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Becky Prestwich

BECKY PRESTWICH

  
Nationality:    British
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Becky Prestwich's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Bear, The Owl And The Angel, The         Chip Shop Chips         Chopping Onions         Globe in the Attic, The         How The Cabinet Maker Crossed The Road         Letting in Air         Pages From My Songbook         Streetlights And Shadows         King Of The Castle
Bear, The Owl And The Angel, The

Synopsis:
Traumatic memories

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Wimbeldon Studio, London    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Chip Shop Chips

Synopsis:
She's not going anywhere yet. Even if it's just for tonight - he won't unwish it. They can have now. And then years after, they'll still get a shiver from the memories. It's the grand reopening of Booth and Son's Fish & Chip Shop. Eric has returned home, over forty years after he left, and it's time for a fresh start. But old flame Christine has other ideas. Transported back to a time of chippy teas and Northern Soul, there's unfinished business for these old lovers. Watching teenage love stumble as hapless Lee makes a pass at the beautiful Jasmine, is it all just history repeating? Focusing on love at different ages and celebrating the nation's favourite food, Chip Shop Chips is an immersive love story set in a chippy performing in unusual spaces across the North. So put on your dancing shoes, tuck into a fish supper and brace yourself for a unique theatrical experience. This is theatre, but not as you know it: dinner, dance and a show all rolled into one! Tickets include a fish 'n' chips supper!

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1st Produced:
Salford: The Hub     17 Feb 2016

Organisations:
Box of Tricks

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Chopping Onions

Synopsis:
Uses the interesting technique of splitting one of its characters in two. the elderly mother - around whose reconciliation with her adult daughter the play revolves - is represented by one mute and one invisible actor. the invisible mother - embodying the younger self that now only exists inside her - sheds light on the two women's troubled relationship that the daughter cannot or will not hear, providing a powerful sense of Dramatic irony. .
- Matt Boothman, British theatre Guide

Notes:
part of Word:Play 2

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Box of Tricks

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
15 min play

Parts:
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Globe in the Attic, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Word:Play/NWxSW

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Box of Tricks

1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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How The Cabinet Maker Crossed The Road

Synopsis:
Homeless John is under an ASBO restricting his movements, but when his beloved niece starts working in the local corner shop, John is determined to find a way to get across the road to her.

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Organisations:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Letting in Air

Synopsis:
Adam and his Father have never been close. For Adam, Manchester is the sprung dancefloor at the Ritz and cider on the 42; for Frank, gaslights and cobbled streets. In the wake of his mother's death, Adam returns to Manchester with his girlfriend, promising a fresh start. But when Amy, a teenage girl with a troubled past, strikes up an unlikely friendship with his father, unspoken tensions reemerge. Family bonds are tested and secrets refuse to remain hidden as Manchester becomes a whole new city. Becky Prestwich's Letting in Air is a lyrical family Drama about the ones we love and the secrets we keep.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Box of Tricks

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
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Pages From My Songbook

Synopsis:
North West professional playwrights collective the Alligator Club is set to stage a festival of short plays inspired by music at the Studio at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre on July 19-20. Pages From My Songbook is billed as a mix tape of theatre, with 18 short plays featuring live music, all the length of a song, which explore love, life, loneliness and lager. Against the backdrop of a dusky festival night, it will immerse the audience in stories that blur the lines between a theatrical and festival experience, as short stories and musicians evoke the spirit of a festival.

Notes:
Written by Miriam Battye, Ella Carmen Greenhill, Becky Prestwich, Lee Thompson, Jennifer Tuckett and Kim Wiltshire.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Alligator Club

1st Published:
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Music:
Music by Alice Kirwan, Irfan Rainy, Vidar Norhei

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Genre:
plays with music

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Streetlights And Shadows

Synopsis:
begins with two sharply contrasted images - a boy and girl at innocent play, and the boy, Laurie , now almost become a man. splayed lifeless on the ground. His body is soon replaced by a makeshift roadside shrine decorated with flowers, cards and candles. and guarded by the girl. Jenna. When a middle-aged passer-by. Paul, stops to pay his respects, he and Jenna strike up one of those inter-generational odd-couple relationships, trying to put their lives in perspective.
- Robert Shore, Time Out London

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Box of Tricks

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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King Of The Castle

Synopsis:
With mother drunk upstairs and his sister refusing to play with him Callum decides that it is time to seize Daddy's throne

Notes:
Part of "Word: Play 4"

1st Produced:
Arcola Theatre, London     01 Mar 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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