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Play something kitty-cat-ish . . . sweet. Imagine I've died and
you're galloping through fields. As their thirtieth wedding
anniversary approaches, Alice and Edgar are locked in a bitter
struggle. They've driven away their children and their friends.
Their relationship is sustained by taunts and recriminations. When
a newcomer breaks into the midst of the fray, their insular lives
threaten to spin out of control. We're all just bodies and when
we're dead we're worm food, but as long as your body keep going,
flailing or thrashing about, we are duty bound to fight, to scratch
and kick, until you're fucked. That's my philosophy. Laced with
biting humour, The Dance of Death is August Strindberg's landmark
drama about a marriage pushed to its limits, adapted in a thrilling
new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. The Dance of Death opened at the
Bath Theatre Royal's Ustinov Theatre in May 2022 before going on UK
tour in an Arcola Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Royal &
Derngate, Northampton, Oxford Playhouse and Theatre Royal Bath
Productions co-production.
Six plays by some of the most exciting and distinctive female
voices in British theatre, exploring the heartbreaking truth about
the lives of women in the criminal justice system. The plays were
commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and education
company working with women whose lives have been affected by the
criminal justice system. Included in this volume: Fatal Light by
Chloe Moss, about a young mother's inability to cope with
separation from her daughter. Taken by Winsome Pinnock, about a
mother confronted by the child she had to give up. Dream Pill by
Rebecca Prichard, about two children forced into prostitution.
Doris Day by E V Crowe, about two police officers and their
different expectations of the job. Dancing Bears by Sam Holcroft,
about the twisted loyalties and violence in teenage gangs. That
Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, about a writer
holding workshops with older women in a prison. The plays were
first performed at Soho Theatre, London, in November 2010.
When Dr Stockmann discovers the town's famous spa waters are
poisoned, she expects to be treated as a hero for averting an
environmental catastrophe. Instead, she's accused by her brother
the mayor of threatening the town's livelihood. Public and media
opinion divides and the community splits into factions. Tackling
fake news, whistle-blowers and the corruption of power, Rebecca
Lenkiewicz's contemporary take on Henrik Ibsen's classic premiered
at the Nottingham Playhouse in September 2019.
Walkern, 1712. England has been free from witch-hunts for decades
until Jane Wenham is blamed for a tragic death and charged with
witchcraft. A terrifying ordeal begins, as the village is torn
between those who want to save Jane's life and those who claim they
want to save her soul. Inspired by events in a Hertfordshire
village, the play explores sex and society's hunger to find and
create witches. Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Jane Wenham: The Witch of
Walkern premiered at Watford Palace Theatre before going on UK tour
in September 2015, in an Out of Joint, Watford Palace Theatre and
Arcola Theatre co-production, in association with Eastern Angles.
The fashionables? They just want to know if a painting's hot.
Whether it will gain. Queen Victoria said of Turner, 'He is quite
mad.' A cockney who spoke his mind, he did not fit into the norm of
the artist. Society saw him as a misfit, shocking, controversial.
He was a visionary, the father of modern painting. The play
examines his relationship to three women in his life. English
painting is dead. It's dealers making fortunes out of sentimental
dross. Cherubs. Dogs. The Painter by Rebecca Lenkiewicz premiered
at the Arcola Theatre, London, in January 2011 in the production
which marked the opening of its new premises on Ashwin Street.
'An absorbing work, full of passion, pathos and sly humour, set in
the hip art scene of London's East End.... There is a rare
combination of pain, wit and originality in Lenkiewicz's writing
that bodes exceptionally well for the future... This is a play that
combines raw pain, frank sexuality and ribald comedy to potent and
ultimately uplifting effect.' Daily Telegraph 'Lenkiewicz, whose
characters speak with vicious and lyrical fluency, catches people
in the grip of erotic-emotional trouble... in this rich comedy of
crazy Eros.' Evening Standard 'Fresh, self-confident and
thoughtful... Lenkiewicz writes fine dialogue, and every word feels
comfortable in the mouths of her actors. Their conversations are
crisp, witty and sexy - her text repays reading....Shoreditch
Madonna confirms the progress of an imaginative writer and a
sensitive director.' New Statesman Shoreditch Madonna premiered at
Soho Theatre, London, in July 2005.
I cry in the daytime and in the night season am not silent. Psalm
22 Late at night, shoeless, in the rain, a film actor playing the
poet Yeats turns up drunk at his appointed Sligo digs. He is met by
the grandmother and they dance together to 'Lili Marlene'. In the
morning they are discovered, sharing a blanket, by Patrick and his
three daughters. Patrick craves tobacco, whiskey and a date with
the local barmaid; the sisters yearn for sensation and escape. A
funny, modern, intoxicated tale of love and loss, The Night Season
premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2004.
A new adaptation of Henry James's classic novella adapted for the
stage by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. This adaptation was first staged at
the Almeida Theatre, London, in January 2013.
The Night Season 'The Night Season is unusual; no politics, no
issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy
nature of living. It's also delightfully, rudely funny.' Financial
Times 'Look out for the name Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It's once in a
blue moon that a writer gets her second-ever play staged at the
National. It's even more remarkable when you wander away at the
end, walking on air.... Lenkiewicz is quite extraordinarily
talented.' Independent on Sunday Shoreditch Madonna 'A strong
absorbing work, full of passion, pathos and sly humour, set in the
hip art scene of London's East End... There is a rare combination
of pain, wit and originality in Lenkiewicz's writing.' Daily
Telegraph Her Naked Skin 'It is shocking to think that this is the
first full-length work by a woman to be seen on the Olivier stage.
But Lenkiewicz makes up for lost time by exploring the hunger for
political and personal emancipation that fuelled the suffragette
movement in 1913... Her play colonises this daunting space with
bravura confidence.. Her power lies in her ability to recapture the
triumphs and tribulations of a history movement... Lenkiewicz's
play plants a defiant feminist flag on the Olivier stage.' Guardian
'This is a big play with a big heart and I recommend it with a
matching warmth. Lenkiewicz is making history here and, in so
doing, demonstrating that she's got a great future.' Daily
Telegraph The Painter 'An intimate portrait of Turner...
Understated and quietly superb.' Independent on Sunday
A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting
the complexities of women and political power in the United
Kingdom. The four plays published here look back to the moments in
history when women possessed - or achieved - power, and what they
did with it. The Milliner and the Weaver by Marie Jones, about the
Suffragette movement in Ireland, as the question of Home Rule
divides the nation. The Lioness by Rebecca Lenkiewicz is about
Queen Elizabeth I, the myth and the reality. Handbagged by Moira
Buffini, about the working relationship between Mrs Thatcher and
the Queen. Bloody Wimmin by Lucy Kirkwood, about the protests at
Greenham Common, a political landmark in the fight for nuclear
disarmament. The plays were first performed at the Tricycle
Theatre, London, as part of the Women, Power and Politics season in
June 2010. The other plays presented in the season are available in
the companion volume, Women, Power and Politics: Now.
Love is just fear I suppose. Masquerading as a fever. Then you
explore each other and suddenly you have licence to become totally
pedestrian. And ultimately abusive. Militancy in the Suffragette
Movement is at its height. Thousands of women of all classes serve
time in Holloway Prison in their fight to gain the vote. Amongst
them is Lady Celia Cain who feels trapped by both the policies of
the day and the shackles of a frustrating marriage. Inside, she
meets a young seamstress, Eve Douglas, and her life spirals into an
erotic but dangerous chaos. London 1913. A crucial moment when,
with emancipation almost in sight, women refuse to let the
establishment stand in their way. Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Her Naked
Skin premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2008.
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