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KAY ADSHEAD (1954 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
Kay Adshead is an actor, director and poet as well as playwright
Plays by Kay Adshead
After The Party | ||
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| 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 | #46555 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Animal | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Sep 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #242 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | At the heart of a London Park there is a beautiful house. Inside, the raging Pongo has volunteered for an anger management drug trial. But isn't anger vital to our humanity? Set in a mythical England against ongoing war and civil insurrection, 'Animal' is a dark and funny tale of humanity's struggle for progress. In this millennium, will we choose to be Animals or Angels? | |||||
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Bacillus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ms, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #243 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Bites | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pleasance Theatre, Carpenters Mews, North Road, London, N7 9EF >>> | 26 Apr 2002 | ||||
Company: | Mama Quillo | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43515 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Moving from the biggest democracy on the planet to the newest, Bites takes us back to Afghanistan via Texas. In the last diner at the end of a world ravaged by war, a menu of love, death and revenge is served by the hired help'. Seven courses make for a poetic feast of universal tales looking back to the forgotten war and forward to a nightmarish future. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bogus People's Poem, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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 | #244 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Bogus Woman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts depot, London | 28 Jun 2000 | ||||
Company: | Presented by The Red Room and Mama Quillo | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840022094 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #245 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Edinburgh Festival Aug 2000 | |||||
| 48 different characters appear in this explosive show about a young African woman seeking asylum in England. Following the mass murder of her family, a distressed and beaten African woman is interrogated at London's Heathrow Airport. Unable to explain how she arrived there, she is locked up in the UK's national refugee detention center, Campsfield House near Oxford. There she becomes involved in the protests that led to the trial of the Campsfield Nine, a group of refugees who were accused and acquitted of rioting at the center. "For the short piece that I wrote for the Red Room, I read hundreds of stories of refugees seeking asylum in this country; the Refugee Council provided me with some of the source material. All of these were sad, but some were sickening, so horrifying as to be almost unbearable. Inspired by these terrible stories, I created my story of The Bogus Woman." Kay Adshead, 2000. | |||||
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Bones | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 Oct 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840026894 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61395 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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| White people in their big shiny cars drive many kilometres with their sickness which I heal; sickness of the mind, body and of the soul. I charge a bit more for the soul' At night, a young black boy is 'questioned' by a white South African policeman. . . 36 years later, when the truth is dug up, a tortured Jennifer watches over her dying husband. But does her maid Beauty have the power to 'save' him, and is the price of remembering a dreadful secret one that Jennifer is prepared to pay? Bones is a ruthless excavation of South Africa in 2005, and in an age of threats, retribution and bloody revenge, it is an anthem for hope. | |||||
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Juicy Bits | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Aug 1998 | |||||
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 | #246 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Liz is loaded but can't get a shag for love nor money. Jay doesn't want to fall in love and win the Booker prize. Bella cleans peoples souls. Chloe lies for a living. Seph can't get it up. Lawrence can't get it down. And Jo's screw..What men and women really want. A sexy vortex appealing to finer instincts. It's also funny. | |||||
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Lady Chill, Lady Wad, Lady Lurve, Lady God | ||
| 1st Produced: | Phoenix Arts, Leicesester | 21 Feb 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | International Connections: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #247 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 14 | ||
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Notes: | Lytleton Theatre, London as part of International connections - 15 Jul 2001 | |||||
Synopsis: | The Four Ladies gang is the scourge of the neighbourhood, with lives that revolve around tagging (spraying graffiti), the local pub, pulling and clubbing. Everything explodes when the gentle Lady God, with an increasingly dangerous habit, attempts to pay for 'stuff' with a sordid encounter in the bushes with one of the Crew (the local usurped boy gang), who just happens to belong to Missy Cat, leader of the rival Pussy Posse. The showdown that follows is a titanic battle of wits versus fists, female cunning versus male muscle. Violent crime amongst women is rising at a phenomenal rate. Lady Chill is an examination of that rise, intended to provoke debate about what constitutes real female power. Featuring an R&B/Hip Hop back beat, with live Sitar and Tabla. Strong language and adult themes. Suitable for 15+ | |||||
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Metal and Feathers | ||
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| 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 | #88007 | |||
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Others | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Jul 2007 | |||||
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| 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 | #119837 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Set in an East Coast village in 1907, The Sea centres on the drowning of a young man and the repercussions, both emotional and political, on the tight inward-looking village. | |||||
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Playground, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hotham School | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Mama Quillo | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors, Methuen Drama, London >>>, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408106730 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86157 | |||
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Genre: | Young Audiences | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large ensemble cast | |||||
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| explores the innocent and imaginative world of a school playground | |||||
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Possessed | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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 | #99661 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of Soho Theatre's season "Everything Must Go" Short rapid response pieces relating to the economic crisis. | |||||
Synopsis: | Adshead's story is a sort of dystopian fantasia in which two couples with babies, forced out of their homes and jobs, eventually retreat to an invisible, deserted cottage in the woods to try and cling to life with no money, water or electricity, nothing in fact but the food they can eke out of the soil. Their parents ring their mobiles and are lied to - "Everything's fine Mum, I told you we're not using the landline anymore". A chilling little glimpse. | |||||
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Protozoa | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Sep 2010 | |||||
Company: | Jellyfish Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #119836 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | second play of The Oikos Project | |||||
| Protozoa is a about the passion and commitment of survival after the floods. Twenty years from now, after the Storms, the UK has become an oppressive police state based on segregation and control. Cordelia, a successful property developer, and Sheann, a single mother, are poles apart, but now they form an unlikely alliance. Surviving in the debris, one tries to rebuild her former life, the other searches for her missing daughter. Can they create an alternative society and does the mysterious and secretive colony of river women on the other bank hold the key? Compelling and powerful, Protozoa is a dark, dystopian drama, with twists and turns that finally reveal a glimmer of hope. | |||||
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Ravings: Dreamings | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
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 | #248 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Slug Sabbatical, The | ||
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| 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 | #46556 | |||
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Genre: | Performance Poem Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Snow Egg | ||
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Company: | Tiebreak Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #88005 | |||
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Still Born | ||
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Company: | Soho Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #88006 | |||
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Thatchers Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays By Women Vol.7" Methuen, London, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #249 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Middle aged northern wife forced into prostitution by husband's unemployment. | |||||
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