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Janice Okoh

JANICE OKOH

  
Nationality:    British
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Janice Okoh won the Bruntwood Playwrighting Competition (in association with Manchester Royal Exchange) in 2011, and was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award and the Alfred Fagon Award for her play the Real House (Three Birds).

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below is a list of Janice Okoh's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Baby Jay's Bedroom         Egusi Soup         Gift, The         Introducing the Talented Mister         Loss         Newlands         Red Earth, Red Sky         This Year will be Different         Three Birds         Top Brass         Utopia
Baby Jay's Bedroom

Synopsis:
An urban legend

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1st Produced:
Croydon Warehouse Theatre     2007

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Short play

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Egusi Soup

Egusi Soup
A fast and funny family Drama about intergenerational and cross-cultural relationships - containing plenty of spicy bits. . .It's the anniversary of John Anyia's death, and the Anyias are packing their suitcases, preparing to head home to Nigeria for a memorial service in his honour. But before they go, they're going to have to get rid of some excess baggage.

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A script-in-hand performance was done At Sir John Mills theatre, Ipswich, 08 Oct 2009

1st Produced:
Mumford Theatre, Cambridge     18 May 2012

Organisations:
Menageries Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Gift, The

Synopsis:
Sarah a black child is "adopted" by Queen Victoria. She is taught her manners and when she perfects her tea etiquette she is sent back to Africa. Present day Sarah lives with her husband and child in Cheshire. Their nosey white neighbours arrive with gluten free muffins

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1st Produced:
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London     29 Jan 2020

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Genre:
Comedy

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Introducing the Talented Mister

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1st Produced:
Hotbed Festival, Cambridge     2011

Organisations:
Menageries Theatre Company

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Genre:
monologue

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Loss

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1st Produced:
Unicorn Theatre, London    

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Genre:
Short play

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Newlands

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1st Produced:
Islington Community Theatre, London     2012

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Short play

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Red Earth, Red Sky

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This Year will be Different

Synopsis:
A brand shiny new year! Will your dreams come true? Will your goals be met? Or will you be hiding under the duvet? Whatever 2012 may bring, start it off right by heading to theatre503 for our first-week-of-the-year extravaganza. This is new writing with a difference - we've paired playwrights with video artists, animators and illustrators and asked them to create short pieces of theatre that focus on visual storytelling. Based on texts, tweets and photos from members of the public, the resulting show explores just what our annual New Year rituals reveal - and what lies behind all those smiling Facebook pictures. . .

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written by Tim Arthur. Brad Birch. Jonathan Brittain. GEmma Langford. Mufaro Makubika. Janice Okoh

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Genre:
collaborative project

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Three Birds

Three Birds
A startling and darkly comic Drama about childhood, family and fantasy. Siblings Tiana, Tionne and Tanika have found themselves home alone. Tiana's keeping it all together by taking charge of housework and homework. But Tionne's experiments are getting stranger and Tanika's starting to act up. As the outside world begins to press in, the three will do anything to keep their secret safe from the adults who come to call.

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winner of Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2011

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Top Brass

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1st Produced:
Theatre 503, London     2010

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Utopia

Synopsis:
Enough of the dystopian visions, austerity measures and extreme renditions. UTOPIA is a night of humanity at its best, looking at a different vision of our future, a vision of humankind being both human and kind. Just look at what we could have won. . . Soho theatre and Live theatre collaborate on the ambitious new writing project - UTOPIA; directed by Artistic Directors Steve Marmion and Max Roberts who will commission writers to create new short plays challenging visions of our future.

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written by Michael Chaplin, Zoe Cooper, Thomas Eccleshare, Alistair McDowall, Dylan Moran, Anthony Neilson, Janice Okoh, Simon Stephens, Chi Onwurah

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Live Theatre & Soho Theatre

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Genre:
short plays

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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