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ABI BOWN |
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Nationality: n/a Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
I am a freelance writer and designer, originally from Liverpool, I now reside in sunny East London. From 1990 I worked as a theatre designer and illustrator with a particular interest in Theatre for Children and Young People. I designed regularly for Polka Theatre in London and for small scale touring companies Up North.
Plays by Abi Bown
Hey There, Boy With the Bebop | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39832 | |||
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Genre: | Play for 12-16 year olds | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Ensemble cast with at least F3, M2; but can incorporate a chorus of many more | |||||
Notes: | play won the Arts Council Children's Award in 2004 | |||||
Synopsis: | Chantaye, Trixie and Gary live on the same terraced street in Liverpool, there's not much to do but hang around the phone box and kick a ball about. And then another kid moves in, only he doesn't come out to play, he just sits at his window, a silent onlooker with a quiff. If you pass by his house you can hear music - scratchy old music - rock 'n' roll. Now the adults are beginning to warn the kids away - there's talk about this 'Mad Elvis' and his Mum and it's just as well he doesn't come out, because whatever he's got, they say it's catching. But Chantaye wouldn't be told, she decides to go against her friends and the collective wisdom of the Street to befriend the boy and find out the truth about his condition and his music. | |||||
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Mind The Gap | ||
| 1st Produced: | national schools tour | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Y touring | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47811 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Three disparate people find themselves stranded on a deserted platform of an underground station. Vijay - caught in an eternal moment of remembering a crime he'd sooner forget. Maya - slowly descending into a world of chaos, her memory crumbling away piece by jigsaw piece and Dino whose fractured psyche is soothed only by the drugs he takes and thoughts of escape. They are ministered to By Silas, the lone kiosk attendant, self styled healer and purveyor of Kit Kats and crisps. Together on platform 2b these four minds are compelled to confront the devastating nature of Alzheimer's disease, the agony that is post traumatic stress and just what it is that could drive someone to kill. . . | |||||
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Saturday Morning Pictures | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4175 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | runner up in the London Writers' Competition 2003 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Spokey Dokey Vinegar Kiss | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47810 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2004 | |||||
Synopsis: | A young boy's devotion to the Martial Arts Movie Hero, Jackie Chan is put to the test when the boy's brother is involved in a fatal accident. Joe learns that when people fall from tall buildings they invariably don't get up. Joe works in the family chippy weekends and most evenings after school. He hates it, most of all he hates the customers, slamming their change on the stainless steel counter. During the Easter break Joe sneaks off to the travelling fair that's arrived on the patch of waste ground nearby. He has become fixated with an action hero made flesh - Mikey Riley and His Amazing Wall Of Death, the last such attraction of this type found touring in the UK. Mikey shares his trailer with his younger half-sister Taali. She beguiles Joe with stories of Showmen and wonderful pictures - her people were fairground artists. There is just one thing Joe wants above all else, one ride, one in the eye for the cruel jibes at school about his brother's fall, one for Taali so she can paint him as an action hero, at last - one answer to the question he's been asking Mikey Riley at every opportunity, "What keeps you from falling off?" Just once - Joey wants to ride The Wall Of Death. | |||||
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