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Jon Welch

JON WELCH

  

Nationality:    British
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Jon Welch's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

        Geppetto         Spillikin  A Love Story         Streaming



Geppetto

Synopsis:
In New Yorks lower east side, in the middle of the 1950s, a teenage girl answers a hastily scrawled, grubby advert on a whim. It invites her to audition for the role of puppeteer in a forthcoming production of Pinocchio. But when she enters the shabby flat where the audition is being held, nothing is quite as she was expecting. Least of all the fact that the odd, foreign-accented, ill-at-ease man she finds there calls himself Geppetto (the name of Pinocchios Father in the original story). Unwittingly she sets off on a bewildering journey through descending layers of deception and dysfunction, a journey which in its own, bizarre, horrific, comic way, leads them both to the gates of hell. Using two performers, combining cubes trademark electric dialogue with mesmerizing puppetry, Geppetto is a heart-rending, but often hilarious story of a broken mans obsessive search for his own puppet-boy, and how the chance pairing of this odd couple offers them both a glimpse of something lost and something to be yet found.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
http://www.cube-Theatre.co.uk/

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Puppet Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 performers

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Spillikin  A Love Story

Synopsis:
Sally's mislaid her husband  but there's a robot in her kitchen, and its voice is familiar. Spillikin: funny and heartbreaking with live music and a real robot.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Pleasance Dome " Potterrow, 1 Bristo Square, EH8 9AL (JackDome), Edinburgh Festival Fringe     05 Aug 2015

Organisations:
Pipeline Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
New writing, Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Streaming

Synopsis:
Rosa, 15, naive, privately educated, has lost her mother. Her father has lost his house and business. Leaving behind a life of ease, they find themselves in cheap, rented accommodation with a reclusive new neighbour - Candy, 30s, webcamming in her bedroom: £3.50 a minute, 20 punters a night. . .Unexpected life lessons are about to be learnt. Streaming is a three-handed, rites-of-passage dissection of contemporary life using knifesharp, witty dialogue, evocative sound design, moments of fleeting, macabre puppetry, and a shape-shifting set, where walls become veils and the private becomes public.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Pipeline Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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