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A J Taudevin

A J TAUDEVIN

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  represented by Simon Blakey

(Photograph: Martin Shields) - A J (Allison-Julia) Taudevin is an actor, writer and Theatre maker. As a writer, AJ Taudevin's recent plays include: Chalk Farm, co-written with Kieran Hurley, currently touring internationally in a highly acclaimed production by Thick Skin, Some Other Mother (Tron Theatre/Stellar Quines); The 12:57 (Theatre Uncut); The Jeans Jacques Rousseau Show and Demons and The Deficit Show (Oran Mor), The YelloWing (Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival). She won the Playwrights' Studio Scotland New Playwrights Award in 2010 and in 2013 completed attachments with The Traverse Theatre as one of the Traverse Fifty and as associate artist at The Tron Theatre.

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         Blow Off         Chalk Farm         Deficit Show, The         Demons         Jean-Jacques Rousseau Show, The         Memorialised         Mrs Barbour's Daughters         Rantin         Some Other Mother         UNtruth         YelloWing, The

Blow Off

Blow Off
'I'm not going to tell you her hair colour. Her skin colour. Her name. All you need to know, right now, is that she is a person.' An explosive new piece of guerilla-gig-theatre from Julia Taudevin ('one of the most exciting forces in Scottish theatre' Scotsman) and Kim Moore with Susan Bear and Julie Eisenstein from Glasgow's hottest indie-pop duo Tuff Love. This fierce and playful feminist work explores the psychology of extremism with haunting melodies and progressive punk riffs.

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An explosive new piece of guerilla-gig-theatre from Julia Taudevin (one of the most exciting forces in Scottish theatre Scotsman) and Kim Moore with Susan Bear and Julie Eisenstein from Glasgow's hottest indie-pop duo Tuff Love.

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-1786820136

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guerilla-gig-theatre

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Chalk Farm

Chalk Farm
Maggie is just in from Sainsbury's Local to make a quick sandwich for Jamie. He likes his cheese and pickle. With the crusts off. A good heart, that lad. Not like those other boys around here. You know what boys are like. Laws unto themselves once they reach that age. But it's those other boys, really. Not Jamie. A boy with a Transformers lunch box? What harm is he to anybody? This new monologue written by Julia Taudevin and Kieran Hurley explores love, responsibility, and the culture of blame and retribution surrounding the 2011 English riots.

Notes:
written by Julia Taudevin And Kieran Hurley

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Organisations:
part of Mayfesto 2012

1st Published:
Oberon Books   978-1783190218

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Genre:
monologue

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Deficit Show, The

Synopsis:
From the same team that brought you the Jean Jaques Rousseau Show and Demons comes a show that interrogates the deficit. What does it actually mean? How big is it, really? What can we do about it (apart from sell the NHS, obviously)? In this highly-charged political cabaret, Scotland's most formidable and upworthy collective come together to investigate the gaps in society; between rich and poor, between 'them and us' and between you and I.

Notes:
written by Davey Anderson, Dave Anderson, Alan Bissett, Catrin Evans, Keiran Hurley, Brian James, Kirstin McLean, David Maclennan, Gary Mcnair and A J Taudvin

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Organisations:
A Play, A Pie and a Pint. OTT

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Demons

Synopsis:
To celebrate Oran Mor's 250th play a group of Scottish writers collaborated to produce the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Show. Those writers were Dave Anderson, Davey Anderson, Alan Bissett, Catrin Evans, Mike Gonzalez, Sean Hardie, Kieran Hurley, David MacLennan, Gary McNair, Amanda Monfrooe and Julia Taudevin. Joined Now By David Greig and Lewis Hetherington, they have got together again to write this companion piece - Demons. A modern day variety show of songs, scenes, comedy, tragedy and polemic.

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Organisations:
a Play, a Pint and a Pie

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Genre:
short play

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Show, The

Synopsis:
To celebrate the 250th play commissioned and produced by A Play A Pie and A Pint at Oran Mor we look back to 1762 and the publication of Jean Jaques Rousseau's the Social Contract. You may be asked to sign a document while sipping your drink and nibbling your pie before the show goes up. . .

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Organisations:
a Play, a Pint and a Pie

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Genre:
short play

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Memorialised

Synopsis:
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One city, 50 writers, 50 plays, 25,000 words. In celebration of our 50th anniversary, we invited fifty emergent playwrights to work with us over the course of our birthday year. the worldwide search for the Traverse Fifty started last September with a challenge to write a 500-word Play for Edinburgh. Of the 630 applications, we selected the most urgent voices to form our Traverse Fifty. In January, these 50 plays were premiered all together, in one epic performance. This August, in the midst of our Festival Fever, we are re-staging these extraordinary plays, over two thrilling nights. This is your chance to see the future.

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Genre:
5 min play

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Mrs Barbour's Daughters

Synopsis:
In 1915, Mrs Barbour led 20,000 women in the rent strikes with bundles of washing, bread flour, saucepans and wooden spoons. 100 years later and an 87 year old woman sits alone in her dank tenement in Govan, reminiscing on a lifetime of grievances, battling her memories and reaching for an idea of a time which put all of us first. This new play by up-and-coming, award-winning playwright AJ Taudevin (Some Other Mother, Chalk Farm) incorporates workers songs, charting a personal history of sisterhood, solidarity and betrayal interwoven in a social history of women's resistance in Glasgow. - See more at: http://oran-mor.co.uk/whats-on/mrs-barbours-daughters-aj-taudevin/?eID=10452#sthash.MHPai6kF.dpuf

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Organisations:
a Play, a Pint and a Pie

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Genre:
short play

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Rantin

Rantin
A retired American steps off the plane at Prestwick, hoping to discover the land of his fathers. A beleaguered politician in Edinburgh dips her feet into a hot bath. An old drunk man in Peterhead has a mystical vision at the harbour. A supermarket checkout girl in Port Glasgow approaches work with a golf club. . . Set specifically in the town of each performance and drawing on storytelling, live music and the Scottish folk tradition, Rantin attempts to stitch together visions of Scotland's romantic past with its ever-changing present reality, revealing the patchwork identity of a nation.

Notes:
by Kieran Hurley. Created wirth Liam Hurley, Gav Prentice, Julia Taudevin and Drew Wright

1st Produced:

Organisations:
National Theatre of Scotland. Part of the Auteurs project

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2014) >>>    978-1783190942

Music:
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Genre:
piece

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Some Other Mother

Some Other Mother
the story of a young African mother's struggle to care for her child in a Glasgow where everyone she meets is in some form of captivity. the play explores language, globalisation, solidarity and class. Ultimately, it asks whose responsibility it is to care for the children of those seeking refuge? High up in a Glasgow tower block, ten-year-old Star and her mother await the outcome of their claim for asylum. As Mama's mind fragments under the pressure of their unknown future, Star constructs a poetic and fantastical world of her own. Some Other Mother is a story of loss and survival, which explores the traumatising impact of the asylum system, regardless of the outcome.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Scottish Refugee Council

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2013) >>>    978-1783190201

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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UNtruth

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YelloWing, The

Synopsis:
take on Charlotte Perkins Gillman's feminist classic the Yellow Wallpaper, with astonishing flights of contorted movement and flickering shadow images.
- Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

Notes:
part of New Works New WorldsSeason of new pieces

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Organisations:
New Works New Worlds

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Genre:
60Mins Piece

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