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Nicola Werenowska

NICOLA WERENOWSKA  

 Nationality:    British
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Nicola's first play Twenty Per Cent, written when she was 16, was a runner-up in the 1988 Royal Court Young Playwrights' Competition. After a long gap, in which she studied modern languages to Ph.D. level, she returned to playwriting when she joined the Colchester Mercury Theatre Playwrights' Group in 2003. Since then she has had five plays produced professionally/semi-professionally: Davy's Day (Mercury Theatre, 2004), Aftermath (Mercury, 2006), Peapickers (Eastern Angles, 2007), Freedoms of the Forest (Menagerie, 2008), Kwaidan: Strange Tales (Mercury, 2008). Her work has been short-listed for several national playwriting competitions including the Drama Association of Wales Playwriting Competition (2005), the London Writers Competition (2005), Channel 4 The Play's the Thing (2005), the Churchill Theatre Playwriting Competition (2006), the Soho Verity Bargate Award (2007). She is currently working on an Escalator project, supported by the Mercury Theatre, exploring the experiences of Polish migrants in the region.

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         Aftermath         Best Years of Your Life, The         Camlodunum         Davy's Day         Dreamdance         Freedoms of the Forest         Hidden         Hurt         Japanese Stories         Kwaidan: Strange Tales         Not so dead end         Peapickers         Tu I Teraz (Here & Now)         Twenty Per Cent

Aftermath

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Best Years of Your Life, The

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the Best Years of Your Life is an anthology of blistering new plays charting some of the most turbulent and vital birthdays of our lives: from sweet 16 to 25, from adolescence to adulthood.

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part of Internationally Acclaimed new writing company nabokov returns to HighTide Festival with 5 Birthdays from this pioneering project

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Camlodunum

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Sixty one playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them. At 14 theatres from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays will be performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. Come To Where I'm From is a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home is really where the heart is.

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Davy's Day

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Davy's Day is set around the family funeral of a father. But in the midst of a seemingly normal family of bickering siblings and a long-suffering mother is a dark secret.

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Dreamdance

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Footprints community theatre, Colchester    2009

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Freedoms of the Forest

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Menagerie, The Junction, Cambridge    2008

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Hidden

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"The diagnosis of my own dyspraxia in 2000 gave me the confidence to explore my passion for playwriting but it is taken me another ten years before I feel fully ready to explore the subject in a dramatic context. This is partly as I am comfortable with my disability but also the recent death of Mary Colley, the founder of the Adult Dyspraxia Foundation (AF) and DANDA (Dyspraxia and Neuro-Diverse Association), has inspired me to engage with the subject creatively. I received a GFTA award in 2011 to research and develop a play about dyspraxia with the support of Graeae and the Mercury Theatre . There has not yet been a stage play to my knowledge which engages with dyspraxia so I feel truly honoured to be developing this piece." - Nicola Werenowska

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Hurt

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Footprints community theatre, Colchester    2008

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Japanese Stories

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Kwaidan: Strange Tales

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Not so dead end

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an audio-theque drama produced as part of a Menagerie/BBC collaboration

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Peapickers

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In the dying days of World War II, a trio of women go pea picking in the fields of North Essex. One day a black GI arrives on his bike and starts courting Susan. the inevitable result, Daryl, gets passed around amongst the women before being sent over to America to be raised by his father. Years later, Daryl, now a high-flying academic in the brave new world of bio-genetics, returns to Cambridge for an international conference and drives down the same road. . .

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Tu I Teraz (Here & Now)

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Marysia moved to England a long time ago. As far as she is concerned she has started a new life here with her teenage son, Kuba. But when her sister Anna arrives from Poland unexpectedly it forces her to think again about her choices. Should you leave your past behind and start over again or is where you come from the most important thing about you? And has Marysia really left everything from her past behind or is she hiding a secret? A moving, intelligent, vibrant new play about immigration and family loyalties.

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Twenty Per Cent

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a runner-up in the 1988 Royal Court Young Playwrights Competition.

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