Jenny McLeod (playwright)

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Jenny McLeod (born 1963) is a British playwright. McLeod grew up in Nottingham. She started writing plays in the middle of her A Levels after seeing an advertisement in a local paper. Her play Cricket at Camp David won the Writing 87 workshop, and she went on to write Island Life for Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company. In 1991–2 she was writer-in-residence at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1991–1992. After winning a bursary from Thames Television, she was in residence at the Tricycle Theatre in 1995. [1]

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Island Life, first performed at the Nottingham Playhouse, pursued the stories of three women in an old people's home. [2] In Raising Fires (1994), a West Indian orphan girl Tilda, brought to early-17th-century Essex by a minister, is accused of witchcraft. [3] Poison (2000) was adapted to Britain from a South African musical version of Othello originally written and directed by David Kramer. [4]

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  1. Heidi Stephenson (2014). Rage And Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting. A&C Black. pp. 97–. ISBN   978-1-4081-7803-4.
  2. Mary Brewer; Deirdre Osborne (2014). Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama. Macmillan Education UK. p. 28. ISBN   978-1-137-50629-0.
  3. Dimple Godiwala (2008). Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 232–3. ISBN   978-1-4438-0286-4.
  4. Anita Chaudhari, The drugs bard, The Guardian , 16 February 2000. Accessed 14 December 2020.