Close Quarters (NHB Modern Plays) (eBook)

Stationed on the tense border between Estonia and Russia, Cormack, Findlay and Davies are the first generation of women to ever serve in the British infantry. They've aced physical tests only five per cent of female soldiers can pass - they've been trained to shoot, fight and kill. But everyone around them questions whether they should even be allowed to serve. And now they're about to be tested to their limits. Kate Bowen's taut, funny and powerful play follows three pioneering young women in the world's most dangerous workplace. Close Quarters premiered at Sheffield Theatres in 2018, in a co-production between Sheffield Theatres and Stockroom, and directed by Stockroom's Artistic Director Kate Wasserberg. It was chosen as one of the Observer's Top 10 Theatre Shows of 2018.

Kate is a Glasgow based writer and producer working in theatre and television. Close Quarters was premiered by Stockroom (previously Out of Joint) and Sheffield Theatres in 2018, directed by Kate Wasserberg, and was named by The Observer as one of their top ten theatre productions of that year. It was staged by RADA in London in 2019 directed by Zoe Ford-Burnett. In 2021 she was on attachment to The New Work department of the National Theatre, London. She has worked with Tod Productions and STV to develop a sixty minute drama pilot, Storm Warning for the BBC; and was part of the first BBC Writersroom Scottish Voices Drama Writer's group. She was the 2012 winner of the annual New Writer's Award (Playwright's Studio Scotland) and participant in the 2013 Traverse 50 programme at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. She was awarded a place on the Channel 4 Playwrights' Scheme in 2016 and a Starter for Ten residency from the National Theatre of Scotland in 2017. Her short plays have been performed at The Traverse Theatre (The Prize Fighter), Glasgow's Play, Pie and a Pint (The Lawyers) and on STV (Super Sunday).

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Stationed on the tense border between Estonia and Russia, Cormack, Findlay and Davies are the first generation of women to ever serve in the British infantry. They've aced physical tests only five per cent of female soldiers can pass - they've been trained to shoot, fight and kill. But everyone around them questions whether they should even be allowed to serve. And now they're about to be tested to their limits. Kate Bowen's taut, funny and powerful play follows three pioneering young women in the world's most dangerous workplace. Close Quarters premiered at Sheffield Theatres in 2018, in a co-production between Sheffield Theatres and Stockroom, and directed by Stockroom's Artistic Director Kate Wasserberg. It was chosen as one of the Observer's Top 10 Theatre Shows of 2018.