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Natalie McGrath

NATALIE MCGRATH  

 Nationality:    British
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Natalie McGrath is currently under commission by Devon Records Office to write a play for Deaf Awareness Month 2011. In the pipeline is The Peace a play about Mo Mowlam supported by Peggy Ramsay Foundation and a short play for Tangle's A Drop to Drink project. Recently commissioned by Bristol Old Vic for Short Fuses April 2010 with Wild Doves. Coasting is currently under development at Bristol Old Vic and Metal Remains produced at the Alma Tavern by Theatre West in Bristol 2008 was shortlisted for the 2009 Meyer Whitworth Award - National Theatre Foundation.

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

         Coasting         Come to Where I am From         Exodus         Metal Remains         Oxygen

Coasting

Synopsis:
the Stretch snakes along the seafront in a seaside town that has seen better days. Summer left a long time ago and now the paint is peeling, the beach is windswept and the tourists have all taken the last train home. Using their own language in their own small world, best friends Pearl and Ocean precariously cling together making small change from fruit machines and temporarily escaping the Stretch by whatever means possible. And then, one night, with fireworks exploding in the sky and police sirens wailing, Ocean sees the body on the beach. . .

Notes:
rehearsed reading Theatre503, 24 Jun 2009

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Organisations:
Bristol Old Vic production

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Come to Where I am From

Synopsis:
Sixty one playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them. At 14 theatres from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays will be performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. 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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Organisations:
Paines Plough

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Genre:
short play

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Exodus

Synopsis:
depicts a young woman, Stella, and her voyage of discovery as she returns home after 12 years of self imposed exile to confront her past.

Notes:
part of Word:Play/NWxSW

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Box of Tricks

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Music:
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Metal Remains

Synopsis:
A soldier is posted to Iraq and her lover mourns her departure. A mother searches desperately for her son and a daughter becomes consumed by the beauty of the desert. Four women, all caught up in the crossfire search for personal liberation, understanding, hope and love. As unstoppable forces collide, brutality and tenderness meet. 'sometimes a heart wants to keep things hidden for a little while.'

Notes:
part of Writing in the Margins

1st Produced:
Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol    2008

Organisations:
Theatre West

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Oxygen

Synopsis:
Imagine that fifteen women gather. they have a conversation. Map eight geographic arteries across England (like points on a compass). these arteries reach out towards a singular destination, (like roots forming a tree). In Cornwall, a group of women start walking along one of these arteries. Carrying a banner that says: Land's End to Hyde Park. It is June, 1913 and the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage begins.

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Organisations:
Dreadnought Project

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Genre:
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