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CAROLE TRICKER (1950 - )
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Carole was first involved in youth theatre at the Greenwich Theatre. When she moved to Scotland in the 1980s she established the Youth Theatre at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews. Finding a paucity of material for her group to perform she wrote several musicals (with David Curtis) including Morgiana win Through (1983) and Wagon Boys (1986). She also started writing full-length plays for adults actors and all these have been premiered at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews. They include Open House (1987), Viva Escocia (1989) Quartet (1992), Losers (1992) and Some of My Best Friends are Women (2008). Carole is a Lecturer in Drama in the School of Education at the University of Dundee.
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Losers Quartet Some of My Best Friends are Women What's a calorie between friends?Losers
Synopsis:
The Countdown Club appears to be more of a social club than a slimming club. Diane, the club leader, tries her best but is finally threatened with the sack unless things improve. Some of the members come with an ingenious plan to save Diane's job. Of course things go wrong but in the end everyone has a hand in sorting out the chaos.
Notes:
This is A comedy for 2 men And eight women set in A slimming club. This is A feel-good play with tremendous parts for women.
1st Produced:
Organisations:
St Andrews Play Club
1st Published:
New Playwrights Network (now Cressrelles) (1996) -
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Genre:
Comedy - Full Length
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 8 Other: -
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Synopsis:
The play explores the fractured relationship between a middle-aged couple, Jeff and Margaret, and their two daughters Sheila and Pauline. It describes particularly the alienation of Sheila from Jeff, and culminates in revelations about the second daughter Pauline, who lives in a nursing home
Notes:
A moving And Dramatic piece for four Actors (1 non-speaking). Winner of the 1999 Fife Council Libraries Creative Writing Award
1st Produced:
Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, Fife 1999
Organisations:
Dalgety Bay Players
1st Published:
Spotlight Publications, 2010 978-1-907307-18-8
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Genre:
Drama - One Act
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageSome of My Best Friends are Women
Synopsis:
The play is a comedy that takes a humorous look at the way woman operate in a group. The five women featured are the remnants of a crumbling book-reading group. Lynn is determined to keep the group together but it appears to be a lost cause. Bossy Dorothy is convinced that if the group would only stick to the rules and actually read the books then all would be well. Amanda likes nothing better that to wind the others up. Her extra alcohol loosens tongues and much is said during the course of the evening that would be better unsaid. Dorothy storms off, gets lost and has to be rescued by Steve - a young, handsome, book reading fire-fighter. He brings Dorothy back and sets pulses racing in Jill and Helen - the two youngest members of the group. As the evening stumbles from one crisis to another these two form an unexpected alliance. By the end of the evening everybody has learnt something about the others and it looks as if the group will carry on after all, with a new member, Chris, who only came to give Dorothy a lift. The play is essentially about friendship .
Notes:
Some of My Best friends Are Women is the second play that the Author, Carole Tricker has had published. Her first, Losers, was published in 1996. It is A comedy, but highlights the importance of friendship.
1st Produced:
Organisations:
St Andrews Play Club
1st Published:
Jasper Publishing Ltd 2008 978-1-905993-92-5
Music:
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Genre:
Play - Full Length, Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 5 Other: -
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Top of PageWhat's a calorie between friends?
Synopsis:
A bright and breezy comedy that takes a humorous look at the members of a slimming club as they try, unsuccessfully on the whole, to loose the pounds. The class is threatened with closure so some of the members come up with an outrageous plan to fool the area manager into believing they have actually lost weight. Things go wrong, of course, people fall out, secrets are revealed, romance blossoms but in the end the whole class join together to try and make things right.
Notes:
This is A newly written Adaptation of An earlier play (Losers) published in 1992. It is A comedy for 2 men And 8 women set in A slimming club. This is A feel-good play with tremendous parts for women.
1st Produced:
Organisations:
St Andrews Play Club
1st Published:
Jasper Publishing Ltd 2010 978-1-906997-79-3
Music:
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Genre:
Comedy - Full Length
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 8 Other: -
Further Reference:
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