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Lisa Evans

LISA EVANS

  
Nationality:    British
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Lisa evans is an award-winning playwright whose plays include Up the Duff, Glory Glory and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Alongside a highly successful career in television and radio, she has been Writer in Residence at Theatre Centre, London, for Temba Theatre Company, and was also Associate Writer at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick. Getting to the Foot of the Mountain, Jamaica Inn, Once We Were Mothers, east Lynne, Villette, Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home, the Day the Waters Came and Keep Smiling Through are published by Oberon Books.

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         Angel Tide, The         Better Than Burning         Cat's Eye         Christmas Without Herods         Crime Of the Century         Day the Waters Came, The         East Lynne         Face Values         Frankenstein         Getting To the Foot Of the Mountain         Glad         Glory Glory         Homelands         Inside Out         Jamaica Inn         Keep Smiling Through         Lucky Country         Maid Of Buttermere, The         Mary Shelley's Frankenstein         Mother's Day         Once We Were Mothers         Pearl, The         Red Chair, The         Rise Up         Run! A Sports Day Musical         Shadow Of Light, The         Slap         Stamping, Shouting And Singing Home         Taking Liberties         Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, The         Under Exposure         Up the Duff         Villette         Vindication

Angel Tide, The

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Better Than Burning

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Told over 16 years, this is the story of three generations of a Punjabi family living in Britain - the gaps they experience and the bridges they make - cultural, emotional and generational.

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Temba Theatre Company

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120 min Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  5 Asian, 1 white

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Cat's Eye

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Elaine is a painter pushing 50, returning to Toronto where she grew up and went to art school, for a retrospective show. As she walks the streets of her home city, she relives significant events in her life. But this isn't romantic nostalgia, the more we learn about Elaine's past and her challenging friendship with a trio of girls, the more we realise memory lane is a very painful road indeed. Cat's Eye is an intimate portrait of a woman learning to forgive herself for the mistakes of the past.

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adaptation of Margaret Atwood's compelling novel about the nature and lifelong effects of bullying.

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Play/Drama

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Christmas Without Herods

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Set in prison in South America. Four women are held without trial, the 5th guards them

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ICA, London >>>    25 Sep 1990

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Women's Theatre Group

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Crime Of the Century

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Set in rural Suffolk at the time of Captain Swing and the rural uprisings of the 1920's and 30's, this is the story of Maria Marten (famous as a victim) and her younger sister ann, who made a different choice and met a different end. Juniors up.

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Youth theatre Youth audience

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Day the Waters Came, The

Day the Waters Came, The
It's summer 2005. Maya Marsalis takes you by the hand - sometimes the throat -and leads you through her landscape on the day Hurricane Katrina came, the levees broke, the world watched and the US Government did nothing. Go with her as she shows you how her world and that of thousands of black American citizens changed forever on the day the waters came.

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Redbridge Drama Centre, London    16 Sep 2010

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Theatre centre

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60 min Youth audience

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East Lynne

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a classic of Victorian literature, east Lynne was published in 1861. It was a sensational success, selling more than 500,000 copies and making its author as famous in her lifetime as Charles Dickens himself. Beautiful, kind and unblemished, Lady Isabel Vane is the perfect wife and mother. Until, in a fit of jealousy, she leaves her neglectful husband and infant children to elope with her aristocratic suitor. Her fall from grace is absolute. Can she be redeemed? and will she ever see her children again? Dramatic and moving, east Lynne draws aside the curtains of the respectable Victorian middle-classes to reveal their hypocrisy, cruelty and lust. and we witness the terrible punishment of those that dare to disobey a merciless moral code.

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From the Novel By Mrs Henry Wood

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Oberon Books, London, 2005   -

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adaptation

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Face Values

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Set in Kent in the summer of 1983, this play focuses on the women involved in the mining dispute

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Theatre Centre, London    1983/4

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein
Mary is imprisoned in a present-day psychiatric hospital, convicted of murdering her baby daughter. During her incarceration she becomes obsessed with Mary Shelley's famous novel. the novel comes to life within her imagination, and we are left to question just who the real monster really is, Mary or Frankenstein himself. . .

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Frantic Assembly

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Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849431859

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adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  1 boy. Doubling

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Getting To the Foot Of the Mountain

Getting To the Foot Of the Mountain
When Danielle was a child, three women loomed large in her life: her gritty, responsible mother, her wild-child aunt, and their best friend. Now a young woman herself and facing the break-up of another relationship, Danielle takes stock of her childhood years - of an absent dad; of her fascination with a neighbourhood "bad boy" - and uncovers a story of everyday heroism and the strange tricks that memory can play.

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Glad

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a play about women and madness focusing on the life a Mancunian woman born at the turn of the 20th C, her relationships with her inmate friends and with her son

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Temba Theatre Company

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120 min Play/Drama

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Glory Glory

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Three months pass and a new pair of friends walk that same route. Sixty-somethings Joy and Lizzie are growing old disgracefully. If the men struggled to express their feelings, these women struggle to keep them in. Swigging away and confronting their fears for the future, they share laughter, secrets and gin. When the Lake District mist descends, the smiles fade as they stare together at the crossroads of their lives. With a soaring soundscape and themes as old as the hills, these stories are for here, for today, and for those brave enough to look over the precipice and ask, It this it?'

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Piece

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Homelands

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written with Nona Shepphard

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Inside Out

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the effect on herself and her family when a single parent is sent to prison

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1st Produced:
Theatre Centre, London    1983

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Youth theatre, 75 min Youth audience

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Jamaica Inn

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Shrubs of broom grow black and twisted, as if by Devil's fingers and the wind that never ceases, Like a chorus from the dead. Those who lived here it's for certain, would grow dark and tortured too' In Jamaica Inn, at the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor, young Mary Yellen soon discovers mysterious goings-on in the dead of night. But worse is yet to come as Mary finds herself helplessly ensnared in the deadly activities taking place around her. evocative, atmosphEric and chilling, this new adaptation of Jamaica Inn has all the hallmarks of a great adventure classic - murder, mystery and malevolence.

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from novel by Daphne du Maurier

1st Produced:
Salisbury Playhouse    2004

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Oberon, London, 2004   -

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Keep Smiling Through

Keep Smiling Through
Keswick, 1940 - Britain is at war with Germany. Maggies life is under invasion too: Gran knitting for england, evacuee lodgers, helping with the war effort  and now a fund-raising concert party! Husband Rob is due home on RaF leave and best friend Peg has just learnt that shes pregnant  but no such luck for Maggie and Rob. . .Nostalgia, romance, laughter and tears all feature full of live music, songs and dance from the war years.

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849430142

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Genre:
comedy with songs

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Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Lucky Country

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Set in Australia, this is a story of two stolen Aboriginal children (children of the lucky country), the theft of their land, and of their culture. Despite being separated from her people, her land, and, most devastatingly, her mother, Kiah learns to navigate the strange new world she is taken to. Through adversity Kia manages to save her friend Leila and find her mother.

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1st Produced:
-    1990

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Theatre of Fact

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TYA 75 min

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Maid Of Buttermere, The

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a story of passion, love and deception sweeps across the stage next easter as theatre by the Lake presents the world premiere of a Dramatisation of Melvyn Bragg's novel, the Maid of Buttermere. the production, with music, features a cast of professional actors plus performers drawn from the local community. Set in Keswick and Buttermere in the early 19th century, this is the riveting true story of Mary Robinson, the daughter of the innkeeper of the Fish Inn at Buttermere, whose exquisite beauty attracts scores of admirers, including a bigamist and fortune hunter who woos and wins her. the play, adapted by Lisa evans and forming part of theatre by the Lake's 10th anniversary celebrations, tells of the couple's fateful meeting, consuming passion and tragic parting.

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from the novel by Melvyn Bragg

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  Community chorus, plus doubling of principle parts

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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In a present-day psychiatric hospital, Mary, a young woman convicted of murdering her baby daughter, obsessively pores over Shelley's novel. Within her imagination, scenes from the book spring to life, and she wanders among the characters as the malformed offspring of Victor Frankenstein hunts his creator across wastelands of snow, ice and the emotional tundra of revulsion and neglect. are Mary and the creature both monsters, and were they born or made? Shelley's story is slickly reborn by evans for the 21st century
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1st Produced:
Northampton, Royal    2008

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Frantic assembly

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adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mother's Day

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Concerns the relationship between a 40 year old feminist mother and her 20 year old daughter who comes home for Mother's Day to announce that she is pregnant

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Soho Poly, London    1981

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60 min One act

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Once We Were Mothers

Once We Were Mothers
a moving and powerful play about the joy and the heartbreak that motherhood brings to three very different mothers. ali was always going to be a dancer. She was still dancing the day she gave birth. Careful Kitty, housewife and mother, sits in her silent home and waits for the daughter who doesn't return. and Milena, desperate to protect her children and carrying a terrible secret.

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1st Produced:
New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-Under-Lyme    03 Sep 2004

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Oberon, London, 2004   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Pearl, The

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an adaptation with music of John Steinbeck's novel. Secondary upwards.

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Youth theatre Youth audience

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Red Chair, The

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a play with music set in a remote village in China between the 1927 revolution and Mao's Land Reform. Seen from a young peasant girl, Puchao's viewpoint, using stories old and new - we witness her and her village's struggle to change as revolution beings an end to oppression with new freedom and new choices. Juniors up.

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British theatre Association Award 1988

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Youth theatre, 90 min Youth audience

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Rise Up

Synopsis:
The Freedom Riders were a group of white and black young people who rode busses around the American South deliberately flouting the segregation laws. They earned the ire of both the Klu Klux Klan and the police

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Run! A Sports Day Musical

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It's her last day at primary school and her last chance to show she's more than just the shy new girl. If only her Mum could watch her race, but that looks about as likely as her team winning gold.This funny, heart-warming musical follows four students and their teacher, Mr Budge, in a story of falling over, getting up and carrying on. With original music and dance, Polka's feel-good musical brings an extra-special sports day to life this summer.Cheer and cry for your favourite team as they compete at cycling, archery, the high jump, gymnastics and plenty of running! Is it really the taking part that matters? Join us and find out. . .

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songs And music by Julian Butler

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musical TYA

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Shadow Of Light, The

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Based upon the life of Madeleine Smith - a middle class Glaswegian woman who scandalised and intrigued all levels of Victorian society when she was tried for the murder of her lover, and then acquitted on a verdict of Not Proven. the play explores the lives behind the facade of respectability and questions the abuse of power, where evil starts and who ultimately is responsible.

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Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    1994

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Slap

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Walker has a lot on his mind. His dad died in the war when Walker was just a baby, and now his mom, the town doctor, is dating Leery Larry. When his mom brought home Rann, a refugee from one of her relief agency trips in Cambodia, Walker was totally fed up. He didnt want to live with a freaky little alien who didnt know how to speak english! In the end Walker learns that Rann understands his pain more than anyone, and together they dream of sailing away to brighter days.

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1st Produced:
Humberside Tie, Uk    1991

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Humberside TIe

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TYA 75 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Stamping, Shouting And Singing Home

Stamping, Shouting And Singing Home
the play was inspired by the life of Sojourner Truth, the well known abolitionist and early feminist. It tells the story of her fictional great, great granddaughter, Lizzie Walker, and her transformation from child to adult activist in the southern states of America. Through the songs and stories of the women in her family Lizzie comes to understand the importance of her own past and her place in history. Young audiences.

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1st Produced:
Kings Langley School, Kings Langley, Herts    1986

Organisations:
Watford Palace Theatre In education Company

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in "Plays By Women Vol.7" Methuen, London, 1988   978-0413174901

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Genre:
Youth theatre Youth audience

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Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Taking Liberties

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Set in the mid 19C, this play is about two working class northern families who win a lottery and move to a chartist farm in the south. also using songs we trace what becomes of them when the dream is auctioned away. Upper juniors.

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1st Produced:
-    1987

Organisations:
Watford Palace TIe

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Genre:
Youth theatre, 75 min Youth audience

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, The

Synopsis:
Centres on the fate of Helen Huntingdon, forced out of her home by the brutality and infidelities of her drunken husband, and who proceeds to make a life for herself and her young son, arthur

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from novel by Anne Bronte

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Genre:
adaptation

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Under Exposure

Synopsis:
a white sports photographer visits Cape Town, S. Africa and meets a family living in Crossroads Squatter camp. Using songs and stories we learn of their lives under apartheid. Juniors up.

Notes:
British theatre Association Award 1986

1st Produced:
-    1983

Organisations:
Theatre Centre

1st Published:
in "Plays By Women Vol.7" Methuen, London, 1988   -

Music:
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Genre:
Youth theatre, 60 min Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Up the Duff

Synopsis:
a comedy about loss and expectation set in an ante natal class and a DIY superstore on the ringroad.

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Organisations:
Fresh Glory and York Theatre Royal

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Villette

Villette
a new life beckons for Lucy Snowe. Leaving england and her past behind, she arrives in the French town of Villette, equipped only with a sharp tongue, a lively imagination and an independent spirit. She soon finds work as a teacher, coping with a fierce headmistress and a classroom of unruly coquettish schoolgirls. But Villette has even greater challenges in store.

Notes:
from novel by Charlotte Bronte

1st Produced:
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough    20 Oct 2005

Organisations:
Frantic assembly

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  doubling

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Vindication

Synopsis:
the story of Mary Wollstencraft - a women of passion - and the woman who writes about her. Two different times, two different love stories. the same struggle.

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Genre:
120 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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