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SALLY BEAUMONT
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I started my writing (and performing) career as a performance poet at open mic nights and began writing children's plays shortly afterwards for the Drama groups I taught in my gap year. I was really fortunate to train with some terrific playwrights, specifically Phil Smith and James MacDonald, but also with abi Morgan, David eldridge and Kaite O'Reilly, thanks to the University of exeter's varied teaching staff and their commitment to supporting the next generation of playwrights. I've also been lucky enough to have been taught by the likes of Jennifer Saunders and Tony Robinson. In 2002 I trained at the Centre Selavy in France, in Commedia dell'arte and was thoroughly hooked. I still love to play around with architypes and slapstick. On my return I became involved with the university sketch show "a Meeting about Laughter" in which I wrote and performed. Several of the original members are now working in comedy across Theatre and TV. I took exeter's playwriting module which helped me to write "a Prod in the Right Direction", a Commedia-inspired play working with some of the stock characters. after that I wrote, produced and voiced a WW1 radio docu-Drama "everyone Sang" to compliment the Northcott Theatre's production of "O! What a lovely War"- I am incredibly proud of the piece and would love to find it a home in the future. Just before my graduation "a Prod in the Right Direction" won the Search for a Script award with Theatre West. they produced the play at the alma Tavern, and I'm delighted to say it had a sell-out run of two weeks. For a short time I concentrated on my acting career, working mainly in television, and keeping my writing going in the background- I had a few readings with Full Circle Theatre. In 2006 I joined the Young Writers Programme at the Royal Court and took the ten-week course run by Leo Butler. I produced many sketches, short plays and monologues throughout the course and also another full-length play, "the Scene", a love triangle set to the backdrop of sado-masochism. From there myself and fellow playwright Kevin Kautzman set up the Lucky Dogs, a group for actors and writers to test-drive their material. I now run the British group and Kevin runs the American arm. We regularly produce "Writers Buffets" on either side of the pond to showcase short bursts of all our writers' work. If you'd like to be invited to the next one, please email me. at present I'm working on an episodic play discussing insomnia, self-examination and the subconcious.
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Crunch, The Other Side Of Everything, The Prod In the Right Direction, A Scene, The Stuck In the RailingsCrunch, The
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Two officers prevent a bombing. But the women with the bombs aren't who they seem to be, nor are those who arrest them. "the Crunch" asks where our current terrorism legislation is taking us- and whether terrorism can ever be justified.
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Top of PageProd In the Right Direction, A
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a woman strung up in a torture device. a slave trapped by ignorance. a doctor determined to get what he wants, whatever the cost. a hard-hitting, topical Drama? Try: a ridiculous comedy of torture and love, in a slapstick style. Doctor Porcino loves Dovella with a passion that is only surpassed by his love for himself. Dovella is beautiful, chaste and very, very devious. She's in love with Tamarin, Doctor Porcino's slave boy. Tamarin thinks with his trousers and spends all day avoiding work. He doesn't love anyone- he thinks. Full of banter, violence and affection a Prod in the Right Direction deals with issues we all hold dear: why we love who we love, and what pain is all about. Set in an odd, timeless space with only a rack and an electric cattle prod for decoration, the three lovers twist and turn, trying to get what they want. Do they? Well, you'll have to see the play, won't you?
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alma Tavern, Bristol 2003
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Theatre West
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Top of PageScene, The
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Gary and Lisa are a mismatched pair: he's middle-aged and meek; she's oddly charismatic. they're also Sado-masochists. after years trying for a baby, they've turned their attention to the BDSM Scene. But Gary fears that his wife will eventually get tired of this, and seek someone who could give her children. Gary introduces Lisa to his young friend Chris, hoping that a threesome will keep her interested. But Chris doesn't know why he's there or what he's getting himself into. None of them do.
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a comedy: A tragedy. A play About loss And fulfillment, love And hate, reality And fantasy.
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Top of PageStuck In the Railings
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