I am trying to remember the young woman that I was before I had children. I am trying to see who I am now… I am a writer and I have a splinter of ice in my heart and in my eye.' Nell Leyshon performs her own true story of how her reinvention of herself after children is halted by illness. It is a story of the body, medicine, statistics and the NHS; a story
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Nell Leyshon, whose play Bedlam won critical acclaim when it played here at the Globe in 2010, has been appointed as a Trustee of the Globe Theatre. Commenting on her appointment, Leyshon said: “I am thrilled to be appointed Trustee as I am passionate about the Globe, and believe in the value of writers’ voices on boards. I look forward to using my extensive experience and skills to support the staff and my fellow board members.”
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2016 was the 400th anniversary of the deaths of both Shakespeare and Cervantes, two giants of world literature. British Council and Hay Festival published an excellent anthology of contemporary stories inspired by both writers, and I made a contribution as one of the British writers inspired by Cervantes. An unforeseen bonus was that throughout the year I did some international work with the British Council and Hay to publicise the book, but also to have
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Nell Leyshon trabajó con marginados, De ahí nació la protagonista del "Del color de la leche" Aperitivo de la entrevista realizada por Luisa Cabello a Nell Leyshon por el libro "Del color de la leche" (Sexto Piso). Trabajando con gente marginada y analfabeta empezó a pensar en crear una historia que se convertiría en su personaje principal.
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El día de hoy gracias a Editorial Sexto Piso tenemos el privilegio de conversar con Nell Leyshon, una distinguida escritora de obras de Teatro y de Novelas, quien en México exitosamente ha publicado "El Show de Gary" y "El color de la Leche", sin duda un gran privilegio.
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Liliana Martínez Polo | El Tiempo ‘El show de Gary’ es el título en español de la novela que la británica Nell Leyshon tituló en inglés ‘Memorias de un carterista’ (‘Memoirs of a Dipper’). En su idioma explica la esencia de la historia. En español hace énfasis en la forma en que es contada. Gary podría estar frente a una audiencia contando cómo sus manos ligeras eran capaces de quedarse con los valores de cualquier desprevenido
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Nell Leyshon, Marcos Giralt Torrente y Valeria Luiselli presentan en el Hay Festival una antología de cuentos inspirados en los dos gigantes de la literatura (El Pais, México) Con 10 años, la escritora mexicana Valeria Luiselli participó en una función escolar de Una noche de Verano. Se ponía tan nerviosa que le tocó el papel de pared y la profesora le tapó la cabeza con una caja para que no arruinara la actuación. Al español
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As a playwright and novelist, and the first female author to have her work performed at the Globe, Nell Lyshon discusses her personal relationship with Shakespeare.
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It is about 10 minutes into my interview with the award-winning playwright and author Nell Leyshon, and already she is nicking my stuff. “Look what those workmen are doing!” she says, pointing out of the window of the Soho café, and after I turn back she shows me that she has quietly pocketed my mobile phone. “It’s really easy to distract people, isn’t it?” she laughs. “What Gary says is that it’s about a story
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The playwright in residence Nell Leyshon has been picking up material from around Hay festival which will go in her play. (Guardian, June 2012) This year, for the first time, the Hay Festival has a playwright-in-residence. Nell Leyshon has spent the week in Hay acting as a kind of scout, looking for material which will be formed into a play for a company of actors who arrive mid-week. They will have just five days to
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Ahead of her trip to the Bocas Lit Fest, novelist and playwright Nell Leyshon reflects on her experience of writing a short story inspired by Cervantes for the new anthology Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories After Shakespeare and Cervantes. When I received the email asking if I would like to write a story inspired by the work of Cervantes, my first idea was set in his birthplace, Alcalá de Henares, where I had been
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Shakespeare's Globe has just commissioned its first ever play by a woman. What does Nell Leyshon have planned? (interview by Andrew Dickson for The Guardian, February 2010) If playwright Nell Leyshon is ­overawed by the prospect of ­making history, she's hiding it well. It was announced this week that Leyshon had been ­commissioned by Shakespeare's Globe to write a drama for the ­theatre – the first woman to be asked since its opening in 1599.
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Almost uniquely among today's writers, late starter Nell Leyshon cares about country life. She talks to Charles Spencer (from The Telegraph Jan 2007) In my job, one of the greatest thrills is discovering a new writer of fresh and manifest talent, so I am unlikely to forget my first encounter with the work of Nell Leyshon. It was 2001, the year of the foot and mouth crisis, and I received a press release about a
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Entrevista con Nell Leyshon, autora de "Del color de la leche"
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