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Pete Hartley

PETE HARTLEY  (1956 - )

 Nationality:    British
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Pete Hartley is based in northern England where he has taught drama since 1984. He has written extensively for the stage. Some fifty of his plays have been performed by professionals, amateurs and student companies. Six have won prizes, and one, Mitigating Circumstances, was broadcast by BBC Radio. He runs uneasy theatre a small production company specialising in creating new drama and reworking established classics. He has also had short stories published and broadcast.

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

 Making Myra         Making the Grade         Stiletto         Will at the Tower

Making Myra

Synopsis:
What made Myra Hindley into the most notorious icon of serial killing evil? Her background? Her upbringing? Ian Brady? All of these or none of them? Was she simply the product of her times as northern England emerged from post-war austerity into the heady petrol, vinyl, and hairspray fuelled youth culture of the sixties? Or was she just a psychological anomaly? Was there anything anyone could have done to avert the terrible crimes that sealed her fate and destroyed the lives of five families between 1963 and 1966? Making Myra opens on 9th July 1980, the day on which Myra's younger sister Maureen died. Myra is confronted by Maureen's ghost and taken back two decades as Maureen makes her sister hunt for the reasons for her appalling offences. Making Myra provides an audience with the unique opportunity to witness the bitter clash of the siblings as they scrap and argue over the events leading up to the notorious killings that took place on Saddleworth Moor.

Notes:
The staging requirements for this play are simple and straightforward. Playing time is approximately 80 minutes.

1st Produced:
The New Continental, Preston, Lancs, UK    14 Apr 2011

Organisations:
uneasy theatre

1st Published:
Amazon Kindle, 11 Mar 2012   B00A1LJUQI

Music:
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Genre:
Psychological Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Making the Grade

Synopsis:
India and her sister Jasmine are refugees from an African war. India wakes up too hung-over to face an interview for a job teaching Performing Arts at the college where her younger sister will soon enroll as a student. Jasmine takes her place and gets the job, but her identity card photograph is taken, and so the two girls are forced to continue to swap roles and play each other's part in the class. Can the younger girl teach her older sibling anything?

Notes:
Winner of the Drama Association of Wales One Act Playwriting Competition 2011, youth cast category. Very simple staging requirements.

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1st Published:
Drama Association of Wales, Jun 2011   978-1-898740-97-1

Music:
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Genre:
One act drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Stiletto

Synopsis:
a widow travels to Italy to take revenge on her late husband's mistress. Their meeting degenerates into a vicious scrap as the two women compete to emerge clutching trophies for honesty and dignity, and with their behaviours justified. This play was awarded second prize in the 1987 DaW Playwriting Competition and was originally published in 1989. This revised edition was published in 1995. a nail-biting Drama set in the middle of the night.

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Genre:
Play One act

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Will at the Tower

Synopsis:
A story (based on a local tradition) of Catholicism in the reign of Elizabeth 1st. The Jesuit priest, Edmund Campion pays a clandestine visit to Hoghton Tower in Lancashire with a young Will Shakespeare in tow. They become integrated into the life of the house as the new lady of the manor tries to marry off the daughter of the previous lord, and government agents close in on Campion, who is regarded as a traitor and a spy. Meanwhile the young bard is forced to abandon his boyhood as he gets caught in the collateral damage, and becomes romantically involved with members of the household.

Notes:
Period drama. Playing time 110 minutes. The dialogue is interwoven with multiple instances of five original songs. Songs can be delivered by acting cast or separate singers. Minimal set requirements. A rehearsal CD with piano arrangements of songs from the show is available (at extra cost) to go with this script.

1st Produced:
Hoghton Tower, Lancashire, UK    Feb 2010

Organisations:
uneasy theatre

1st Published:
Lazy Bee Scripts, 29 jun 2011   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama with songs

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  3 singers (optional)

Further Reference:
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