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Jack Thorne

JACK THORNE

  (1978 - )
Nationality:    English
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Jack Thorne's writing for film includes A Supermarket Love Song and the Mascot (Film London/Pulse Digital Shorts). Jack is Development Consultant for pocalypso Pictures (with director Pawet PawIikowski and producer Tanya Seghatchian). In 2002, Jack was awarded RSC/Marlowe Society 'Other Prize' and in 2004 he was short listed for the Verity Bargate Award. He is currently under commission to Tiger Aspect/ChAnneL 4 for an original TV Drama, and will do an attachment at the National Theatre in the new year. Jack is a member of Paines Plough's 'Future Perfect' group.

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         1993 at the Candy Shop         2nd May 1997         Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards         Borough, The         Bunny         Burying Your Brother in the Pavement         Christmas Carol, A         End Of History, The         Fanny And Faggot         Gong, The         Greenland         Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2         Hope         Ignition         Junkyard         King Kong         Laws Of War, The         Lemon Drops         Let the Right One In         Mydidae         Oliver Lewis         Paperhouse         Physicists, The         Playlist: Festival Edition         Present Tense         Red Car, Blue Car         Scouting Book For Books         Siege, The         Solid Life of Sugar Water, The         Solids         Special         Stacy         Stuart: A Life Backwards         Tender         Terror 2011         Two Cigarettes         When You Cure Me         Where's My Seat?         Whiff Whaff         With Blacks
1993 at the Candy Shop

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Notes:
Part of Playlist. Nine new plays by: Danny Kanaber, Tom Morton Smith, Hannah Mulder, Ben Ockrent, Sian Owen, Lola Stephenson, Colin Teevan, Jack Thorne And Rosalind Wyllie. the Festival edition of theatre503's regular sell-out event. Inspired by the music of Artists playing At Latitude, we present nine new plays by A selection of established, emerging And As yet undiscovered writers. the perfect theatrical mixtape: Some writers you know, some you don't, but All writers you'll end up loving. Playful, poignant, or A puzzle to be solved, the only rule is that each play is no longer than the piece of music that inspired it. A feast of fearless new writing in beautiful, bite-size chunks.

1st Produced:
Latitude Festival     18 Jul 2010

Organisations:
Theatre 503

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short play

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2nd May 1997

2nd May 1997
2nd May 1997. An historic victory. the Tories, 18 years in power, are defeated as New Labour sweeps into government. From the euphoria and despair, three deeply personal stories emerge. Tory MP Robert prepares to attend the count. With defeat looming large, he fears becoming a forgotten man while his wife Marie counts the cost of her own sacrifice to politics. Lib Dem footsoldier Ian is no hero but party-crasher Sarah is determined to make him one. Best mates Jake and Will wake up to a new world order and try to memorise the cabinet before their politics A Level class. Jake dreams of Number 10. Will dreams of Jake.

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1st Produced:
Bush Theatre, London, Eur >>>     14 Sep 2009

Organisations:
nabokov and the Bush Theatre in association with Watford Palace Theatre and Mercury Colchester

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards

Synopsis:
Stuart Shorter is a chaotic, violent, motormouth homeless man from Cambridge. Alexander Masters is a reserved, semi-dysfunctional, member of the educated middle-classes. Jack Thorne's new play Stuart: A Life Backwards tells the story of their unlikely, crusading friendship, and of Stuart's entire life, told (backwards) by Alexander.

Notes:
Adapted from Alexander Masters' beloved Guardian First Book Award-winning biography of the same name, Stuart is a joyful and disturbing look at an unsung, inadvertent, British hero.

1st Produced:
Underbelly Bristo Square, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     03 Aug 2013

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Genre:
adaptation

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Borough, The

Synopsis:
Lines between spaces, performer and spectator blur to create an unforgettable experience. This version sets the story somewhere between George Crabbe's poem the Borough and Britten's masterpiece, Peter Grimes. It will take audience members on individual theatrical journeys around Grimes' town, following in his footsteps and hearing Britten's score.

Notes:
performance by Punchdrunk, text by Jack Thorne

1st Produced:
Aldeburgh Festival     07 Jun 2013

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piece

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Bunny

Bunny
Feisty 18-year-old Katie is thrust into a journey she'll never forget after her boyfriend is attacked on the street. the complexities of multicultural inner city life are vividly exposed in this remarkable coming-of-age tale by exhilarating writer, Jack Thorne. --

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nabokov/Watford Palace Theatre/Mercury Theatre Colchester/Escalator East to Edinburgh

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Genre:
60 min monologue

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Burying Your Brother in the Pavement

Burying Your Brother in the Pavement
A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.. Tom's brother is dead. He was killed by a broken bottle to the neck. . . This has upset a lot people. . . . . it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can't explain and in ways his aunties . . . who keep trying to thrust snack products at him . . . would never understand. You see, Tom and his brother, Luke, were never friends, were never really much at all, I mean, Tom really didn't like Luke, but without him. . .So it's an odd decision . . . to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate . . . to try and bury him at the point where he was brutally murdered . . . but, you know, it sort of makes sense. In a kind of upside-down, monkey-type way. As he goes through due process on pavement burial, Tom comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a travel-card. This is a play about grief, and looking at someone that little bit more closely . . . oh, and there are a few songs, bits of dancing, and lots of weird things involving sofas.

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Organisations:
New Connections

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books (5 Jun. 2014)   

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Genre:
Black comedy Youth Audience

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Christmas Carol, A

Christmas Carol, A
Bah Humbug

Notes:
Based on the book "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

1st Produced:
Old Vic, London     20 Nov 2017

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books 2017   

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

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End Of History, The

End Of History, The
Sal and David have invited their three children for an evening meal. Carl is bringing his new girlfriend, Polly is at Cambridge and Tom is in detention

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1st Produced:
Jerwood Theatre, London     2019

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books 2019   

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Drama

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Fanny And Faggot

Fanny And Faggot
Presents two distinct moments in the life of Mary Bell: her trial when accused of the murder of two small boys, and her escape from the open prison in 1977, when she spent the weekend on the run in Blackpool and lost her virginity. Both plays depict troubled, disturbing but sometimes bleakly funny scenarios.

Notes:
Two Little Boys (0/2) And Superstar (2/2)

1st Produced:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival >>>     01 Aug 2004

Organisations:
5065 Lift

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Music:
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Play/Drama

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Gong, The

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Part of "Terror". The UK s only annual festival of horror theatre returns for its eighth year. A controversial event that has consistently sold out and divided critics, prepare to be both terrified and thrilled by an evening of twisted tales, magic, cabaret and Halloween oddities. Contributors include Lucy Kirkwood, Julian Barrat, Jack Thorne, Tom Holloway, Carl Grose, Des O Connor, Jonny Woo, Laura Corcoan, Sarah-Louise Young and Dusty Limits.

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Genre:
short play

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Greenland

Greenland
the questions we all have about the environment and the future are intricate. Knowing what and who to trust is an increasingly bewildering challenge. Only a few things are certain: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; change is constant and inevitable. Seeking to understand a subject of great complexity, the National theatre has asked four of the most distinct and exciting playwrights in British theatre to collaborate on a new piece of documentary theatre. the team has spent six months interviewing key individuals from the worlds of science, politics, business and philosophy in an effort to understand our changing relationship with the planet. Greenland combines the factual and the theatrical as several separate but connected narratives collide to form a provocative response to the most urgent questions of our time.

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By Moira Buffini, Matt Charman, Penelope Skinner And Jack Thorne

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Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2

Synopsis:
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Notes:
Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a new play by Jack Thorne. It is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage.

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Little Brown   

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Genre:
adaption

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Hope

Hope
How do you save 22 million pounds? Mark and Hilary, the leaders of the Council are about to find out. Following the success of Let The Right One In and This is England '86, Jack Thorne has written an urgent political play, a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Ignition

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Ignition returns for its third year, a week of brilliant new work, created from scratch, by the most exciting writers, actors and directors in dream combinations.

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Genre:
short play

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Junkyard

Junkyard
Rick wants to build a playground for the kids using things found in a junkyard he persuades three friends to help

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-    

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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books 2017   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

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King Kong

Synopsis:
A film maker goes to a remote island to make a documentary

Notes:
Music by Marius de Vries; lyrics by Eddie Perfect; book by Jack Thorne. Based on the movie "King Kong" 1933 screenplay by James Creelman; Ruth Rose and the Australian musical "King Kong" book by Craig Lucas

1st Produced:
Broadway Theatre, New York     15 Jun 2013

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-

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Laws Of War, The

Synopsis:
London's burning! A civil war is raging in modern England threatening to turn the land of cricket, and warm beer into a hell of displaced people, rape, child soldiers and warlord militias where violence is trumps, and the laws of war are screwed up and used to light the campfires. Human Rights Watch applies the skills it has learned in Sri Lanka, Georgia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to this blessed plot, this realm, this England.

Notes:
Written by (in Alphabetical order) Richard Bean, Aschlin Ditta, David Grossman, Kate Hardie, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Polly Stenham, Tom Stoppard, Jack Thorne And debbie tucker green

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Organisations:
Cries from the Heart 2017

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-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  13            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Lemon Drops

Synopsis:
What are the turning points in our lives? What makes us who we are?

Notes:
the Rep Asked young writers from Across the globe to respond creatively to these questions - the result? A selection of 360 degree plays, And Afterwards you'll get the unique chance to tell them what you think - As they Are All unfinished, you'll play A vital role in shaping what they'll become.

1st Produced:
Birmingham: Rep, UK, Eur >>>     19 Mar 2008

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Music:
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Genre:
One Act

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Let the Right One In

Let the Right One In
A dark and visceral coming-of-age vampire love story, based on the acclaimed novel and film. Winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre, 2014 Oskar is a bullied, lonely, teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rocks the neighbourhood. Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn't know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time. . .

Notes:
based on the novel and film by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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National Theatre of Scotland

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  doubling (can be cast as 2f 14m)

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Mydidae

Mydidae
One bathroom. Two people. One day. A relationship witnessed in minute, devastating detail. A story of intimacy, fragility and the darker side of love, Jack Thorne's Mydidae exposes the private and disturbing moments a couple share, and explores what becomes of a relationship when it is held together not only by love, but by fear, guilt and despair.

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Dry Write

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Oliver Lewis

Oliver Lewis
the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. the KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. the curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, Drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. the voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient Arts of writing and spoken performance

Notes:
Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is A response to the King James Bible book of Daniel

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piece

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Paperhouse

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1st Produced:
Flight 5065    

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Play/Drama

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Physicists, The

Synopsis:
Written in the shadow of the atom bomb and at a time of unprecedented scientific advance, Durrenmatt's hilariously satirical masterpiece considers if insanity is the only refuge for the dangerously intelligent.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Friedrich Durrenmatt in A new version by Jack Thorne

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Playlist: Festival Edition

Synopsis:
The Festival edition of Theatre503s regular sell-out event. Inspired by the music of artists playing at Latitude, we present nine new plays by a selection of established, emerging and as yet undiscovered writers. The perfect theatrical mix-tape: some writers you know, some you dont, but all writers you'll end up loving. Playful, poignant, or a puzzle to be solved, the only rule is that each play is no longer than the piece of music that inspired it. A feast of fearless new writing in beautiful, bite-size chunks. The plays are:At the Candy Shop/Foreground/Geese of Berverley Road/I'm Thinking I Was Wrong/Waiting for the Heartaches/A Hundred Years or More/Been Up All Night/Arse/The Other Side of the Fence

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Genre:
short play

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Present Tense

Synopsis:
the return of the toughest creative challenge in town. A group of playwrights, directors, film-makers, poets and musicians have one week to respond to the most important news story of the moment. Some of the UK's most exciting talent convenes to select the most momentous story on the news agenda. they each have one week to create a piece of work that responds to the story they choose. As the news changes, they will be forced to adapt their work, until it is performed for you the public on Sunday 27 April 2008 - exactly one week after they began.

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written by Justin Butcher, Katie Douglas, Jack Thorne, David Watson

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Piece

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Red Car, Blue Car

Red Car, Blue Car
It takes time to realise that what appears to be a parallel running of the story of a couple who met on the Internet and lived happily ever after is anything but. Though Phil and Marie, respectively played by Hugo Speer and Nina Sosanya, never meet, it is the moment when their lives almost conjoin that changes both forever.
- Philip Fisher, British theatre Guide

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part of Where's My Seat?

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  3 non speaking

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Scouting Book For Books

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www.dirtyprotestTheatre.co.uk

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Siege, The

Synopsis:
blends the personal and the political.

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Nabokov

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-   

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-

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Solid Life of Sugar Water, The

Solid Life of Sugar Water, The
Phil and Alice are in love - familiar, flawed, ordinary love. They are on a journey, but this journey doesn't have an A to Z. Jack Thorne's The Solid Life of Sugar Water is an intimate, tender play about loss, hurt and rediscovery. It previewed at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth, and premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in a co-production between Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth.

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-

1st Produced:
Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     05 Aug 2015

Organisations:
Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth

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Solids

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-

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-

1st Produced:
Paines Plough Wild Lunch At The Young Vic    

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-

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-   

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-

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Special

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
presented as part of Other Edens

1st Produced:
Etcetera Theatre, London >>>     23 Mar 2004

Organisations:
Upstart

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Stacy

Stacy
In Stacy, the sole protagonist, Rob, finds life confusing in a world of unwritten rules. If there's no one around to tell him right from wrong, except for a copy of FHM and a call-centre supervisor, he just has to guess. But he's never been very lucky, and sometimes he gets his guesses are very wrong. . .

Notes:
produced At the Arcola theatre, London, 2007

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Organisations:
National Theatre of Scotland

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-

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Stuart: A Life Backwards

Synopsis:
Stuart Shorter is a chaotic, violent, motormouth homeless man from Cambridge. Alexander Masters is a reserved, semi-dysfunctional, member of the educated middle-classes. Jack Thornes new play Stuart: A Life Backwards tells the story of their unlikely, crusading friendship, and of Stuarts entire life, told (backwards) by Alexander. Adapted from Alexander Masters beloved Guardian First Book Award-winning biography of the same name, Stuart is a joyful and disturbing look at an unsung, inadvertent, British hero.

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Tender

Synopsis:
Jack Thorne, tells the story of that first taste of sin, that moment when innocence is lost, which can be like a new light shed on a world which never appears the same again. It is the story of two men and a woman yearning for a forgotten purity, trying to find in each other's arms the Eden from which man seems to be perpetually banished.

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-

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-

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-   

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-

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Terror 2011

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
the UK's only Annual season of horror theatre returns for its 8th year. A controversial event that has consistently sold out And divided critics, prepare to be both terrified And thrilled by An evening of twisted tales, cabaret And Halloween oddities.

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-

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short horror

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Two Cigarettes

Synopsis:
An exploration of a couple coming to terms with a tragic loss. A love story with an edge - both stomach churning and heart warming.

Notes:
Part of the Broken Space Season - plays that Are performed either with domestic lighting or in semi-darkness

1st Produced:
Bush Theatre, London, Eur >>>     13 Oct 2008

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-

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-   

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-

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When You Cure Me

When You Cure Me
Painful - and painfully funny - play about being very young and in love - and coping with serious illness at the same time. Rachel and Peter are seventeen. they have been going out for six months. It's love's young dream. then Rachel gets ill - seriously ill. She doesn't want her mum to fuss; she doesn't want Alice to pretend she's her best friend; and she certainly doesn't want Alice's boyfriend telling bad jokes at her bedside. the only person she wants is Peter, but Peter doesn't know what it is that he wants. When You Cure Me is a bittersweet and poignant tale of love and misunderstanding - and discovering that what you say and do can be very different from what you think and feel.

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-

1st Produced:
Bush Theatre, London >>>     18 Mar 2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books (25 Nov. 2005)   

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-

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Where's My Seat?

Synopsis:
One new theatre, three experts, three playwrights and you. As the Bush prepares to open the doors of our new home in Autumn this year, we're asking you to test drive the space and be a part of its transformation from library to theatre. Over the course of one evening, you'll see three short plays by three hot Bush playwrights performed in three different layouts. Each play will be inspired by nine curious props chosen by the National theatre and a set of challenging stage directions created by Alan Ayckbourn, Michael Grandage and Bush Artistic Director Josie Rourke. As the stage transforms and the seats move around, we'll ask you to feedback your views from the stalls - and to put to test other areas of the building from the bathrooms to the bar. Part of the Bush's 32 Degree West Season - the angle from the front door of our old home of 39 years to our new home at 7 Uxbridge Road

Notes:
written by Deirdre Kinahan, Jack Thorne And Tom Wells

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Whiff Whaff

Whiff Whaff
Sitting in the dark watching plays may seem a passive act, but the message is clear: we shouldn't accommodate, as the couple do in Jack Thorne's dark satirical comedy, Whiff Whaff, but take action.
- Lyn Garnder, Guardian

Notes:
Part of theatre Uncut. Across the country thousands of people Are involved in protests And debates, sparked into Action by the largest cuts to public spending since World War Two. theatre Uncut is A national theatre event in response to these cuts, bringing together some of the UK's leading Dramatists.

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Reclaim Productions, in association with Meeting Point Productions

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With Blacks

Synopsis:
about a housekeeper struggling with her past in rural Somerset.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Aldwych Tube Station, Surrey Street, The Strand, London     24 Mar 2003

Organisations:
Wild Surmise and White Lies

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-   

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-

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Genre:
comic monologue

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