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LINDA WILKINSON |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Born in London's East End, Linda is a polymath. Playwright, novelist, scientist. She began writing for the stage in the late 1990's. Her fist play DUST AT MIDNIGHT, won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Theatre Showcase Award. Subsequent plays DISPARATE BODIES, DIAMOND (a musical) and BLOODLINE have been performed in the West End and on the Fringe. DIAMOND was adapted for BBC Radio 4. Her theatre company WIT (Women In Theatre) showcases roles for the older woman. Linda has recently written a children's novel, THE OONFORD DETECTIVE AGENCY, the first part of a planned trilogy.She has also written history books, one on the famous Columbia Road Flower Market and one on Shoreditch (The Shoreditch Tales). Along the way Linda has been Chair of Amnesty International UK and sits on the Board of several organizations involved with a diverse range of artistic and community based works.
Plays by Linda Wilkinson
Bloodline | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, Brockley, London SE4 2DH >>> | 09 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | Evcol/WIT | |||||
| 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 | #121783 | |||
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 | |||||
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Synopsis: | Set in the turbulent years of the Wars of Religion this is the tale of Bess of Hardwick and her last husband George, who were the "protectors" of Mary Queen of Scots, thus saving Britain from the "Catholic menace. Duty, Dynasty, Death. | |||||
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Diamond | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | May 2006 | ||||
Company: | WIT | |||||
| 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 | #122336 | |||
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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Synopsis: | Musical based on the lives of Diamond Lil and Maisie, two cross dressing East Enders who entertained Bethnal Green during the war years and into the 1960's. Centred on the Royal Oak Pub in Columbia Road with larger than life characters and risque songs aplenty. | |||||
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Diamond Lil | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio | Dec 2005 | ||||
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 | #122335 | |||
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 | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Taken from tales told the author, this play recounts the lives of Daimond Lil and Maisie, two cross dressing East Enders who entertained Bethnal Green during the war years and into the 1960's. | |||||
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Disparate Bodies | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Albery, St Martin's Lane, London | May 1998 | ||||
Company: | Amnesty International | |||||
| 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 | #122334 | |||
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 | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Byline - Four Short Plays About Living in a Dangerous World this play dramatizes the real lives of four individuals who inhabit the edges of society. A Turkish Transsexual, a Bisexual rent boy, a Lesbian who has grown up under Communism and the most surprising an Italian Contessa with perhaps the bitterest tale of all. | |||||
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Dust At Midnight | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nov 1997 | |||||
Company: | Writers Guild | |||||
| 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 | #122333 | |||
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 | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Second production at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington in 2002. | |||||
Synopsis: | You're having a nervous breakdown, and the ghost of Tennessee Williams contacts you through the internet. It's a prank right? But when he turns up in your living room to help you find a way through your nightmares what do you do? Embrace him, or hate him? | |||||
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It Happened Here | ||
| 1st Produced: | Open air theatre Shoreditch Park | Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | The Theatre Centre/Hoxton Hall | |||||
| 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 | #122339 | |||
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 | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | Four plays written from interviews with pupils at the Bridge Academy, Hackney about the history of the area in which they live. | |||||
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Shilpa and Jade - The skin story | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford House | Aug 2007 | ||||
Company: | Wellcome Trust | |||||
| 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 | #122337 | |||
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 | |||||
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Synopsis: | A devised play from issues raised by Bangladeshi and Somali young women about the prevalence and dangers of skin lightening and acid burning in their communities. | |||||
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Too Close for Comfort | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford House | Nov 2007 | ||||
Company: | London Metropolitan University | |||||
| 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 | #122338 | |||
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 | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Drama about the difficulties young Somali's find in integrating into the UK and of dealing with their parents aspirations. From research performed by London Metropolitan University | |||||
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