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JANE WAINWRIGHT
Nationality: English
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Literary Agent: Berlin Associates
Playwright Jane Wainwright was born in Derbyshire. She was a member of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Programme, their Invitation Group for Playwrights and their 'supergroup' of twelve specially selected writers. Plays include Barrow Hill starring Janet Henfrey (Finborough Theatre), In World, performed as part of Vibrant A Festival of Finborough Playwrights (Finborough Theatre), Hands Free, part of AVE IT!, in the Coming Up Later season (the Old Vic Tunnels) and Pet's Corner (the Miniaturists at the Arcola Theatre). She was shortlisted for the WritersRoom 10 scheme and the BBC Heartlands new writing scheme, and her play In World was part of the final shortlist in last year's Papatango New Writing Competition. Jane is 'fostered' by OffWestEnd's Adopt A Playwright Award.
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Barrow Hill Hands Free How I Skinned My Sister In World Leftovers One Night in ZANZibar. Pets Corner Photos of You SleepingBarrow Hill
"It took your Great-Great-GrandFather and the rest a this town years to build this chapel. A hundred years of people's lives caught between its stones. And now these invisible men are trying to erase it till there's nowt left of any a' us". Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 2012. Kath is 86 years young and still going, but as her friends keep dying around her, her only tie to the world is her beloved chapel. When Kath discovers that the chapel is to be converted into luxury flats for young professionals and that her own son, Graham, has won the contract for the rebuilding work, she is forced into a bitter battle between the past and the future. In the Big Society thats just waiting for her to die, Kath is confronted with the fragility of family loyalties and the pain of learning to let go. . .
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part of Vibrant An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights. Also performed Finborough Sunday 19 August 2012
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Top of PageHands Free
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Part Of Ave It!, In The Coming Up Later Season (Old Vic Tunnels)
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Top of PageHow I Skinned My Sister
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Tanya and Afsana are twins with a difference ? Afsana's dead. But since when did that stop anyone from having a life?
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A festival of short plays written for, and performed by, London's school students. Four London schools. Five professional playwrights. Seven short plays. Forty young performers. Performed by students from Mulberry School for Girls.
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Rich Mix, London
21 Jun 2014
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Top of PageIn World
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part of Vibrant A Festival of Finborough Playwrights 2011
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Top of PageLeftovers
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A group of young friends take the law into their own hands to catch a friend's killer. But the perpetrator is closer than any of them realised.
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A festival of short plays written for, and performed by, London's school students. Four London schools. Five professional playwrights. Seven short plays. Forty young performers. Performed by students from Robert Clack School, Dagenham.
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21 Jun 2014
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Top of PageOne Night in ZANZibar.
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made the final shortlist of the BBC Heartlands New Writing Search, Dec 2011
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Top of PagePets Corner
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Part of Miniaturists 35 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today
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Top of PagePhotos of You Sleeping
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Dennis used to be on track for the life he wanted. He had a loving wife, and a newborn son. Now his wife has gone, and the baby has grown into a man. Only he didn't turn out quite how Dennis had imagined Andrew is a sex offender. As the two men are forced together by circumstance, Dennis realises that the ties between a Father and son aren't so easy to undo. As Andrew's acts grow increasingly perverse and Dennis finds himself punished for his son's actions, we begin to question who the real victim is. A story of two men who must learn to love each other.
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fourth place in the Papatango Playwriting Competition 2012
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Hampstead Theatre Start Night
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