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Joy Wilkinson

JOY WILKINSON

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Berlin Associates  

Playwright Joy Wilkinson is an award-winning writer working across theatre, film, television and radio drama. The Finborough Theatre premiered Fair in 2005, prior to a National Tour and West End run. Winner of Soho Theatre's Verity Bargate Award and the International Student Playscript Competition, Joy has also been shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and Theatre Centre's Brian Way Award. Her most recent play, Britain's Best Recruiting Sergeant, was produced at the Unicorn Theatre in Spring 2015. Previous plays include Now is the Time in the Olivier Award nominated Afghanistan season (Tricycle Theatre, US Tour), Acting Leader (Tricycle), Felt Effects (Theatre 503) and The Sweet Science of Bruising (National Theatre Studio). Joy has several feature films in development, including projects selected for the Brit List and funded by Creative England, while her television work includes the critically-acclaimed BBC1 drama Nick Nickleby. She writes extensively for Radio 4 and her afternoon play No Two Days airs in October 2015 as part of The Price of Oil season. After being selected for the Guiding Lights programme for filmmakers, Joy is currently being mentored by Sir Kenneth Branagh.

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         Acting Leader         Anti-Matter         Aquatic Ape, The         Britain's Best Recruiting Sergeant         Come to Where I am From         Compression         Fair         Felt Effects         Fury, The         Interior Design For the Undead         Lights in the Sky         Now Is the Time         Sunnyhill Sweepstake, The         Time, Please         Upstairs

Acting Leader

Acting Leader
After the sudden death of John Smith, Margaret Beckett finds herself hurled into the position of Acting Leader of the Opposition, and the sole female candidate in the race to lead the party. She embarks on her campaign with the support of Clare Short in the contest that saw the birth of New Labour.

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part of Women, Power & Politics: Now

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Anti-Matter

Synopsis:
Anti-Matter charts the rise, fall and transformation of oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky  how the poor boy who dreamed of being a red director became the richest man in Russia, then seemed to throw it all away to take on Putin and become a political prisoner, making mittens for less than a dollar a month. Theatrically inventive, the play puts the former Yukos Oil chief in the dock again, examining his hubris and hope as the story of our global age, from the boom of the 80s through the turmoil of the 2000s to today. When old political certainties have crumbled, what is left, and what is right?

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Now in its seventh consecutive year, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre - the coalface of British Theatre - presents its annual explosion of new writing - Vibrant 2015 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, running on Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday and Thursday matinees between 25 October-12 November 2015. This year's festival features an eclectic and idiosyncratic selection of twelve staged readings of twelve new works by a dozen UK and international playwrights, both established and new, all discovered, developed or championed by the Finborough Theatre. Concentrated solely on full length works for the stage, this year's Vibrant 2015 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights includes playwrights from England, Scotland, Wales, the United States and New Zealand. As always we strive to be as diverse as possible, and this year's festival once again features 50% female playwrights, together with work from African-American, East Asian, British-Lebanese, British-Israeli and Maori playwrights.

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Aquatic Ape, The

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival >>>     01 Aug 2004

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in 5065 Lift

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Britain's Best Recruiting Sergeant

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Little Tilley's dreams are realised as she follows in her father's footsteps and grows up to become Vesta Tilley, a shining star of the music hall whose much-loved act as a male impersonator makes her world-famous. War breaks out and she supports the cause by helping to recruit soldiers to fight for king and country, but has she used her stardom for good? And is winning the most important thing?

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Come to Where I am From

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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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Compression

Synopsis:
Go for a spacewalk in Piccadilly. Scubadive down the South Bank. Think you're thinking about anything. . .except you. Ever since he was born, a terrible gift has cut Robin off from those around him. Today that may change. This is Robin's last chance to propose to the woman he loves, but he has to get to Machu Picchu to do it. And how can he cross the world, when he can't even get out of his bedsit? Compression is a funny and moving new play about the voices in our heads that hold us back, and how one singular man talked them around.

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part of the Write Now Season

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Fair

Fair
Melanie meets Railton upside down on the Revolution ride. A spin on the waltzer, some chips and a spliff, and it goes off like fireworks - until she discovers his politics, and the relationship implodes. What is turning young people to the right? How and why are the BNP managing to recruit? Fair confronts the racism brewing in Britain's northern towns and beyond.

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Finborough Theatre, London >>>     16 Aug 2005

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Floodtide

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Felt Effects

Synopsis:
unearths the seismic relationship between two half-sisters and their mother when they are forced together in the A&E ward of the local hospital. Tremors happen around us everyday and are so weak they are classified as 'Not Felt', but the effects of the earthquake now erupting under this family's feet are impossible to ignore.

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Part of Frontline: A Week of New Play Readings. Joint-winner of the 2004 Verity Bargate Award.

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Fury, The

Synopsis:
Double bill of readings including a satire on human relationships in the IT age and an account of visibility and miscommunication.

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the Fury by Joy Wilkinson And blue Day by Riou Benson

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Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London     23 Nov 2002

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Interior Design For the Undead

Synopsis:
the 2-person crew from a home makeover show pitch up for their latest assignment at a vicarage in St. Albans. But the vicar who requested their appearance in the first place has died and Flossie Fisher and Bill 'the Drill' King must now reckon with the vicar's punky daughter, grieving widower and hapless Masonic grave-digger. the play is about life after - and during - death and renders a spiritual look at the supernatural with tenderness and considerable wit.

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winner of the International Student Playscript Competition

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Lights in the Sky

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the perfect robbery. And the perfect revolution. the black-out ends. the system restarts and - bang! Back to the Stone Age. Everyone's debts disappear. Townsend fits the lights on top of skyscrapers. Durkin is a CEO who's afraid of the dark. A bad joke goes wrong, bringing them together on the top of the world, in pitch blackness, to plot the biggest bank robbery in history. A dark comedy about our current crises and the light at the end of the tunnel.

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Finborough Theatre, London >>>     31 May 2010

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Now Is the Time

Now Is the Time
the fourth play takes us back to that modernising King Amanullah Khan, his wife Soraya and her father, Mahmud Tarzi, played respectively by Sagar Arya, Jemima Rooper and Vincent Ebrahim. We see them stuck in snow on their way to exile following an uprising by local chieftains determined to turn back the clock to the days of the veil prior to Westernisation. This is an opportunity for debate about Afghan and Muslim values but focuses on the individuals at the cost of the country and its politics. .
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part of A three month long festival About the culture And history of Afghanistan. Entitled the Great Game: Afghanistan. the festival will be divided into three parts, each focusing on A period of Afghan history: 1842-1930 : Invasions And Independence

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Sunnyhill Sweepstake, The

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Part of Miniaturists 18 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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Time, Please

Synopsis:
How much is enough?

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Upstairs

Synopsis:
Upstairs is a comedy about servants in the 21st Century, who are now based on the other side of the world, instead of below stairs at Downton Abbey. But tonight Ian Kirkland's servants have come to visit his Croydon terrace. Have they really come to help or do they want something more? Upstairs was developed on attachment at the National theatre Studio.

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Vibrant 2012  A Festival of Finborough Playwrights

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comedy

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