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	Dead Girl's Dance
		Twisting the knife, as it were, with delicacy and nuance, Lavery builds her play on a contrapuntal structure of alternating monologues by each of the characters, bracketed by tense duets between the murderer and psychologist, and the psychologist and the grieving mother.
		Lavery does not flinch from looking at the nature of aberrant behavior, but the strength of her work is in her ability to go beyond a case-study approach to aberrance.
		Lavery does not ask the audience to exonerate the murderer but she does ask that we come to a more comprehensive understanding of the workings of the human brain as we examine the events of the narrative.
	www.hotreview.org /articles/deadgirlsdance.htm (1450 words)

	SOMETHING BORROWED; ANNALS OF CULTURE
		Bryony Lavery had seen one of my articles, responded to what she read, and used it as she constructed a work of art.
		Lavery is aware of the debt she owes to Partington's writing and is eager to acknowledge it."I always mention it, because I am aware of the enormous debt that I owe to the generosity of Marian Partington's piece.
		Lavery wasn't indifferent to other people's intellectual property, then; she was just indifferent to my intellectual property.
	www.geocities.com /thadoc78/plagiarism.htm (5729 words)

	Observer \| Comedy of terrors
		Bryony Lavery is talking about her play, Frozen, (opening at the National on 3 July) which was first performed in 1998, won a Theatrical Management Association Best New Play Award and of which she is still in charge, like a proud if slightly dazed parent to whom cast and director Bill Alexander defer.
		Lavery is one of the best but most consistently underrated playwrights in the country: her talent is lavish.
		It is characteristic of Lavery to be on the lookout for the rare, positive thought, and she sees to it that, in Frozen, the ice eventually thaws.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4446565-102280,00.html (1663 words)

	newsletter_issue_20
		Bryony’s funny, thoughtful play,” says Playhouse executive director Rick Stein, “is about the journey that each character takes—confronting their faith, their own mortality, and how they learn what the responsibilities of friendship truly are.
		Bryony Lavery’s one regret is that she cannot attend Last Easter’s West Coast premiere at the Playhouse.
		Lavery is also sorry to missing what would have been her first visit to Laguna Beach.
	www.lagunaplayhouse.com /about/newsletter_issue_20.php (490 words)

	village voice > theater > Last Easter by Michael Feingold
		Bryony Lavery's Last Easter is a jolly romp on the subject of assisted suicide; the charm of the concept carries its own fatal flaw.
		Lavery isn't so irresponsible as to conceal the terrors she's dealing with, but she does, evasively, try her best to sweeten the deal.
		Lavery's characters are theater people, those cheery, chattery folk you can always rely on to brighten things up.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0441,feingold2,57535,11.html (379 words)

	The Seattle Times: Theater & arts: "Frozen": An unflinching look at forgiveness
		Written by rising British playwright Bryony Lavery, the acclaimed (and controversial) three-actor drama examines the repercussions of a fatal kidnapping on the young victim's mother, an academic researcher and a man with a history of violence against children.
		Replied Lavery, "I didn't choose [the form], it chose me! I'd just done a one-woman show called 'Goliath,' a sort of Anna Deavere Smith piece, which had to be in monologues by virtue of having just one actor.
		Lavery was accused of using unattributed, verbatim passages from the book "Guilty By Reason of Insanity" by criminal psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis, and a New Yorker article about Lewis by Malcolm Gladwell.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/theaterarts/2002497926_frozen16.html (686 words)

	bryony - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The life of Bryony; Bryony Lavery is a writing phenomenon, a passionate advocate of the power of theatre.
		I was a human time bomb; Despite being told she was fine, Bryony Carr knew something was wrong.
		Then doctors confirmed her worst fears - she had a brain tumour and had less than a week to live.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-bryony.html (313 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Review: Frozen
		The MCC Theater production of Bryony Lavery's play, which just transferred to Circle in the Square, is a welcome glimmer of something unique and different in an otherwise fairly stolid season.
		Lavery uses this series of events to introduce a third character, an American named Agnetha (Laila Robins), who's visiting London to do research for her thesis about whether serial killing may be considered a forgivable act.
		Lavery nicely connects the characters through Rhona, though they're also linked by their inability to cope with their emotions.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /world/Frozen.html (938 words)

	gladwell dot com - something borrowed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		"I wanted a scientist who would understand," Lavery said—a scientist who could explain how it was possible to forgive a man who had killed your daughter, who could explain that a serial killing was not a crime of evil but a crime of illness.
		Lavery is aware of the debt she owes to Partington's writing and is eager to acknowledge it.
		She's upset about art—about the use of old words in the service of a new idea—and her feelings are perfectly understandable, because the alterations of art can be every bit as unsettling and hurtful as the thievery of plagiarism.
	www.gladwell.com /2004/2004_11_25_a_borrowed.html (5670 words)

	Bryony Lavery
		BRYONY LAVERY's witty, moving dramatisation of Kate Atkinson's 1995 Whitbread award-winning first novel follows Ruby, the unloved youngest child of the chaotic Lennox family in YORK, as she traces her past and finally unlocks the terrible family secret that has blighted her childhood.
		Sir Michael Audley is besotted with his young second wife, Lady Lucy Audley, but his daughter cannot tolerate her new stepmother and his barrister nephew thinks there is something about her that does not add up.
		...In BRYONY LAVERY's Victorian comedy thriller, the clues lie almost entirely in the scents left at the scene of the crime.
	www.radiolistings.co.uk /candc/lavery_bryony.html (443 words)

	Classical Voice of North Carolina
		Bryony Lavery’s good, though not great, play Frozen is currently receiving a splendid staging by Drew Barr at PlayMakers Repertory Company (Tuesday-Sunday through Feb. 12th in the Paul Green Theater in the Center for Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
		Lavery’s reaction to the charge of plagiarism is a shrugging “I thought it was O.K. to use it….
		Lavery’s theme is forgiveness, her central question among the most urgent any human being can ask of another.
	www.cvnc.org /reviews/2006/012006/Frozen.html (1189 words)

	Frozen, a CurtainUp review
		Lavery is a sensitive and skilled enough writer to overcome monologue tedium and the unpalatable subject of child abuse and murder.
		Lavery has given Nancy a dry sense of humor that provides some tension-relieving chuckles; most importantly, she has Nancy soften just enough to satisfy our need for a hopeful ending, but without compromising character consistency and credibility
		In keeping with Lavery's aim to explore the nurture-over-nature aspects of pedophelia and murder, Brian O'Byrne is an unforgettable Ralph, portraying him less as a thriller style menace than a damaged personality who can no more cope with remorse than with the inner demons that triggered his monstrous acts.
	www.curtainup.com /frozen.html (1033 words)

	Well-acted 'Frozen' is haunting \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		It's a wordy piece, but Lavery has a great ear for dialogue, and an even greater one for grief.
		But Lavery is interested in understanding, vulnerability, more than anything else.
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	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/147197 (489 words)

	Show Five
		But Miss Lavery's achievement goes far beyond simply integrating these disparate threads.
		Miss Lavery forces her audience to come uncomfortably close to understanding and forgiving the unthinkable.
		The subject matter may seem rough, but Bryony Lavery's Frozen is a play of rare - if often raw - power, and MandD's production of it is not to be missed.
	www.yourtheatre.com /ShowFive.htm (629 words)

	The Questors Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		BRYONY LAVERY has written more than 20 plays, produced for television and radio and written books, including a biography of Tallulah Bankhead.
		The play is about a woman whose mind is starting to unravel with Alzheimers, and about her gay daughter who discovers what it means to be pushed reluctantly into adulthood by a parent's decline.
		Lavery has never shied away from extreme emotion.
	www.questors.org.uk /Features/Lavery.html (219 words)

	Amazon.com: "Bryony Lavery": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Jane de Gay Playing (with) Shakespeare: Bryony Lavery's 'Ophelia' and Jane Prendergast's 'I, Hamlet' This article considers ways in which contemporary feminist theatre-makers respond to Shakespeare by reviewing...
		Bryony Lavery's staging of lesbian love stories and Phyllis Nagy's dramatisation of gender trouble and identity displacement.
		Introduction 3 of whom playwright Bryony Lavery has 'sighted' as 'guerillas in the mist' (see her Afterword to this volume, p.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Bryony-Lavery (523 words)

	The Seattle Times: Theater & arts: Thawing a path to forgiveness in "Frozen"
		In brief, "Frozen" poses the possibility that murder isn't always the sinful deed of a morally evil person, but sometimes the uncontrollable neurological symptom of a sick one.
		In particular, Lavery's script follows and quotes the writings of forensic psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis, who closely studied such serial killers as Ted Bundy.
		Lewis has theorized that the murders committed by Bundy and his ilk may stem from neurological injuries and other forms of severe abuse the perpetrators received in childhood — damage which left their brains primed to kill and unable to feel guilt.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/theaterarts/2002514011_frozen23.html (603 words)

	Playbill News: Chilling Bryony Lavery Play Frozen to Close on Broadway Aug. 22
		Playbill News: Chilling Bryony Lavery Play Frozen to Close on Broadway Aug. 22
		Frozen, the Bryony Lavery play which transferred from Off-Broadway to Broadway in April, will close on Aug. 22.
		Frozen was Lavery's first work to get a production at the prestigious National Theatre and is the British playwright's most significant stage success to date.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/87977.html (716 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Arts: Review - Frozen
		Lavery's masterful use of style allows one to be intrigued by this play rather than flat-out devastated.
		Lavery turns away from the bold proposal that Ralph – who at one point says, "I'm just sorry it's not legal … killing girls" – cannot feel remorse.
		It was this very lack of regret that made the character fascinating, that allowed us to see him in a different light.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:422639 (838 words)

	Knitting Circle Bryony Lavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		"Lavery's appealing, quirkily insightful play, has a part that is custom-built for Jackie Clune, actress, singer and comedienne.
		In her solo shows, Clune's comic persona is that of someone so cuttingly clever and camp you feel that the soul of a gay man has invaded a female body."
		"Lavery is glad that her success has come in middle age, although she admits to having felt somewhat miffed about the shock-horror generation that turned theatre on its head in the mid-1990s, when buggery, rape and drug use were onstage staples in plays such as Blasted, Trainspotting and Shopping and F-king.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /bryonylavery.html (630 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Theater - Cold Comfort
		And then there is the sub-zero hell of Ralph, the monster responsible for Rhona's death, as well as a number of other children.
		With brittle lyricism and grim understanding, Bryony Lavery's play grapples with unspeakable crimes and unbearable pain, with the search for impossible explanations and improbable acts of forgiveness.
		In an effort to mitigate the play's dark evocation of the aftermath of senseless violence, Lavery ties up loose emotional ends a little too neatly.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2006/55298_20060124.asp (584 words)

	GableStage at The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables - Miami live theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Director Joseph Adler and three smart, gifted actors bring so much passion to Bryony Lavery's disturbing drama that the title no longer quite fits.
		by British playwright Bryony Lavery, thrusts us in gripping fashion into a lucid and searing examination of the problem of evil - and the conflicting stratagems for accounting for it in terms of free will or determinism.
		Structured largely as a series of monologues addressed to the audience by the play's three main onstage characters - until their paths cross dramatically towards the end - Frozen deals with the long-range emotional effect on her mother of the brutal murder of a young English girl by a serial child predator.
	www.gablestage.org /season04-05/season05_1b.html (840 words)

	Breathing Underwater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Bryony Lavery's story about diving, paternity and relationships with a bit of humour thrown in too.
		A Tudor shipwreck is explored off Porthant Bay and a new diver stirs up memories With Susannah Doyle.
		Bryony Lavery's tale about diving, archaeology, blossoming love and paternal identity.
	www.radiolistings.co.uk /programmes/breathing_underwater.html (273 words)

	Bryony Lavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her most succesful play to date is the heavy handed FROZEN and it has won her various awards for it's ingenuity.
		She has now written over 20 plays and is still writing.
		I feel that the playwright Bryony Lavery deserves decent acknowlegdment on this site for the plays she has produced that have given me joy to act in.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bryony_Lavery (456 words)

	The Methuen Bookshop > Lavery Plays: 1 by Bryony Lavery
		Includes the plays Her Aching Heart, Nothing Compares to You, The Two Marias and Origin of the Species.
		Introduced by the author, Bryony Lavery's last play Goliath (adapted from Bea Campbell's book) was a hit at the Bush Theatre in 1997.
		Bryony Lavery is one of Britain's foremost female playwrights.
	www.methuenbookshop.co.uk /shop/product.php/461/0 (168 words)

	Theatre Reviews: Show Business Weekly: Frozen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Frozen, Bryony Lavery’s haunting play about three people whose
		In this study of culpability and forgiveness, Lavery writes with humanity often lacking in productions dealing with this sort of subject matter.
		Brian F. O'Byrne, Swoosie Kurtz (foreground) and Sam Kitchin in Byrony Lavery's Frozen at Circle in the Square.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/282/frozen.shtml (500 words)

	Lavery,Bryony Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Consortium welcomes Outlines from Absolute Press, an impressive and mature series chronicling the lives of some of the most exceptional and influential gay and lesbian artists of our time.
		by Bryony Lavery, Sphinx Theatre Company, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
		We guarantee the condition of every book, new or used.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Lavery,Bryony (191 words)

	Frozen By Bryony Lavery, at East 13th Street Theater 25 Feb 2004 Swoosie Kurtz , Brian F. O'byrne, Laila Robins / New ...
		Frozen By Bryony Lavery, at East 13th Street Theater 25 Feb 2004 Swoosie Kurtz, Brian F. O'byrne, Laila Robins / New York Theatre Guide
		The Mcc Theater presents the New York Premiere of Frozen By Bryony Lavery, opens at East 13th Street Theater 11 Mar 2004, following previews from 25 Feb 2004, for a limited engagement to 11 April 2004.
		DISCLAIMER : Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in these pages.
	www.newyorktheatreguide.com /news/oct03/18oct03frozen.htm (460 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Plays 1: Origin of the Species / Two Marias / Her Aching Heart / Nothing Compares to You: Books: Bryony ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Includes the plays HER BREAKING HEART, NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU, THE TWO MARIAS and ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES, with an introduction by the author.
		Lavery was Resident Writer at the Unicorn Theatre for Children and has written many plays for children and adults and some cabarets.
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	www.amazon.co.uk /Plays-Origin-Species-Nothing-Compares/dp/0413723402 (293 words)

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