director Stewart Laing; production manager Nick Millar; artists Robbie Thomson and Jack Wrigley; and researcher emilia Weber.

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Untitled Projects, National Theatre of Scotland & Tramway

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Oberon Books (2015) >>>    978-1783199495

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Genre:
performance, film

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Skane

Synopsis:
Exploration of the impact of guileless, uninhibited love - and its effect on the relationships we think we know. Skane, southern Sweden: rich farmland; flat horizons. An adulterous couple on the run decide they must put things right and return to their families. But what if their affair is the only thing that actually was right - and what if even their families dread a return to 'normality'?

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Slope

Synopsis:
In 1871, a sixteen-year old boy called Arthur Rimbaud arrived in Paris from the provinces with his poems and little else. When this child genius sailed for Africa five years later, he had left an alcohol-fuelled trail of devastation: wrecked relationships and an outraged society - but in the process he had revolutionised world literature, defining the course that radical poetry would take throughout the 20th century. He would never write a line of poetry again. Slope contemplates the nature of addiction and the nature of desire: what attracts us to the things that damage us? What is it that makes some people eventually sink under, while others walk away? Slope takes a new look at the relationship between Rimbaud and Verlaine, and the chaos that fired their creativity.

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Purni Morell

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Soul Pilots

Synopsis:
the cast move through a series of exercises involving identity, inter-hip and group behaviour

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Dark Lights Commission

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Tomorrow

Synopsis:
This new work from Vanishing Point explores what it is to grow old and be cared for, in a world where myth and spirituality have been subsumed by what we all know to be true - that we are born, we live and we die. Using its distinctive visual imagination, Vanishing Point explores this subject through the dreamlike scenario of a young man who suddenly finds himself in an alarmingly unfamiliar place. A place where everyone seems to know him and where strange rules apply. Where everyone seems to have his best interests at heart, but he is not at liberty to leave. A major international co-production, Tomorrow is a striking meditation on growing old, dementia, needing care and needing to care.

Notes:
conceived by Matthew Lenton, text by Pamela Carter

1st Produced:
Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Brighton Festival     21 May 2014

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Vanishing Point/Brighton Festival/Tramway (Glasgow)/Cena Contemporanea (Brasilia)

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What We Know

What We Know
Lucy has lost something very important. He was there one moment, then gone the next, leaving her with a pile of half-cooked food and a collection of invited (and uninvited) guests. as Lucy acclimatises to her new situation, the audience is absorbed, along with her and her visitors, into an intimate and sensory experience. What We Know is a funny, painful, absurd, bewildering and deeply moving new play presented in a unique and innovative style.

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eK Performance

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Wild Life

Synopsis:
and the child will be an adventure. . .. a journey of discovery. Because in the process of restoring the child to our world, the child'll show us what it means to be a part of this world. It'll show us what you and I are'. Inspired by the true story of Victor: the so called 'Wolf-boy of aveyron' found living wild in 19th century rural France, Wild Life is a new play from the highly acclaimed Pamela Carter (Slope and What We Know) which follows the progress of a modern day Victor as his education becomes a televised experiment. Dark, witty and provocative, Wild Life questions the nature of humanity, how we educate children and how we understand our place in the world.

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1st Produced:
Mull Theatre, Dervaig, Scotland     08 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Magnetic North

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