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Isabel Wright

ISABEL WRIGHT

  
Nationality:    British
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sabel Wright is a playwright and screenwriter based in Edinburgh. Her stageplays have received productions and performed readings in Scotland and the rest of the UK and have received subsequent performances and readings in translation internationally. Her plays include Speedrun (Tron), Blooded (Boilerhouse), Peepshow (Frantic Assembly), Gilt (7-84) and Mr Placebo and 15 Seconds (translation) (Traverse). She recently contributed to 'Whatever gets you through the night' (Pachamama). She is currently under commission to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Stephen Joseph Theatre for plays to be produced in 2014. She also has considerable experience as a workshop leader, leading drama and creative writing workshops with young people and adults in a variety of school and community settings and has been a script reader for the Playwrights Studio Scotland for a number of years.

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

         Blooded         Don Perlimplin         Everybody Knows         Fifteen Seconds         Gilt         Initiate         Mr Placebo         Peepshow         Speedrun         Tongues         Waiting Room, The

Blooded

Blooded
Blooded is a rites of passage play about four sixteen year old girls coming to terms with the loss of childhood and its innocence. the once close bonds between the girls unravel, at times humourously and at times tragically. Wright's vivid portrayal of growing up makes compelling reading.

Notes:
From the Author's Introduction: An important theme for the play came from talking to a young woman in a workshop who said that young women had to choose whether to be quiet' or a slag'. I found it very sad that after decades of feminism young women were still struggling with a sort of Mother/Whore range of choices. I wanted to explore how young women could find confidence and strength and in a way the characters all get this wrong. Amy thinks she has to be more aggressive than all the boys to be powerful, Donna thinks being sexually aggressive is the only way to make your mark.

1st Produced:
Byre Theatre, St Andrews    25 Oct 2001

Organisations:
Boilerhouse

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  voices

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Don Perlimplin

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Translation of the short play by Federico Garcia Lorca

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Genre:
Translation

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Everybody Knows

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Fifteen Seconds

Synopsis:
Claude and Mathieu are brothers. Claude is successful in love, Mathieus never kissed a girl. Mathieu is successful professionally and used to getting what he wants. Claude is unemployed and at the end of his tether as he slips from one McJob to the next. Mathieu has cerebral palsy. Claude is turning 30 and having his mid-life crisis early. then Claude meets Charlotte. So does Mathieu. When she moves into the brothers flat, everything becomes complicated. Very complicated. Even more complicated when Mathieu offers Claude a deal that no brother should. A deal no brother should accept

Notes:
Original Playwright - Francois Archambault

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Traverse Theatre Company

1st Published:
Traverse Publishing, 2003   -

Music:
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Genre:
Scots English Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gilt

Gilt
Gilt is the result of an innovative and possibly unique collaboration. Three of Scotland's best writers have worked together on the one play, creating seven characters whose worlds collide and interweave to create a modern mosiac about money and love. Each of the characters is traying to work out the best currency in which to conduct their dealings with the outside world. they are all guilty victims of love or money or both.

Notes:
collaboration between Stephen Greenhorn, Rona Munro And Isabel Wright

1st Produced:
Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley    02 Oct 2003

Organisations:
7:84

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Initiate

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2001

Organisations:
Boilerhouse Education

1st Published:
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Music:
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Mr Placebo

Synopsis:
Ben, Howie, Jude and Tariq. Four guys caged in a hospital ward in the name of medical research. Take tablets, give blood, get paid, go home. And with no drink, no caffeine and no smokes, they're guinea pigs guzzling pills for a fast buck, happy to blank the consequences. All that time to think, and bounce off the walls - and each other. What's more, you couldn't find four lab rats more different. At least, that's what they think - but, deep down, they suspect they're all surplus to requirements, as obsolete as Betamax. Yet still holding on and still trying to control an uncertain world. Except Jude - the stakes are higher for him because his dad, Frank, is in a different ward of the same hospital being treated for cancer. Jude is angry that Frank isn't getting the right drugs, while Frank just seems to be taking the long view on a short timescale. . .Who is the placebo here? time something might happen to one of us cos this drug we're testing has some effect they never knew about. And we'll all say 'I wish I'

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1st Published:
Oberon Modern Plays, London, 2003   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Peepshow

Peepshow
Friends, lovers and loners in a tower block

Notes:
written by Isabel Wright devised by Frantic Assembly

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Frantic Assembly

1st Published:
Oberon   978-1840023459

Music:
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Speedrun

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Organisations:
Tron

1st Published:
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Music:
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Tongues

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Part of Little Ones

1st Produced:

Organisations:
lookOUT Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Short Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Waiting Room, The

Synopsis:
psychological torment of war as seen from the private cramped space of two women

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Complete Productions, Tron

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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