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Rebecca Lenkiewicz

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Welcome to Episode 4 of Scripted by Paradox House...  This week we spend some quality time with award-winning writer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Listen in as Daisy goes deeper into the process of writing for film, tv and theatre where golden knowledge lies. You're in for a treat.  Rebecca Lenkiewicz is a British playwright and screenwriter. She is best known as the author of Her Naked Skin (2008), which was the first original play written by a living female playwright to be performed on the Olivier stage of the Royal National Theatre. Several of Rebecca's plays have been published individually, and in 2013 Faber &amp; Faber published a collection. Rebecca wrote on Secret Diary of a Call Girl for television. She co-wrote the Polish-language film Ida (2013) with Paweł Pawlikowski, its director. The film is set in Poland in the 1960s and is the story of what happens when a novitiate nun first learns that she is an orphan of Jewish parenthood. The first version of the screenplay was written in English by Lenkiewicz and Pawlikowski, when it had the working title Sister of Mercy. Pawlikowski then translated the screenplay into Polish and revised it. The screenplay for Ida won the European Screenwriter category at the 27th European Film Awards in 2014,[29] and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film at the ceremony on 22 February 2015. She co-wrote, with director Sebastian Leilo, the script for the adaptation of Disobedience in 2017. She and collaborators Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer wrote the screenplay for Colette in 2018. More recently for TV, Rebecca was the lead writer for Steve McQueen's hard-hitting series, Small Axe (2020), which is based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community and is set between 1969 and 1982.  Enjoy!

Welcome to Episode 4 of Scripted by Paradox House...  This week we spend some quality time with award-winning writer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Listen in as Daisy goes deeper into the process of writing for film, tv and theatre where golden knowledge lies. You're in for a treat.  Rebecca Lenkiewicz is a British playwright and screenwriter. She is best known as the author of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_Naked_Skin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Her Naked Skin</a> (2008), which was the first original play written by a living female playwright to be performed on the Olivier stage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Royal National Theatre</a>. Several of Rebecca's plays have been published individually, and in 2013 Faber &amp; Faber published a collection. Rebecca wrote on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Diary_of_a_Call_Girl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Secret Diary of a Call Girl</a> for television. She co-wrote the Polish-language film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_(film)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ida</a> (2013) with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawe%C5%82_Pawlikowski" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paweł Pawlikowski</a>, its director. The film is set in Poland in the 1960s and is the story of what happens when a novitiate nun first learns that she is an orphan of Jewish parenthood. The first version of the screenplay was written in English by Lenkiewicz and Pawlikowski, when it had the working title Sister of Mercy. Pawlikowski then translated the screenplay into Polish and revised it. The screenplay for Ida won the European Screenwriter category at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_European_Film_Awards" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">27th European Film Awards</a> in 2014,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Lenkiewicz#cite_note-29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">[29]</a> and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film at the ceremony on 22 February 2015. She co-wrote, with director Sebastian Leilo, the script for the adaptation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disobedience_(2017_film)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Disobedience</a> in 2017. She and collaborators <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_Westmoreland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wash Westmoreland</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Glatzer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Glatzer</a> wrote the screenplay for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colette_(2018_film)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Colette</a> in 2018. More recently for TV, Rebecca was the lead writer for Steve McQueen's hard-hitting series, Small Axe (2020), which is based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community and is set between 1969 and 1982.  Enjoy!

With Antonia Quirke.Writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz talks about Colette, the true story of the author who had to use her husband's name to publish her novels. And she reveals the difference between writing for the screen and for the stage, and why she really doesn't like handing in a movie script not knowing how it will turn out.Berlin in the 1920s was one of the most socially progressive pockets of the 20th century, and the movies were just as out there. NB presenter Caitlin Benedict uncovers the secrets of gender and sexuality in Weimar cinema with Pamela Hutchinson and Morgan M Page. Neil Brand recounts the tale of the original score for Apocalypse Now, composed by David Shire, who was, at the time, Francis Ford Coppola's brother-in-law.

With Antonia Quirke. Writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz talks about Colette, the true story of the author who had to use her husband's name to publish her novels. And she reveals the difference between writing for the screen and for the stage, and why she really doesn't like handing in a movie script not knowing how it will turn out. Berlin in the 1920s was one of the most socially progressive pockets of the 20th century, and the movies were just as out there. NB presenter Caitlin Benedict uncovers the secrets of gender and sexuality in Weimar cinema with Pamela Hutchinson and Morgan M Page. Neil Brand recounts the tale of the original score for Apocalypse Now, composed by David Shire, who was, at the time, Francis Ford Coppola's brother-in-law.

Alex Chisholm

Rebecca Lenkiewicz on witches, politics and being a writer. Alex Chisholm and Lladel Bryant on their production of Nine Lives. Feimatta Conteh on the completion of Carbon Neutral Arcola. Plus a joke of the month from Penny.SUBSCRIBE in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/…/podc…/arcola-podcast/id1073373062

Rebecca Lenkiewicz on witches, politics and being a writer. Alex Chisholm and Lladel Bryant on their production of Nine Lives. Feimatta Conteh on the completion of Carbon Neutral Arcola. Plus a joke of the month from Penny. SUBSCRIBE in iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/…/podc…/arcola-podcast/id1073373062" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/…/podc…/arcola-podcast/id1073373062</a>

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