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Abigail Docherty

ABIGAIL DOCHERTY

  
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abigail is currently Pearson Playwright in residence at the Tron in Glasgow. Her play Sea and Land and Sky won the Tron's OPeN STaGe award and is published by Methuen Drama. Other work includes Four PArts Broken (National Theatre of Scotland), One Thousand Paper Cranes (Tron / Imaginate International Children's Festival) and Room (Tron). BBC Radio 4 plays include Ursula and Boy and Goblin Market.

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         Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The         Four PArts Broken         Goblin Market         One Thousand Paper Cranes         Room         Sea Land And Sky         Waves, The

Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The

Synopsis:
What if you wanted your best friend Nathans two goldfish so much, that you would swap anything you had for them? Anything. Absolutely. Anything. even your Dad. . .Well thats just what Neil does and when Mum finds out, shes not best pleased and Neil and his little sister have to GO GeT DAD BACK! Unfortunately though, its not that simple. Nathan doesnt have Dad any more. He swapped him for Vashtis electric guitar. And Vashti swapped Dad, with Blinky, for a gorilla mask. And Blinky swapped Dad, with Patti, for Galveston the rabbit. And Patti lives a very, very long way away. Young audiences and their families are invited to take part in an interactive promenade production to help Neil and his sister on their mission to get Dad back!

Notes:
adapted from the book by Author Neil Gaiman And illustrator Dave McKean in a new adaptation created by Lu Kemp and Abigail Docherty; Written by Oliver emanuel

1st Produced:
the Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock    25 Apr 2013

Organisations:
National Theatre of Scotland

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Genre:
50 min TYA adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Four PArts Broken

Synopsis:
Oran Mor's a Play, a Pie and a Pint spring season at edinburgh's Traverse theatre, presented in association with the National theatre of Scotland, will feature five plays from South America, adapted by Scottish playwrights.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernanda Jaber

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Genre:
short adaptation

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Goblin Market

Synopsis:
a modern re-telling of Christina Rosetti's poem

Notes:
based on poem by Christina Rossetti

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Organisations:
Open Door Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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One Thousand Paper Cranes

Synopsis:
When Sadako finds herself in hospital she doesn't like it one little bit. everyone wants to prod her and poke her and find out what's wrong. But when her best friend Chiziko arrives they decide to change all that. Together. This is a show about two friends trying to make sense of life, death and other matters. Based on a true Japanese story about a young girl who set out to save her own life by making 1000 paper cranes. You can find out more about One Thousand Paper Cranes, and how to make an origami crane, at: http://1000papercranes.weebly.com

Notes:
by Abigail Docherty And Lu Kemp

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Genre:
aged 8 and over

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Room

Synopsis:
the prickly Sarah, resentful of the man who has invaded her domestic space
- Jay Richardson, Scotsman

Notes:
part of New Works New WorldsSeason of new pieces

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Organisations:
New Works New Worlds

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Genre:
35Mins Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sea Land And Sky

Sea Land And Sky
Set in 1916, three young women from the Scottish Women's Hospital are sent to the Russian front to support the war effort. ailsa is working class and determined to make an impression on her superiors, Millicent is a self-confessed hedonist and Lily is searching for her lost husband. Unprepared for what they witness, each must find a way of coping as they fight to survive an experience that will change them forever. Poetic, visionary and startlingly written, abigail Docherty's historical play is based on actual diaries of young Scottish nurses who experienced the Great War. Often darkly funny and raw in its emotions, Sea and Land and Sky is a gripping and sensual tale of youth, war, memory - and the power of love. Sea and Land and Sky is boldly inventive, blackly comic, and starkly savage.

Notes:
Winner of the Open.Stage Playwriting Competition 2010

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Organisations:
Tron Theatre Company

1st Published:
Methuen Drama    978-1408140550

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Waves, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf

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Genre:
adaptation

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