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Peppy Barlow

PEPPY BARLOW  

 Nationality:    British
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Peppy Barlow is a founder member of the Wolsey Writers workshop and a director of the Woven Theatre Company which has been funded by the Arts Council to tour new plays. Her major work is a family trilogy which includes MOtheRING SUNDaY, short listed for the Verity Bargate and produced at the Wolsey Theatre and the eye Theatre and by Woven; MISSING, Woven Touring 2004; and BROKeN, the Pulse Festival Ipswich 2005. Other productions include the SUTTON HOO MOB, eastern angles Touring 1994, which is being revived for their Spring Tour 2006; SHaDOWS IN the DOORWaY, BBC Radio 4; aLWaYS the GUNS, winner of the First Look Industry Production award 2003; ReTURN, showcased at TaPS 2002; DeaD eND, the Wolsey Theatre; a GeORGe BY aNY OtheR NaMe and SHROUDeD, the Union Theatre Southwalk. FUTURe PeRFeCT, a feature film is in development with the Film Council. Peppy lives in Woodbridge, Suffolk and has many of her plays put on in the local professional Theatres. She has two sons. One is involved in tiger conservation and spends most of his year in the jungle. the other is a musician with a band, the Small Town Bullies, and works with children who are excluded from school.

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         Always the Guns         Broken         Dead End         Family Tree         George By Any Other Name, A         Missing         Mothering Sunday         Mrs Pretty In Private         Patience And A Good Spade         Return         Shades         Shadows In the Doorway         Sutton Hoo Mob, The         Three Legged Race         Trojan Whores

Always the Guns

Synopsis:
a meeting during the First World war with life long consequences

Notes:
Winner of the First Look Industry Production Award 2003

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Radio Play , 30 min

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Broken

Synopsis:
Brother and sister meet after years of estrangement. She is guarding what is left of the family inheritance. He comes armed only with his stories. Will the spirit of their dead sister release them from this sterile landscape?

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Part of A family trilogy which includes Mothering Sunday And Missing

1st Produced:
Woven Theatre Company, Pulse Festival    2005

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Genre:
50 min One act

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dead End

Synopsis:
a woman comes looking for the body of her dead lover and finds herself surprised by her own responses. But not as surprised as the mortuary attendant. an exploration of love and loss.

Notes:
Developments of this script include SHROUDeD And SHaDeS in which only the woman (and sometimes the body) Appears

1st Produced:
the Wolsey theatre    1988

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Genre:
20 min One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 dead body

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Family Tree

Synopsis:
a man in wheel chair takes an emotional journey which may save him from his family and himself

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1st Produced:
Wolsey Pulse Festival    2001

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Genre:
15 min One act

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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George By Any Other Name, A

Synopsis:
a woman carries the stuffed figure of her dead husband with her everywhere. a chance meeting with a stranger changes everything. the eternal triangle with a hidden twist.

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1st Produced:
the Union Theatre, Southwark    2000

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Genre:
play Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 stuffed dummy

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Missing

Synopsis:
Gill lives with the ghost of dead father, alex, in the cupboard. He is a noisy old bastard, impossible to ignore. a childhood friend, Sandy, comes to visit after thirty years., bringing the ghost of her father, Foggy. the men served in the Indian army. Together they move through memories, misconceptions and unresolved grief to a place where they meet almost for the first time.

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Part of A family trilogy which includes Mothering Sunday And Broken

1st Produced:
Woven Theatre Company    2004

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Genre:
90 min Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mothering Sunday

Synopsis:
Miranda comes to look after her mother, Isobel, who has had a severe stroke. they have never known each other very well but now they have to explore strange new territory together. Sad and funny and hauntingly poetic.

Notes:
Short listed for the Verity Bargate Award. Part of A family trilogy which includes Missing And Broken

1st Produced:
the Soho Poly    1989

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Genre:
75 min Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mrs Pretty In Private

Synopsis:
Mrs Pretty, the owner of Sutton House where the anglo Saxon Treasure was found in 1939, settled down for tea and a chat with her dead husband. a part created by Rosemary Macvie who played Mrs Pretty in the original production of the Sutton Hoo Mob.

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1st Produced:
Sutton Hoo Festival    2004

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Genre:
Stage Monologue, 35min

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Patience And A Good Spade

Synopsis:
Basil Brown, the man who discovered the anglo Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo in 1939, comes out to visit the site and let us in on some of the real secrets. a piece specially written for Brian Hewlitt (Neil Carter in the archers).

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1st Produced:
Sutton Hoo Festival    2005

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Genre:
Stage Monologue, 40min

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Return

Synopsis:
a woman lives alone with her young son. a man turns up one day asking the way. But is he really a stranger or her ex lover, is he alive or dead?

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Showcased at TaPS    -

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Genre:
film script Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1b

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Shades

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Shadows In the Doorway

Synopsis:
a writer finds herself in touch with a past life which releases her from an emotional stasis in the present.

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1st Produced:
BBC Radio 4    1992

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Genre:
Radio Play , 30 min

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Sutton Hoo Mob, The

Synopsis:
the story of the discovery of the Sutton Hoo treasure in 1939 told in the style of an ealing Comedy. a delightful tale of prophetic visions, secret hiding places, priceless treasure packed in grocery cartons and all out war between the museums. and running through it all a love story that reaches beyond the grave

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1st Produced:
eastern Angles Theatre Company    1994

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Genre:
120 min Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Three Legged Race

Synopsis:
a single mother and a crippled woman decide to take to the streets and confront the world. a sharp and funny look at what it was like to be a woman in the 1970s

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Genre:
50 min One act

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Trojan Whores

Synopsis:
Feminist re-telling of Greek myths, giving voice to the women that Homer, aeschylus et al talked right over.
Jonathan Gibbs, Time Out London

Notes:
by Dawn Rose, Peppy Barlow And Sally Wilden

1st Produced:
Courtyard, London    2008

Organisations:
Woven Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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