Ursula Rani Sarma

Which comes first, loneliness or violence? This is the story of love born in a very dark place between a man who wants to belong and a woman who wants to be forgotten. On a stormy night, they shelter in an abandoned summer home and tentatively discover what it is that they have in common. But just when it seems something beautiful might emerge, the opposite appears. The Magic Tree is an exploration into human behaviour at a time when humanity seems determined to endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past. It looks at why good people are capable of doing bad things and asks if love alone can save us. The Magic Tree opened at the The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh in August 2008.

The Magic Tree

Alice Birch

Winsome Pinnock

Sabrina Mahfouz

Bryony Lavery

Katherine Chandler

Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Suhayla El-Bushra

Sarah Daniels

Deborah Bruce

Natasha Marshall

Chinoyerem Odimba

Rena Owen

Rebecca Prichard

Chloe Moss

Shelley Silas

Sandrine Uwayo

Anna Reynolds

Somalia Seaton

Naomi Wallace

Lucy Kirkwood

Jacqueline Holborough

Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm

Daisy King

Vivienne Franzmann

Lin Coghlan

Annie Caulfield

Raina Dunne

Danni Brown

Laura Lomas

Theresa Ikoko

Katie Hims

Sonya Hale

Linda Brogan

Clean Break is a British theatre company set up in 1979 by two women in prison. It exists to tell the stories of women with experience of the criminal justice system and to transform women's lives through theatre. Over 40 years, Clean Break has commissioned some of the most progressive and brilliant women writers to write ground-breaking plays, alongside developing the writing skills of the women they work with in its London studios and in prisons. This is a collection of monologues from this canon. Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women celebrates the opportunities inherent when women represent themselves. Offering female performers a diverse set of monologues reflecting a range of characters in age, ethnicity and lived experience, the material is drawn from a mix of published and unpublished works. This book is for any performer who does not see themselves represented in mainstream plays, for lovers of radical women's theatre and for rebels everywhere who believe that the act of speaking and being heard can create change.

Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre Company

Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women

Daniel is famous. He has walked away from disaster and turned it into art. As he prepares for the ultimate exhibition of his life, the headlines proclaim him unbreakable. But inside, Daniel is falling apart. LJ has always been a survivor, in total command of her emotions. Since being bound to Daniel by a freak accident, she can’t quite seem to get her heart under control. Steph wants to be special, to have her photo in the paper for once, and not just because she’s Daniel’s sister. Can Karl, who claims to be in ‘production’, invent a future where they both get recognised?

The Dark Things

"Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate. As they endure the ever-escalating dangers around them-- in their home, as well as in the streets of Kabul-- they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other. It will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation."-- From cover, page 4.

A Thousand Splendid Suns (Play Script)

The script for the stage production of the bestselling Khaled Hosseini novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, as adapted by playwright Ursula Rani Sarma. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate. As they endure the ever-escalating dangers around them--in their home, as well as in the streets of Kabul--they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, playwright Ursula Rani Sarma reimagines Hosseini's novel to show how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, this reimagination of A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling production about unlikely friendship and indestructible love. This adaptation was first performed by the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco in February 2017.

Based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini

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