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SYLVIA LANCASTER
Nationality: British
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Sylvia Lancaster's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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Killing Of Sophie Lancaster, TheKilling Of Sophie Lancaster, The
Synopsis:
A moving response to the death of young gap-year student Sophie Lancaster. On 11 August 2007, Sophie Lancaster was beaten unconscious in Stubbeylee Park, Bacup and later died from her injuries in hospital. She was 20 years old, had just passed her A-Levels and was working out what to do with her life. She was killed because she dressed differently. BLACK ROSeS is an elegy for Sophie in which she tells her own story through a series of poems by the award-winning poet Simon Armitage, alongside the words of her mother, Sylvia Lancaster, remembering her daughter s shortened life. the piece provoked an unprecedented response when it premiered on Radio Four last year, winning the BBC Audio and Music Best Speech Programme of the Year Award.
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Words by Sylvia Lancaster; Poetry by Simon Armitage
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Black Roses
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45 min verbatim piece
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Male: - Female: 2 Other: -
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