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PENNIE GILLIS |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: The Art Screen |
Pennie is a painter potter musician and writer. Her play Home Sweet Home was performed by Foursight Theatre for a four night run in 2004. The play is a two hander about two elderlly women who keep their spirits up by talking about their hubands (and wearing their husbands knickers) and confessing emotional and dark secrets to each other. In places it's hilarious and in places it's sad. Pennie has also written several plays and a musical, exploring the problems and the fun around gender reassignment. These are The Changeling (a musical), Maureen and Will an explicit dark comedy and Bill and Laura, an emotional tragedy. Her play Ann and Em is a lighthearted look at the problems which might be encountered when attempting to murder two husbands.
Plays by Pennie Gillis
Ann and Em | ||
| 1st Produced: | Not produced | - - - | ||||
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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 | #106805 | |||
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Genre: | Radio play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Ann and Em are sisters who both have a failed or failing relationship.They decide to murder the offending males with hilarious and frightening results. They do not succeed for rather odd reasons. | |||||
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Bob and Laura | ||
| 1st Produced: | Not 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 | #133253 | |||
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: | Sort of mystery; tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Laura can't cope with Bob's proposed sex change and we slowly find out through the intervention of a neighbour and the police that their arguments have resulted in mutilation and mental illness. Very dark. | |||||
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Changelling, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Contact Theatre Manchester | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Rehearsed reading of two Acts by Queer up North | |||||
| 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 | #133254 | |||
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 | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | The reactions of a husband and wife to the gender reassignment under taken by the husband. They go from sharing their clothes and swapping dresses at their wedding, through the misery of the realization that only a real change of his sex will solve the problem, to losing and regaining each other via a bizarre resolution involving retaining part of the genitals lost in surgery. Funny, sad, mad, gruesome, with a few memorable tunes - Last June, I've Turned her into a Lesbian, and Dracula, which involves a strip down to a red leotard and a large inflated penis which, when released flies rouond the stage as the air wooshes out. | |||||
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Home Sweet Home | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newhampton Arts Centre | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Foursight 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 | #75021 | |||
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: | Black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Glad and Marge keep up their spirits by talking about their husbands, their lovers and wearing their husbands knickers. Both have a secret which when revealed includes coming out as a lesbian and confessing to a murder. A light hearted black comedy. | |||||
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Maureen and Will | ||
| 1st Produced: | Not 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 | #133255 | |||
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: | Explicit black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Will (eventually) helps Maureen (a transsexual male to female) with her sexual problems. It's very funny but rather explicit and probably no one would dare produce it. | |||||
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