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GILL KIRK
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Literary Agent: Berlin Associates
Gill was born in Glasgow on 13 Dec 1972 and lives in the South West of England. A former double-glazing and Woolies record counter saleswoman, political activist, lobbyist and campaigner (with an education in-between), she left London to write in '07. Writer in residence for Glasgow's tidy carnage theatre company, her work includes Water's Not So Thick, Away With The Fairies, Passion, It's All One and Black Barn. She is a graduate of Channel 4's 4Screenwriting programme 2012 and member of Bristol's Writers' Forum @ the Tobacco Factory.
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Anaesthetic For Birthdays Away With the Fairies Black Barn Everyone Loves A Story It's All One King was in his Counting House, The Water's Not So ThickAnaesthetic For Birthdays
Synopsis:
Feeling your age? and what is that, exactly? How big's the gap between that and the calendar? What will you do with what's left: have a life of festival - or fear? In an ever-changing world, is that the right answer? Milestone birthdays race by. Four 'ripening' mortals decide not how, but whether to accept the aging process. after all, what have they got to lose?
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Top of PageAway With the Fairies
Synopsis:
Nobel-winning economist Isobel hides from her big ideas on a small Orkney farm, hoping for a quiet life. But the farmhouse has another tenant: an ancient shapeshifting troll, determined to reclaim his land. Middle-aged sculptor Stanley mekes questionable art in her London studio, broadcasting every move on a webcam. In between dealing with her mother's receipts and worrying about her lifestyle, Stan's accountant daughter Barbara dreams of another kind of existence. When Isobel decides to commission a sculpture, all four lives intertwine, causing each of them to question what they believe in.
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4*, WhatsonStage.com
1st Produced:
Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol 20 Mar 2012
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Broohas Theatre Co
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Comedy-drama
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Male: - Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageBlack Barn
Synopsis:
A man lives in a barn, with only his Machine and the barn for company. When he is interrupted by his meddlesome, mischievous sister, one of them is in danger. In parallel, his unpleasant and unusual family history unravels through the Poe-esque narrative of the family psychologist, who himself meets an unexpected end.
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Summer bursary winner for LOST 2012.
1st Produced:
LOST theatre, Stockwell, London 15 Jun 2012
Organisations:
tidy carnage
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Physical movement/drama; absurdist
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageEveryone Loves A Story
Synopsis:
While we sit in judgment over reality TV participants, while the judges tear a strip off TV show contestants, who is judging us, and is it as harshly? This roller-coaster ride puts the audience at the centre of these questions, in an 'Alice in Wonderland' dystopia. The stakes are a high as they can be: execution by audience vote (glitter guaranteed).
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20 minute short, commissioned by Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath, for an evening of new work ('Push')
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(script in hand) Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath Jun 2010
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Theatre Royal Bath - Ustinov Studio
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Absurd satire
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Male: 2-3 (total cast 5) Female: 2-3 (total cast 5) Other: -
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Top of PageIt's All One
Synopsis:
Bottom and Flute are back from the first rehearsals of Shakespeare's new play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. When the drinkers in the tavern tease Nick for not really understanding Shakespeare, we're all enlightened by three sets of travelling players, each showing the wedding scene from taming the Shrew: a dumb show, an imagined C21st English version and one - by now - very understandable- Elizabethan version. With iambic pentameter explained in dance and rhyme, it's Muppets meets Marx Brothers with Shakespeare in-between.
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Commissioned by Theatre Royal Bath's ENGAGE programme for a cast of 10-12 community actors and young people. A fun show to help audiences from 8-adult get an enjoyable and confident grip on Shakespeare's language.
1st Produced:
egg, Theatre Royal Bath 16 Feb 2012
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YPT, egg, Theatre Royal Bath
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Comedy, education: young people, community; TIE
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Male: Max 15 Female: Min. 5 Other: -
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Top of PageKing was in his Counting House, The
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In October 2008, as two big British banks were on the verge of collapse. The Government seriously discussed closing down all the cashpoints. Over a weekend. This play imagines the coffee-break conversations in-between the official Treasury meetings, between the politicians, officials and the representatives of the Bank of England. Power struggles, negotiations and convenient coincidences abound.
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1st Produced:
(script in hand) Red Hedgehog, Hampstead Mar 2009
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17%
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Satire 20 min
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Male: All or none (3) Female: All or none (3) Other: -
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Top of PageWater's Not So Thick
Synopsis:
How far will the mother of the groom go to keep hold of her little darling? Where does maternal love cross the line? When does a family decide to stop colluding? Problem familes aren't just for the lower orders: golf, gin and picnics all see their share.
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4*s, Venue Magazine
1st Produced:
Bath: Rondo Theatre, England, EUR >>> 15 Jun 2011
Organisations:
Butterfly Psyche Theatre Co
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Genre:
Drama-dark comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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