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Katy Darby

KATY DARBY  (1976 - )

 Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Katy Darby's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 All I Want For Christmas         Common Ground         Gospel         Half-Life         Happily Ever After         Olympia         Open Secrets         Operation New Life

All I Want For Christmas

Synopsis:
Desperate for a perfect Christmas, Tone hires escort girl Irina to pose as his girlfriend when he goes to his parents for Christmas Day. But tensions soon rise and secrets spill in this black comedy about obsession, the search for happiness, and why It's a Wonderful Life is the most important film ever made.

Notes:
by Luke Bateman And Katy Darby

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Genre:
play with music

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Common Ground

Synopsis:
Set in a teachers' staff room, "Common Ground" explores the tension and stigma surrounding a teacher accused of physically abusing one of her students. What do Deborah's withdrawal, silence and bleeding hands signify? and who - if anyone - is responsible?

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1st Produced:
Dogstar    2011

Organisations:
blank pages

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Gospel

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Seven five minute Atheist plays on the themes of Matthew, Mark, Luke And John. Run time - 45mins by Yasmine Van Wilt; Carl Palmer; Jeremy Kingston; Katy Darby; Steve Hubbard; Anna Jordan; Hugh Allison

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Genre:
5 min play

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Half-Life

Synopsis:
Synopsis2=a journalist with a grudge kidnaps an ex-film star and holds him hostage in a hotel room. Can she turn his life around, or will he stop her dead?

Notes:
Drama with comic elements

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Organisations:
Einkleine Theatre Company

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 2005   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Happily Ever After

Synopsis:
at a lonely hotel in a remote corner of Yorkshire, Keith, Jenny and their little boy Tommy check in. In the middle of the night, the child disappears. The couple are distraught - but what are they hiding? Who has really taken him, and why?

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Organisations:
First Draft (now blank pages)

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Olympia

Synopsis:
a homeless girl is found passed out on the tube. That's not news. But a girl who's mute, starving and hasn't seen sunlight in years? That's worth looking into - or so investigative reporter andy decides. Unable, or willing to communicate, nameless and speechless Olympia becomes a blank canvas onto which the people around her project their fantasies and fears. andy and policewoman Sam Medcalf join forces in a race against time to discover who she is and where she's come from. Is she a teenage runaway, an underground refugee, an amnesiac, a feral child, or something sadder and stranger still?

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Open Secrets

Synopsis:
a spy walks into a bar . . .

Notes:
Comedy thriller set in A tapas bar. One Act, 30 mins.

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Organisations:
Straight from Work

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 2004   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Operation New Life

Synopsis:
Based on the true story of a boy who murdered his little sister, and burned down his own house, Operation New Life deals with issues of guilt and identity, as a former teenage killer has his new persona stripped away in a dangerous game of truth or dare.

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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