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Laurence Wilson

LAURENCE WILSON

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

original picture by Stephanie Delang. Laurence's first professional work as a writer was a trilogy of short plays, Surf's Up, produced at Unity Theatre in Liverpool, 2002 and Contact Theatre in Manchester, 2003 and was nominated for two Manchester Evening News Awards; Best New Play and Best Production . Mezz'ed Up was a Liverpool Lunchtime Theatre commission for the Unity Theatre in 2002. He then wrote Drug Runner's for Bravo ChAnnel, which was the chAnnels first commissioned original Drama. Laurence's first full length play Urban Legend, was produced at the Liverpool Everyman in 2004 and was published the same year by Oberon Modern Plays, and was written during attachment to the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres. Urban Legend won the Liverpool Daily Post Best Play of the Year. Laurence became the prestigious Pearson Writer in Residence at Liverpool Everyman Theatre 2005  2006, and received a full commission to write a new stage play. Dark Tayle, a twenty minute short play commissioned by Menagerie Theatre for a short run at the Junction Theatre Cambridge for the Hotbed New Writing Festival, 2006. 2008 saw a collaboration with the NCH and Wellsbourne Primary School in Norris Green, which culminated in a short play about local issues called, When Worlds Collide. For radio Tin Man aired on BBC Radio 3 the Wire, January 2007 and Sgt Pepper's Lonely HeArts Club Band aired June 2007 on Radio 4. Laurence has recently been commissioned by 20 Stories High Theatre Company to write a new play for a 2009 School tour and is currently under commission by the Liverpool, Everyman Theatre.

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         Animal Farm         Blackberry Trout Face         Cardboard Guitar Man         Circulatory System, The         Dark Tayle         Gents         Lost Monsters         Metropolis         Microdots         Spirits of the Stone         Surf's Up         Tiny Volcanoes         Unsociables, The         Urban Legend         When World's Collide         Your Country Called. . .And It Wants You Back         Your Country Needs You! (But I don't need my country)
Animal Farm

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adapted from work by George Orwell

1st Produced:
Arts Club, 90 Seel Street, Liverpool     28 Oct 2014

Organisations:
Tell Tale Theatre Company

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adaptation

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Blackberry Trout Face

Blackberry Trout Face
Kerrie sets about her daily task of preparing Mum's heroin. . . Jakey has just about had enough of life in a gang. . . Cameron is too scared to step outside the front door. . . One morning, the three teenagers discover a note in the Frosties. Mum has abandoned them: they have been left home alone. . . Blackberry Trout Face is a bold, gritty and funny play, which explores the universal themes of family, loyalty and ambition. With sharply-drawn characters, crackling dialogue, and plenty of humour, we follow three young people as they struggle to cope in exceptional circumstances.

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20 Stories High Theatre Company

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cardboard Guitar Man

Synopsis:
Jacko is in a hurry. He has a plane to catch, flying first class o play a New York gig with Paul McCartney. But first, with his cardboard guitar slung around his neck, he's got other journeys to make, around the city of Liverpool and into the past - a chance to hear the ghosts in jacko's fractured mind.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

Notes:
part of Anthology, A series of seven plays, by Liverpool writers All inspired by themes from 'tis Pity She's A Whore

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Organisations:
Slung Low

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  voices

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Circulatory System, The

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Part of Miniaturists 14 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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short play

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Dark Tayle

Synopsis:
In this reversal of Hansel and Gretal, it is ageing parents Harry and Gerri, who are left in the woods to die by their children. Having hardly spoken in fifteen years, this weary couple must face each other, and deal with their past, in order to survive the elements and secure their future. But like all good fairytales a final twist is in the air.

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1st Produced:
The Junction, Cambridge     2006

Organisations:
Menagerie

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Genre:
Dark Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gents

Synopsis:
Morris and George drag a concrete block onto the beach and chain themselves to it before waiting for the tide to come and take them to a better place. they have secrets they have kept from one another during their twenty-five years as lovers. Will their confessions leave them to die as strangers or will love prevail?

Notes:
Part of A trilogy of short plays called 'surf's Up'. nominated for Best Play And Best Production, Manchester Evening News Awards. 2002

1st Produced:
Contact Theatre, Manchester     2002

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Genre:
short play One Act

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Lost Monsters

Lost Monsters
set in an isolated house in a forgotten valley where a flash of lightning and a freak car crash leave three runaways stranded

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Metropolis

Synopsis:
the Dukes are recruiting 500 young people from across Preston and the Ribble Valley to participate in a once in a lifetime event at Preston Guild this September. Everyone is an artist, everyone has the ability to create, make and present work, so come and join our team. Metropolis will be a huge production incorporating theatre, music, film and live art which will be performed on Friday 7 September to an audience of thousands. Metropolis, devised and part scripted by the young people involved, will question and celebrate what the Guild means to young artists in the 21st Century.

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1st Produced:
Preston: Guild Hall     07 Sep 2012

Organisations:
the Dukes, Lancaster and Preston Guild 2012

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Genre:
TYA

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Microdots

Synopsis:
Set in 1991 in the stairwell of a block of flats overlooking Crosby Beach, Liverpool. Two burnt out acid casualties try and get the courage up to enter a drug dealers flat with the promise of Microdots inside, but Sharon has a secret she needs to reveal to Leon, and a special test may prove him worthy of their future together. Can Leon overcome his bitterness at his upbringing and find himself or will Sharon see him for what he is, and what will that be?

Notes:
Part of A trilogy of short plays called 'surf's Up'. nominated for Best Play And Best Production, Manchester Evening News Awards. 2002

1st Produced:
Contact Theatre, Manchester     2002

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Spirits of the Stone

Synopsis:
Long ago, an ancient Viking artefact was buried in the ground to banish an evil curse. When Johnny Glover accidentally uncovers it, an Unholy Trinity of Kirkby's urban myths seize their chance to return to the town and wreak havoc on its inhabitants. Can the people of Kirkby unite to banish these dark spirits of destruction or will they see all that they love descend into chaos?

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Genre:
Community Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  25 Kirkby residents

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Surf's Up

Synopsis:
Peter and Vince appear to be homeless and spend their nights on the beach, into their midst comes Mandy, prostitute and drug addict bent on self destruction. these three unlikely companions discover things about each other that are dark and raw, before Mandy makes her final decision.

Notes:
Part of A trilogy of short plays called 'surf's Up'. nominated for Best Play And Best Production, Manchester Evening News Awards. 2002

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Tiny Volcanoes

Synopsis:
the Great British Bulldog has been usurped by snarling hybrids. the bowler hat has morphed into the hoodie. the culture of polite society is now a culture of blame and hatred as our land of hope and glory is torn into extremes. Two actors play countless characters in this fast-paced, hilarious and excoriating inquisition into where it all went wrong. Strap yourselves in for a full throttle roller-coaster ride through the dilapidated attractions of broken Britain, exposing the millions of tiny volcanoes bubbling up through our green and pleasant land. www.painesplough.com Website address for further information

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1st Produced:
Fifth Latitude Festival , Henham Park Estate In Suffolk     15 Jul 2010

Organisations:
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse in association with Paines Plough

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Unsociables, The

Synopsis:
In August 2011 the people of England witnessed 48 hours of chaos, violence and criminality on a scale unseen for many years. the Unsociables follows four separate stories in the 12 months leading up to that fateful summer and imagines the experiences of young people, police and those involved in the rioting.

Notes:
Written by Steve Fairclough, Jack Hathaway, Ann Wilson & Laurence Wilson. the Unsociables is An physically energetic production with live music, stunning visuals free-running And BMXing, performed by over 40 young people to reveal An untold story from Lancashire. This show flows with the lifeblood of the young blood of your neighbourhood.

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Genre:
docu Drama

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Urban Legend

Urban Legend
Three Generations of men in a Bootle high-rise. Grandad thinks the Lizards are coming. Robbie thinks he can provide for the family. Wayne thinks his music will be his way out, one of them may yet be right. This starky comic story of men without women is the first full-length play by Laurence Wilson, acclaimed as "a brave new voice in British theatre" Manchester evening News.

Notes:
Urban Legend won the Pearson Award

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Organisations:
Soho Writers' Festival

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Music:
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Genre:
Dark Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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When World's Collide

Synopsis:
A stolen mobile phone leads to a hardworking family is torn apart by a local gang of anti-social youths. Can these two different worlds ever see eye to eye or are they doomed to destroy one another?

Notes:
his was A devised play in conjunction with the NCH And A group of primary school girls from Wellsbourne Primary School, in Norris Green, Liverpool.

1st Produced:
Wellsborne Primary School, Norris Green, Liverpool     2008

Organisations:
NCH

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  11            Other:  -

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Your Country Called. . .And It Wants You Back

Synopsis:
It's 2015, and it's two weeks before the UK General Election. Everyone's talking about policies, politics and a sense of place. This fresh new piece of theatre, with live music, investigates migration, emigration and immigration through the eyes of young people (and first time voters) moving and travelling around our world, and choosing a place to stay. Sometimes spoken. Sometimes unspoken. And all the space between. Sometimes English. Sometimes Cantonese. And all the languages between - with multiple stories explore the land you live on, the land you were born on, and who that land belongs to. These are mixed, DJ style, into a live playlist of compelling narratives.

Notes:
devised by Laurence Wilson and Ed Robson

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Organisations:
Dukes Young Company

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Genre:
piece

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Your Country Needs You! (But I don't need my country)

Synopsis:
What is 'our' country? And what does it stand for? "It stands for something!" "What?" "I'm not so sure anymore" This bold and thrilling new theatre experience hot foots its way to you - an expansive view of what it means to go to war and of what nationalism means to young people now. A disorientating and compelling theatre event that will ignite your brain, explode your senses and stir your heart.

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Organisations:
Young Actors and Young Company

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Music:
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Play/Drama

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