Cambridge University's Fletcher Players staged [BLANK] in 2021. Director Rae Morris made the play into an online radio play. [10] In 2022, [BLANK] was staged at the Badischen Staatstheater Karlsruhe. [11] Director Anna Bergmann chose 35 scenes. [12] Analysis [ edit ] Groundbreaking Autistic-Led Production of “A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” at A Common Thread Theatre Company in Framingham, MA 21st October 2023 In the 2000s we expanded the offer of short courses to create different pathways into the arts for students: from stage management to poetry, voice and singing, workshop skills, literacy and playwrighting. We also developed specialist courses in self-development, anger management, and wellbeing in recognition that these life skills were vital for Clean Break students to progress. By the late 2000s we were running 30 accredited and non-accredited courses for over 200 women per year. Many women studied with us over a period of years, progressing from short courses to longer term accredited courses.

At the Donmar, she is aware that the play will be seen largely by people like herself – a self-confessed “bleeding-heart liberal”. Does she think that theatre can effect change? “Not really, no. And I don’t think that’s what theatre is for. Hopefully there’s one audience member who feels changed in a profound way, but it’s a much longer process. Sometimes we look for immediate change, and that feels false, inauthentic and knee-jerk. I think there’s an arrogance that suggests that theatre can change the world. Alice Birch’s theatrical provocation is a co-commission between Clean Break and National Theatre Connections. Bowie-Sell, Daisy (1 June 2011). "Many Moons, Theatre503, London, review". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 17 March 2020. This relationship relies on mutual respect and generosity on both sides, and is carefully nurtured by Clean Break. We support each writers’ unique research process as they navigate the emerging world of their play, often working with specialist partners in the area of criminal justice they choose to explore.

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a b Barraclough, Leo (12 February 2017). "Film4 Options 'Mothering Sunday' for Development With Number 9 (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Retrieved 18 March 2020. Lady Macbeth" Screenwriter Alice Birch Adapting "Love and Capital" for TV". womenandhollywood.com . Retrieved 18 March 2020. Birch spent the first five years of her life living with her family at a commune. Because her parents were unmarried, they decided to give Alice and her sister the last name Birch after the commune's name, Birchwood Hall. [1] In 2013, Birch's episode of the radio comedy Absolutely Delish was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. [10] [11] [12] Also in 2013, Birch's play Little on the Inside premiered at Latitude Festival. [13] The play is set inside a women's prison. [14] Film: Lady Macbeth (Nominated Outstanding Debut & Best British Feature BAFTA 2018, Nominated Best International Film Spirit Awards 2018, Winner 5 British Independent Film Awards 2017 including Best Screenplay, Winner Discovery Award European Film Awards 2017, Winner International Critic's Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) at San Sebastian International Film Festival 2016, Winner Critic's Choice Award for Best First Feature at Zurich Film Festival 2016, Winner Best Screenplay at Turin Film Festival).

She’s the most exciting pop culture icon. She’s transcended everything, and I loved her documentary. But what would I like to make? I’m not sure yet. BLANK ] will be performed on the opening night of the National Theatre Connections Festival, Tuesday 26 June, in the Dorfman Theatre by See&Eye Theatre. Gillmor, Alison (19 November 2022). "Food for thought". Winnipeg Free Press . Retrieved 21 November 2022. I heard she and her sister grew up on a commune? “Near Malvern. It’s called Birchwood Hall. My parents weren’t married, so they called us both Birch.” She smiles. “I always think that’s the most interesting thing about me. But we were only there until I was about five.” Birch's Ophelias Zimmer ( Ophelia's Room, in English) premiered at the Schaubühne in Berlin in December 2015. [24] The play made its debut in England in early 2016 but was performed in German with English surtitles. [25] [26] Ophelias Zimmer explores the character of Ophelia from William Shakespeare's Hamlet. [27] The play was a collaboration between Birch, director Katie Mitchell, and designer Chloe Lamford. [28] Ophelias Zimmer was nominated for the Friedrich-Luft Preis. [29]Birch co-wrote the play Astronauts with a group of 16-19 year olds who later performed the work. [1] Astronauts was inspired by the housing crisis. The play premiered in 2014 with Company Three. [15] Little Light is one of Birch's first plays, though it was not performed until 2015 when it premiered at the Orange Tree Theatre. [16] [17] Cavendish, Dominic (22 June 2014). "Midsummer Mischief, The Other Place at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, review". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 6 March 2020. Independent | ★★★★ Daily Mail | ★★★★ Daily Telegraph | ★★★★ Evening Standard | ★★★★ Financial Times | ★★★★ Metro | ★★★★ Observer | ★★★★ Sunday Times | ★★★★ The Stage | ★★★★ Time Out | ★★★★WhatsOnStage | ★★★★★ A Younger Theatre | ★★★★ Broadway World | ★★★★ Gay Times | ★★★★ Londonist | ★★★★ Libby Purves for TheatreCat | ★★★★ The Upcoming Birch adapted Sally Rooney's novel Normal People for television with Rooney herself and writer Mark O'Rowe. [50] The Normal People TV series was released in April 2020. [51] Before the release of Normal People, it was announced that Birch would also adapt Rooney's novel Conversations with Friends for television. [52]

Billington, Michael (12 June 2017). "Anatomy of a Suicide review – a startling study of mothers and daughters". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 17 March 2020. Hopefully there’s one audience member who feels changed in a profound way, but it’s a much longer process’ Birch's opera, Violet, composed by Tom Coult , was scheduled to open at the Aldeburgh Festival in June 2020. [53] [54] The opera was commissioned and produced by Music Theatre Wales, Theater Magdeburg, and Snape Maltings, with the London Sinfonietta. [55] The two created Violet in 2019. [56] The opera's premiere was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, [57] eventually taking place at Aldeburgh in June 2022. Jude Christian's production starred soprano Anna Dennis as Violet with accompaniment by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Andrew Gourlay. [58] The production went on to tour the UK. [59] Coult’s score received an Ivor Novello Award nomination at The Ivors Classical Awards 2023 for Best Stage Work. [60]

Wurtzel, David (2019-11-18). "Theatre review: [BLANK] by Alice Birch". Counsel Magazine . Retrieved 2022-11-15. Sensing Others through Dancing Bodies as Data: Review of Sense Datum by UBIN DANCE 26th November 2023 Seth, Radhika; Schama, Chloe (17 June 2021). "12 Films to Watch Out for at Cannes". Vogue . Retrieved 30 June 2021. a b Jones, Alice (16 October 2019). "Alice Birch on her new play, writing Succession and adapting Normal People". inews.co.uk . Retrieved 7 March 2020.

Wetzel, Marie-Dominique (2022-02-05). " "Blank" von Alice Birch in Karlsruhe - Im Sog der Gewalt". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German) . Retrieved 2022-11-15. Director Maria Aberg and a brilliant cast of 14 women and two young girls rise to the occasion. Over and over again, they plunge straight in, with intense and sometimes harrowing emotion. They are assisted by a clever and highly adaptable double height set designed by Rosie Elnile. Perhaps most troublingly, Aberg has decided to have a handful of characters recur in multiple scenes, while the actors playing those characters still appear in other scenes as other characters. Accordingly, the start of a new scene often triggers a sense of uncertainty about the nature of its relation to the whole: is this the continuation of something from before, or is it entirely new? Asking this question—and looking for an answer—does not make for the best use of one’s time, and the production would have done well to establish clearer, more reliable rules of engagement for both structure and style.Clements, Andrew (5 June 2022). "Violet review – Coult's debut opera opens Aldeburgh with assurance". the Guardian . Retrieved 12 June 2022.