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LAURA TURNER
Nationality: British
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Literary Agent: Berlin Associates represented by Mat Connell
Lynne Turner is a graduate of the University of Hull and a member of Script Yorkshire.
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Christmas Carol Cranford Cranford At Christmas Don Jon Jane Eyre Modern Life is Rubbish Peter Pan Pride and Prejudice Secret Garden, The Sense and Sensibility Two Men, Two Dogs and a WomanChristmas Carol
Synopsis:
Charles Dickens' wonderfully exciting and Dramatic novel
Notes:
from novel by Charles Dickens
1st Produced:
Middlesbrough Theatre
23 Nov 2010
Organisations:
Chapterhouse Theatre Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageCranford
Based on Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford stories, Laura Turner's adaptation delightfully brings the rural village to life where etiquette rules, underpinned by a healthy amount of gossip. Applying the ideals of gentility and propriety, the idiosyncratic ways of the women of Cranford are thrown into disarray as modernity encroaches in the form of a new railway line coming harrowingly close. While Cranford's eclectic women strive to stay immersed in the sweet pleasures and sometimes heart-breaking realities of simple village life, it becomes apparent that the world is changing in the face of the industrial revolution, and that Cranford will have to change with it.
Notes:
based on the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
1st Produced:
Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire
15 Jun 2011
Organisations:
Chapterhouse Theatre Company
1st Published:
Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 6 Other: doubling possible
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Top of PageCranford At Christmas
Deep in the frosty English countryside, chestnuts are roasting and carols are being sung as the folk of Cranford busily prepare for Christmas. Join Miss Pole, Miss Matty and Mrs Jamieson as they warm their frozen hands on cups of steaming cocoa and bedeck the houses with holly and mistletoe. But beyond this cosy hubbub of festivity, snow continues to fall and when disaster strikes, the community must unite to keep the spirit of Christmas alive. A heart-warming tale of charity and goodwill to all women and men to celebrate the most magical time of year.
Notes:
based on the Cranford stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
1st Produced:
Trinity Arts Centre, Gainsborough
12 Nov 2011
Organisations:
Chapterhouse Theatre Company
1st Published:
Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 6 Other: doubling possible
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Top of PageDon Jon
Synopsis:
Don Jon only wants one thing, he wants you to want him. He needs you to need him. Don Jon is based on the classical legend of Don Juan\Don Giovanni, however silent uproar's modern day appropriation devised and created with writer Laura Turner, is modernising the classical tale and throwing in the roller-coaster of the blaring lights and blood pumping sound of today's club culture. This is a tale more than greed and lust, we want to show a story of the problems of today to speak about the issues of gender and sexuality within today's club culture. Whilst also giving the audience a feet stomping, spine tingling and tantalizing night, with live bands, large scale ensemble to help create the made, physical, filthy world that Don Jon lives in. It's going to be packed full of booze, bad choices, and nights that you wish to forget.
Notes:
adaptation of Byron's epic poem, Don Juan
1st Produced:
Spectrum Nightclub, Park Street, Hull
31 Mar 2014
Organisations:
Silent Uproar Productions
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: ensemble
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Top of PageJane Eyre
Synopsis:
A landmark in the history of English literature. Jane simple governess, wins the heart of Edward Fairfax Rochester, the brooding and mysterious master of Thornfield Hall. Questioning the boundaries of class and gender, it is one of the most heartrending and powerful tales of romance and suspense ever told.
Notes:
from novel by Charlotte Bronte
1st Produced:
The Firestation (Previously Known As The Arts Centre), Windsor
15 Feb 2013
Organisations:
Hull Truck Theatre
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageModern Life is Rubbish
Synopsis:
Modern Life Is Rubbish is a celebration of Britpop, 20 years from its explosive beginning. At the centre of the event is a new play by Laura Turner influenced by the words and sounds of 6 of the era's most defining albums. Each of the characters in the play are a result of the attitudes and society exemplified in the 6 albums. The event is part-performance, part live-gig and part night out. There will be live music and song throughout the performance. After the event there will be the opportunity to stay and dance the night away to the sounds of the 1990s in a raucous and reminiscent celebration of renewed British spirit.
Notes:
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1st Produced:
Fruit, Humber Street, Hull
110 Nov 2014
Organisations:
Middle Child
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
cabaret / musical manifesto
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PagePeter Pan
Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on the play "Peter Pan" by J M Barrie
1st Produced:
U K tour
2017
Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PagePride and Prejudice
Synopsis:
Take a step back in time with Chapterhouse theatre Company as we meet Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters. Whilst their interfering mother engineers various courtships, sisters Elizabeth and Jane must pursue their own quest for true love. Amongst misunderstandings, mistakes and miscommunications, the two girls must fight for the men they love until Elizabeth can finally surpass her prejudices to see past the proud exterior of the enigmatic Mr Darcy. After all, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. . .
Notes:
from novel by Jane Austen
1st Produced:
Trinity Arts Centre, Gainsborough
20 Nov 2010
Organisations:
Chapterhouse Theatre Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageSecret Garden, The
When Mary Lennox is orphaned while living in India, she comes to live at her uncles manor house on the Yorkshire moors, finding it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, the brother of one of the housemaids and a magical boy who can charm and talk to animals. Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years. And when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key, she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine. . .
Notes:
from novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1st Produced:
East Town Park, Haverhill, Suffolk
13 Jun 2015
Organisations:
Chapterhouse Theatre Company
1st Published:
Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation
Parts:
Male: 9 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageSense and Sensibility
Synopsis:
Join Chapterhouse theatre Company for an evening of Regency wonderment, as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood make their first forays into the excitingly decadent world of eighteenth-century society. This brand new adaptation of Jane Austen's lively tale follows the sisters as they fall in love, make mistakes and experience heartbreak for the first time in their quest to find a balance between sense and sensibility.
Notes:
from novel by Jane Austen
1st Produced:
Organisations:
Chapterhouse Theatre Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageTwo Men, Two Dogs and a Woman
Synopsis:
Dave is obsessed with his dog Bernard, to the despair of his wife. Joseph is equally devoted to Pickles - but both men are concealing sorrows, lying to each other and to themselves.
Notes:
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Organisations:
A Play, a Pie and a Pint
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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