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Sylvia Dow

SYLVIA DOW

  (1939 - )
Nationality:    British
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After a long working life in the arts, Sylvia took a Masters Course in playwriting at Glasgow University from where she graduated in 2012. She has had shorter work performed at the Traverse, Tron, and Perth theatres, and at festivals in London and Mexico. She is a regular contributor to Village Pub Theatre in Edinburgh. Her mid-length play Otto, was premiered at the Visibility Festival in Turkey in 2013. Full length plays include A Beginning a Middle and an End for Greyscale Theatre company, which toured in Scotland and Hull in 2012, and Threads for Stellar Quines which had its premiere in Hawick in 2013. Sylvia was one of the Traverse 50 in 2013. Currently she is involved in a project with Solar Bear, and is working on a commission from the Traverse.

Research:    http://www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk/playwrights/sylvia-dow.aspx

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

         Annus Mirabilis         Beginning, A Middle And An End, A         Blinded by the Light         Blue Lines         It's Only Words         I've Been Looking for You All My Life         Larkin About         Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening, A         Maven         Mnemonic         Neil Diamond Saved My Life         Otto         Perpetuum Mobile         Rehearsal         Shoot         Stuff         SWAG         Threads         Underworld

Annus Mirabilis

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1st Produced:
Village Pub Theatre Edinburgh     01 Feb 2014

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Beginning, A Middle And An End, A

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a beginning, a middle and an end, that's how things go, provided you start in the right place. For Evelyn and ade time passes; sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes all at once, but always away from what was and relentlessly towards what will be. their little family of two, of four, of three, of one, not necessarily in that order, travels together towards a new beginning, or an old ending. Or both. Only time will tell.

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Greyscale in association with Stellar Quines

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Play/Drama

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Blinded by the Light

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Two thousand feet below the River Forth, the striking miners of Bo'ness are taking a stand in 1983. In a post-apocalyptic 2782 humanity has been forced to live underground. What will these communities find when they emerge?

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1st Produced:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival     13 Aug 2014

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Traverse Theatre Company

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short script in hand reading

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Blue Lines

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Lily's been walking on the blue line for a very long time. She's reached a destination but it's not what she expected. there are people to meet, a picnic to eat and a big decision to take.

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It's Only Words

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Mrs Moore has locked herself in a cubicle of the public toilet. A toilet covered with graffiti. You could almost classify them, like in a library. Though a lot would be in the pornography' section of course. Not that she's ever seen that in a library. She muses on life, love, libraries and literature, while WPC Hay struggles womanfully to find a way of persuading her to leave. What is the secret which has brought Mrs Moore to this place? And to this point in her life? And what about Joe? . .

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Professional rehearsed reading at the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh Sep 2012

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A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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short play

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I've Been Looking for You All My Life

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1st Produced:
Howden Park Theatre, Livingston     01 Nov 2013

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GUID CRACK Theatre for Young People event

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Larkin About

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Village Pub Theatre Edinburgh     01 Mar 2013

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Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening, A

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1st Produced:
Professional Rehearsed Reading At Barony Theatre, Bo'Ness     01 Mar 2014

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in New Writing Scotland, 30 July 2012   -

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Maven

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Genre:
in development

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Mnemonic

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One city, 50 writers, 50 plays, 25,000 words. In celebration of our 50th anniversary, we invited fifty emergent playwrights to work with us over the course of our birthday year. the worldwide search for the Traverse Fifty started last September with a challenge to write a 500-word Play for Edinburgh. Of the 630 applications, we selected the most urgent voices to form our Traverse Fifty. In January, these 50 plays were premiered all together, in one epic performance. This August, in the midst of our Festival Fever, we are re-staging these extraordinary plays, over two thrilling nights. This is your chance to see the future.

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5 min play

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Neil Diamond Saved My Life

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1st Produced:
Offcut Festival Riverside Studios London     01 Oct 2012

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Otto

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1st Produced:
Galata, Instanbul, Turkey     01 Nov 2012

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Visibility Festival

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mid-length play

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Perpetuum Mobile

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composer Amble Skuse

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Traverse Theatre's Noisy Words event

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short play with music

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Rehearsal

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based on interviews with older Scottish actors

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Professional Rehearsed Reading Gilmorehill Studio Glasgow     Spring 2010

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Genre:
verbatim play

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Shoot

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Professional Rehearsed Reading For Reclaim The F-Word Week At The Trontheatre     03 Oct 2013

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Stuff

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Genre:
in development

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SWAG

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1st Produced:
Village Pub Theatre Edinburgh     01 Nov 2013

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Threads

Synopsis:
A play about women, work, and knitting. Threads weaves the stories, historical, verbatim, and imagined into a multi-stranded piece of theatre using music, song and dance. From 19th Century millworkers to modern day knitting clubs, writer Sylvia Dow brings to life the history of knitting in the borders and the threads of life, fate and destiny which bind us all. The play is the outcome of a longer project Knit Two Together, hosted at Heart of Hawick (2012) and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), in which Stellar Quines and Sylvia Dow engaged the local community and their stories in the development of the play.

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Professional Rehearsed Reading For The Luminate Festival At Heart Of Hawick, 29 Oct 2013

1st Produced:
Eastgate Theatre, Peebles     31 Oct 2015

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Stellar Quines

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Play

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Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Underworld

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Genre:
in development

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