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Eve Leigh

EVE LEIGH

  
Nationality:    British
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Playwright Eve Leigh trained on the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers' Programme and Studio Group, and the National Theatre Directors' Course. Short plays includes Enough (Birmingham REP), White Tuesday and Branches So Big They Block Out The Sun (Arcola Theatre), Wall (Festival of the North East) and You're the Kind of Girl (Pleasance Edinburgh). Theatre as adaptor includes The Dybbuk (King's Head Theatre). Theatre as dramaturg includes Numbers (Belarus Free Theatre) and How To Win Against History (Ovalhouse). Theatre as director includes Circles and Chris and Me (Old Red Lion Theatre), Well (Trafalgar Studios and Apollo Theatre) and The Dybbuk (King's Head Theatre). Eve is Creative Director of the All Change Festival at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, and an Associate Artist of Firehouse Creative Productions.?

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

         Dybbuk, The         Silent Planet         Stone Face         Trick, The         White Tuesday
Dybbuk, The

Synopsis:
the Dybbuk, a seminal play in the history of Jewish theatre. It played an important role in the development of Yiddish theatre and theatre in Israel. the play was based on years of research by S. ansky, who travelled between Jewish shtetls in Russia and the Ukraine, documenting folk beliefs and stories of the Hassidic Jews. a young bride, possessed by obsession, shocks her village by inviting the dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit which was believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, to dance with her on the eve of her arranged marriage.

Notes:
from the book by S Anski

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Silent Planet

Synopsis:
And there is another planet, like ours. They can't see the sky, on that planet. Because their atmosphere is like a mirror. They look into the sky and see only themselves and the things they've made. So everything in their world can easily be understood. All they want is to be safe and comfortable. They fatten themselves on poison food. And when they look into the sky, they are struck dumb. By the greatness of their works. At the height of the Cold War, dissident writer Gavriil is detained in a Soviet mental prison as a punishment for protesting against the government. His only escape is the prison library, a treasure store of banned literature available to the patients, but off-limits to the prison staff. His interrogator, Yurchak, offers to protect him from torture in exchange for sharing the forbidden stories. Their agreement will help them both find a kind of freedom, at the risk of their lives. Inspired by an incident in the life of writer, activist and neurophysiologist Vladimir Bukovsky, Silent Planet is a love story about our love of stories, a passionate and poetic fable about the power of literature in a world in which the wrong words can get you killed.

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Organisations:
Upstart

1st Published:
Oberon Books Ltd (25 Nov 2014)   

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Stone Face

Stone Face
No scars at all. Which, when you think about it, is maybe not such a good sign Catherine is fifteen years old, and was discovered in a state of almost total neglect. No one is even sure if she's ever left the room she was found in. She can't walk and can't speak. Her recovery seems impossible. But children can be shockingly resilient, especially with inspired medical care. Sponsored by a fundraising drive led by a tabloid newspaper, her only surviving relative has been able to get Catherine the best private medical care that money can buy. She responds well to the experimental treatment. But she seems to be getting more violent, and remains stubbornly resistant to language. Or is she? Soon, Catherine's doctors and great-aunt begin to discover what it is, exactly, that they've uncovered. . . Inspired by true events.

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Organisations:
Desara Bosnja

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Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  both parts doubled

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Trick, The

Synopsis:
Mira's husband, Jonah, died seven months ago, but that doesn't mean that either of them are ready to let him go. For most of her life Jonah has been Mira's reason to get out of bed in the morning. So when he does his final disappearing act, Mira can't quite believe her eyes. She knows she should be moving on. And yet, Mira finds herself caring less and less about the world outside. The Trick is a magic show about the parts of life we don't talk about - the realities of getting older and coming to terms with loss. Ghosts, goldfish, mediums, and sleight-of-hand collide in this unpredictable exploration of ageing and grief

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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White Tuesday

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The Miniaturists is the regular curated writer-led event dedicated to bringing you short, exhilarating, perfectly formed plays. Each show is packed with work from an exciting array of new and established playwrights all of whom see the short play as a form in itself rather than a means to an end.

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Miniaturists 47

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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