Who is the ‘Playwright’?

‘Rebecca Lenkiewicz’ (born 1968) 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 in London.
Several of Lenkiewicz's plays have been published individually.

Youth:

Lenkiewicz was born in Plymouth, Devon, the daughter of Celia Mills and Peter
Quint, a playwright. Her stepfather is artist Robert Lenkiewicz. Her sister is the artist,
Alice Lenkiewicz. and her brother is the artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, who are both
the children of Robert Lenkiewicz. Her other brothers are Peter Mills and Thomas
Mills.
She attended Hyde Park Junior School and then Plymouth High School for Girls
before progressing to a BA in Film and English at the University of Kent from 1985 to
1989, then later to a BA Acting Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama
from 1996 to 1999. Initially, she worked as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare
Company and the Royal National Theatre, notably in Sir Peter Hall's production of
The Bacchae.
Writing:

Lenkiewicz's first play was Soho: A Tale of Table Dancers which she wrote for the
Royal Shakespeare Company Fringe in 2000. It won a Fringe First award at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Helen Raynor's production was revived in London on 2
February 2001, the first play to be staged at the Arcola Theatre. Lenkiewicz also
appeared in the play in the role of Stella. Her second play, The Night Season (2004),
set in ‘Sligo’, tells the story of an Irish family, the Kennedys, and their attempts to find
love. It was staged at the Royal National Theatre in the
Radio:
She has written numerous productions for BBC Radio, such as: Fighting for Words
(2005), Caravan of Desire, Blue Moon over Poplar (2006), The Man in the Suit,
Sarah and Ken, Betty Lives in a Little Yellow House in Texas (all 2010), Burning Up
and The Phone (both 2011). She also wrote an adaptation of Dracula and The
Winter House (2012), and a dramatization of Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick
Restaurant (May 2013) and Ladder of Years.
Film and television:
‘Lenkiewicz’ 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 screenplay
for Ida won the European Screenwriter category at the 27th European Film Awards
in 2014, 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.
Awards:
 The ‘Critics Circle’ Theatre Award for the most Promising Playwright 2004.
 Honorary degree by the University of Kent at Canterbury on 12 July 2012.
 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the European Film Award and the
Bafta in 2015 for ‘Ida’.

What is the plot of the play?

The play of ‘Blue Moon Over Poplar’ is said to be the sexiest but most weird and
rude play that has been created.
The play is currently about a young teenage boy named ‘Peter’ who under a starless
night, reveals his brutal anguish over his brother’s suicide. Struggling to cope with
the sickening permanence of death, he begins to trivialise all around him.
Relationships, family and his political anxieties are overwhelmed when he gets
involved with having ‘Sex’ with his family and especially lots of Girls which he thinks
attract him.
High on a cocktail of drugs and drink, his dark sexual urges are revealed.