Suzanne Enoch (actress)
Encyclopedia
Suzy Enoch is a Scottish writer, director and actress based in Edinburgh
. Enoch was born in Aberdeen
and trained as an actress in London at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
Enoch founded and ran the First Draft Theatre Company (now blank Pages
) in 2006 in London
, which commissioned and produced original plays
with themes
related to current events and performed with cast and directors who had not previously met.
In 2007, Enoch founded the Aberdeen
-based Writers & Actors Collaboration Theatre Company together with Colin Garrow and Liz Lees. Her writing and directing work with WAC Theatre:
Enoch's acting roles with WACtheatre include The Body in the Bag and WLTM,
Towards the inevitability of Catastrophe.
The Jabberwocky is a stage adaptation of the Lewis Carroll
play of the same name
written and directed by Enoch and produced for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
. Enoch was born in Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....
and trained as an actress in London at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
Enoch founded and ran the First Draft Theatre Company (now blank Pages
Blank Pages
blank Pages is a London based theatre company, specialising in new writing.-Concept:Every three months, two new plays are written by specially commissioned playwrights, giving their take on a topic inspired by recent news events...
) in 2006 in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, which commissioned and produced original plays
Play (theatre)
A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...
with themes
Theme (arts)
In the visual arts, a theme is a broad idea or a message conveyed by a work, such as a performance, a painting, or a motion picture. This message is usually about life, society or human nature. Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a work. Themes are usually implied...
related to current events and performed with cast and directors who had not previously met.
In 2007, Enoch founded the Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....
-based Writers & Actors Collaboration Theatre Company together with Colin Garrow and Liz Lees. Her writing and directing work with WAC Theatre:
- RealiTV, a satirical black comedyBlack comedyA black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...
inspired by the TV programme Big BrotherBig Brother (TV series)Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...
, written and directed by Enoch, premiered at Aberdeen Arts CentreAberdeen Arts CentreAberdeen Arts Centre is a theatre on King Street in Aberdeen, Scotland.The 350 seater auditorium regularly plays host to music and drama events and is the focus for much of Aberdeen's amateur dramatic activities....
in August 2009, followed by performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
- No Phones on Planet Pluto, tales inspired by the stories of mental healthMental healthMental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...
services users, co-written and directed by Enoch.
Enoch's acting roles with WACtheatre include The Body in the Bag and WLTM,
Towards the inevitability of Catastrophe.
The Jabberwocky is a stage adaptation of the Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
play of the same name
Jabberwocky
"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense verse poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1872 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
written and directed by Enoch and produced for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011.