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Nona Shepphard

NONA SHEPPHARD

  
Nationality:    British
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Librettist and Director Nona Shepphard is a freelance writer, director and deviser with over 150 productions and 40 commissioned plays to her credit. Her plays for young people, which have received several awards, have been seen in the usa, Canada, Europe and RussiA. Her recent writing includes Signs of a Star-Shaped Diva (GraeaeTheatre Company at the Theatre Royal Stratford East). She is an Associate Director of RADA and Creative Director of RADA Enterprises.

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         Adventures Of Robyn Hood, The         Angel on the Bridge, An         Bedlam         Beulah's Box         Brain Power         Crazy Lady         Forbidden Fruit         Getting Through         Homelands         Idlepop         In the Parlour With the Ladies         Lady Dragon's Lament         Marriage Bed, The         Mrs Docherties         Peter Pan         Robyn Hood         Signs of a Diva         Sleeping Beauty, The         Snow Queen, The         Struck by Lightning         Tale For Winter, A         Therese Raquin         Three Secrets of Serendip         You're Thinking About Doughnuts
Adventures Of Robyn Hood, The

Synopsis:
Robyn Hood gathers a group of doughty women Big Joan, Prioress Tuckberg and Alana Dale. They battle against the Sheriff of Nottingham. Robyn wants the hand of Maid Marian

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1st Produced:
Drill Hall, London >>>     04 Dec 1998

Organisations:
Dramatrix Productions

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Genre:
Alternative Pantomime

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Angel on the Bridge, An

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Devised Piece

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Bedlam

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Quicksilver Theatre

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Beulah's Box

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Quicksilver Theatre

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Brain Power

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Quicksilver Theatre

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Crazy Lady

Synopsis:
two estranged childhood friend arrange to meet up in a mysteriously deserted bar

Notes:
Revival

1st Produced:
Drill Hall, London     2005

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Forbidden Fruit

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Getting Through

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Homelands

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written with Lisa Evans

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Play/Drama

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Idlepop

Synopsis:
Four contestants have won through a television competition and are forming a new pop group. they have to come up with a hit song - but have any of them any real talent?

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In the Parlour With the Ladies

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Genre:
Farce

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Lady Dragon's Lament

Synopsis:
the lady dragon discovers somethings that fills her with panic.

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Organisations:
Quicksilver Theatre

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Marriage Bed, The

Synopsis:
the Marriage Bed opens on the dawn of Valerie and Jennifer's wedding. Val wakes up alone in her bed after a night of fevered dreams. Will the toils of her own past prevent this 55-year-old feminist from marrying her thirty-something Jewish girlfriend? Though recent legislation now grants rights to same sex couples to form civil partnerships, is this enough to tie the knot?
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U.S. premiere Sanford Meisner theatre, NY, 2006

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Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, full length

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Mrs Docherties

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Peter Pan

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written by Nona Shepphard And Bryony Lavery from JM Barrie

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Robyn Hood

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1st Produced:
-     1988

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Signs of a Diva

Synopsis:
Sue Graves is an undertaker but longs to be a singer in the tradition of Judy Garland, Patsy Kline and Dustry Springfield. She achieves this and transforms into Tammy Frascati. When she has to make a life changing decision she calls on her idols to help.

Notes:
aka Signs of A Star Shaped Diva

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Sleeping Beauty, The

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written by Nona Shepphard And Bryony Lavery from JM Barrie

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Genre:
Pantomime

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Snow Queen, The

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Dramatrix Prods

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Struck by Lightning

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1st Produced:
Mermaid, London     1993

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Tale For Winter, A

Synopsis:
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Adapted from the play "A Winter's Tale" by William Shakespeare

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Therese Raquin

Therese Raquin
A thrilling new musical. therese Raquin's life with her Aunt, Madame Raquin, and her sickly husband Camille, in a small haberdasher's in the Passage du Pont Neuf is a monotonous and stifling one, until the day Camille brings home a boyhood friend, Laurent, and Therese falls passionately and desperately in love. . . A passion that leads to another wedding and three deaths.

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musical adaptaion of novel by Emile Zola with music by Craig Adams, book and lyrics by Nona Shepphard

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Vibrant 2012  A Festival of Finborough Playwrights

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Oberon Books   

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  3

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Three Secrets of Serendip

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Organisations:
Quicksilver Theatre

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Genre:
Childrens play

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You're Thinking About Doughnuts

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