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Fin Kennedy

FIN KENNEDY

  
Nationality:    British
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award-winning investigative playwright and playwrighting teacher. Fin is a graduate of the Ma Writing for Performance programme at Goldsmiths College, London. His first play Protection was produced at Soho Theatre in 2003, where he was also Pearson writer-in-residence. His second play How To Disappear Completely & Never Be Found won the 38th Arts Council John Whiting Playwrighting award, the first time in 40 years that an unproduced play has won. It has since been commissioned by Sam West for Sheffield Crucible. Fin's first play for teenagers is currently touring [Nov 2006]. Locked In, a hip-hop musical for teenagers about pirate radio is produced by Half Moon Young Peoples Theatre. He is also under commission at the Tricycle Theatre developing Babylon, a play about the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad after the 2003 invasion. as well as writing plays Fin also has many years of experience teaching playwrighting at secondary, Fe, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He works for schools, youth clubs and Theatre education teams across inner city London, and is also a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, Brunel University and Boston University.

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

         B Minor         Blitz Spirit         B-Minor         Come To Where I'm From         Domino Effect, The         Dream Collector, The         East End Tales         Fast         How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found         Life Raft         Locked In         Mehndi Night         Protection         Stolen Secrets         Unravelling, The         Unstated: Stories Of Refuge         Urban Girl's Guide To Camping, The         We Are Shadows
B Minor

Synopsis:
B Minor is a ten minute play for three characters written in free verse. It is my most performed play. It was first devised in 2003 for the Red Room theatre Company's conference on political theatre-making Going Public. It was subsequently commissioned by theatre & Beyond for What Now? a festival of anti-war shorts. It has since been used by Half Moon Young People's theatre as a creative stimulus for their Careers In theatre week, and been performed at the Old Red Lion for Nabakov theatre Company's Shorts night, and at Subverse a monthly night of political playwrighting at theatre 503.

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Ten Min

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Blitz Spirit

Synopsis:
We'd get the call, and turn up to look for survivors. That smell of blood in the air, heavy and sweet. It was the kids what used to get to us. they'd be scattered about, like torn-up teddy bears.
a monologue written for I CONFeSS at Hoxton Hall exposing a darker reality endured by those who lived through the London blitz.

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What confessions Are held in this city's soul? What rifts Are to be found in the psyche of this capital, And what should lie undisturbed? And. . ..do you dare to find out? each performance is A one-to-one, And takes place in the nooks, crannies And quirky spaces of Hoxton Hall.

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monologue Play/Drama

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B-Minor

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subVeRSe, A new writing theatre company with An Ambitious programme reflecting the ongoing global political situation, presents ten new pieces At theatre 503 (the Latchmere Pub, 503 Battersea Park Road London SW11 3BW)

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short play

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Come To Where I'm From

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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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The Theatre Chipping Norton     07 Jun 2012

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Domino Effect, The

Domino Effect, The
Welcome to Tower Hamlets. This is East London as you've never seen it before. Here, nothing is as it seems. It is a world where baby spirits inhabit rainclouds, where time can be bought in shops, a world where pianos bite the fingers of their players, debts rise up as demons and dominoes are ivory eggs from which the future hatches. Because this is Amina's world. A world of softness, imagination and possibility. But where has her mother gone? A magical tale about small actions, big effects and finding your power.

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1st Produced:
Thespace @ Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival     01 Aug 2014

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Mulberry Theatre Company

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TYA, 45 minutes

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Dream Collector, The

Dream Collector, The
A 21st century play about the oldest storyteller in the world: our subconscious. An East London school group set off on an overnight school trip to the remote mansion of an early black-and-white movie pioneer. Charles Somna was the legendary inventor of the Somnagraph, though Somna himself mysteriously disappeared. . .But no-one is there to meet the school party when they arrive. When they find a disused cinema in the basement, complete with working Somnagraph, they kick back for a night at the movies. . . But none of them are prepared for what they see on screen. Just what is a Somnagraph? Who are The Neverborn? And why does nobody - ever - get to leave that cinema?

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The Dream Collector was developed by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy across two schools simultaneously. This comic fantasy about the dream lives of East London's teenagers is the result.

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Mulberry And Bigland Green Centre, London     16 Oct 2013

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Mulberry Theatre Company

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TYA, 70 minutes

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  16 young actors

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East End Tales

East End Tales
a series of innovative and adaptable monologues portraying life in the east end of London

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1st Produced:
Half Moon Young People's Theatre, London     2004

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Mulberry Theatre Company

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Fast

Fast
In Fast, a twenty-four-hour school fundraiser in a semi-rural town takes on a new urgency when farmer's daughter Cara refuses to eat again until the supermarkets she holds responsible for her father's suicide agree to her demands.

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Y Touring Theatre     22 Aug 2014

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Mulberry Theatre Company

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TYA

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How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found

How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found
the award-winning play that follows one man's desperate attempts to buck the system, and asks what really makes us who we are in the 21st century. John Whiting award for New theatre Writing 2005. When a young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear, he pays a visit to a master of the craft in the form of a seafront fortune teller in Southend. Haunted by visitations from a pathologist who swears he is already lying flat out on her slab, he begins a nightmarish journey to the edge of existence that sees him stripped of everything that made him who he was.

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Sheffield Theatres

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Life Raft

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An unknown enemy has sunk a cruise liner. A lifeboat full of children is adrift. As darkness falls fear, hunger and madness take hold

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Bristol Old Vic     2015

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Locked In

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On the 20th floor of an abandoned east end tower block, a Caribbean MC and Bengali DJ rip up the airwaves on a leading pirate station. Blaze and Riqi are sick of people telling them what to do  go to school, do your exams, blah blah blah & Don't people know talent when they hear it? their last CD was a massive hit and they're all set to hit the big time with their first live set at exile FM's birthday bash coming up. then Zahida comes into their lives and cracks begin to appear in their friendship. When a local gangster asks Blaze for a serious favour, suddenly there's a choice to be made that could split their world wide open. Locked In is a powerful three-hander, developed in direct contact with young people, ensuring authentic language, portraying diverse cross-cultural inner-city life and characters, underscored by a contemporary hip hop soundtrack.

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teenagers Play/Drama

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Mehndi Night

Mehndi Night
You are cordially invited to a Bangladeshi mehndi party, to bless Nilufa Begum's wedding. Samosas, chai and long-forgotten secrets will be served. an extraordinary collaboration between award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy and girls from Mulberry School, e1.

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Protection

Protection
Tough political play about our crumbling social fabric and the people who have to pick up the pieces

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Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  doubling possible

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Stolen Secrets

Stolen Secrets
From the hearts of London's east end, a fistful of urban confessions. Playwright Fin Kennedy and the girls of Mulberry School unmask a city you thought you knew. 'Cracking community theatre' (Herald on 2007's 'mehndi Night'). www.finkennedy.co.uk

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Unravelling, The

Unravelling, The
an east London fabric shop. a mother challenges her daughters to weave her the greatest tale. their prize? the future. the third groundbreaking collaboration between playwright Fin Kennedy and the girls of Mulberry School. 'a delight' (Scotsman). www.finkennedy.co.uk/theunravelling

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The Space@Venue 45 (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)     01 Aug 2009

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Mulberry Theatre Company

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Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  plus 2 or more narrators

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Unstated: Stories Of Refuge

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Unstated is based on the true testimonies of the men and women who seek refuge in the UK. Sometimes smuggled, sometimes forced from their own land, they wash up in Britain only to endure more hardship and destitution. a mixture of film and live action, written by Fin Kennedy, (John Whiting award winner) from filmed interviews and designed by international artist Roney Fraser-Munroe, it aims to debunk some of the myths that surround asylum seekers and expose how we treat some of society's most vulnerable. Unstated has been developed as a collaboration with agencies that work in this area. the company interviewed a range of subjects from individual asylum seekers, workers at Immigration Centres and experts, to offer up a Dramatic picture and invite audiences to decide just how fair the system really is. a cast of four actors along with filmed sequences, will appear in this interactive show presented in a promenade space with the venue being turned into a removal centre where audience members will be searched and finger printed as they enter.
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devised by Topher Campbell And written by Fin Kennedy

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the Red Room and TUC

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Urban Girl's Guide To Camping, The

Urban Girl's Guide To Camping, The
In the Urban Girl's Guide to Camping, four young friends leave the city behind and head into the wilderness, but a burning secret threatens to tear their lives apart. a bittersweet comedy about life, love and friendship once school is long gone.

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Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  plus one non-speaking girl

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We Are Shadows

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Nine lives, nine tales and a chain of events with unforeseen consequences. Moving among the shadows of London's East End, a group of disconnected young people face harsh choices in their lives. A chance encounter reveals the invisible links between them all and how an action can unknowingly cast a shadow on someone else's life, plunging their world into darkness. Through a series of stylised interwoven monologues, We Are Shadows creates a snapshot of contemporary urban life.

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Genre:
teenagers Play/Drama

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