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Lynda Radley

LYNDA RADLEY

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Macnaughton Lord Representation (Theatrical and Literary Agents)  represented by Davina Shah

Lynda Radley is an award-winning playwright and dramaturg who has been working in professional theatre for over a decade. Her play DORM was recently short-listed for The Bruntwood Award: the UK's most prestigious new writing award. Lynda recently worked as dramaturg on Mark Bruce's dance version of Dracula which won a South Bank Sky Arts award. She is currently developing plays with the Traverse Theatre, Magnetic North and Stellar Quines. Frozen Charlotte are using her story and text to develop a dance theatre production called Dandelion. In 2011 Lynda won a Scotsman Fringe First for her play Futureproof; a co-production between Dundee Rep Ensemble and the Traverse Theatre. She took part in the Dream Plays programme for Edinburgh Fringe 2012 and shared in a Herald Angel award. Other recent work includes Berlin Love Tour -a walking tour of Berlin that can take place in any city - which sold out at the Fierce Festival in Birmingham, Cork Midsummer Festival and Dublin Fringe (Playgroup). In February 2012 Lynda travelled to the National Play Festival in Australia, with a delegation from the National Theatre of Scotland, where her play DORM received a rehearsed reading. Her solo show The Art of Swimming was short-listed for Meyer Whitworth and Total Theatre awards and toured internationally. Lynda is published by Nick Hern Books. She also appears in an anthology of short plays by Irish writers, edited by Thomas Conway for Oberon. Lynda frequently works as a dramaturg and creative writing practitioner in collaborative processes (National Theatre of Scotland, Citizens' Theatre, Tricky Hat, Playgroup, Imaginate, In Cahootz) and will be helping to shape the Tron Theatre's production of Under Milk Wood as part of the Commonwealth Cultural Programme 2014.

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

         Art Of Swimming, The         Berlin Love Tour         Birds and Other Things I Am Afraid Of         Dark Week         Dorm         Futureproof         Heights, The         Integrity         News Just In         Out! Damned Spot         Soap!         Spend a Penny

Art Of Swimming, The

Art Of Swimming, The
the Art Of Swimming, was first glimpsed as a ten-minute taster earlier this year; and this fully-developed 50-minute version, with live accordion score by Michael John McCarthy, now offers an eloquent and strangely haunting insight into the life of Mercedes Gleitzer, the first British woman ever to swim the English Channel.
Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

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part of Fifteen Years, Two Fingers, Arches Live!

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Berlin Love Tour

Synopsis:
a guided tour with a difference on the streets of Birmingham

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an off site production by Birmingham Rep. by Lynda Radley After An idea by Tom Creed And hilary O'shaughnessy

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Birmingham    30 Mar 2012

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guided tour

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Birds and Other Things I Am Afraid Of

Synopsis:
Hello Mr Magpie, where's your wife? One performer and twelve audience members in a garden shed somewhere in Glasgow: this is a snug adventure told in a hiding place. Part detective story, part genealogy, part fable, Birds and Other Things I Am Afraid Of is a lyrical, humourous look at the task of freeing yourself from family mythology.

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Lynda Radley in association with the Arches and Poorboy presents

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Dark Week

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(Dramaturgy) Playgroup in co-production with Cork Midsummer Festival and Everyman Palace Theatre. Nominated for the Judges Special Award at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2006.

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Dorm

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shortlisted for the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting

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Futureproof

Futureproof
At a time when science and religion have conspired to make freak shows shameful, Robert Riley, owner of Riley's Odditorium, struggles to find ways to keep his company afloat. there's no money in the coffers and they've had to eat the horse. Only the mermaid act is bringing in the punters and she's just holding her breath. . .

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Heights, The

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(Dramaturgy) Playgroup

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Integrity

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News Just In

Synopsis:
A nightly roundup of all things Commonwealth Games, with a brand new story every night. Featuring a cast of six of Scotland's top comedy actors with a dynamic team of fantastic writers, anything can (and probably will) happen! Follow the TV-tastic, tantalizing soap opera whilst hearing all the up to date Games news and gossip from Tom Daley to Tom Foolery with views from Tom, Dick and Harry. A fast paced, raucous romp of a theatre show!

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part of Culture 2014 at the Arches. Written by Colin Bell, Danny Brown, Julie Brown, Mary Gapinski, Lesley Hart, Lewis Hetherington, Lisa Keddie, Martin McCormick, Johnny McKnight, Douglas Maxwell, Morna Pearson, Lynda Radley, Stef Smith and Anita Vettesse.

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Arches, Glasgow, UK >>>    22 Jul 2014

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Random Accomplice

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Out! Damned Spot

Synopsis:
Imagine that there are two half-hour shows, one played out in the Ladies toilet, the other in the Gents. Imagine that each show consists of four five-minute monologues, written and performed by some of the finest theatre artists in Scotland. And then imagine that you experience each of these snippets alone, face to face with a single actor, either in a toilet cubicle, or somewhere around the wash-basins. This is the Arches 15th anniversary show Spend A Penny; and it makes an extraordinary, intense and challenging 21st-century theatre experience, sometimes as rich and intimate as a private moment with a sister or best friend, sometimes as grotesque and vivid as a trip to the underworld, in a painting by Brueghel or Bosch.
Joyce McMillam, Scotsman

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part of Spend A Penny, A series of short plays based on An idea by Andy Arnold

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monologue Ten Min

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Soap!

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written by Lynda Radley and Ciaran Fitzpatrick

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Playgroup    2003

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Spend a Penny

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Nominated for Best Production at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.

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