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Sonja Linden

SONJA LINDEN

  
Nationality:    British
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Founder/artistic Director iceandfire Theatre company, 2003 - ;Writer in Residence Medical Foundation, 1997- 2004; Co-director of London academy of Playwriting, 1996-9; Playwright in Residence for South Hill Park Arts Centre, 1995-6

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

         Are You Sleeping In A Safe Place?         Asylum Dialogues         Call Me Judas         Celebrating Chekov: The Bear/Afterplay         Crocodile Seeking Refuge         Gradiva or The Love Cure         I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda         Jewish Daughter, The + Brecht's the Jewish Wife         Now And At the Hour Of Our Death         On A Clear Day You Can See Dover         Palestine Monologues         Present Continuous         Strange Passenger, The         Welcome To Ramallah         Who Do We Think We Are?

Are You Sleeping In A Safe Place?

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Wind and Water Productions

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Genre:
Youth eco-opera

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Asylum Dialogues

Synopsis:
What happens when you meet someone who has fled their country to seek refuge in the UK? What happens when that person becomes your friend and needs your help? Drawn from real life conversations, asylum Dialogues explores the everyday encounters between asylum seekers and British people, encouraging us to challenge our own preconceptions

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1st Produced:
Bristol: Colston Hall    14 Jun 2008

Organisations:
IceandFire

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Call Me Judas

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Organisations:
Paines Plough Theatre Company

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Play/Drama

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Celebrating Chekov: The Bear/Afterplay

Synopsis:
Rehearsed readings. Described by Chekov himself as "a trivial little vaudeville in the French Manner" The Bear is a hilarious one act play featuring an aging manservant, a beautiful young widow and a handsome farmer who challenges her to a duel! Adapted by Brian Friel, The Financial Times has described this comic gem as superbly funny and vivid. In contrast the bitter sweet Afterplay (written by Friel) pays homage to Chekovs most famous works The Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya by intertwining the lives of two characters from these plays. Set in a run down Moscow cafe in the 1920s the piece examines the dual power and danger of the imagination when real life is difficult to bear.

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1st Produced:
Guildford: Elecric Theatre    24 Jan 2011

Organisations:
LynchPin Productions

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Genre:
reading

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Crocodile Seeking Refuge

Crocodile Seeking Refuge
the central story is that of an asylum lawyer whose dedication to her clients is wrecking her marriage.

Notes:
part of Writers' Block - A week of new work

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Organisations:
IceandFire

1st Published:
aurora Metro Publications,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Gradiva or The Love Cure

Synopsis:
The relationship between Freud and Jung and the women in their lives meets the tale of Gradiva among the ruins of Pompeii.

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I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda

I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda
Inspired by real life experiences of Rwandan refugees in the UK, the play tells the story of two people from entirely different worlds who meet at a Refugee centre in London. Juliette is a young Rwandan asylum seeker, determined to write a book on the genocide that killed her family; Simon is a middle-aged failing novelist, whose job is to help people write. the play follows their funny and touching relationship and tackles issues that face many refugees who live in the UK today

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Radio Adaptation: 2003, BBC World Service Drama; (Director Rishi Sankar).

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IceandFire

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Jewish Daughter, The + Brecht's the Jewish Wife

Synopsis:
A Brecht double bill. Brecht's one-act play about a Jewish wife packing to leave pre-war Germany, and a sequel which updates the story for the 1990's.

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Organisations:
Lime Tree Productions

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Now And At the Hour Of Our Death

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Time Out Drama Award

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Organisations:
Trouble & Strife Theatre Company

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On A Clear Day You Can See Dover

Synopsis:
How do you catch a conscience? Is the play the thing? Ice & Fire is a company dedicated to exactly this - raising awareness of human rights issues through verbatim theatre. Founder and scriptwriter Sonja Linden exposed on Wednesday night, in a superb and moving one-off Dramatisation, the plight of asylum-seekers in Calais, and their absolute and often misplaced faith in england, the promised land. the white cliffs of Dover, on a clear day, can be glimpsed from Calais, symbolic as any rainbow.
Kate Kellaway, Observer

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IceandFire

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Palestine Monologues

Synopsis:
LynchPin's on-going rehearsed readings of plays old and new. Palestine Monologues, scripted by Sonja Linden of iceandfire Theatre, explores the day-to-day experiences of life under Israeli occupation highlighting turning points of individuals on both sides of the conflict. In association with Guildford Group Amnesty International.

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1st Produced:
Guildford: Elecric Theatre    17 May 2010

Organisations:
LynchPin Productions

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Genre:
reading

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Present Continuous

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Fringe First Award. BBC Radio 4, 1985

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Organisations:
Trouble & Strife Theatre Company

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Sanyusha Press,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Strange Passenger, The

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Bottled Notes from Underground LOKI Books,    -

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Welcome To Ramallah

Welcome To Ramallah
It's late afternoon when a Jewish woman arrives at her sisters' home in the occupied city of Ramallah. Dusk settles and with the call to prayer come neighbours, an uncle and nephew, to greet the new arrival. as night falls an unexpected curfew prompts the sharing of old stories that threaten to tear apart the fragile harmony of the sisters' memories.

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by Sonja Linden And Adah Kay

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Organisations:
iceandfire and York Theatre Royal

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Who Do We Think We Are?

Synopsis:
What makes you the person you are today? Your genes? Your experiences? The experiences of your parents and grandparents? In 2013 a group of older actors met in a rehearsal room to explore their family histories. What emerged over the next year was a remarkable collection of stories - from being a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, to surviving the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, to getting stoned at Woodstock. Who Do We Think We Are? is a kaleidoscope of personal stories from 1914 to 2014 infused with live music and physicality to create a life-enhancing evening in the theatre. Fast-paced, funny and poignant, this is the first piece of work created by Visible, Britain's only professional theatre ensemble made up entirely of 'older' performers in their 60s, 70s and 80s with an array of credits across theatre, film and television. Highly international, its members include Togo Igawa (the first Japanese actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company), Ruth Posner (a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto) and original member of the London Contemporary Dance Company Imola Gaspar, who has performed extensively with the National Theatres of Hungary and Romania.

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by Sonja Linden And Company

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Genre:
piece

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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