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Vivienne Franzmann

VIVIENNE FRANZMANN

  (1971 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

Vivienne Franzmann was born in North London in 1971. She has taught Drama for twelve years in a variety of London schools. In 2008, Vivienne was one of four first prize winners of the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition run by the Royal Manchester exchange for her play Mogadishu, which is the first play she'd ever written. She has recently won the George Devine award for the Most Promising Playwright of 2010. She is currently under commission to Clean Break Theatre Company and the Royal Court. She lives in East London.

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

         Breathe         Mogadishi         Most Horrific, The         Pests         Witness, The

Breathe

Synopsis:
A short play about the unseen.

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Part of "Hidden". Live Lunch returns with six new plays. six writers have been commissioned to create short plays with British East Asian experiences at the centre of their stories to be performed live as lunchtime readings

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short play

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Mogadishi

Mogadishi
a gripping and urgent play about a well-meaning teacher who intervenes on behalf of a troublesome student, with terrifying consequences.. When white secondary-school teacher amanda is pushed to the ground by black student Jason, she's reluctant to report him as she knows exclusion could condemn him to a future as troubled as his past. But when Jason decides to protect himself by spinning a story of his own, amanda is sucked into a vortex of lies in which victim becomes perpetrator. With the truth becoming less clear and more dangerous by the day, it isn't long before careers, relationships and even lives are under threat.

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joint winner of the Royal Exchange Theatre's Bruntwood Playwriting Competition 2008

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165 min Play/Drama

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Most Horrific, The

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The opening play splits the actors into three groupings. Two men discuss the horrors perpetrated by a bearded celebrity, using oblique terms but fooling nobody, given a recently closed court case. A woman relates stories of terror, again all familiar from recent news coverage and each competing for the attention of a director or producer, who seeks entertaining perversity. The play is most effective using irony to remind us how awful today's world is.

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In four years, Theatre Uncut has become established as one of the Fringe highlights. With a serious political agenda and a fund of excellent playwrights, it succeeds far more often than makes sense given its brief to create rapid response pieces. The first programme in 2014 gave the writers a theme of "Knowledge is power. Knowledge is change". The company also sought a fresh venture and the intention is to develop the five short pieces (average 15 minutes) into a single play that will eventually tour. In the meantime, Hannah Price directed a quartet of actors in the Traverse Bar. Each of Jade Anouka, Nalini Chetty, Finn den Hertog and Iain Robertson has several moments to shine during an enjoyable and challenging 75 minutes.

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Genre:
short reading

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Pests

Pests
A hard-hitting, claustrophobic drama about trying to escape your past.. Pink loves Rolly. Rolly loves Pink. And Pink loves getting bombed off her face. The story of two sisters from the same nest. Both trapped in a tiny rotting world. Both cuffed to a past that refuses to release them. One wants out. The other needs her in. Trouble is that when you complete each other, you're on your own.

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Witness, The

Witness, The
"Sometimes when I think of going back. I feel like I could run there. It's like I'm being called back. I know it sounds ridiculous. and sometimes I don't give a shit about any of it and I just want to stack shelves for the rest of my life." Captured in an award-winning shot Alex was rescued from Rwanda and adopted by the man behind the lens. Back from uni and returning to where she was raised the distance between Father and daughter stretches taut. In the dark room of a Hampstead home a long hidden secret is slowly exposed in a flash of revelation. Vivienne Franzmann's new play is a piercing and dark thriller of modern morals.

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