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SARAH HENLEY (1983 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Since graduating from the London School of Musical Theatre in 2006, Sarah has developed a passion for writing and her first one act comedy play, Getting Out, was produced in April 2009 at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre. Sarah then went on to co-write an outdoor version of Cinderella which she directed and was produced in December 2009 in North London. Getting Away was Sarah's first full length play, produced by the Giant Olive Theatre Company in 2010. Sarah was subsequently brought in as a co-writer on Zip:Gun and Knife Crime, with Ray Shell and James Kenward, choreographed by Gary Lloyd. She was heavily involved in workshops with young people as well as writing a lot of the music and and lightening a heavy topic with a sassy 'greek chorus' of ghosts.
Plays by Sarah Henley
Getting Away | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lion & Unicorn Theatre, 42-44 Gaisford St, Kentish Town, London NW5 2ED >>> | 27 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | Giant Olive | |||||
| 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 | #121856 | |||
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: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | All actors play two roles, apart from the highly physical part of the artist. | |||||
Synopsis: | Getting Away is Henley's first two act play. It tells the story of a graphic artist who has been commissioned to produce a graphic novel that will be suitable for commuters, containing tag lines for key sponsors. The trouble is, he is more at home with superheroes and evil villains. He draws on real life experience, painting in his unrequited love, Claire into the story. He also tries to reform his old superhero characters into a corporate state. In the comic he creates, a team of work colleagues go on a spa break - much awkwardness and infidelity ensues. The artist works through the night, struggling to find an ending. In the end, he rewinds the story and allows the superheroes back in for a huge, comic book fight finale. Buoyed with the confidence of finishing, the real Claire knocks on the door - the artist plucks up the courage to ask her out. | |||||
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Getting Out | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lion & Unicorn Theatre, 42-44 Gaisford St, Kentish Town, London NW5 2ED >>> | 21 Apr 2009 | ||||
Company: | Giant Olive | |||||
| 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 | #97388 | |||
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: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sarah Henley gives this, her first play, a setting she is familiar with, a private practice law firm. It is not a tale of corporate clients and financial skulduggery but a 'below-stairs' picture, as it were, of what's going on among the staff. It takes place 'at the height of the credit crunch,' and concerns itself largely with the sex lives of its characters. These assorted office types, based perhaps on Henley's own time in such a practice, are broadly played to emphasise their comic potential. | |||||
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Zip - a Streetdance Musical | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lion & Unicorn Theatre, 42-44 Gaisford St, Kentish Town, London NW5 2ED >>> | 02 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Giant Olive | |||||
| 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 | #118443 | |||
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: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Written by Ray Shell, Sarah Henley and James Kenward, music by Anthony Warnes, WarrenWilson, Shell, Henley and Kenward | |||||
Synopsis: | Giant Olive organised a series of workshops with people in Camden affected by Gun & Knife Crime and using the material gathered, produced 'ZIP' which will be staged in the Camden Fringe Festival and beyond. With top level choreography from Gary Lloyd; experienced street dancers, rappers, beat boxers and actors, ZIP will be a haunting night at the theatre. | |||||
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