Moira Buffini

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Moira Buffini (born in Carlisle in 1965 ) is a British playwright and screenwriter .

Life

Moira Buffini attended Northwich County Grammar School for Girls in Cheshire . She studied English and theater at Goldsmiths College in London from 1983 to 1986 . She then trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama .

In 1992 she wrote the play Jordan with Anna Reynolds , which won the “Best Fringe Play Award” and the “Time Out Award”. The German-language premiere was in 1998 by Barbara Focke at the Drachengasse Theater in Vienna .

Buffini has since arranged a number of texts for the theater, written scripts and written his own plays, including Dinner (2002), Byzantium (2012), Jane Eyre (2011) and Immer Drama um Tamara (2010). With the musician Damon Albarn , she created the musical wonder.land for the Manchester International Festival in 2015 as a stage adaptation for the Internet age of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland . The production then went to the Royal National Theater .

In 1998 Buffini received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Meyer-Whitworth Award for Gabriel . In 2003 she was nominated with dinner for the “ Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy ”, in 2015 with the play Handbagged . She has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2014 .

Works (selection)

theatre
  • 1992: Jordan
    • Jordan . Ursula Lyn in Romanian. Manuscript. Munich Pegler [approx. 1994].
  • 1997: Gabriel
  • 1998: Blavatsky's Tower
  • after 1998: The Games Room .
  • 2001: Loveplay
  • 2002: Dinner . London: Faber and Faber.
  • 2006: Plays one: Bkavatsky's tower, Gabriel, Silence, Loveplay . London: Faber and Faber.
  • 2007: Dying For It . London: Faber and Faber. After Nikolai Erdman : The Suicide (1928).
  • 2010: Welcome to Thebes . London: Faber and Faber.
  • 2011: Greenland with Penelope Skinner, Matt Charman, Jack Thorne, London: Faber and Faber.
  • 2011: Sixty Six Books
  • 2013: Handbagged . London: Faber and Faber.
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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Byzantium . Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  2. Roger Ebert: Tamara Drewe . October 20, 2010. Accessed July 25, 2015. (English)
  3. ^ Thomas, Archie: Brit List brings scripts to light . In: Variety , Reed Business Information, October 3, 2008. Retrieved October 9, 2008.  (English)
  4. ^ Manchester International Festival . Retrieved May 25, 2015. (English)