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Lou Prendergast

LOU PRENDERGAST

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Lou Prendergasts theatre practice grew out of visual art training and now includes playwriting, performance and directing. Her creative practice is realised via a female perspective, a mixed-race sensibility and a social conscience. Productions written, directed and performed by Lou include Whatever Happened to Harry? (The Arches, 2012); Fifty Shades of Black (Citizens Theatre, 2013); Fifty Shades of Black (Dub Version) (CCA, 2013) and Blood Lines (The Arches, Culture 2014). Tommys Song marks the first play written but not performed by Lou herself and she relishing this new writing process.

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

         Blood Lines         Fifty Shades Of Black         Tommys Song         Whatever Happened To Harry?

Blood Lines

Synopsis:
Blood lines, blood brother, sisterhood, hoods and chains, chains of slavery, enslaved blacks, black blood, black father, paternal love, maternal connection, Caribbean connection, patriarchy, patriotism, Scotland, Empire, The Crown, blue blood. This is a play about power. Blood Lines is a new theatre project written, directed and performed by Lou Prendergast. Joined on stage by her sister, Sophie; her uncle Neil Stewart on drums; Michael Abubakar on keys; and Graham Campbell on bass and storytelling, it draws upon Scots-Caribbean experience to raise questions about Scotland's entanglement in the slave trade and explore how the Commonwealth's themes of humanity, equality and destiny interact within the contemporary realities of racism, capitalism, feminism and homophobia.

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Culture 2014 and The Arches

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Fifty Shades Of Black

Synopsis:
one womans ironic probe into shifting power relations across sex, race, class and history. Part reggae gig, part autobiographical monologue, it is an interweaving exploration of Scottish-Caribbean connections from within her own family; the history of slavery; to modern day exploitation and the sexual politics of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon.

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part of Ankur Ha Ha

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one act WIP

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Tommys Song

Synopsis:
Tommy has good intentions. A self-proclaimed mans man with the gift of the gab and a penchant for Elvis, his plan unravels through a series of dark events, and Tommy cant do right for doing wrong.

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Organisations:
A Play, A Pie and A Pint, in association with National Theatre of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Whatever Happened To Harry?

Synopsis:
Step inside the blue Benz. Step back in time. Step into a world of vice and corruption, where the exploits of 'Flash Harry' are revealed through the stories of colourful characters, giving glimpses of the grit and glamour of Glasgow's former underworld. Staged inside a car in a lane outside the Arches, this unique installation is set to an original reggae soundtrack - the music of Jamaica, where Harry, the artist's estranged father, was born and bred. Lou Prendergast is the winner of the Arches' Black Box Graduate Visual Art Award 2012

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Organisations:
Arches Live!

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Genre:
piece 30 min

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