Rebecca Lenkiewicz: Plays 1: The Night Season; Shoreditch Madonna; Her Naked Skin; The Painter

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The Night Season - 'The Night Season is unusual; no politics, no issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. It's also delightfully, rudely funny.' Financial Times Shoreditch Madonna - 'A strong absorbing work, full of passion, pathos and sly humour, set in the hip art scene of London's East End. There is a rare combination of pain, wit and originality in Lenkiewicz's writing.' Daily Telegraph Her Naked Skin - 'It is shocking to think that this is the first full-length work by a woman to be seen on the Olivier stage. But Lenkiewicz makes up for lost time by exploring the hunger for political and personal emancipation that fuelled the suffragette movement in 1913. Her play colonises this daunting space with bravura confidence Her power lies in her ability to recapture the triumphs and tribulations of a history movement. Lenkiewicz's play plants a defiant feminist flag on the Olivier stage.' Guardian The Painter - 'An intimate portrait of Turner. Understated and quietly superb.' Independent on Sunday

Rebecca Lenkiewicz's The Night Season premiered at the National Theatre in 2004, received the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright Award and was nominated for the Charles Wintour Evening Standard Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Her Naked Skin premiered at the National Theatre in 2008, the first play by a living female playwright to be staged on the Olivier. Other plays include The Painter, The Typist, The Lioness, That Almost Unnameable Lust, Shoreditch Madonna, Blue Moon over Poplar, A Soldier's Tale, Invisible Mountains, Faeries, Justitia and adaptations of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People and Ghosts. For BBC Radio 4: Fighting For Words, Caravan of Desire, Sarah and Ken, Dracula and The Winter House.