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Ade Morris

ADE MORRIS

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Micheline Steinberg Associates  

Ade Morris (English playwright and Theatre Director) Born Leek, Nr Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England. Began his career in touring theatre companies such as Pentabus and New Perspectives before becoming Staff Director with Theatre Clwyd and then Outreach Director and Writer in Residence at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury. Ade is now a freelance associate artist for the Watermill and co-director / writer for Quidem Productions. Shows written and directed for Watermill touring include: The Dreamer, The Life of Martin Luther King, Lone Flyer - the story of Amy Johnson; Witch - exploring the pyschology of witchcraft; I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls - set in rural Northern Ireland and the comedies Gigolo and The Comedian, set in Stoke on Trent and Brighton respectively; The Garden of Llangoed - a fiery romance set in North Wales, toured nationally and Ade's adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea played in the main house. The Story Of A Great Lady and Micky Salberg's Crystal Ballroom Danceband complete Ade's 'Stoke-on Trent' trilogy. all having toured successfully. Ade wrote and directed Dust for the Edinburgh Festival and Quidem Productions in 2011, and this 5 star play toured in 2012. For the 2013 Festival Ade wrote two new plays - The Oldest Man in Catford and The Boadicea of Brittania Street, both comedies and both received excellent reviews. Marble Halls and Micky Salberg are both published by Samuel French. Other Watermill shows and projects directed include Fen; The Mill On The Floss;Dracula, Lord Of The Flies; Dragon's Teeth and Multiplex, all with the Watemill Young Company; new work both written and directed for this group of young people also includesHow To Be A Monster; You Make Me Happy When Skies Are Grey; Bullets and Beetroot Lips; Flying; Accelerate (Girls and Cars); The Gilded Lilies; Mary Kelly's Bed; The Siren's Call and The Clodly Light Opera and Drama Society. For Margate Theatre Royal and touring Ade created Michael and Mum (tackling alcoholism in Kent). Ade has directed The Boxford Masques large scale community shows in 2000/2004/2006/2008/2012 all from scripts by Geraldine McCouchrean. Film work includesReading Minds - four short films in collaboratiion with the Mary Hare School for the Deaf and Daylight and Eve's Friends, both documentary / dramas commissioned by Newbury Day Centre for learning disability. For local schools Ade has written The Green Of The Spring, Green Man, Call To The Sky, Children Of The Light, The Shed and for 2007 River of Dreams. Theatre in Education plays include: The Salmon's Tale and Beth The Bin Lady - both concerned the environment and Roof, detailing the issues of homelessness. - http://www.associated-arts.co.uk/director/ade_morris.php

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         Accelerate         Beth the Bin Lady         Boadicea of Britannia Street, The         Bubbles         Bullets and Beetroot Lips         Call To the Sky         Children of the Light         Clodly Lightly Opera and Drama Society, The         Comedian, The         Dreamer, The         Dust         Flying         Garden of Llangoed, The         Gigolo         Gilded Lilies, The         Girls and Cars         Great West Road, The         Green Man         Green Of Spring, The         How To Be A Monster         I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls         King and Queen of Sugar Street         Life of Martin Luther King, The         Lone Flier         Mary Kelly's Bed         Micky Salberg's Crystal Ballroom Dance Band         Mira, Mira         Oldest Man in Catford, The         River of Dreams         Roof         Salmon's Tale, The         Shed, The         Sirens' Call, The         Story of a Great Lady, The         Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea         Witch         You Make Me Happy (When Skies Are Gray)

Accelerate

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Pip is a car thief with attitude, Mel a woman with a dangerous hobby (for the men in her life), and Josephine, well Josephine thinks she's a television set, but only when she's turned on.

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Shatter the windon, hot wire the ignition and accelerate with them and their weird wild friends down the road to the West in this poetic, moving and funny new play performed by the innovative Watermill Young Company.

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Beth the Bin Lady

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Boadicea of Britannia Street, The

Boadicea of Britannia Street, The
Fran Lamb is a journalist close to retirement on the local rag; eccentric, recently bereaved, she starts a creative writing group- trying to do something challenging for a change. Joining the group are Annie, a put-upon housewife, Penny a PE teacher and Janet the local librarian. they decide, perhaps disastrously, to devise a performance about Queen Boadicea. A touching, hilarious and feisty look at life, death and love through the eyes of the four women. From the team behind the Edinburgh hit sell-out play Dust.

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Bubbles

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Barbara "Bubbles" Beswick recently widowed now has the family scrap yard to run with her two sons, Dirk and Charley. A young executive wants to buy the yard and turn it into a car supermarket

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Bullets and Beetroot Lips

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The story spans two eras at the same location; Mason's Farm somewhere to the west of Newbury in 1940, and again in the summer of 1996. Into this world arrives a group of Land Army girls 'digging for victory' during the Second World War. Fifty years later their grand-daughters, students at the local college, become involved in the road protest of the late nineties. Both groups of young women defend the land in their own way and the past and present blend and bleed as both stories plunge into resonant crisis. Funny, poetic, moving and tragic this story also has another eloquent character, the extraordinary and patient landscape of West Berkshire itself.

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Call To the Sky

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The theme of Call to the Sky is communication as a force for understanding and peace across communities and racial divides. By delving into the meaning and resonance of the various lines of communication which criss-cross our physical and emotional landscapes, a single message is moulded, a single call, a plea for understanding and tolerance across nations and languages.

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Children of the Light

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Using performance, poetry and music Children of the Light tells the story of children's experiences in war. Themes of suffering, relief, longing, adventure and grief are all explored but the predominate message is finally one of hope. The children of the light can become the light of the world and, renouncing violence, grow to lead it in peace.

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Clodly Lightly Opera and Drama Society, The

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Ade Morris' farce is loosely based on Aristophanes' Lysistrata. The women of Clodly are having difficulty with their promiscuous, spendthrift and warlike men. In response they mount a play wherein the characters go on sex strike until the men mend their ways, are kind to their women, and let peace reign. All goes well until someone is discovered in the broom cupboard.

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Comedian, The

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the action ranges back and forth in time, from the mid 1970s to the present day, following the professional and personal life of a vetran stand-up comedian, from his early days in the clubs to the professional success, and private desolation, of his later years.

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Dreamer, The

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A Martin Luther King Drama weaving together the story of the Sixties icon with that of a contemporary Black Briton, a girl coming to terms with the racist murder of her black boyfriend.
Patrick Marmion, Evening Standard

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Dust

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the morning of Margaret Thatcher's death. In his Barbican flat, Arhur Scargill and his publisher have a visitor from their past - an ageing militant miner with his own take on Scargill's controversial legacy and a dark forty-year family secret. In a Britain partly shaped by their actions, fierce old fighters slug it out over the dust of history. Meanwhile, in Doncaster, a pregnant young woman stares at recession hit Britain.

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Edinburgh Fringe, Freemasons Hall, 96 George Street, Edinburgh, Eh2 3Dh    04 Aug 2011

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Flying

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Two different but extraordinary women are connected over the years from a sealed vault under the British Museum to a boat of Wales in 1804.

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Garden of Llangoed, The

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Set shortly after the end of WW2 on Angelsey, the play is an evocative love story with echoes of events that happened in the same place centuries before

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Gigolo

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Hopes are dismal, prospects bleak, odd jobs now and then, booze, telly, rent - all on the never never, and, it's raining... it always is. A bit thin, a bit bald, a bit too close to forty. So obviously, there's nothing else for it... against the odds, against their run of luck, against any ghost of common sense, these two chancers decide to be....Gigolos. A hilarious comedy that follows the ludicrous adventures of two ordinary lads in the world of love, lust and dinner.

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Gilded Lilies, The

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Spiv makes burgers, Karen's training to be a nurse, Blob watches telly all day, Gene is also Jean, and Nutter... well, Nutter's just a nutter. Meet The Gilded Lilies, and their other strange friends - the best band to come out of Willesden Green since... er, just the best, OK? All the glamour, all the dreams and a bit of hard truth about the rock and roll odyssey. Life itself, with salty chips in the back of a broken down Transit.

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Girls and Cars

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Great West Road, The

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It's July 2007, the heavens have opened and Thatcham is fast becoming a flooded community. Brenda switches her radio on to BBC Radio Berkshire in the charity shop where she works. All is not what it should be for the station seems to be broadcasting historical dramas - all Thatcham history seems to be happening...simultaneously; she hears the struggle of a woman giving birth in the local church, the drone of a WWII American plane returning to Greenham Common, the frantic search of a woman on the nearby canal and the unpalatable face of racism. A community play based on the history of the town and the memories of its inhabitants. The town, which is the oldest continuously inhabited place in England dating back to 7700BC, has been witness to several significant events since then.

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Green Man

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Since November Ade Morris has been working with the West Berkshire Federation of Village Schools in collaboration with the Willow Artist Julia Mitchell. Their aim to create an exciting piece of theatre on the subject of The Green Man and to construct giant Green Men willow sculptures in all the schools and at the Watermill. This ancient symbol of re-birth, harmony and creativity has followed us throughout time, re-appearing in new forms to help define our relationship with the natural world around us. This highly visual and lyrical show will involve 120 children.

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Green Of Spring, The

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It tells the story of a young couple that fall in love and are separated when the young man joins the army during World War 1. It's a Romeo and Juliet story, with two families that really don't get along, and their children who really do! Using masks the children have helped to make, alongside real images of the war and local Newbury people, audiences will experience an affecting piece of drama based on local history.

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How To Be A Monster

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Between being young and so-called 'grown up' has always been a deeply dodgy moment - those drowning years when humanity gurgles in the greasy primordial soup of adolescence.

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I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls

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On a cold autumn day in 1985 at a dilapidated small-holding near Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, two men are the only mourners at the funeral of 'mad' Maddy Ingram. the elderly man remembers Maddy as a young woman, the toast of the county. the younger, Daniel, remembers how as a boy he became the protege of the bedraggled, lonely Maddy of later years. their memories bring alive the young Madelyn and the harsher, older Maddy, her demanding, wastrel brother Liam, and the young police constable George Park, intertwining their lives with the passions of patriotism and landscape. Ade Morris's play, based on the true characters in a short story by Bryan Gallagher, skilfully weaves the narrative backwards and forwards through a span of 50 years and the result is a richly emotive, lyrical Drama of enduring love. the seven characters may be played individually or, as in the original production, by two men and one woman with one set providing all the locations.

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from Bryan Gallagher

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Douglas, Isle Of Man: Gaiety Theatre    16 Mar 2002

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Samuel French, London, 2007   978-0573115707

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King and Queen of Sugar Street

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What would you do if you were the King and Queen of Sugar Street? Would you chop off peoples heads, start a war, make everyone pay a million pounds a day in taxes and go hunting in the supermarket for wild bears? Mmm. Maybe not. Ever thought why the rules in 2009 are written the way they are? Join us on a comic romp through the history of democracy as we work out why the country is set up the way it is, why we have laws, leaders we can get rid of, and sensible discussions about stuff. Oh, and what it means to live in a country where the King and Queen of Sugar Street end up on the bus with everyone else...

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Life of Martin Luther King, The

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Lone Flier

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The incredible flight of Amy Johnson. Everyone wants to escape at some time in their lives. Sometimes even from ourselves. Amy Johnson longed for release and escape. A heartbreaking love affair fuelled her incredible solo flight to Australia, and her constant search for new career highs led to her mysterious death over the Thames estuary at the start of World War II. Her body was never found. Taking Amy Johnson's life as a central theme, and vibrant with the music and events of the twenties and thirties, this play by Ade Morris looks at the eternal wanderlust in us all.

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Mary Kelly's Bed

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psychological thriller

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Micky Salberg's Crystal Ballroom Dance Band

Micky Salberg's Crystal Ballroom Dance Band
It's 1952 and on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent Jewish Polish immigrant Micky Salberg and his daughter Sam are struggling to make a living from a farm made up of three cows and a pig called Charley. they are hounded daily by bailiffs chasing the mortgage payments that Micky spends drowning his sorrows in the pub. Micky pesters Sam to help him raise money by reviving his old dance band and the memory of his wife, who was killed by Nazis during the war. Sam eventually agrees to play her clarinet - but refuses to sing. Tommy Bostock, a local lad with a talent for causing offence, shows up at the farm wielding a guitar and offers to join them. Soon the trio is touring the dance halls of Stoke, but when Tommy reveals that he is due to start military service in a month's time, the future of the Crystal Ballroom Dance Band looks doubtful. A very funny, emotive play from Ade Morris about love, loss and rock n' roll. the original music by Paul Kissaun is available on hire.

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Mira, Mira

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Mira and Ed are destined to be together, or are they? When an East End Princess meets a complete idiot who wants to be a singer in a club what can possibly happen to spoil their chances of happiness? Well quite a lot as it turns out in this surreal gangland romp through the dark and dusty corners of Ed's raddled mind - and the dank and dangerous corridors of the Dungeon Club London E14.

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Oldest Man in Catford, The

Synopsis:
Reg Thorn, 106, has strange and terrible secrets. Reg, the oldest man in Catford, depends on his great, great granddaughter Julie for cake, conversation and sympathy. But when Julie walks out on her cheating boyfriend she needs somewhere else to live, and turns to old Reg for help. the two embark on an uneasy, gently comic partnership and a touching adventure into Reg's murky past. As the mismatched pair confront the prospect of accidental fame, longevity, and mutual heartache, Julie learns more than she ever thought possible, about Reg, herself, and about still being alive.

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1st Produced:
New Town Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2013

Organisations:
Quidem Productions

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comedy 1 hour 10 minutes

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River of Dreams

Synopsis:
The River of Dreams follows the flow of a single special life. This year's event is the story of that unique life, the laughter, sorrows, significant moments and joyous celebrations inherent to a life's journey. The message of a life will be read, the legacy of a life weighted and some fundamental questions asked. Where are we going? What does it all mean? Why are we here? Where do all the odd socks go?

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Organisations:
West Berkshire Federation of Village Schools

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-   -

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-

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Roof

Synopsis:
an examination of the complex issues surrounding homelessness.

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-

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-    -

Organisations:
Reading Single Homeless Project

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-   -

Music:
-

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Youth play

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Salmon's Tale, The

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-

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-

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-    -

Organisations:
Commissioned by the Environment Agenc

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-   -

Music:
-

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Youth play

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Shed, The

Synopsis:
There's a shed at the end of the garden where Freddie and Francesca Smith go to invent things; their Mum and Dad go there as well, and their Grandma and Grandad, and old Great Grandad Smith who remembers horses... They've invented just about everything in their fabulous shed. Motor cars, electricity, mobile phones, sticky things for keeping up your socks, and so much more... All such great ideas that somehow, well, that somehow don't quite work out the way they should.

Notes:
Presented by the children of Stockcross, Enborne, Shefford, Welford and Wickham, Shaw-cum-Donnington and Inkpen Primary Schools.

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-

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Sirens' Call, The

Synopsis:
Celebrating 10 years of quality productions and inspired ensemble work, The Watermill Young Company sets its sights on an updating of Ade Morris play FLYING. THE SIRENS CALL tells of a young womans adventure after being locked in a museum vault with her ancestors diary.

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Story of a Great Lady, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
aka Boadicea of Britannia Street, The

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Organisations:
-

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-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Synopsis:
the story of the mysterious Captain Nemo, master of the giant submarine Nautilus, and his journey of revenge against the unnamed nation that destroyed his family.

Notes:
from Jules Verne

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-

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-

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Adaptation

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Witch

Synopsis:
Somewhere between past and present, love and hate, murder and hanging, rests the witch. She watches tides, clouds, leaves falling, smiles at the curses of men. From the persecution of witches in 17th century Lancashire, to a brutal hanging on Coombe Gibbet in Berkshire, via a psychiatric hospital and a woman caught in the past, a haunting web weaves...The threads of this searing psychological thriller will delight, disturb and terrify. As they finally draw together into a spine-chilling, nail biting conclusion, you'll desperately want to believe in the magic too. . .

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-

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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You Make Me Happy (When Skies Are Gray)

Synopsis:
Taking a look at the people's game of football and the bigger better game of life. What do we have to do to get a good result? Experience relegation, promotion and cup tickets to reality with the young team who'll be next to kick the ball.

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Organisations:
Watermill Theatre Youth Group

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-   -

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-

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