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Kieran Knowles

KIERAN KNOWLES

  
Nationality:    English
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

Playwright Kieran Knowles makes his professional playwriting debut with Operation Crucible. He is a graduate of Loughborough University, LAMDA, and the Royal Court Young Writers Programme.

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

         31 Hours         Chicken Soup         Comet         Cornerstone         Gravesend         Operation Crucible         Red Brick, Render
31 Hours

31 Hours
John, Doug, Ste, and Neil work on the railways. They won't sell you a ticket and they don't drive a train. What happens when you have to clean up the worst day of someone else's life? Every 31 hours someone takes their own life on the railways in the U.K rail network. It is ten times more likely to be a man. Thirty One Hours explores four men's inability to talk about their emotions and the consequence of their silence.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bunker, london     03 Oct 2017

Organisations:
From Ground Up TC

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://twitter.com/kieranknowles

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Chicken Soup

Synopsis:
During the miners strike three women open a soup kitchen which they are still operating thirty two years late

Notes:
Written with Ray Castelton

1st Produced:
Sheffield Crucible     08 Feb 2018

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
TR 38/2018  166

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Comet

Synopsis:
Charlotte meets a boy online. The boy has an idea that will change Charlotte's world forever

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Cornerstone

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Gravesend

Synopsis:
Pocahontas died in Gravesend, Kent in 1617. A native American, she was kidnapped by inhabitants of Jamestown as leverage against her father. She converted to Christianity and married an Englishman who used Virginia leaf for tobacco

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1st Produced:
UK tour     2017

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Operation Crucible

Operation Crucible
Sheffield's on fire, it glows orange, like hell, like a furnace, like steel. The streets which were familiar are now just bricks, mortar and flame. My childhood, my home. . . just a pile of stone. The world premiere of a new play, set against the backdrop of the Sheffield Blitz - Operation Crucible, a first play by new playwright Kieran Knowles. A story of four ordinary men in extraordinary times. . .On the 12 December 1940, more than six hundred people lost their lives in over seven hours of continuous bombing by Germany's Luftwaffe. Their objective? Wiping Sheffield's world famous steel works - the heartland of Britain's munitions manufacturing - clean off the map. The ruthless attack left Sheffield in ruins - destroying families, shattering a way of life, and changing the city forever. At 11.44pm on the night of the raid, a single 500kg bomb reduced the Marples Hotel, which stood proudly in Fitzalan Square, from seven storeys to just fifteen feet of rubble. Only one of the ten compartments in the hotel's cellars withstood the blast. Within it, trapped, were four men. This is their story, from beginning to end. . .

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Folie a deux Productions and From Ground Up Theatre Company

1st Published:
Oberon Books 2013   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
TR  35/2015  791

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Red Brick, Render

Synopsis:
Two boys are united by their love of football

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Royal Exchange, London    

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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