Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes
Lucy Kirkwood
Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. As the Large Hadron Collider starts up in 2008, she is embarking on the most exciting work of her life, searching for the Higgs boson particle. Jenny is her sister. She lives in Luton. She spends a lot of time googling.
Available
2017
978-1-84842-582-8
Drama
Nick Hern Books
Lucy Kirkwood
Lucy Ann Kirkwood, born in October 1983, is a multi-award-winning British playwright and screenwriter. She is writer in residence at Clean Break. In June 2018 Kirkwood was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its “40 Under 40” initiative.
Her play “Chimerica” premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2013, in a co-production with theatre company Headlong. It transferred to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End and won the Critics’ Circle, Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best New Play, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for best play in the English language by a female writer.
Her other work includes “NSFW” (Royal Court, 2012); “small hours” (co-written with Ed Hime; Hampstead Theatre, 2011); “Beauty and the Beast” (with Katie Mitchell, National Theatre, 2010); “Bloody Wimmin”, as part of “Women, Power and Politics” (Tricycle Theatre, 2010); “it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now” (Clean Break at the Arcola Theatre, 2009; winner of the John Whiting Award); “Hedda” (Gate Theatre, 2008) and “Tinderbox” (Bush Theatre, 2008).
Lucy Kirkwood’s work for television includes E4’s series “Skins” (2007-13) and her original series “The Smoke” (Kudos/Sky One, 2014). She was also the co-recipient of the inaugural Lee Berwin Award, designed to promote the craft of playwriting in the UK and the US.