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Vickie Donoghue

VICKIE DONOGHUE

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  represented by Jessica Cooper

Vickie Donoghue is an exciting young playwright from Essex whose debut full-length play, Mudlarks, opened at this year's HighTide Festival and will transfer to Theatre 503. In Lyn Gardner's words this distinctive debut play sings with promise' and Libby Purves describes it as 'stunning. . .Unforgettable'. It was developed through High Tide's escalator Programme and explores with brutal honesty how the imPulse to dream is futile in the context of a reality that has no space for dreamers. Previous work includes One Last Wave, a short play which was one of the three finalists of the 2005 Windsor Fringe Marriott award and Talk for england, her graduation play from the Ma in Creative Writing (Plays and Screenplays) at City University, which received a rehearsed reading at RADA. Vickie is currently writer in residence at If You Dare Productions

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below is a list of Vickie Donoghue's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Daddy's Little Girl         Mudlarks         One Last Wave         Quiet Night In         Talk For England         Tender Loving Care         Two Little Ducks         Walking Home

Daddy's Little Girl

Synopsis:
a monologue performed on a cloudswing

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1st Produced:
Circus Space    2009

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Genre:
monologue

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Mudlarks

Mudlarks
the water looks sort of angry, don't it? Racing across the mud. Like it's coming for us! Haven't got long. We have to move soon. On the muddy banks of the River Thames, downstream from the bright lights of London, three boys hide from the police after a night of recklessness. Over the course of the freezing night their fears, secrets and dreams emerge, collide and combust revealing the desperate frustration of lives barely led but already ravaged. essex-born Vickie Donoghue's powerful debut exposes the culture she grew up with and sees on a daily basis. With brutal honesty she explores how the imPulse to dream is futile in the context of a reality that has no space for dreamers. Mudlarks heralds the arrival of an urgent new voice in British theatre.

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Methuen Drama    978-1408173039

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Play/Drama

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One Last Wave

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finalist At the 2005 Windsor Fringe marriott Award

1st Produced:
Windsow Fringe 1 act Plays Festival    2005

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short play

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Quiet Night In

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a collaboration between some of London's most exciting new writers, musicans And DJs.

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If You Dare Productions

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collaboration

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Talk For England

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1st Produced:
rehearsed readingRaDa, London    Mar 2010

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Ma piece

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Tender Loving Care

Tender Loving Care
My brother's trying to win the war. He's fighting. We should be fighting. I'm brilliant at fighting. June 5, 1944, Southsea Beach. A girl named Poppy stands on the precipice of history. Tomorrow is the biggest day of her life: D-Day. Along with her friend Evie, Poppy finds herself volunteering in a Southsea hospital, preparing for the arrival of casualties of the D-Day landings. Poppy has always wanted to be a war hero, but instead finds herself being asked to do the unthinkable - provide a German prisoner of war with compassionate and tender care. A beautifully written play about the role of women on the Home Front during the Second World War.

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1st Produced:
Square Tower, Portsmouth    04 Jun 2014

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Old salt Theatre & New Theatre Royal Portsmouth

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Play/Drama

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Two Little Ducks

Synopsis:
One woman comedy show.

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1st Produced:
Pulse Festival, Ipswich    2006

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Genre:
comedy show

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Walking Home

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1st Produced:
the artesian Well, London    2010

Organisations:
If You Dare Productions

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