Shoreditch Madonna

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Against the backdrop of the underground art world in London's East End, the lives of a group of struggling artists collide. A happening is being planned and once respected artist Devlin joins a new generation attempting to create work and forge relationships. Rebecca's familiarity with this world is informed by the experiences of her sister Alice, who is a visual artist and poet in Liverpool, and her brother Wolfe, a painter and film maker based in Hackney.

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Rebecca's second play The Night Season, opened at the National's Cottesloe Theatre in July 2004 where it ran until November. She won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for most promising playwright 2004 and was also nominated for the Charles Wintour Award for New Playwrighting in the 2004 Evening Standard Awards and for the Susan Smith Blackburn award. Her previous (and first) play, Soho - A Tale of Table Dancers, won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival in 2000. Her latest play, Shoreditch Madonna, opened at the Soho Theatre in July and Rebecca also took part in the Old Vic's 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic.