Bryony Lavery












Bryony Lavery (born 1947) is a British dramatist, known for her successful and award-winning 1998 play Frozen. In addition to her work in theatre, she has also written for television and radio. She has written books including the biography Tallulah Bankhead and The Woman Writer's Handbook, and taught playwriting at Birmingham University.




Contents






  • 1 Life and career


  • 2 Selected writings


    • 2.1 Stage Adaptations




  • 3 Background


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Life and career


Having begun her career as an actress, she decided that she was fed up with playing poor parts in plays, such as the left arm of a sofa, and decided to write plays with better parts for women.[citation needed] Early in her career she founded a theatre company called Les Oeufs Malades with actor Gerard Bell, she also founded Female Trouble, More Female Trouble and served as artistic director of Gay Sweatshop.


Her plays have a feminist undertone in them [1] and she has even written plays (like More Light which has only one male speaking role) with almost entirely female casts. She has written more than twenty plays since 1976.[2] She has authored translations of foreign works such as her 2007 version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.[citation needed] She has written five plays for the National Theatre Connections series. Frozen triggered a controversy and discussion about artistic sources and plagiarism and was the subject of a piece by Malcolm Gladwell published in The New Yorker and also collected in his book What the Dog Saw. In addition she also adapted Treasure Island, the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, into a play which was first performed on the Olivier Stage of the National Theatre, London, on 3 December 2014.[citation needed]



Selected writings




  • The Two Marias (1988) – Theatre Centre


  • Her Aching Heart (1992)
    • The Pink Paper's Play of the Year



  • Peter Pan (1991) – a pantomime


  • Goliath (1997)


  • More Light (1997) – National Theatre Connections


  • Frozen (1998)

    • Nomination/Tony Award for Best Play

    • Eileen Anderson Central Television Award


    • TMA Best New Play Award




  • The Magic Toyshop (2001)


  • A Wedding Story (2000)


  • Illyria (play) (2002) – NT Connections


  • Last Easter (2004)


  • Stockholm (2007) – Frantic Assembly


  • Red Sky (2007, play) – NT Connections


  • It Snows (2008, play) – NT Connections


  • Breathing Underwater (1998 radio play) – BBC Radio 7


  • Kursk (2009, play) – Young Vic


  • Beautiful Burnout (2010) – Frantic Assembly / National Theatre of Scotland


  • Dirt (2012, play) – Studio Theatre


  • The Believers (2014, play) – Tricycle Theatre



Stage Adaptations




  • A Christmas Carol (by Charles Dickens, music and lyrics by Jason Carr) - Chichester Festival Theatre (2008, 2015) / Birmingham Repertory Theatre (2009, 2013) / West Yorkshire Playhouse (2010)


  • Treasure Island (by Robert Louis Stevenson) - National Theatre (2014) / Birmingham Repertory Theatre (2016)


  • Brighton Rock (by Graham Greene) - Pilot Theatre / York Theatre Royal / UK tour (2018)


  • The Lovely Bones (by Alice Sebold) - Royal & Derngate, Northampton / Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse / Northern Stage / Birmingham Repertory Theatre / New Wolsey Theatre (2018)


  • The Midnight Gang (by David Walliams, music and lyrics by Joe Stilgoe) - Chichester Festival Theatre (2018)



Background


Lavery grew up in Dewsbury.[3] She was married to a man until her early thirties, but now identifies as gay.[3]



References





  1. ^ [1] Guardian Interview UK


  2. ^ Interview: "Comedy of terrors" The Observer UK


  3. ^ ab "Theatre Profile: An Interview with Bryony Lavery". Paula Citron | Critic, Broadcaster, Arts Journalist. 2012-05-18. Archived from the original on 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2018-03-14..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}




External links




  • Bryony Lavery at the Internet Broadway Database Edit this at Wikidata


  • Bryony Lavery resume ~ United Agents Agency[permanent dead link]

  • Bryony Lavery ~ Doollee.com

  • An article by Gladwell on the Play, Plagiarization, and Intellectual Property

  • Bryony Lavery's radio plays

  • Personal papers of Bryony Lavery held at DMU Archives









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