{"id":1294,"date":"2018-01-17T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1294"},"modified":"2019-07-25T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T10:13:04","slug":"linden-sonja","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1294","title":{"rendered":"Linden, Sonja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonja Linden is a playwright whose plays have been produced in London and in regional theatres in the UK as well as in the United States and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997 she became a writer in residence at the\u00a0Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture in London. Her experience motivated her play\u00a0<em>I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda <\/em>(2003)\u00a0and led her to set up the\u00a0&#8216;Write to Life&#8217; project, a writing programme for clients of the foundation intended to help torture victims deal with their traumatic experiences. In order to make these voices public she founded the iceandfire theatre company (<a href=\"https:\/\/iceandfire.co.uk\">www.iceandfire.co.uk<\/a>) in 2003. Linden stepped down as artistic director in 2008 and now acts in a\u00a0consultative capacity to the company. She has recently created a new company,\u00a0Visible Theatre<em>,<\/em>\u00a0which transcends and celebrates age.<\/p>\n<p>Her works include\u00a0<em>Call Me Judas<\/em> (1995), <em>The Jewish Daughter <\/em>(1997), a sequel to Bertolt Brecht&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Jewish Wife<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Crocodiles Seeking Refuge<\/em> (2005),\u00a0<em>The Asylum Monologues<\/em> (co-written with Christine Bacon, 2006),\u00a0<em>Palestine Monologues<\/em> (2010), <em>On a Clear Day You Can See Dover<\/em> (2010), and <em>Welcome to Ramallah<\/em> (2014), which she co-authored with <a href=\"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1289\">Adah Kay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plays<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8212;. et al., editors. <i>Bottled Notes from Underground: Contemporary Plays by Jewish Writers<\/i>. London: Loki Books, 1998.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8212;. <i>I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda<\/i>. London: Aurora Metro Books, 2004.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8212;. <i>Crocodile Seeking Refuge<\/i>. London: Aurora Metro Books, 2005.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8212;. with Company. <i>Who Do We Think We Are?<\/i>\u00a0London: Aurora Metro Books, 2014.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8212;. with Adah Kay. \u201cWelcome to Ramallah.\u201d <i>Plays for Today by Women<\/i>, London: Aurora Metro Books, 2014.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonja Linden is a playwright whose plays have been produced in London and in regional theatres in the UK as well as in the United States and Australia. In 1997 she became a writer in residence at the\u00a0Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture in London. Her experience motivated her play\u00a0I Have Before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":563,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1294\/revisions\/2830"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}