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LORRAINE FORREST-TURNER
Nationality: British
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Lorraine Forrest-Turner has been writing professionally for over 30 years, originally as a freelance journalist, latterly as a copywriter in marketing/advertising and always as a dabbler in all things creative. Born and bred in Aberdeen, Lorraine moved south in 1978 to study Drama. Having discovered that the sun shines on more than three days a year in the south, she put down roots in england but returns 'home' twice a year so she can appreciate the English summer. She wrote several plays and sketches while at Drama school and on leaving, found that her writing was more lucrative than her acting. In 1985 she completed two year-long writing courses (Creative Writing and Freelance Journalism) and worked as freelance short story and feature writer before becoming a mother in 1987, when she was 'forced into' the better-paid world of PR and advertising. Lorraine continued to write fiction and stage plays in her 'spare time' and in 2003 Samuel French published Seven Stages of an Affair, followed by To Have and to Hold a year later. Since then she has written over 20 stage plays, several of which have won competitions and new writing awards. (More details can be found at her website www.forrest-turner.co.uk.) She lives in Marlow with her husband Andy, who is a musician, singer and songwriter. Neither of their children have followed in their footsteps, preferring a 'decent wage' to creative pleasure.
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Seven Stages Of An Affair To Have And To HoldSeven Stages Of An Affair
Synopsis:
Caroline is married to dependable Robert, has two children and runs an employment agency. When serial-womaniser, Tony Brunetti, comes for an interview, she is attracted by his flirtatious charm and so begins the slippery slide into an affair. With clandestine meetings and deceit piled upon deceit, they jeopardize both their marriages before they call a halt - but not without regrets on both sides.
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a sophisticated, witty take on An extra-marital Affair. Set in various places (including A bar, An office And hotel bedroom) in South east england in the present, conveyed by minimum set, furniture And props, And clever use of sound effects And music.
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Samuel French, London, 2005
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Synopsis:
Shocked at her father's sudden death, struggling actress, Susan, has rushed home from London, where she'd been rehearsing a new play. as she and her mother, Margaret, return from arranging the funeral they are immediately at loggerheads - as ever. even the arrival of kindly aunt Lillian, Margaret's younger sister, can't melt Margaret's hard exterior. But as Susan privately recalls childhood memories, a shocking truth begins to emerge. Cleverly interspersing thirty years past with the present, this is a family comedy-Drama with a warm heart.
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an Acerbic, family-Drama comedy with reconciliation As its theme. One set (house interior) Anywhere North of Watford', in the present. Can use minimum set, furniture And props.
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Samuel French, London, 2005
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family-Drama comedy One act
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Male: - Female: 3 Other: 1 male voice - can be pre recorded
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