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Anna Reynolds

ANNA REYNOLDS

  
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Anna Reynolds has written over 20 plays including the award-winning Jordan, Red, Skin Hunger and Wild Things. Her work has been seen at Watford Palace (SoulPlay, Ring Road Tales), West Yorkshire Playhouse (Precious), Colchester Mercury (Blue Sky State), The Pleasance, Edinburgh (Stand By Your Van) and many other venues. She has written for opera, dance, theatre, screen, circus, short-story anthologies and numerous newspapers and magazines. She has won awards from Time Out magazine, the Writers Guild, and she runs the UKs leading writing website WriteWords. Her opera Push! (Tête-à-Tête, 2006) was described by the Guardian as brilliant, celebratory, painful, tremendous. She won the Yeovil prize for short fiction with her story The Bleeding Heart in 2007. Anna Reynolds has taught creative writing at a wide variety of venues including prisons, community centres, drama schools and universities. She is currently a reader for Cornerstones literary consultancy and for the Playwrights Studio, Scotland.

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         Blue Sky State         Deep Joy         Glass Mountain, The         Jordan         Little India         Look At Me         Precious         Push!         Red         Ring Road Tales         Skin Hunger         Soul Play         Stand By Your Van         Tales from the Crow's Nest         Wild Things
Blue Sky State

Synopsis:
Marthe and Jan live alone in a Fenland ghost town. For over 20 years they haven't seen or spoken to anyone. They've practically got their own language. They don't need anyone else, do they? They've got each other and that's always been enough - like a marriage: the best of friends, the worst of friends living in the town they once used to hear ring with life, until it happened. The thing they don't talk about - that's locked away. When a strange young man bursts into their lives, is he a key to the past - or a present danger?

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Mercury Theatre Company

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Deep Joy

Synopsis:
A hard hitting piece which examines a world where love is a dirty word and corruption seems to be the only choice.

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Mercury Theatre Company and University of Essex

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Glass Mountain, The

Synopsis:
Weaves a classic Polish folk myth with very modern tales of life, love and European migration. Running through the heart of Trestle's collaboration, and of this production, are the physical and vocal traditions of Polish theatre. the cast of four (Jacek Wytrzymaly, Lenka Rozehnalova, Sean Garratt and Kate Lush) give strong, versatile performances, using Polish and English dialogue as well as mime, chant and the harsh, discordant vocals reminiscent of the Polish theatrical tradition. the classic fable tells of an over-protective parent, a King, determined to secure nothing but the very best future for his only daughter and, in the process, all but condemning her to a life of misery and torment. Mirroring the myth is the tale of Olek, love-stricken and set on a securing a bright future in England for himself and his young lover.
- Allison Vale, British theatre Guide

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Trestle Theatre Company

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Jordan

Synopsis:
A modern day Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, it tells of a mother driven to the ultimate act to avoid having her child taken away from her. Sian Walker delivers a powerful and captivating performance unfolding the tragedy of Shirley Jones and her baby Jordan as they await the decision of the Court; prison or freedom. This true story of a woman marginalised by society and brutalised by the Father of her child is unlikely to leave you unmoved.

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by Anna Reynolds with Moira Buffini

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Short Play One Act

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Little India

Synopsis:
A tale of love and loss, mischief and mayhem. Trestle is back with sumptuous storytelling theatre, vibrant visuals, and powerful physical action. Influenced by South Indian traditions of Kalaripayattu (martial art), Konokol (rhythmic patterns) and mudras (hand gestures), Trestle re-imagines the classical story of Shakuntala for a contemporary time; combining ancient arts with modern words, and inspirational music from India.

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text by Nina Patel and Anna Reynolds

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Trestle Theatre Company

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Look At Me

Synopsis:
School days are the best days of your life, so they say. But did you believe them? If you are about to be excluded from school, your school days could be about to ruin your future. In Anna Reynolds new play, researched in Essex with young people facing this situation, Kandi and John are on the edge. The choices they make and the choices they have made about them and for them could change the rest of their lives.

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1st Produced:
Town Hall Arts Centre, Haverhill     03 Oct 1999

Organisations:
Mercury Theatre in association with Theatre Centre

1st Published:
in Theatre Centre Plays for Young People Volume 1, Aurora Metro Press,    

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Precious

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West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds    

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Push!

Synopsis:
"Screaming your head off about love and death" - that's one definition of opera. And what better operatic situation to combine love, death and screaming than childbirth?
Warwick Thompson, Metro London

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libretto by Anna Reynolds music by DavidBruce

1st Produced:
Riverside, London     2006

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Genre:
Opera

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Red

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Ring Road Tales

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Watford Palace    

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Skin Hunger

Synopsis:
a roller-coaster of a journey that spans Blackpool and Las Vegas. Two single mums who've never set stilettoes beyond Manchester before head across the Atlantic for the final of the World Karaoke Competition.
Sarah Adams, Time Out.

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the White Bear Theatre Production

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Soul Play

Synopsis:
This imaginative work paints an intimate portrait of a man on his ultimate journey, guided by an enigmatic dancing spirit. One actor and one dancer explore the archetypal idea of 'soul' in a contemporary secular world with this powerful piece of dance-theatre

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Author Kate Flatt. Text Anna Reynolds

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Trestle Theatre Company

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Genre:
dance theatre

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Stand By Your Van

Synopsis:
Someone's gonna win a pick-up truck! All competitors have to do is be the last person to keep their hand on the £25,000 vehicle to win it! Easy, right? Wrong. An extraordinary 'live competition' play. www.menagerie.uk.com

Notes:
inspired by notorious US-based "Touch the Truck" endurance contests

1st Produced:
Pleasance Courtyard (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)     2009

Organisations:
Menagerie/the Pleasance/Escalator East To Edinburgh

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Tales from the Crow's Nest

Synopsis:
When Jemima runs away to sea looking for adventure she encounters the dastardly Capitaine Corbeau. In the crow's nest she meets an extraordinary collection of crows and ravens from mythology: Norse, Innuit and Tibetan. Then she's made to walk the plank. Music, puppetry, adventure, fantasy. . .

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written by Craig Baxter, Fraser Grace, Paddy Fletcher, Anna Reynolds

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The Crow Show

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Wild Things

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1st Produced:
Salberg Studio, Salisbury     1993

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