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Black Eyes and Cottage Pie
Synopsis:
Domestic abuse in teenage relationships and adult. Also sexting and consent
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MaD Theatre Company
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Drama
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Bunny Lamar
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The Bunny Lamar Academy For Dramatic Arts. Bunny had a glittering career before taking up teaching. For three seasons he played Barney the Purple Dinosaur at Butlins Minehead
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1st Produced:
The Met, Bury
03 Jul 1905
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Genre:
Black comedy
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Conceived In A Curry House
Synopsis:
Marilyn is looking for love but has not found it. She is in a curry house alone having been stood up by an internet date. She overhears the conversation on the next table. Before she knows it she is part of a fan owned football club together with her WAG daughters, sick mother, best friend Gladys and ASBO sons
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Simpson Memorial Hall, Moston
11 Aug 2016
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Food Bank Boulevard
Synopsis:
Homeless Stan sleeps outside a Food Bank then tenth to be opened in the area. A Councillor opened it - good photo opportunity for her. She announces an arts festival is to be held. Rollo Hollovici an internationally famous artist discovers an art work worth thousands
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Aldridge Studio, Salford
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Genre:
Satire
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Gin And Chronic Arthritis
Synopsis:
Gin and Chronic arthritis focuses on the complicated romances in the Pickle's family home, all triggered when Wheelchair Barry takes Nanna Pickles on a date to a psychic supper and is contacted by a lover from long ago, making Wheelchair Barry jealous of the fElla from the other side.
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1st Produced:
The Met, Bury
12 Apr 2012
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Genre:
piece
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It's The Wrong Way To Tickle Mary
Synopsis:
At the local boozer soldiers are trying to get girls to go upstairs with them, Hector the tram driver is chatting up the bar maid. Hen pecked Henry Shuttlebottom runs a munitions factory. His wife a militant Suffragette gets them to smuggle out gunpowder so she can make bombs
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1st Produced:
Arts Theatre, Salford
07 Feb 2019
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Genre:
Black comedy
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Me, You and George Clooney
Synopsis:
Nellie has not been out since she was mugged. She also has a fear of lifts has a doctor's appointment and the doctor's surgery is on the 13th floor. Nigel her care worker visits her each day. They watch "Good Morning" on daytime television. This day Gino d'Campo is on wearing a skimpy pair of underpants that Nellie knitted for him. Nigel has arranged for the show's life style gurus to telephone hoping they can cure Nellie's fear of lifts.
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Black comedy
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Pints Of Swill And Pork Scratchings
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The last pub left open on the estate. Landlady Donna is having an affair with Billy. Billy's brother shop lifts and sell his swag in the pub. Eileen does a special striptease at the old folks home for the men
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Genre:
Black comedy
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Puddings Noir, Les
Synopsis:
The power mad Mayoress of Bury wants her city to become a centre of European cooking. She starts with a rebranding of black pudding as Les Pudding Noir
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1st Produced:
The Met, Bury
30 Jun 1905
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Genre:
Black comedy
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Thai Brides and Teacakes
Synopsis:
Civil Partners Ma and Madeira want to have a baby. The local sperm donors are all an unattractive lot. A drop dead gorgeous politician is in town and looks just right - but he is very right wing and adopting a Thai baby falls through. Fred the builder has married a Thai lap dancer - could there be a solution here?
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1st Produced:
The Met, Bury
02 Jul 1905
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Genre:
Lesbian full length
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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