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I Cannot Sleep
Synopsis:
Johanna Ferrour is one of the protesters in the Peasant's Revolt. She with a group of women drag Simon Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury to the executioner's block at the Tower of London
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Monologue play
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King Lear Retold
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Based on "King Lear" by William Shakespeare
1st Produced:
UK tour
2018
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Adaptation
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Lost In Blue
Synopsis:
Eighteen year old Annie thinks she must have been responsible for her father's accident that has left him in a coma for the last fifteen years. Meanwhile in his mind her father believes he is living with Vincent Van Gough
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Roundhouse, London
2016
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Monologue play
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Outrageous Fortune
Synopsis:
Gertrude mother, wife and Queen of Denmark is still in Purgatory after 400 years and she is not happy
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Based on "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
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Monologue play
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Rising Up!
Synopsis:
The Peterloo Massacre from the view point of a woman who was there and from a woman one hundred years later who is also struggling for rights
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Songs by Sean Cooney
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Genre:
Monologue play
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Romeo + Juliet Retold
Synopsis:
The star crossed lovers
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Based on "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
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Genre:
Monologue play
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Under Her Skin
Synopsis:
Three members of a broken family trying to find each other
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Music by Laurel Swift
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Genre:
Monologue play
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