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MAGGIE NEVILL
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Alchemy in the UK Grizzled Skipper, The Peeler Shagaround, The Vivaldi Potato, TheAlchemy in the UK
Synopsis:
Tiff is excited. She's nearly 18 and she knows, she just knows, she is going to get?a CAR! But will she? Brian, her dad, has been laid off and Clair, her mum, is working fit to bust every hour of the day. But the rubbish strike is over and the recycling centre is moving to Millbrook (it really is! ). Jack stays behind at the old depot under the Itchen Bridge with Kelloggs, who used to sport a mohican but is now losing more than just his hair... Strange, maybe magical things start happening. Is this what they call alchemy? Can these people change their lives? Time is so precious. Maggie Nevill writes with honesty, sassy humour and heartfelt tenderness, about being in and out of work in Britain today. And was it Banksy who painted the little girl with the balloon?
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Nuffield Theatre Company.
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Top of PageGrizzled Skipper, The
Synopsis:
Charlie and Hannah are expecting a child and are happy and excited about it. Unfortunately, due to the fact that they're both underage, their parents aren't. Deciding that their only option is to run away, they head for the canal, where they throw themselves apon the mercy of "The Captain"; an eccentric sort of a man with a dog on a narrow boat, whom they persuade to take them to Manchester and a new life. The Captain's attempts to contact and reassure the kid's families backfire, leaving those at home with the unfortunate impression that they have been kidnapped by terrorists. A chase between barge and mopeds ensues, culminating in a barge-pole wedding and a few home truths.
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Nuffield Theare Company
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Genre:
comedy Drama Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: optional dog
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Top of PagePeeler
Synopsis:
Aisha waits behind twenty bolts and a stuck down letterbox for the killer she knows will inevitably find her. So why, then, when the meter man comes, does she invite him in, pay him to stay and ask him to help chop the onions?This play deals with the growing horror of Honour Based Violence in England. That is, when a family demands the death of a child to atone for the shame she, or he, has, supposedly, brought apon them. But Aisha does not feel ashamed, she is determined to be heard before she dies, and her visitor finds himself enmeshed in a nightmare that was more than he envisaged when he walked up Aishas garden path
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thriller/Drama
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Top of PageShagaround, The
Synopsis:
When five women hold a man to ransome in the ladie's toilet of a pub on New's Year's Eve, what starts as a laugh ends up being more dangerous than they would have imagined. A play about love, betrayal, dying of a broken heart and dying for a fag.
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Nuffield and Croydon Warehouse Theatres
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comedy Drama Comedy
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Top of PageVivaldi Potato, The
Synopsis:
Franklin's celebrity status has started to nose dive, Michael can't get his writng career off the ground, and both of them are in trouble with their women. Things are looking bleak until a chance encounter results in Frank hiring Michael to ghost write him a novel which makes him look "like a bloody good bloke". A faustian fable with a Frankenstein's monster, it asks the question- is success worth losing your identity for?
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comedy Drama Comedy
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Male: 4 Female: 1 Other: 1 of indeterminate sex
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