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Sarah McDonald Hughes

SARAH MCDONALD HUGHES

  
Nationality:    British
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Sarah McDonald's writing credits for Monkeywood include: Last Orders, Maine Road and a Song For the Lovers. She has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4, Paines Plough and action Transport Theatre and has had work produced at Theatres including Contact, the Lowry and the Royal exchange. Sarah has collectively written a number of plays for action Transport Theatre including Night Train and Scratches in the earth. Her short play the Tree was shortlisted for Theatre Centre's adrienne Benham award 2009 and Maine Road was highly commended in the BBC's Alfred Bradley Bursary award 2009. She is currently part of North West Vision & Media's DRaFTeD scheme, writing her first screenplay.

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         By Far The Greatest Team         Come to Where I am From         Electricity         Flesh         Last Orders         Maine Road         Night Train         North, The         Once In A House On Fire         Scratches In the Earth         Song For the Lovers, A         Tree, The

By Far The Greatest Team

Synopsis:
We're by far the greatest team, the world has ever seen. . . One City. Two Teams. In BY FAR THE GREATEST TEAM, four outstanding Mancunian writers explore what it is to be a football fan in four brand new plays. Told in a game of two halves, BY FAR THE GREATEST TEAM tells new stories about Manchester City, Manchester United, identity, community, belonging and asks why the beautiful game has such an impact on our lives, season after season.

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written by Ian Kershaw, Lindsay Williams, Andrew Sheridan and Sarah McDonald Hughes

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Monkeywood Theatre

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Come to Where I am From

Synopsis:
Sixty one playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them. At 14 theatres from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays will be performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. Come To Where I'm From is a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home is really where the heart is.

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Paines Plough

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short play

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Electricity

Synopsis:
Angel discovers that Manchester can be as glamorous as New York and as romantic as Paris.

Notes:
part of Northern Spirit's new theatre production A Wondrous Place, four young writers challenge the it's grim up North cliches and offer four fresh perspectives on contemporary Northern cities: Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester. A Wondrous Place brings these brand new short-dramas together within one dramatic story sequence.

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Flesh

Synopsis:
A new play following three young people becoming parents for the first time. Shannon and Dylan are 16. theyre in love. And theyre having a baby. In summer 2012, Monkeywood spent hundreds of hours with young parents from across Manchester, gathering their true stories, opinions and insights. the stories they told were surprising, moving and heartstoppingly honest. FLeSH is a brand new play based on these stories which follows three young people as they become parents for the first time.

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Last Orders

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Maine Road

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Manchester's 24:7 Theatre Festival    2009

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Monkeywood Theatre

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Night Train

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Collectively written with 4 other writers

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Tour    2007

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action Transport Theatre

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North, The

Synopsis:
I want to go back to Manchester where theres shops and proper streets with pavements and Nana and Man City and aSDa and Mum Inspired by and in conversation with the Royal exchange productions of TWO by Jim Cartwright and the GaTeKeePeR by Chloe Moss, 20 young people have been working with director andrew Barry and writer Sarah McDonald-Hughes to investigate the notion of the North. the result is a brand new performance piece set in the Museum of the North which is a lively inquiry into identity, stereotyping, shared values, individuality and what it means to live in the North.

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Royal exchange Young People's Theatre Workshop

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Once In A House On Fire

Synopsis:
This compelling story set across South Manchester in the 70s and 80s focuses on a family of four women living in the shadow of domestic violence and poverty. This is a touching, truthful and hopeful story of sisters, survival and growing up.

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based on the memoir by Andrea Ashworth

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Monkeywood Theatre

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Scratches In the Earth

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Song For the Lovers, A

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Monkeywood Theatre

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Tree, The

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
action Transport Theatre

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Genre:
Children's

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