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Kim Wiltshire

KIM WILTSHIRE

  
Nationality:    British
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Kim Wiltshire is a playwright and fiction writer. She completed her PhD in English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 2010, with her thesis exploring representations of gender, her main research area, through both critical and creative work. Much of her work is issue-based: her first commission from Burnley Youth Theatre was to work with young people to write a play about the 2001 riots, Polarised, which was later adapted as a film for schools. Other commissions include a short film for Lets Go Global/Mothers Against Violence (Living To Die) and several commissions from Activ8 at Bolton Octagon exploring a range of issues including alcohol misuse (Hammered) and social cohesion (Sing When You're Winning). She has produced two short films for Lime Art exploring substance and alcohol misuse for young people, as well as writing a short film about Cystic Fibrosis for the Transitions project. Her first short play, the Loser, a piece that came out of her PhD study, was produced by Scenepool at Camden People's Theatre in 2009, and her first full length play, Joy With Child, was produced by Organised Chaos in 2010 in Manchester. She is currently working with her writing partner Paul Hine on Project XXX with Bolton Octagon Theatre, a piece of multimedia Theatre exploring gender and the sexualisation of culture. She is a member of playwright collective the Alligators and she is senior lecturer in scriptwriting at Edge Hill University.

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

         Blackout         Joy With Child         Loser, The         Pages From My Songbook         Polarised         Pornification/Light Heat And Other Radiation         Project XXX         Sing When You're Winning

Blackout

Synopsis:
this piece of promenade theatre takes a trip around the last theatre on earth and explores the idea of shared experience.

Notes:
Written by Amman Singh Brar, Jack Hathaway, Anne Irvine, Kellie Smith, Zosia Wand, Ann Wilson, Kim Wiltshire

1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Alligator Club & the Dukes

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Promenade theatre; comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Joy With Child

Synopsis:
Joy has taken to living in the basement, grieving for her dead artist husband, Kenny. She is visiting by her son in law, the only member of the family still speaking to her, and a mystery man who is searching for something he thinks she can give him.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Organised Chaos

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Loser, The

Synopsis:
Tom is about to turn 40 and he is living back home with his parents. Mark is about to turn 40 and he is living back home with his mother. But Mark is a successful musician, coming out of the Madchester scene, whilst Tom is a loser. Through a series of monologues, their lives, choices and conclusions on where it 'all went wrong' are explored, questioning who is the real loser here.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Scenepool

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue, comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Pages From My Songbook

Synopsis:
North West professional playwrights collective the Alligator Club is set to stage a festival of short plays inspired by music at the Studio at Manchesters Royal Exchange theatre on July 19-20. Pages From My Songbook is billed as a mix tape of theatre, with 18 short plays featuring live music, all the length of a song, which explore love, life, loneliness and lager. Against the backdrop of a dusky festival night, it will immerse the audience in stories that blur the lines between a theatrical and festival experience, as short stories and musicians evoke the spirit of a festival.

Notes:
Written by Miriam Battye, Ella Carmen Greenhill, Becky Prestwich, Lee Thompson, Jennifer Tuckett and Kim Wiltshire.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Alligator Club

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Music by Alice Kirwan, Irfan Rainy, Vidar Norhei

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Genre:
plays with music

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Polarised

Synopsis:
Set in a dystopian future where all those not considered truly British are removed in vans in the night, one young girl finds a box of old polaroid photos and asks her mother what life was like when she was young. As they wait to be taken away, the mother relives her past through the photos, realizing that she, and others like her, could have done something to stop the rise of fear and hatred about the 'other'.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Burnley Youth theatre    2004

Organisations:
Burnley Youth Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Youth theatre

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Pornification/Light Heat And Other Radiation

Synopsis:
What if when Romeo met Juliet he was already addicted to internet pornography? This multi-media play, co-written with Paul Hine, explores the world of love, sex and porn and how young people negotiate this world through the ever increasing mainstreaming of hardcore sexual imagery.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Lime Art

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy; multi-media theatre

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  2

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Project XXX

Project XXX
Amy, a teenage feminist blogger decides it is time to prove that sex on the web is not just for men. During a rainy summer in a northern seaside town, Amy decides to show that sexual choice is firmly in the hands of women by persuading new love interest Callum to film her first time. Meanwhile, Callum has his own issues to deal with, including a mother on the edge of a nervous breakdown and an obsession with faded porn star Jaze. This dark, romantic comedy is produced and written by Kim Wiltshire ('Joy with Child' Organised Chaos and 'Pages From My Songbook' Manchester Royal Exchange) and Paul Hine. The play explores the mainstreaming of internet pornography, the changing face of technology and its impact on human relationships and a young person's burgeoning sense of self.

Notes:
written by Kim Wiltshire and Paul Hine

1st Produced:
Arts Centre at Edge Hill University, UK    29 Jan 2014

Organisations:
Laid Bare Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
multimedia theatre show

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  screen characters

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Sing When You're Winning

Synopsis:
A youth choir find their funding under threat when a new leader with new politically correct ideas comes onto the scene.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Acitv8

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play with music, youth theatre

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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