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Rory Mullarkey

RORY MULLARKEY

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  represented by Rachel Taylor

Rory Mullarkey is from Stockport. He graduated in 2009 from Cambridge University with a first class degree in Russian, Latin and Ukrainian. Rory also studied at the State theatrical Arts Academy of St Petersburg and spent most of 2008 living and working in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia. Rory is a translator of Russian Drama, and has translated plays for the ADC Theatre, Cambridge, the Royal Court Theatre and the Free Theatre of Belarus. His plays include: Single Sex (Royal Exchange), Remembrance Day (Royal Court), Tourism (Headlong), Come To WhereI'm From (Paines Plough). In 2010, Rory was Writer-on-Attachment at the Royal Court Theatre, London and went on to join the Theatres Super Group. Rory is currently the 2011 Pearson Writer in Residence at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and is under commission to Headlong Theatre Co.

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         And I Don't Care How You're Doing Anymore         Cannibals         Charonville         Coat         Come to Where I am From         Coraline         Each Slow Dusk         Grandfathers, The         Once Upon a Time         Oresteia         Pagans         Pity         Remembrance Day         Single Sex         Tourism         Trio With Accompaniment         Twatted         Uncle Sasha the Butcher         Way Back Home, The         Wolf From The Door, The
And I Don't Care How You're Doing Anymore

Synopsis:
Lora is in trouble. the baby is crying, the cold is biting and Andrei is up to his eyes in debt. And just when Lora thinks her life can't get any worse, Andrei disappears. A play about life on the frontline of the new Ukraine.

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Original Playwright - Oksana Savchenko

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Genre:
translation

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Cannibals

Cannibals
On a farm, in a village, on the fringe of Europe, life is simple but hard. When the sweeping forces of war and progress pass through, Lizaveta must run for her life. Finding shelter on an old womans farm, she tries to piece her life back together. But her past catches up with her and she must keep moving. Her journey through a land of mud and blood, icon painters and holy fools, takes her across continents to the other side of the world. Through Lizavetas eyes familiar places and notions of love, family and identity become distant and strange.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  with doubling

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Charonville

Synopsis:
the Lark Play Development Center hosts Belarus Free theatre for a public reading. Charonville involves a journalist who finds himself attending the funeral of John Dillinger, who, in this version, was not killed by the FBI, but lived his life out in this remote Midwestern town of Charonville, which turns out to be the refuge of many more legends who died under mysterious circumstances-including the King of Rock and Roll.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Original Playwright - Nikolai Khalezin. Translated by Yuriy Koliada And Rory Mullarky

1st Produced:
Lark Studio
939 Eighth AVenue, Suite 301, New York, NY 10019     22 Sep 2010

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Genre:
Translation

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Coat

Synopsis:
Coat is a sort of romantic comedy which flicks between nineteenth-century Russia and the here and now. A play for everyone who likes love, or just loves like.

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Overcoat Productions

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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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Paines Plough

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Genre:
short play

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Coraline

Synopsis:
adapts a much-loved story by Neil Gaiman - a British writer who has transformed the landscape of fantasy literature with his highly imaginative, atmospheric and otherworldly narratives. Coraline is classic Gaiman: it is packed with astonishing imagery, all wrapped up in an engrossing yarn. After its publication in 2002 Coraline swept up numerous awards, including Nebula and Hugo awards for Best Novella. In 2009 it was adapted into a stop-motion film directed by Henry Selick - which also received widespread acclaim.

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Music by Mark-Anthony Turnage and lyrics by Rory Mullarkey (after Neil Gaiman)

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Opera de Lille

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Genre:
opera

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Each Slow Dusk

Each Slow Dusk
The Private misses the farm. The Captain dreams of painting. The Corporal relishes the fight. and a hundred years later, The Woman seeks to understand . 1916 - In the darkness of the French night, three young soldiers, a private, a corporal and a captain, cross no man's land towards the enemy trench. Stealth is key to their survival and so they walk in silence, with nothing to communicate the thoughts in their heads save for the barest of gestures. 2014 - A woman goes on a day trip to visit the touristic monuments commemorating the Battle of the Somme at Vimy Ridge and the Loghnagar Crater - the site of a mine explosion that killed over 6,000 people - where she encounters remembrance, restaurants and bright, themed gift shops. Each Slow Dusk is a startling play about action, humanity, and the legacy of war. Immersing you in the reality of conflict through vivid, thrilling detail, it gives you a fresh way of thinking about war - from the past soldiers' perspective to the woman's present-day experience.

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1st Produced:
All Stretton Village Hall, Shropshire Sy6 6Jr     14 Oct 2014

Organisations:
Pentabus

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Genre:
play 85 min

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Grandfathers, The

Grandfathers, The
National service in our country ended fifty years ago. What would happen if it was brought back? the Grandfathers follows the story of a group of young people who have found themselves in the middle of a war. they have 547 days of service to complete; whether they like it or not. We watch them desperately try to find their place and to be accepted, forming a community and becoming a family. Across the world, young people are legally bound to serve in their nation's armed forces. This provocative 'in yer face' play looks at the plight of teenage soldiers caught in the military machine. . .

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National Theatre Connections

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in National Theatre Connections 2012, Methuen Drama (15 Mar 2012)
Published in an extended version for the Market theatre, Johannesburg, by Oberon Books   

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TYA

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  9

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Once Upon a Time

Synopsis:
the biggest and boldest show of the theatrical calendar, this year's pantomime features a script by Footlights regulars, a catch-as-hell original score and performances from Cambridge's top comic actors.

Notes:
written by Rory Mullarkey and Alex Clatworthy

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Jesus College Drama Society

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Genre:
pantomime

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Oresteia

Oresteia
A radical reinvention of the classic tale of justice and mercy. Before setting out for the Trojan War, King Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia. Many years later, when Agamemnon returns to his palace, his adulterous Queen Clytemnestra takes her revenge by brutally murdering him and installing her lover on the throne. How will the gods judge Orestes, their estranged son, who must continue the endless cycle of revenge by murdering his mother? Perfectly suited to the outdoor arena of the Globe, this innovative new adaptation is the original and ultimate tale of justice and mercy. Adele Thomas (The Knight of the Burning Pestle) directs this thrilling three-act adaptation of the original epic trilogy, newly adapted for the Globe by Rory Mullarkey (winner of the prestigious George Devine Award for his play The Wolf from the Door at the Royal Court).

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aeschylus

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Bloomsbury Methuen drama   

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  10            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Pagans

Synopsis:
Natalya Stepanovna has come back into the lives of her estranged son Oleg and daughter-in-law Marina and is bringing the Lord Jesus Christ to them and their self-destructive, university drop-out daughter Kristina. Can He really save them all?

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Original Playwright - Anna Yablonskaya

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Eastern EURopean Readings

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Genre:
translation

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Pity

Pity
"Two bombs in one day is a foul coincidence" "Don't forget the lightning strike." A normal day. A person stands in the market square watching the world go by. What happens next verges on the ridiculous. There's ice cream. Sunshine. Shops. Some dogs. A wedding. Bombs. Candles. Blood. Lightning. Sandwiches. Snipers. Looting. Gunshots. Babies. Actors. Azaleas. Famine. Fountains. Statues. Atrocities. And tanks. (Probably).

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day
the Latvians who fought for the Third Reich and halted the Red Army parade as heroes every year through the streets of Riga. As a growing number of young Russians campaign to halt the fascist march, their Latvian counterparts join the veterans in commemoration. When teenager Anya becomes a political activist, her fathers attempts to calm the situation stirs up a storm of extremist patriotism.

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Original Playwright - Aleksey Scherbak

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Translation

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Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Single Sex

Synopsis:
For 15 year old Greg, the world is boys grammar school, Latin class, rugby practice and his friend Jamie. When Sophie finally agrees to go out with him, something chanegs and suddenly sex is all he can think about.

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A collaboration between Manchester School of Theatre & the Royal Exchange

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Tourism

Synopsis:
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Headlong

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Trio With Accompaniment

Trio With Accompaniment
No-one can forget the moment they heard the news. September 11th, 2001 sent shockwaves across the globe. It was a day that was supposed to change the world forever.Ten years on, a team of major writers and thinkers explore our responses to the defining event of our times in a new production from Headlong, creators of the multi award-winning ENRON. Rupert Goold's theatre company transforms a former trading hall into an immersive theatrical experience, taking you from the tranquil setting of St Katharine Docks on the River Thames to the bright blue skies of downtown Manhattan and beyond.

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part of Decade: Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays. Ten years After 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here Are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, An immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company. the writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben Ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood.

1st Produced:
Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1Az     01 Sep 2011

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Headlong

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Genre:
short piece

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Twatted

Synopsis:
Our hero, Hairy, likes swearing, booze and singing in his death metal band. His new girlfriend doesn't. A foul-mouthed Ukrainian comedy of sex, drugs and rock ?n' roll.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Evgeniy Markovskiy

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Genre:
translation

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Uncle Sasha the Butcher

Synopsis:
Little Anya steals her older brother's pornographic playing cards and sets in motion a chain of events that will leave her questioning the meaning of sex, relationships and true love well into her adult life. A poignant study of growing up or just growing old.

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Original Playwright - Mariam Agamian

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Genre:
translation

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Way Back Home, The

Synopsis:
an inter-galactic adventure tale for families and young children. One day a boy finds a plane in his cupboard. He flies his plane higher and higher until he runs out of petrol and lands on the moon. He is frightened, lost and alone until a passing Martian lands there too! Who is the strange alien? Can they be friends? and how will they find their way back home?

Notes:
book by Oliver Jeffers; adapted by Katie Mitchell and Vicki Mortimer; Lyrics Rory Mullarkey (after Oliver Jeffers).

1st Produced:
Waterside Arts Centre In Sale     26 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Big Wooden Horse

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Genre:
50 min Youth audience

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Wolf From The Door, The

Wolf From The Door, The
We don't actually drink coffee at my coffee morning. - What do you do, then? - We discuss the violent overthrow of the government. Also, there's flower arranging. In this intensely imaginative and daringly brave-thinking play, award-winning playwright Rory Mullarkey imagines a wild road trip across Middle England. Together, Lady Catherine and her young protege Leo enlist every tearoom, hot yoga class and Women's Institute group on a mission to change the country forever.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  with doubling

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