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The Write Event sees four exciting new productions by leading local playwrights give fresh insight into the lives and works of these much-loved authors. The second performance of the night sees the World Premiere of The Belfry by Dean Johnson and John Gorman. Taking its name from the famous novel The Bell Jar, the play will see John take to the stage to play the neighbour of Sylvia Plath, who will be portrayed by Lucia Novosadova, making her second appearance of the evening. In this play, the final days of Plath's tragic life are viewed through the eyes of a retired professor living in the flat below hers. Plath becomes depressed when her marriage to Ted Hughes fails and he abandons her and their two young children for another woman. In the freezing winter of 1963, Sylvia takes her life. The second performance of the night sees the World Premiere of The Belfry by Dean Johnson and John Gorman. Taking its name from the famous novel The Bell Jar, the play will see John take to the stage to play the neighbour of Sylvia Plath, who will be portrayed by Lucia Novosadova, making her second appearance of the evening. In this play, the final days of Plath's tragic life are viewed through the eyes of a retired professor living in the flat below hers. Plath becomes depressed when her marriage to Ted Hughes fails and he abandons her and their two young children for another woman. In the freezing winter of 1963, Sylvia takes her life. On Friday night, the Concert Hall will host yet another World Premiere, this time If Only by Lynn Pegler. This new play explores the extraordinary life of Rudyard Kipling and the devastating personal consequences of World War One. Jungle Book author Kipling was the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. At the turn of the 20th century, he was Britain's most popular writer. He lived through the First World War and was directly involved, writing pamphlets and poetry in support of the UK's war aims. His son, John, disappeared during the First World War and Kipling later died without ever discovering John's fate. Performed by Lynn Pegler and Matt Jones, this play brings to the life Kipling's experiences during the First World War and tells the tale of the role he played, demonstrating the direct relationship between the war and life and works. The final performance in this double bill of literary performances sees Gerry Smyth's Nora and Jim performed by Jade Thomson and Tom Galashan. In the autumn of 1909, the Irish writer James Joyce was, for two months, temporarily separated from his partner, Nora Barnacle. He promised to write every day, though there has never been any evidence to suggest that Nora replied. This play is directed by David Llewellyn and imagines how Nora might have responded to Joyce's accusations of betrayal. Unmarried, unskilled, exiled, mother of two illegitimate children - Nora Barnacle was in an extremely vulnerable position when Joyce's first letter dropped though her letterbox. Nora and Jim is a play that gives a voice to a marginalised figure. Nora's experience reverberates through a century in which women had to fight for recognition on a wide range of fronts ? legal, emotional, cultural. Nora's experience is universal; her fight is ours.