The Rubenstein Kiss

The Rubenstein Kiss is the debut play by British playwright James Phillips,^[1] and the winner of the John Whiting Award and the TMA Award for Best New Play.^[2]

The play, set in the 1950s and the 1970s, was inspired by an iconic photograph of the nuclear spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. It was premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London in 2005, starring Samantha Bond, Will Keen, Gary Kemp and Martin Hutson.^[1]

The play had its North American premiere on February 3, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Billington, Michael (24 November 2005). "The Rubenstein Kiss". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
^ Bloomsbury.com. "Bloomsbury - James Phillips - James Phillips". www.bloomsbury.com. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
^ "Rubenstein Kiss - Catco". www.catco.org. Retrieved 31 May 2017.

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1990–1999	Lucy Gannon for Keeping Tom Nice (1990) Terry Johnson for Imagine Drowning (1991) Rod Wooden for Your Home in the West (1992) Martin Crimp for The Treatment and Helen Edmundson for The Clearing (shared) (1993) Jonathan Harvey for Beautiful Thing (1994) Joe Penhall for Some Voices (1995) Ayub Khan-Din for East is East (1996) Ann Coburn for Get Up and Tie Your Fingers (1997) Roy Williams for Starstruck (1998/9)
2000–2009	David Greig for The Cosmonaut's Last Message ... and Tanika Gupta for The Waiting Room (shared) (2000) Zinnie Harris for Further than the Furthest Thing (2001) Peter Rumney for Jumping on my Shadow (2002) Rona Munro for Iron (2003) Owen McCafferty for Scenes from the Big Picture (2004) Fin Kennedy for How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (2005) James Philips for The Rubenstein Kiss and Fraser Grace for Breakfast with Mugabe (shared) (2006) Dennis Kelly for Taking Care of Baby (2007) Bryony Lavery for Stockholm (2008) Alexi Kaye Campbell for The Pride (2009)
2010–9999	Tim Crouch for The Author and Lucy Kirkwood for It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First but It Is Alright Now (shared) (2010)

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