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Paula B Stanic

PAULA B STANIC  

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  


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below is a list of Paula B Stanic's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 6 Minutes         Blair's Children         Failing Light, A - "A Drop to Drink"         Late Night Shopping         Monday         Pancras Boys Club         Tracks - "Beginnings"         Under A Foreign Sky         What's Lost

6 Minutes

Synopsis:
'6 Minutes' focuses on two workers at a car factory and their reactions to the fact that their 30 years' service has been terminated in a six-minute meeting. It's an angry piece. But it also suggests there might be hope in a dignified communal workers response.
- Sarah Hemming 'The Financial Times'

Notes:
Part of Soho Theatre's season "Everything Must Go" Short rapid response pieces relating to the economic crisis.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Soho Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Blair's Children

Synopsis:
Thatcher named Tony Blair as her greatest achievement. . .It's forty years on since Robert Patrick's 'Kennedy's Children' opened at the Kings Head Theatre in Islington before doing the '70s equivalent of going viral. Then, five characters in a New York bar recounted their own experience of Kennedy's Camelot and the demise of their 60s dreams and heroes. Now, five London writers April de Angelis, Georgia Fitch, Anders Lustgarten, Mark Norfolk, Paula B Stanic and The Cockpit reinvent the format to review the legacy of New Labour. The scene has changed to a London high street chain coffee shop. Five characters recall the Blair era of personal and social wins but political losses -- with a shared sense of guilt at the way initial hopes failed to generate lasting gains, ending for some in a confidence-sapping sense of betrayal.

Notes:
part of "Blair's Children" a critical perspective on our own recent history and Labour's mantra that "things can only get better". Co-written by April de Angelis, Georgia Fitch, Mark Norfolk, Anders Lustgarten & Paula B Stanic. One story that takes place in a coffee shop one afternoon

1st Produced:

Organisations:
A Cockpit Theatre & Institute of ideas commission

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
full-length two hour drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  1 m/f

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Failing Light, A - "A Drop to Drink"

Synopsis:
It is Summer 2009, a year before the World Cup. A squatter camp in Johannesburg - a man, a woman, a burning home and just 2 liitres of water left.

Notes:
Part of A Drop To Drink - 5 pieces About water. A work in development supported by the National Theatre Studio.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tangle Theatre Company & The National Theatre Studio

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Late Night Shopping

Synopsis:
LATE NIGHT SHOPPING explores the dark emotional world of urban lust, casual sex and the current modern trend of "picking people up" in unexpected public places. We meet Tanya and Luke, young regular late-night shoppers on the look out for strangers to "pick-up" and seduce. And Melanie - older, more sensitive, more discerning, but attracted just the same. The play is about the modern city and the lack of meaningful human interaction that can lead to desperate acts.

Notes:
Produced As part of 'The Outsiders' A season of plays based Around the theme of the outsider. Three plays by three emerging playwrights.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Sturdy Beggars Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Monday

Synopsis:
Sara, Dylan and Abi are on a weekend away by the sea. On Monday, Dylan and Abi could be unemployed and Sara is moving back home with her mum. But for two nights they'll club, stay in a three star hotel and eat fish and chips by the sea. This is their last chance for a while, so they go ahead and add to their mounting debts. Nothing matters. But as they crash through the weekend, Sara considers other possibilities. Is there anything worth returning too?

Notes:
Commissioned to close the Emerge New Works Festival. Short-listed for the 2009 John Whiting Award (supported by Peter Wolff)

1st Produced:
Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds    Jul 2009

Organisations:
Red Ladder Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Pancras Boys Club

Synopsis:
Today is fight day. Lenny trains fighters. Samson can't lose, but Andrew can't win. Ray puts his hopes and dreams in a bottle, but Michael is not what he seems. And Kevin shouldn't trust him either. Switchy is after Elias. Dwayne and Leon have their brother's back's. Mark has the power, but the Prime Minister of Jamaica has toothache. . .A play about boxing, identity, and pepper sauce.

Notes:
written by Paula B Stanic, Ben Musgrave And David Watson.

1st Produced:
Only Connect Theatre    2009

Organisations:
Only Connect

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/ Drama

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Tracks - "Beginnings"

Synopsis:
When 14 year-old Zara's dad loses their home they are forced to move in with her grandparents. Zara tells no one. But then they have to move again and again.

Notes:
Part of: "Beginnings" - 5 short plays, by 5 playwrights written with And for young people.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Islington Community Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Under A Foreign Sky

Synopsis:
Heathrow airport, three young Kosovan migrants have arrived for a new start. Bojan, aged 19 and keen to be the next big chef, is ready to make his mark in a new world. Drina, 14, struggles, a video camera connecting her to the place she once called home. Twelve-year old Ibi arrives and, swallowed up by the city, simply disappears. Three disparate stories linked by a journey and shadow that looms. UNDER A FOREIGN SKY casts a compassionate look at what happens to young migrants when they look to start again.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theatre Centre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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What's Lost

Synopsis:
Debra wants a simple remembrance for her daughter. Alex thinks they should provoke change and husband Lenny just wants to forget. Having missed the funeral, Gina finally turns up a year late. Amid recurring memories, news reports and intensifying relations, each walks in and out on each other struggling to make their own way and sense of an increasingly troubled time.

Notes:
What's Lost won the 2008 Alfred Fagon Award. (Best play by A writer of Caribbean or African descent)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Alfred Fagon Award, Royal Court Theatre & Talawa Theatre Company.

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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