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Boff Whalley

BOFF WHALLEY

  
Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Boff Whalley's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Big Society         It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow         Northern Bullits         Riot, Rebellion and Bloody Insurrection         Sex & Docks & Rock'N'roll         We're Not Going Back         Wrong Un  A Suffragettes Story

Big Society

Synopsis:
Red Ladder and Chumbawamba invite you back one hundred years into the world of Music Hall - not, they promise, a trip to the Good Old Days, but a captivating journey into the comically vulgar underbelly of Edwardian Britain - part theatre, part show, part timely rant - a time when trumped-up public schoolboys ran the country and when corruption and sleaze riddled the corridors of power (sound familiar?) Centred around a cast of showmen, starlets and ventriloquists, and set in the Leeds City Varieties of a century ago, Big Society! invites you to sing along with the assembled conjurers, drunks & suffragettes as they wrestle with the forces of wealth and morality in a concoction of comedy, class and catchy choruses. With live music from Chumbawamba, and Red Ladders trademark mixture of entertainment and radical theatre (with the occasional dash of chaos), were promised a Music Hall-styled evening of relevant, riotous energy. I say, I say, I say . . .

Notes:
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1st Produced:
City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds    18 Jan 2012

Organisations:
Red Ladder Theatre company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
music hall comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow

Synopsis:
the play follows the story of two brothers, John 15 and Philip 12, who set off on an epic journey from Middleton to Hull, in search of an orange. Set in summer 1940, dad is away in France, and mum is ill, leaving the boys to do their best to help around the house, making cups of tea, batting potatoes to each other, and arguing over who gets to be Len Hutton. Sent away to visit Auntie Maggie and Uncle Frank, they decide to sneak off on an undercover mission - to get their mum that rare exotic fruit, her heart's desire, an orange. Set against the backdrop of war-time Yorkshire, it is a tale of cricket, growing up and the strength of family ties.

Notes:
By Dom Grace And Boff Whalley

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Northern Exposure

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Northern Bullits

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Northern Bullits shorts by Mark Catley, Matthew David Scott, Dom Grace & Boff Whalley

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Riot, Rebellion and Bloody Insurrection

Synopsis:
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Notes:
By Dom Grace And Boff Whalley

1st Produced:
Viaduct - Halifax    2009

Organisations:
Red Ladder Theatre company and Chumbawamba

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Sex & Docks & Rock'N'roll

Synopsis:
the microcosm of one terraced house in a changing world. It's the sixties in Liverpool and the dockworkers and seafarers are on strike. With picketing, marches and jailings right on their doorstep, the McDermotts fight, laugh, lie and sing their way through challenging times. Fuelled by home-brewed banana beer and a tea-chest bass, Jack croons the classics, Jerry sings skiffle and beat and Mum belts out the old bawdy sailor's songs. . . "Keep the noise down love, Z-Cars is on."

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Crosby:Civic hall    22 Nov 2010

Organisations:
Red Ladder Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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We're Not Going Back

Synopsis:
We're Not Going Back is about the 1984/85 miners' strike. More or less. But in this hard-hitting musical comedy there are no miners. Instead, we follow the fortunes of three sisters - Olive, Mary and Isabel - hit hard by the Government's war against the miners and determined to set up a branch of Women Against Pit Closures. It's February1984, and as the rumour mill stirs with developments of impending pit closures, the coal miners' unions are drawn into a battle of attrition against an unbending government. Forced into poverty, miners and their families become part of a strike that will resonate through the coming decades. But for many people, the war fought between politicians, police and pickets took a back seat to the fight to hold together families, friendships and community - fought on the battleground of living room and soup kitchen, meeting hall and social club. It was a battle fought with laughter and songs, with knees-ups, punch-ups and piss-ups. With music, comedy and grit, the three sisters embrace the values of the '84 strike and underline the empowerment; determination and vulnerability those communities were faced with in this war.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Red Ladder Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Wrong Un  A Suffragettes Story

Synopsis:
February 1918, and after several decades of protest and four years of bloody war Parliament is poised to grant what the suffragettes have demanded and fought for  votes for all women. After years of direct action, arrest, imprisonment and force-feeding, it seems their time has come. Wrong Un tells of the adventures of Annie Wilde, a Lancashire mill-girl galvanised by a rousing mixture of injustice, conviction, self-doubt and fear on her journey from schoolroom to prison cell and beyond in a musical drama that draws on class, privilege, hope and disappointment in wartime England.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Leeds Big Bookend    09 Jun 2013

Organisations:
Red Ladder Theatre company and Chumbawamba

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
suffragette musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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