Vivienne Franzmann was a teacher who took up playwriting after
winning the Bruntwood Playwriting award in 2008 with her first
play, Mogadishu, which also won the 2010 George Devine Award and
was first staged at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in
2011.
Other plays include: The IT (National Theatre Connections festival,
2021); Bodies (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2017); Pests (Royal
Court, Royal Exchange Manchester and Clean Break, 2014); and The
Witness (Royal Court, 2012).
She has written for Channel 4, BBC 1, Radio 4 and Radio 3. In 2014,
she was awarded a BAFTA for her short film for children, Lizard
Girl.
'If there is a finer new play than The Witness this year, I'll be
astonished'
*Evening Standard*
'Powerful, original and deeply moving'
*The Telegraph*
'A marvellous piece of writing, delivered with quiet intensity and
not an atom overdone'
*Financial Times*
'A play whose depth, compassion and courage eclipses by far the
success of her Bruntwood-winning Mogadishu... triumphant'
*The Times*
'Clever, gripping... noble, inventive'
*Daily Mail*
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