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Ailis Ni Riain

AILIS NI RIAIN  

 Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  (agent: Mel Kenyon)


Born in Cork in the Irish Republic, the international prizewinning composer Ailis Ni Riain combines her interests as a composer, devisor and writer to produce works which challenge, provoke and engage. She is particularly interested in cross-discipline collaboration, opera, music-theatre and presenting contemporary music in diverse spaces. Her music has been performed throughout Europe and the USA and on Irish, Greek and German radio. She has been represented by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland since 1999. Her composition StreetSong won joint-first prize at the 2006 ISCM* World New Music Days Short Cuts: Beauty Competition in Stuttgart (*lnternational Society of News Music). EXIT was placed second in the Vienna Modern Masters: 2006 Nancy Van de Vate International Composition Prize for OperA. Recent commissions included Surrealist Pilgrims for amplified cello and tape for the National Concert Hall of Ireland in March 2007 and Into the Sea of Waking Dreams for the Living Composer's Project, and 10,000 Deviants for Eleven Ensemble. Although her formal training has primarily been in classical music as a composer and pianist, Ailfs has been writing texts for several years, often incorporating these within her musical compositions, her particular interest being in voice theatre and soundscape. More recently she has been focusing on writing for performance and in November 2006 Ailis was selected as one of the most promising UK-based emerging writers to attend the Cubed3 Writers Residency at the Traverse, Scotland's newwriting theatre. Her poetry has been published by many publications including Citizen 32, Lamport Court, Aesthetica Magazine, The Argotist, The Ugly Tree, Papercut, This is it and Parameter.

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below is a list of Ailis Ni Riain's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Cell         Desolate Heaven         Tilt

Cell

Synopsis:
Hickey has acute social withdrawal syndrome and has barricaded himself into his bedroom at his parents' house for the last two years. He speaks passionately with his alter-ego Mickey, who argues against him - particularly when he is calling people who have nothing better to do but post ill-informed opinions on the Internet message boards where he spends a lot of his own time - but when his mother comes up with his meals or to take away his waste products he freezes and won't speak until she has gone away.
- David Chadderton, British Theatre Guide

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1st Produced:
Pure, The Printworks, Manchester's 24:7 Theatre Festival    2009

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1st Published:
Methuen Drama   -

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Desolate Heaven

Desolate Heaven
Sive and Orlaith are twelve and thirteen. Yet despite their age, they are each responsible for the care of their respective parents. When the girls meet on a social day for carers, they forge a relationship that takes them on an epic journey through the twisting backroads of small towns, friendship and love. Desolate Heaven is a story of two young girls burdened with unnatural responsibilities. It is a story of falling in love for the first time and a story about running away. It is a story about growing up too soon and about why love can sometimes be dangerous.

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Liverpool Everyman Theatre's Annual Everyword festival for new writing And Aspiring writers has been relocated to the Liverpool Playhouse for this year while the Everyman undergoes extensive refurbishment.

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Tilt

Tilt
"My two big bruised brothers. . .I love you both so much you know. . " A sister searches her brothers for empathy and answers to her family's self-destruction. All three are trapped for ever in an obsessive need to remember and relive their treatment at the hands of a sadistic, brutalising father and of a mother over endowed with forbearance

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1st Produced:
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool    2007

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The New Works

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