Penelope Skinner

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Penelope Skinner
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Occupation Playwright, screenwriter
NationalityBritish
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Penelope Skinner is a British playwright. [1] Born in 1978, [2] she came to prominence after her play Fucked was first produced in 2008 at the Old Red Lion Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival to critical acclaim [3] and has had other plays staged in London including at the Bush Theatre, National Theatre and Royal Court Theatre. [4]

Skinner's play Eigengrau, staged at the Bush Theatre in 2010, was a critical and box office hit and Skinner was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2010. Her play The Village Bike was her first play to be staged at the Royal Court Theatre where it had a sell out, twice-extended run starring Romola Garai and directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, winning her the George Devine Award and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2011. In 2011, she wrote episodes for the Channel 4 series Fresh Meat . In the same year, her play The Sound of Heavy Rain was produced by Paines Plough and Sheffield Theatres touring in Roundabout. In 2012. her play Fred's Diner was staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre's pop-up stage, following which The Independent newspaper described Skinner as "Our leading young feminist writer." [5] In 2013, Skinner co-wrote the screenplay for the film How I Live Now . [6]

In 2015, Skinner's play "Linda", staged at London's Royal Court theatre, "raises important questions with bracing rhetorical force" Timeout. Also in 2015, her off-broadway play "The Ruins of Civilisations" was described as offering "a powerful portrait of an anguished woman fixating on the prospect of a baby as a source of affection, hope and escape" by The Guardian, In 2018, her play "Meek", staged at the Traverse in Edinburgh, "probes into power, resistance and men's rights" [7] [8] [9]

In 2023, Skinner's play "Lyonesse" opened at The Harold Pinter Theatre. [10]

Work

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  2. ↑ Gillinson, Miriam (13 October 2023). "Penelope Skinner on her #MeToo play: 'We focus on perpetrators. I wanted to explore the life that was lost'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  3. ↑ Fucked Review Edinburgh Festival
  4. ↑ Unitedagents.co.uk
  5. ↑ Nione Meakin (15 August 2012). "Penelope Skinner: More nourishing drama from a truly gutsy playwright" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  6. ↑ Catsoulis, Jeannette (7 November 2013). "Young Love, Interrupted by a Nuclear Bomb". The New York Times .
  7. ↑ "Meek - Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh". The Reviews Hub. 12 August 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  8. ↑ Treneman, Ann (15 November 2023). "Edinburgh theatre review: Meek at the Traverse". The Times . ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  9. ↑ Fisher, Mark (10 August 2018). "Meek/Angry Alan review – Penelope Skinner probes into power, resistance and men's rights". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  10. ↑ Davis, Clive (26 October 2023). "Lyonesse review — stars can't save this script from itself" . The Times .
  11. ↑ Brantley, Ben. Review: "In Linda, the Lures and Snares of Leaning In". The New York Times. February 28, 2017
  12. ↑ "Kim Cattrall returns to London stage in Linda". BBC News. 17 July 2015. July 2015.
  13. ↑ "Paines Plough". Archived from the original on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  14. ↑ Royalcourttheatre.com
  15. ↑ Nationaltheatre.org.uk Archived 17 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ Bushtheatre.co.uk Archived 21 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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