Film, TV & Theatre work by A L Kennedy: Dice, Stella does tricks

Film/TV/Radio/Theatre:

1993

1994

1995

1999

2000

2000/1

2002

2004

The Audition - one man play. Winner of Edinburgh Festival Fringe First. Read the review

Totally Out Of It - BBC Education TV drama.

Just To Say - BBC Education TV drama.

The Year Of The Prince - BBC Education Historical TV Series.

Stella Does Tricks - BFI/SFPF 90 min film.Released Spring 1997. Read the review

There’s an end to an Auld Sang - BBC Education Historical TV series.

Delicate - performance piece for Motionhouse dance company.

Ghostdancing - BBC TV drama/documentary. (writer and presenter)

For The Love Of Burns - BBC TV arts documentary (writer/presenter). Read the review

True [Requiem for Lucy Palmer] - performance project for Fierce Productions and Tramway Theatre.
Read the review. For further information see: http://www.koniclab.info

Indian Summer - Musical comedy.

Dice - 6 part TV drama series for HBO, CBC and others (With John Burnside)
For further information see: http://www.showcase.ca/series/

Dice II - co-writing with John Burnside for CBC and Cite Amerique

Born a Fox - radio play for BBC Radio 4
Read the review

Like An Angel - radio play for BBC Radio 4

Reviews:

Stella does tricks

"..in the world Stella inhabits, the dream of love still comes at a price."
New York Times film review

"... calmly services a gent on a park bench while holding an ice cream cone with her other hand. The sequence's striking mixture of deadpan comedy, poetic realism and the sheer unexpected sets the tone for much of what is to come."
Variety film review

"£140,000 of lottery cash for more vice on Four"
Daily Mail headline 22/4/96

The Audition

"Kennedy's script is so perfectly crafted that Hayward's occasional lapses from it, in his adlibbed asides to the audience, pale by comparison and tend to disrupt the dramatic tension, but this is an otherwise well-paced production."
Sarah Villiers - Glasgow Herald

"Kennedy has found the perfect actor for a demanding role. It is a fine performance and also a remarkable debut from a talented novelist who looks
set to become a playwright of distinction."
Toby Harnden - The Scotsman

For the love of Burns

"For The Love Of Burns did justice not just to Burns's complicated love life but to his work. For which much thanks."

Telling Tales

"So powerfully did this young woman talk about what is involved in writing, in life, in love and in death, you can only be compelled towards her books."
Dierde MacDonald - Daily Mail

True [Requiem for Lucy Palmer]

"The sheer scale and boldness of the visual imagery... lifts Kennedy's bleakly haunting and sometimes bitterly humorous text into a glowing, unforgettable spectacle.... In the end the show seems to suggest that human attempts to defy mortality only add to our pain; or condemn us to relive it even more agonisingly than before. But here, this grim message is delivered with such integrity, such sadness, such moments of beauty, and such an underlying respect for the desperate ingenuity of the struggle to defy oblivion, that its difficult to dismiss as just another piece of fashionable pessimism."

Very happy to have worked with the whole team for this show - and very happy we got this review. Academics feel free to say it would apply to anything I do that works.

Born a Fox

"A fascinating, bleak, horribly funny black comedy."
The Times

"Programme of the week is this funny and sharp drama, full of the most deliciously bitchy dialogue, which is A.L.Kennedy's first play for radio.
John Gordon Sinclair...plays a teacher whose nerves are still at breaking point after being stabbed in the kidney by a ten-year-old pupil."
Sunday Times

"...the writing is tough and tense with its own bitter humour."
Mail On Sunday