Julia Pascal

Julia is a playwright whose work has been performed widely in London, the UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Macedonia and the USA.  She has written for theatre, television and radio.

Her work explores political violence, war, conflict, trauma and those living on the edge. In 2015 she directed her play CROSSING JERUSALEM, to great success at the Park Theatre, London. For BBC Radio 4, she was commissioned for the series From Fact to Fiction, and wrote REVELATIONS, set in Manchester and inspired by the murder of Christians in an American church.  For Theatre Delicatessen she wrote OLD NEWLAND, which explores Zionism/antiZionism from the point of view of an elderly Dublin Jew, as part of their season Walking The Tightrope.

Awards include the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) for which she received a Dreamtime Fellowship. For BBC Radio her play THE ROAD TO PARADISE, was nominated for a Sony Prize and won an Alfred Bradley Award.   Her play, ST JOAN, was chosen as one of the few modern plays to be workshopped and presented at New York’s Lincoln Center Director’s Lab.  Her version of THE DYBBUK had its US premiere at Theatre for the New City after widely touring Europe. She has been Writer in Residence at the University of York, Kingston University and The Wiener Library. She teaches Writing at New York University’s London campus.

Her plays are published by Oberon Books.

They include: Theresa, A Dead Woman On Holiday, The Dybbuk in the volume The Holocaust Trilogy,  The Yiddish Queen Lear/Woman On The Bridge,  Crossing Jerusalem, The Golem, St Joan, Year Zero,  The Shylock Play. Woman On The Bridge, Honeypot,Nineveh, Broken English in the volume Political Plays.

www.juliapascal.org

DANCING, TALKING, TABOO

Pascal Theatre Company recently collaborated with The Place Dance Theatre to create experimental dance theatre pieces for the Bloomsbury Festival.

This site-specific performance is their first since lockdown and celebrated  their return to creative projects by honouring the lives of the women we have recorded in our Giving Voice Project.  https://www.pascal-theatre.com/project/giving-voice/

This exciting collaboration brought the influences of 20th century cabaret, Mary Wigman, Valeska Gert, Hilde Holger, Bertolt Brecht, Rudolf Laban, to the expression of previously unheard voices through voice and body. The dancers are supported by performer Amanda Maud a musician, actor and dancer in her own right.