Alice Birch

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Alice Birch (* 1986 in Malvern ) is an English playwright.

life and work

Alice Birch grew up with her sister in Birchwood Hall Commune in the Malvern Hills . After finishing school, she began studying at Exeter University , but was already involved in the theater in various ways during her studies. Between 2005 and 2007 she participated in the Royal Court's Young Writers Program . In its literary program, the Royal Court Theater supports young authors in writing plays and gives them the opportunity to rehearse and perform their plays on stage. After graduating in 2009, she worked with groups of young writers at the National Theater and the Royal Court.

One of her early pieces is Astronauts , which she developed with 20 young people between the ages of 16 and 19. The play typical of their stage work is set against the background of the property crash in Great Britain in the 1990s. Issues that she addresses in her plays are not only the political and social situation in Great Britain in general, but above all the problems of oppression, physical and psychological violence that women, adolescents and children are confronted with in society . B. Child Abuse ( Many Moons ) and Hardcore Pornography in We Want You To Watch . This piece is a co-production with RashDash, which played in London's West End in 2015 and then went on tour across the country. Alice Birch wrote the script for the award-winning film Lady Macbeth based on a story by Nikolai Leskov . This film won a British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay in 2017 .

Plays
year title Premiere Director annotation
2011 Many moons Theater 503
May 17, 2011 		Derek Bond Theater debut
2013 Little on the inside Almeida Theater
July 26, 2013 		Lucy Morrison
2014 Astronauts Company Three, London

2nd July 2014

Ned Glasier
2014 Revolt. She said. Revolt Again Royal Shakespeare Company
as part of the RSC's Midsummer Mischief
June 2014 		Erica Whyman 2014 George Devine Award
2014/15 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (finalist)
2015 The Lone Pine Club Pentabus Touring Company Play based on motifs from the children's books
Lone Pine by Malcolm Saville
2015 Little Light Orange Tree Theater, Richmond
February 4th, 2015 		David Mercatali
2015 Ophelia's room Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
December 8, 2015 		Katie Mitchell Cooperation with the Royal Court Theater
Translation into German by Gerhild Steinbuch
nominated for the Friedrich Luft Prize 2015
2016 Shadow based
on Elfriede Jelinek's prose play Shadow. Eurydice says 		Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz
September 28, 2016 		Katie Mitchell a cooperation with the Royal Court Theater, London
2017 Anatomy of a Suicide Royal Court Theater
3rd June 2017 		Katie Mitchell Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2017/18
2018 La maladie de la mort Bouffes du Nord , Paris Katie Mitchell Editing of a text by Marguerite Dura's
English premiere at the Barbican Theater , October 3, 2018
2018 [Blank] Perfect Circle Youth Theater production, The Malverns.
February 18, 2018 		National Theater Connections

Prizes and awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ S2 Ep1: Alice Birch talks to Simon Stephens Royal Court Theater, accessed on August 28, 2018
  2. ↑ We Want You To Watch ( NT , Temporary Theater). Retrieved August 29, 2018
  3. ^ The Arts Foundation , accessed August 29, 2018.
  4. ↑ Review , accessed August 28, 2018.
  5. ↑ Bouffes du Nord , accessed August 29, 2018.
  6. ↑ (Blank) by Alice Birch , accessed on August 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ Quinn, Annalisa (2018-03-12). "Alice Birch Wins 2018 Blackburn Prize for 'Anatomy of a Suicide'" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331. (in English) accessed on March 7, 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME Birch, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Malvern