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Julia Pascal

JULIA PASCAL

  (1977 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Nicki Stoddart

Julia Pascal was born in Manchester England. She read English at London University and trained as an actor working at the Royal Court, NT, RSC, film, radio and television. Directing: National Theatre, adapted and directed Dorothy Parker's writings as a Platform Performance, Men Seldom Make Passes; Orange Tree Theatre (Associate Director) productions (and for Pascal Theatre Company) include the plays of Seamus Finnegan, Bertolt Brecht, Melanie Phillips, Karim Alrawi , Miriam Sivan and Carole Rumens. Journalism: includes being published in numerous publications and was Dance Editor of City Limits for nine years. Writing: plays include Theresa, A Dead Woman on Holiday, the Dybbuk, the Golem, the Yiddish Queen Lear, St Joan, Year Zero, Woman In the Moon and Crossing Jerusalem, produced at the Tricycle Theatre. Mittendurch Jerusalem is currently being staged by the Staatsteater Karlsruhe, translated by Thomas Huber. BBC Radio: the Road To Paradise. BBC TV: Charlotte and Jane, winner of both BAFTA and Royal Television Prizes. Pascal Theatre Company was founded in l983 to promote new writing and has successfully toured the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, AustriA. In 2006 Julia was awarded a NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship and she is the 2007 Leverhulme Writer in Residence at the Wiener Library. For Pascal Theatre Company she has produced a Heritage Lottery Fund dvd archive, Jewish Mothers and Daughters, housed at the British Library, the Imperial War Museum and London Metropolitan Archive. Her plays are published in three volumes by Oberon Books.

Research:    http://www.juliapascal.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Julia-Pascal-Archive.pdf

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         20/20         Broken English         Charlotte Bronte Goes To Europe         Crossing Jerusalem         Dead Woman On Holiday, A         Dybbuk, The         Elegy         Far Above Rubies         Golem, The         Heroine         Holocaust Trilogy         Honeypot         King David Hotel         London Continental         Men Seldom Make Passes         Merchant of Venice, The         Nineveh         Old Newland         Salt River         Shylock Play, The         Special Category         St Joan         Theresa         Thoughts of Chairman Barb, The         Wedding Party, The         Woman in the Moon         Woman on the Bridge         Year Zero (L'Anee Zero)         Yiddish Queen Lear, The
20/20

Synopsis:
Celebrating 20 years of integrated dance. Stories of disability through the millennium.

Notes:
music: Billy Cowie

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Amici Theatre Company

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dance theatre

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Broken English

Broken English
Zionist Londoners try to change the shape of the world by plotting to murder the Foreign Secretary.

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1st Produced:
[Rehearsed Reading] Rada Studios (Formely Drill Hall Arts Centre), London     05 Oct 2009

Organisations:
Pascal Theatre Company

1st Published:
in "Political Plays", Oberon Books   

Music:
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Charlotte Bronte Goes To Europe

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Crossing Jerusalem

Crossing Jerusalem
Crossing Jerusalem describes 24 hours in the life of an Israeli family in March 2002, as they cross Jerusalem at the beginning of the latest intifada. Over this 24 hours, personal and political history burst into the present. A complex family drama explodes in the most politically tense city in the world.

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1st Produced:
Tricycle Theatre, London >>>     13 Mar 2003

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1st Published:
in Crossing Jerusalem and Other Plays, Oberon, London, 2003   

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Genre:
historical play Historical

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Dead Woman On Holiday, A

Synopsis:
a love story set during the Nuremberg trials

Notes:
part of the Holocaust Trilogy

1st Produced:
Link - Holborn Cnt Perf Arts, London     1991

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 1999   

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historical play Historical

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Dybbuk, The

Synopsis:
A young bride, possessed by obsession, shocks her village by inviting the dybbuk to dance with her on the eve of her arranged marriage. A young British Jewish woman is dragged back to a war time Jewish Ghetto. To survive, the inmates perform the story of "The Dybbuk" in which a woman is possessed by the spirit of her dead lover, in much the same way as the woman in Julia Pascal's play is possessed by the spirits of her murdered Jewish family.

Notes:
part of the Holocaust Trilogy. Adapted from work by S Anski

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Oberon Books, London, 1999   

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Elegy

Synopsis:
Amici is a unique dance theatre company integrating able-bodied and disabled artists and performers. Founded in 1980, Amici have had a major impact challenging conventional attitudes about disability and the arts. A thought-provoking and beautiful new full company production, which fuses music, dance and text. Set in contemporary Britain it tells six heart-rending, personal stories of mothers who have lost their children in tragic circumstances. As tales of drug abuse, honour killing, homelessness, illegal immigration, gangland violence and prostitution emerge at the inquest into their children's deaths, they ask, could they have been prevented?

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Amici Theatre Company

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Genre:
dance theatre

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Far Above Rubies

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Golem, The

Golem, The
Why do giants, monsters and robots excite children? This ancient myth shows how a giant, The Golem, is created by magic to save the village people from harm. The Golem becomes a local hero. But, with time, what happens when The Golem decides to take control? Fusing puppetry, absurdism and physical theatre with original music and a modern text, this fantastic story will thrill and intrigue young audiences.

Notes:
The Golem, inspired by the Yiddish legend of the man made out of dust, was the germ of Mary Shelley s novel Frankenstein.

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Organisations:
Pascal Theatre Company

1st Published:
in Crossing Jerusalem and Other Plays, Oberon, London, 2003   

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TYA 50 min

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Heroine

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1st Produced:
London Schools Tour     1997

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Holocaust Trilogy

Holocaust Trilogy
Presented as a trilogy at the New End Theatre in 1995 before touring much of Europe, The Dybbuk pays homage to Anski's great Russian classic. Set in a ghetto in Eastern Europe in 1942, it traces the final moments of five irreligious Jews. A Dead Woman on Holiday is a love story set during the Nuremberg trials. Theresa is based on secret research into the Channel Island occupation by the Nazis and the collaboration of the residents with the Holocaust. The play is still banned there.

Notes:
Theresa, A Dead Woman on Holiday and The Dybbuk

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Organisations:
Journeyman Productions

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London   

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Honeypot

Honeypot
SWEDEN, PARIS, TEL AVIV. 1982. Susanne is a 35 year old beautiful Swedish woman. When her Father dies suddenly, she discovers that he was a hidden Jew. This revelation galvanises her to leave her husband and make a wild journey of self-discovery. In an attempt to get closer to her father's past, she goes to Israel where she volunteers to be a Mossad agent. Her job is to seduce the PLO mastermind who organised the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Susanne believes she has the courage to commit a vengeance killing. But will she be able to push away a man who has fallen in love with her in order to revenge the dead?

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Organisations:
Pascal Theatre Company

1st Published:
in "Political Plays", Oberon Books   

Music:
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King David Hotel

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London Continental

Synopsis:
In the wake of her Holocaust trilogy, Pascal explores post-war Jewish history in Britain.

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Pascal Theatre Company

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Men Seldom Make Passes

Synopsis:
based on work and sayings of Dorothy parker

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Genre:
45 min Sketch

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Merchant of Venice, The

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Organisations:
Pascal Theatre Company

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Nineveh

Nineveh
'Once there was a boy. the war had taken his hands and arms. When he went home, his family didn't recognise him. "You have no arms", they said, "you are not our son". they threw him into the river, where a giant fish swallowed him. . . ' Three men sit in purgatory, playing and living in their dreams, with nothing but their memories to haunt them. When a boy arrives their world begins to change, launching them on a journey beyond the atrocities of the past. Critically acclaimed physical theatre company theatre Temoin present this visually stunning exploration of the trauma of combat and the hope that comes afterwards. Inspired by true stories told by child soldiers and ex-combatants from across the world; collected by the company during a year of creative work in Kashmir, Israel, Lebanon, and Rwanda.

Notes:
written by Julia Pascal

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theatre Temoin

1st Published:
in "Political Plays", Oberon Books   

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min physical theatre

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Old Newland

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of "Walking the Tightrope: The tension between art and politics"

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Genre:
five min play

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Salt River

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Offstage, London     1988

Organisations:
Pascal Theatre Company

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Shylock Play, The

Shylock Play, The
When Warsaw Ghetto-escapee Sarah visits the Venice Ghetto she happens to witness a group of actors staging a dress rehearsal of The Merchant of Venice, upon this chance encounter Sarah is confronted by the terrible story of 'the Jew' which touches her own life.

Notes:
Through this emotive and provocative play Julia Pascal re-works Shakespeare's controversial text, transposing the fervent theme of anti-Semitism raised by the bard, playing it out in a contemporary setting. Challenging the portrayal of 'the Jew' that for many years has dominated society's attitudes towards the Jewish people, Pascal ambitiously places her own text within Shakespeare's classic, producing a thoroughly thought-provoking and original work.

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1st Published:
Oberon Books   

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Special Category

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1st Produced:
Unperformed     1984

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St Joan

St Joan
Joan Rabinowitch, a black Londoner with a Jewish father, goes to bed after a conversation with a Hindu taxi-driver and wakes up as Joan of Arc.

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1st Published:
in Crossing Jerusalem and Other Plays, Oberon, London, 2003   

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Genre:
Lesbian, theme/character, one act 55 min

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Theresa

Synopsis:
based on secret research into the Channel Island occupation, where the play is still banned

Notes:
part of the Holocaust Trilogy

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 1999   

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historical play Historical

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Thoughts of Chairman Barb, The

Synopsis:
The world needs a leader - that leader is Chairman Barb! A cross between Mao and Marlene, Barb says the unsayable.

Notes:
Part of the Camden Women in Focus festival

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Organisations:
Pascal Theatre Company

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Wedding Party, The

Synopsis:
A cop's fiance has been blown up by a bomb. She interrogates the bomber.

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1st Produced:
The Actors Centre (John Thaw Studio), London     2013

Organisations:
Pascal Theatre Company

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Play/Drama 40 min

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Woman in the Moon

Woman in the Moon
Fritz Lang's silent movie Frau Im Mond influenced a generation of space scientists particularly Wernher Von Braun. Von Braun was the brains behind the 1969 US moon landing. He was also the Nazi scientist who engineered the construction of the V1 and V2 rockets which bombed London in 1944. Pascal's new work explores the connections between Hitler's death weapons and the US space mission asking difficult questions about science and morality. A modern Faust play, this text is inspired by testimony from French, German and Austrian former slave workers from the V2 factory Camp Dora.

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Pascal Theatre Company

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Oberon Books, London, 2002   

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Woman on the Bridge

Woman on the Bridge
Judith, a 55-year-old Londoner, goes to New York to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, but does her journey from the Old World to the New reveal other reasons for self-destruction?

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1st Produced:
Rada Studios (Formely Drill Hall Arts Centre), London     09 Nov 2009

Organisations:
Pascal Theatre Company

1st Published:
in "Political Plays", Oberon Books   

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Year Zero (L'Anee Zero)

Year Zero (L'Anee Zero)
Year Zero is a bitter-sweet satire inspired by interviews conducted in the north of France, where Communists, Gaulists, collaborators and those who were children during the 1940s, provided the original source of material. The play exposes the day to day experiences of the men and women who suffered or profited from those zero years.

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in Crossing Jerusalem and Other Plays, Oberon, London, 2003   

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Yiddish Queen Lear, The

Yiddish Queen Lear, The
New York in the late 1930's. A once-famous Yiddish actress gives her theatre business over to her three daughters. A story of love, infidelity, betrayal and exile inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this new play with music, examines the moment when Jewish East European and American cultures mix on the eve of the holocaust. Pascal shows the clash and connections between two worlds in a vibrant, funny and tragic play with music.

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1st Produced:
Southwark Playhouse, London     24/1999

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London,    

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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