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debbie tucker green

debbie tucker green is a playwright, screenwriter and director.

Her plays include: ear for eye (Royal Court Theatre, 2018); a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Royal Court Theatre, 2017); hang (Royal Court, 2015); nut (National Theatre, 2013); truth and reconciliation (Royal Court, 2011); random (Royal Court, 2008); generations (Young Vic, 2007); stoning mary (Royal Court, 2005); trade (RSC, 2005); born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003; Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer); and dirty butterfly (Soho Theatre, 2003).

She wrote and directed the feature film, Second Coming (BFI/Film 4, 2014; International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen Award) and adapted her play random into a TV film for Channel 4, which won the 2012 BAFTA for Best Single Drama and the Black International Film/MVSA Award for Best UK Film.

Her work for radio includes: lament (Radio Academy Arias Gold Award), gone, random, handprint and freefall.

She was awarded the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.

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Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers

Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers

By Travis Alabanza, Firdos Ali, Natasha Gordon, debbie tucker green, Arinzé Kene and Chinonyerem Odimba Selected by Natalie Ibu

An anthology of six brilliant plays, celebrating a multiplicity of stories authored by Black playwrights in the UK over the last decade. Selected and introduced by leading theatre director Natalie Ibu.

ear for eye

ear for eye

By debbie tucker green

Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs non-violence, direct action vs demonstrations, ear for eye follows characters navigating their way through society today.

debbie tucker green plays: one

debbie tucker green plays: one

By debbie tucker green

A collection of six plays by one of the most distinctive playwrights working today.

a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)

a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)

By debbie tucker green

Three couples. What might be. What once was. What could have been.

hang

hang

By debbie tucker green

A shattering play about one woman's unspeakable decision.

nut

nut

By debbie tucker green

A play about a woman who wants to withdraw from the world.

truth and reconciliation

truth and reconciliation

By debbie tucker green

A play about the aftermath of violence, in conflicts around the world from Rwanda to Northern Ireland, and from Zimbabwe to Bosnia.

random

random

By debbie tucker green

An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.

trade & generations: two plays

trade & generations: two plays

By debbie tucker green

Two plays from the acclaimed playwright debbie tucker green.

trade

trade

By debbie tucker green

A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.

Published in volume trade & generations: two plays
    generations

    generations

    By debbie tucker green

    A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...

    Published in volume trade & generations: two plays
      stoning mary

      stoning mary

      By debbie tucker green

      Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology.