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Jackie Kay

JACKIE KAY

  (1961 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Wylie Agency Ltd  

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

         Chiaroscuro         Every Bit Of It         Generations         Hadassah         Itsy Bitsy Spider: Anansi Steals the Wind         Manchester Lines         Maw Broom Monologues, The         Michael mcGahey         New Maw Broom Monologues, The         Take Away         Trumpet         Twice Over         Twice Through the Heart         Twilight Shift

Chiaroscuro

Synopsis:
four character's friendship is challenged and strengthened by their experiences of racism, sexism and homophobia

Notes:
theatre of Black women

1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London    1996

Organisations:
Theatre of Black Women

1st Published:
in Lesbian Plays ed. Jill Davis, Methuen, 1987   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Every Bit Of It

Synopsis:
She followed the blues and the blues followed her Bessie Smith - the Empress of the Blues - had a voice as raw, vibrant and full of pain and sensuality as her extraordinary life. A big voice that trumpeted the real story of life in the South across America and beyond her own time. Two women take the blues train out of town. Georgia is deaf, but the memory of Bessie's voice still changes the shape of her silence, lighting a trail to shuttered emotions and forgotten dreams. Cathy has tried to laugh away the truth which rings in Bessie's words. Riding the blues train into the night, they find themselves on the tracks of Bessie's life.

Notes:
Suzanne Bonnar as Bessie sings her songs of triumph and despair to Elizabeth Quinn as Georgia. Jackie Kay's lyrical poetry and an original score by Claire van Kampen harmonise in a bewitching evocation of the Power of the Blues, full of live music and haunting imagery.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
biographical play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Generations

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Mythic Women / Real Women ed. Lizbeth Goodman, Faber, London, 2000   -

Music:
-

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Hadassah

Hadassah
the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the english language. the KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken english.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. the curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, Drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. the voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. all the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush theatre and Westminster abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient Arts of writing and spoken performance

Notes:
Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is A response to the King James Bible book of esther

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849432276

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

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Itsy Bitsy Spider: Anansi Steals the Wind

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
By Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Jackie Kay & Christopher Rodriguez

1st Produced:

Organisations:

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Manchester Lines

Synopsis:
In a lost property room in central Manchester, en route somewhere, six people relate their own personal journeys. Manchester Lines tells stories, reveals fragments of lifelines. It asks: is there an instant when your life changes forever? How consciously do we choose the path our lives take? Do we choose at all? What happens to all the lives we do not live? Welcome to the Lost Property Office of the Soul.

Notes:
Directed by Wils Wilson And written by the Award winning Jackie Kay (Red Dust Road, Trumpet), with music specially composed by errollyn Wallen (Opera North, Orchestra of the Swan), Manchester Lines is created in Manchester, for Manchester. Staged high on the fifth floor of Number One, First Street, Manchester Lines is the most recent of the Library theatre Companys intimate And dynamic one chance to see theatre experiences. All performances feature community choir specially formed from Manchester residents.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
site specific

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Maw Broom Monologues, The

Synopsis:
Maw Broon goes in search of herself with her sidekick doppelganger Psyche

Notes:
Music by Tom Urie

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Glasgay! Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue play Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Michael mcGahey

Synopsis:
Written by 20 of Scotland's leading writers. Directed by Joe Douglas and Catrin Evans. The Portrait Gallery will take centre-stage this spring as the National Theatre of Scotland explores their collection through the written word and performance in Dear Scotland. In this unique work, twenty of the country's leading writers will pen short, sharp monologues inspired by the Gallery's celebrated portraits which will be performed as a promenade theatre piece, staged within the galleries.

Notes:
Part of "Dear Scotland" : participants include: Peter Arnott; Jo Clifford; Rob Drummond; Janice Galloway; David Greig; Zinnie Harris; Iain Heggie; Stuart Hepburn; Jackie Kay; A L Kennedy; Hardeep Singh Kohli; Liz Lochhead; Iain Finlay Macleod; Nicola McCartney;Johnny McKnight;Linda McLean; Rona Munro; James Robertson; Ali Smith; Louise Welsh

1st Produced:
National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh    24 Apr 2014

Organisations:
National Theatre of Scotland

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
monologue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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New Maw Broom Monologues, The

Synopsis:
Theres not just one Maw Broon; theres two of them. In this hilarious and heartbreaking show, Maw Broon and her doppelganger are having a mid-life crisis. They try everything in a quest to find out what reality is, to find happiness and love. Maw Broon visits a therapist, goes on a reality TV show, meets Cameroon and Osbroon, fights against bedroom tax in the butt and ben. Maw Broon wonders where she fits in in the new seven classes and where she stands on independence. She cant stop moving; she cant stop asking questions. She even looks to the moon. Brooned-off, broke and full of bravado, Maw Broon bravely goes where no Broon has gone before, holding up a sneaky mirror to the whole of Scottish society.

Notes:
score by Tom Urie and Alan Penman

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Glasgay! Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Take Away

Synopsis:
In a small city suddenly everyone gets addicted to onions and everyone must have them. Only a travelling poet can see what is really happening

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in International Connections:New Plays for Young People, Faber, London, 2002   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Trumpet

Synopsis:
When famed jazz trumpeter Joss Moody dies, his passing reveals an incredible secret kept even from those closest to him. Following the funeral and shocking revelation, his widow Millie flees to Scotland to escape the journalists intent on revealing the truth behind the legend. The family is thrown into turmoil and its members are forced to examine their loss, love and identity.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Citizens - Glasgow    2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Twice Over

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Drill Hall, London >>>    27 Sep 1998

Organisations:
Gay Sweatshop

1st Published:
Gay Sweatshop: Four Plays and a Company ed.Philip Osment, Methuen, London, 1989   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Twice Through the Heart

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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Twilight Shift

Synopsis:
about two gay men living in a small Scottish mining village

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
7:84 Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - acc.12911/50-51
Theatre Record Vol XIII (1993) Page 1277 - [Theatre: Tron - Glasgow]

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