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SARAH WOOLEY
Nationality: English
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Literary Agent: Independent Talent Group Limited represented by Ikenna Obiekwe
Sarah Wooley was born in Wallasey, Merseyside. She studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama/Glasgow University, and on graduation formed her own theatre company Big Like Texas with Alain Airth. After directing several of her own productions for the company, she began a career as an assistant director, working with Trevor Nunn, Stephen Daldry, Peter Gill, Di Trevis and Harold Pinter. It was while working at the National Theatre as a staff director in 2001 that she started to write. She has written several plays for radio and stage, including the sell out hit Old Money which opened at the Hampstead Theatre in December 2012, starring Maureen Lipman and Tracy Anne Obermann.
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Folie a Trois Old Money Shirley And the Devereauxs They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina Under the Concrete, WaitingFolie a Trois
Synopsis:
Three women, living together in one house, have chosen to minimize their contact with the outside world. Minnie, the only one who goes out (for essential shopping), returns one day, convinced by a street preacher that the world is about to come to its end. Through a series of rambling discussions that throw light on their individual characters and family history they finally and jointly agree to take their future into their own hands.
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previously broadcast As A radio play
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Stellar Quines Theatre Company
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One Act
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Top of PageOld Money
Forty years of respectable marriage should have prepared Joyce for respectable widowhood. She, however, has other ideas - and a secret life of champagne, strippers, and chance encounters unfolds in this tender comedy. For 30 years she has done her domestic duty - played the part her husband, mother, Father and daughter thought appropriate. Now she is free and her eyes open to a whole new world of possibilities. . .
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Oberon Books (2012) >>> 978-1849434997
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Genre:
comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageShirley And the Devereauxs
Synopsis:
When Shirley King meets an English boy called Sebastian Devereaux on a beach near her home on the isle of Arran, her life changes forever. She is captivated and when she meets his family she falls in love with the entire clan. Over the next 15 years she becomes entangled in their lives, watching the world change as her relationship with the family grows. An examination of society's obsession with material success and what it is to be exceptional.
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First production directed by Sarah Wooley, Designed by Naomi Dawson, Lighting design by Anna Watson.
1st Produced:
Arts Educational School, London 2005
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3rd year students
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Genre:
comedy Drama Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageThey Have Oak Trees in North Carolina
1985; Ray and Eileen's 5 year old son vanishes. 22 years later a good looking American arrives in a small English village claiming to be their boy. Stories are shared, memories are strained and relationships are tested. But what lengths will any of them go to in order to prove his true identity?
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1st Produced:
Tristan Bates Theatre, London, Eur >>> 13 Nov 2007
Organisations:
Theatre503 co-production
1st Published:
Oberon, London, 2007 978-1840028188
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Play/Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageUnder the Concrete, Waiting
Synopsis:
Set on a Glasgow Housing estate where women working in the nearby factory start to go missing. At first the murders appear to be the work of a serial killer but it soon emerges that this is a case of a 'group' of men organizing themselves to get their revenge on the women. This play was inspired by events in the Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez. Since 1993 it is estimated that as many as 250 women and girls have been raped and murdered in this border town. the authorities immediately suspected a serial killer and eventually a man, was arrested. He was tried, found guilty and imprisoned. However, after his arrest the murders still continued.
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Its first full production was by MA Acting students at the Arts educational in 2011. The production was directed by Tim Stark
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(reading) National Theatre Studio, London 2003
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Play/Drama
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Male: 4 Female: 7 Other: 1c
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