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Clare Bayley

CLARE BAYLEY

  
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Clare Bayley developed her version of the enchantment while on attachment at the National Theatre Studio. Her other plays include the Container, which premiered at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival; the Woman Who Swallowed a Pin (Southwark Playhouse); the Shift and Blavatsky (both Young Vic Studio); and Northern Lights (also produced on radio). For radio her work includes the Bringer of Sweets (BBC/CBL). She was awarded the Sunday Times Screenwnting award for the screenplay Corridors in the air. Her publications include Guatemala Moon (Serpent's Tail) and the Container (Nick Hem Books). Clare Bayley attended David Edgar's playwrighting MA course in Birmingham, and is a former Theatre editor of the INDePeNDeNT, as well as freelance journalist and Theatre critic on various other publications.

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

         Blavatsky         Blue Sky         Come To Where I'm From         Container, The         Enchantment, The         Northern Lights         Protectors, The         Refuge, The         Running Backwards         Shift, The         Woman Who Swallowed A Pin, The

Blavatsky

Synopsis:
the play explores the life and work of mystic medium and founder of the theosophical Society, Madame Blavatsky

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Organisations:
Lightwork

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Blue Sky

Blue Sky
An exhilarating, challenging new play by Amnesty Award-winning playwright Clare Bayley. Isolated airports, midnight landings, secret assignations. . .how much do we know about what our governments are involved in? And do we want to know - or is it easier to turn a blind eye? Blue Sky is a gripping political thriller about justice, journalism and what might be happening in the english countryside in the dead of night.

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Pentabus Theatre

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Genre:
political thriller

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Come To Where I'm From

Synopsis:
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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1st Produced:
The Theatre Chipping Norton    07 Jun 2012

Organisations:
Paines Plough

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Container, The

Container, The
a harrowing, intense Drama about people-trafficking, set inside a container lorry. a freight container, somewhere in europe. Inside are five people with one common aim: to reach england and start a new life. Can they trust the agent to get them there? Can they rely on each other? and how far will each of them go to get what they want?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Victoria Bendictsson. Adapted by Clare Bayley. Fringe First Award for outstanding new writing on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Rehearsed reading BAC 22 Sep 2001.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Nimble Fish/Underbelly/escalator east To edinburgh/Creative Partnerships Thames Gateway

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2007   978-1848420731

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Enchantment, The

Enchantment, The
Set in Paris in the 1880s, the enchantment tells the story of Louise Strandberg, a young Swedish woman who finds herself swept up in a passionate and tragic affair with Gustave alland, famous artist and philanderer. the play is a startlingly honest reflection of the Victoria Benedictsson's own experiences.

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Original Playwright - Victoria Bendictsson. from A literal translation by Ben Anderman

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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2007   978-1854599995

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Northern Lights

Synopsis:
story of a Kurdish refugee in London

Notes:
also produced for radio

1st Produced:
New Grove, London    1994

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Protectors, The

Synopsis:
Playwrights Inua Ellams, Neil LaBute, Bola Agbaje, Clare Bayley, Lydia Adetunji and Pedro Miguel Rozo have joined forces with a team of scientists to present the world premiere of Mouthful, a series of plays tackling the global food crisis, at the Trafalgar Studios in September. Forming the centrepiece of Metta Theatres 10th anniversary celebrations, the project follows four very different individuals. Sebastian is travelling to Nigeria in search of his steak-loving missing friend, GoGo is sacrificing everything for a glass of water, Erica is trying to win her daughters affections with the rare delicacy of the last potato and Rashida just wants to eat her chocolate bar in peace. Directed by Poppy Burton-Morgan, the politically provocative piece was produced in collaboration with six of the worlds top scientists  Professors Tim Benton, Kamal Bawa, Suzanne Filteau, Ilkka Hanski, Molly Jahn and Tim Lang  and aims to explore the global food crisis in a theatrically imaginative production. Talking about the project, Professor Benton, UK Champion for Global Food Security, said: "Our food impacts on our health and well-being, the planet's well-being and our eating habits affect the livelihoods of others throughout the world. Mouthful innovatively explores our food system and the way our demand may affect our futures."

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in collaboration with Professor Tim Lang

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Organisations:
Meta Theatre

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Refuge, The

Synopsis:
It's almost 2004 and the world is a frightening place. Or so we're told. Fear circumscribes our lives, controls us and contains us, provokes us into fight or flight or leaves us paralysed with terror. . .and just occasionally sets us free. Observant, humane, and often amusing, these rehearsed readings come from a rich blend of emerging and established female playwrights who have set out to fearlessly articulate, debate, and celebrate an emotion that so powerfully affects us all.

Notes:
part of Fear and Loathing in King's Road by Clare Bayley, Marta emmitt, Rosy Fordham, Elizabeth Lewis, Barbara Norden, llian Plowman and Polly Wiseman

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

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Running Backwards

Synopsis:
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Part of Miniaturists 11 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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Shift, The

Synopsis:
A cross-media Drama about women taking momentous decisions by former Time Out critic Clare Bayley

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Organisations:
Academy Productions

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Woman Who Swallowed A Pin, The

Synopsis:
Site Specific play where the winding corridors and wet and windy courtyard bear the ghosts of a family diaspora, eight children whose mother scattered her unwieldly brood to the four winds. eighty years on and grandchild Beth is coverting 62 Southwark Bridge Road, site of this theatre, into a loft-style dwelling for the child she carries in her womb, but is fearful that the lethal pin her grandma once swallowed could somehow enter the body of her unborn via the family bloodstream.
John Thaxter, What's On

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1st Produced:
Southwark Playhouse, London    27 Sep 2000

Organisations:
the Lab

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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