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Hannah Khalil

HANNAH KHALIL

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  represented by Jessica Cooper

A British playwright of Palestinian/Irish descendants. An award-wining writer, Hannah's first short play, Ring, was selected for the Soho Theatre's Westminster Prize and her first full- length piece, Leaving Home, was staged at The King's Head. A commission for Rose Bruford at Battersea Arts Centre followed, and Hannah subsequently received support from The Peggy Ramsay Foundation to write Stolen Or Strayed, which received a Special Commendation in the Verity Bargate Award. Further work includes Plan D, which was produced at Tristan Bates Theatre and was nominated for the Meyer Whitworth Award and Hannah has worked with the National Theatre Studio, Royal Court (Young Writers' Programme) and Tinderbox Theatre in Belfast. Most recently Hannah's play Bitterenders, a black comedy about a Palestinian family in Jerusalem who are forced to share their house with Israeli settlers, won Sandpit Arts' Bulbul 2013 competition and was staged at The Nightingale in Brighton. Her monologue The Worst Cook in the West Bank was performed as part of an evening of short plays about Arab women in the Arab Spring at the Old Red Lion in London and the Unity Theatre as part of the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival. Hannah also writes for the radio, The Deportation Room, about the treatment of Gazans in Cairo airport, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 autumn 2012, while play Last of the Pearl Fishers aired on BBC Radio 4 in January 2015. She has just finished writing her first short filmThe Record, and is currently developing an idea with BBC Drama for BBC One.

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

         Bitterenders         Leaving Home         Metaverse         Plan D         Ring         Scar Test, The         Scenes From 68* Years         Stolen Or Strayed         Unofficial Guide, The         Very Short Play For Syria, A         Worst Cook in the West Bank
Bitterenders

Bitterenders
Maha's Palestinian family shares their East Jerusalem apartment with an Israeli family, until a surprising letter changes everything-or does it?

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1st Produced:
part of the ReOrient Festival, San Francisco     01 Sep 2015

Organisations:
Golden Thread Theatre

1st Published:
in "Sykes-Picot: The Legacy: Five Modern Plays by Hannah Khalil, Hassan Abdulrazzak, and Joshua Hinds", CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (23 April 2015)   

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Genre:
black comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Leaving Home

Synopsis:
an Iraqi man living in London needs to find the money for pioneering eye surgery for his young daughter. a Filipino maid working in the Uae returns home to have her illegitimate child, but realises she can't leave him and instead goes to Britain in the hope of being able to keep her baby. Through the interweaving of these two stories Leaving Home explores the experiences of immigrants trying to live in London.

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Elephant Theatre

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Metaverse

Metaverse
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Interference" published by Methuen Drama 2018   

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Plan D

Synopsis:
"if you are afraid, go - my family and I are staying" a family with deeply buried secrets is visited by a long-lost cousin. He brings with him a warning: a powerful, unseen force is heading towards their home. Is this the only reason he has come? Can they trust him? they have very little time to decide. Hannah Khalil's powerful and far-reaching play is inspired by the testimonies of Palestinians who endured the 1948 war. How far would you go to protect your family?

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Ring

Synopsis:
a ten minute short about a fleeting exchange between an old and young woman when the latter's car breaks down.

Notes:
Runner up in Soho theatre's Westminster Prize

1st Produced:
Soho Theatre (Westminster Prize Reading)     2001

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Ten Min

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Scar Test, The

Scar Test, The
The stories of people in Yarl's Wood Detention Centre awaiting deportation

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1st Produced:
Arcola Theatre, London     Jun 2015

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1st Published:
Methuen Drama 2017   

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Genre:
Drama

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Scenes From 68* Years

Scenes From 68* Years
Explores what life is, has been, and continues to be, for Palestinians living under occupation.

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1st Published:
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2016   

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Genre:
Play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 actors

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Stolen Or Strayed

Synopsis:
Stolen or Strayed tells the story of Maria, a woman in her sixties who resides in a London nursing home. She is cared for by Peter, a nurse who has left his own mother in a similar position in his native Ireland. as the dementia she is suffering from takes over, the audience is given glimpses of Maria's past, through the lens of her slowly disintegrating mind. She remembers nursing her disabled daughter and her job washing clothes at a private boarding school where she developed a close friendship with a young arab Prince. When the same Prince comes to find her all these years later is Maria dreaming? and what could he want from her after all this time?

Notes:
Verity Bargate Award, Special Commendation

1st Produced:
[staged reading] RADA. London    

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Unofficial Guide, The

Synopsis:
a 20 minute play about a young woman who is dying of cancer. She wants to believe in God so climbs Mount Sinai in the hope she will find faith at the top. She does not, but instead meets a cynical Bedouin who helps her back down. This short play explores the gulf between racial stereotypes and reality through the gradual understanding of two people.

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1st Produced:
BAC / Rose Bruford College     2005

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Very Short Play For Syria, A

Very Short Play For Syria, A
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1st Published:
CreateSpace Independant Publishing 2017   

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Worst Cook in the West Bank

Synopsis:
A Palestinian woman cooks for her huge family but she is sick of the word 'revolution', and isn't afraid to say why.

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1st Produced:
Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival     2013

Organisations:
Swivel Theatre

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Genre:
20 min play

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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