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Jane Upton

JANE UPTON

  
Nationality:    British
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Jane Upton's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Jane Upton's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bones         Swimming         Watching The Living

Bones

Synopsis:
"She doesn't feel like my mum. She doesn't do things mums do. She gets leathered and smacked up and tries to shag my mates." Nottingham - 1998. Nineteen year-old Mark is living a life he never signed up to. Heavy with the responsibility of caring for his broken mum and her baby and pining for a past of Panda Pops, eggy bread and Brian Clough, Mark knows he has to do something drastic - But will he make the chilling choice that will change things forever? An achingly honest portrayal of a boy struggling to find his place in a world that doesn't want him. Bones will break your heart, spit you out and then make you wonder why you cared in the first place.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Fifth Word

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Swimming

Synopsis:
The sun goes in, everything shuts down and it all starts again.' Three teenagers trapped on the Isle of Wight, desperate to make their mark on the world. But is the pull of the past too strong? A bittersweet comedy about grief, growing up and the paralysing pressure to be somebody. From Jane Upton, writer of critically acclaimed Bones. Acclaim for Bones (2011): Storytelling to perfection ***** (ThreeWeeks). Believable, powerful and quite genuinely heartbreaking ***** (Fest). Menagerie is a leading independent new writing theatre company, supporting talented writers in order to develop and produce innovative new theatre.

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1st Produced:
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    Aug 2014

Organisations:
Menagerie / Mercury Theatre, Colchester / Escalator East to Edinburgh

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
New writing, Drama, 1 hour

Parts:
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Watching The Living

Synopsis:
A bored housewife on holiday starts an affair with a photographer

Notes:
Based on short stories by Daphne du Maurier

1st Produced:
U K tour    2014

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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