She was Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre from 2015 – 2018 and the current Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Lyceum Theatre. Wilson, Tanya (2000-08-03). "Arts: Zinnie Harris, the prizewinning playwright talks to Tanya Wilson". The Guardian . Retrieved 2018-10-15. Topsy-turvy life … Maxine Peake and Peter Forbes in How to Hold Your Breath. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Alongside her original plays, Zinnie Harris has adapted and reworked a number of plays from the western dramatic canon revising female characters from those plays for a more contemporary and sympathetic eye. [2]

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Zinnie Harris (2015 UK)". Berwin Lee London New York Playwrights Inc. 15 May 2013 . Retrieved 15 October 2018. A one-night stands turns into the fall of European civilisation....and the finishing touch of "a soothing quality of mercy" is that Dana drowns? Zinnie Harris FRSE is a British playwright, screenwriter and director currently living in Edinburgh. [1] She has been commissioned and produced by the Royal Court Theatre, Royal National Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her plays have been translated and performed in many countries across Europe and the globe. Everything happens on the same junk-covered set, with no sense that Dana and Jasmin are actually travelling anywhere. Coupled with Dana’s hallucinogenic visitations from both Shaeffer’s increasingly agitated Jarron and Peter Forbes’s amusingly prissy, quasi-angelic librarian and Featherstone almost seems to be interpreting ‘How To Hold Your Breath’ as taking place in its protagonist’s head. But to what end? If none of it is really happening, the geopolitical stuff loses value, as does Jasmin, whose heartbreaking, ugly late monologue about her baby is one of the play’s stand-out moments. Clearly it is at least real on some level, but Featherstone muddies it enough to sap the play’s momentum, while the relentlessly dour tone squishes the considerable sparkle in Harris’s dialogue.

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The Duchess [of Malfi] | The Lyceum | Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh". lyceum.org.uk. 17 May 2019 . Retrieved 2023-01-15. Harris’ The Duchess (of Malfi), an adaptation of John Webster’s Duchess of Malfi, opened at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in 2019 . [20] Dana is so upset that, the next day, she almost misses a presentation about “the customer experience” that she has to do for work. The nightmare deepens. Dana’s sister, Jasmine, tries to help. But she has her own intimate concerns. The pair eventually set off on a journey across Europe. The names Berlin, Budapest and the Adriatic drift through this symbolic itinerary. The nightmare deepens. More and more. Yet just as the devil persecutes them, so they acquire a guardian angel in the shape of an ever-helpful Librarian. Always on hand to offer a parody of self-help books, he has suggestions for every occasion. Art is meant to reflect reality, however, too often it only shows one side of the story. It is no secret that art has, for a long time, had a gender problem and, despite the extraordinarily varied canon of British theatre, it is no exception. All too often, women are excluded from the picture or, where they are its focus, the framing is limited to traditionally feminine situations. While theatre is full to bursting with ‘everyman’ roles, the ‘everywoman’ has been notable mostly by her absence.

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Read about the Faber story, find out about our unique partnerships, and learn more about our publishing heritage, awards and present-day activity. StephensSimon There are some plays which have moments in that, in a totally thrilling way, you wish you’d written. How To Hold Your Breath had handfuls. What starts off as a seemingly innocent one night stand, Zinnie Harris new playtakes us on a thrilling and magical journey across Europe and examines the true cost of modern day morality. Because we live in Europe. Because nothing really bad happens. The worst is a bit of an inconvenience. Perhaps not such a good mini break. But really in the grand scheme of life, not so bad.