VANESSA OAKES
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Plays by Vanessa Oakes
77 Sunset Strip |
| 1st Produced: | Bracebridge Court Care Home (Warwickshire) | 1999 | ||
| Company: | STORM Theatre Company/Ansley Commoners | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | gentle comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | 2 wrestling stooges | |||
Notes: Commissioned by Face to Face, Warwickshire County Council, West Midlands Arts New Audiences. Written for a group of older women. | ||||
Synopsis: A group of older people gather for a weekly Bingo session in a converted cinema. Each of the Bingo players shares their thoughts and memories, as the movies begin to haunt the building. | ||||
Agamemnon: The Curse of Thyestes |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Studio, Coventry University Performing Arts Department | 1998 | ||
| Company: | Coventry University Performing Arts Department | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | Chorus | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: An adaptation from the Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus | ||||
Anaglypta Daydreaming |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | STORM Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | black comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A woman searches through the classified ads for love and marriage. | ||||
Chimney Sweep's Apprentice, The |
| 1st Produced: | Nuneaton Arts Centre | 1997 | ||
| Company: | STORM Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Strolling violinist, preferably female | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Geoff and Jeremy are brothers-in-law. They wait downstairs as their wives sort out their dead father's belongings. | ||||
Dog in a Suitcase |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | STORM Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Black comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | Walk-on stage manager | |||
Notes: Dog in a Suitcase should be played at the pace of a farce | ||||
Synopsis: The story of four people whose coping mechanisms become increasingly eccentric and out of control. | ||||
Last Things, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Talking Birds | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: In 2006, ACE(WM) funded five days of script development and a rehearsed reading at the Custard Factory Gallery in Birmingham. | ||||
Synopsis: A play about a woman war artist who sees things she shouldn't. | ||||
Live Like Us |
| 1st Produced: | AEUW, Coventry | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Belgrade Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | black comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Commissioned by the Community and Education department for the Acting Up group. | ||||
Synopsis: Set in Spon End, Coventry in 2007, Live Like Us examines the limited range of possibilities for escape open to three young people. | ||||
Red Gallery Trilogy, The (Before the Deluge, A Letter Home, The Sitting). |
| 1st Produced: | Nuneaton Art Gallery and Museum | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Nuneaton Art Gallery and Museum | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | audio drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Three audio interpretations of paintings in the permanent collection. Commissioned to celebrate the gift by Edward Melly of 90 years of art and history to the town of Nuneaton. | ||||
Synopsis: Before the Deluge painted by Roelandt Savery. An old man and his grand-daughter take shelter in the gallery on a wet Sunday afternoon. A Letter Home The Battle of Vitoria painted by James Prinsep Barnes Beadle. James sits in a café whilst on holiday touring the battle fields. The Sitting painted by E. S. Harper. Edward Melly sits impatiently for a portrait. | ||||
Woman Called Magdalena, A |
| 1st Produced: | 'Face-to-Face' Launch, Atherstone, Warwickshire | 1997 | ||
| Company: | STORM Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Short monologue | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A woman by the name of Magdalena Ventura grew a beard and moustache at the age of 37. She was painted in 1631 for King Philip III of Spain. | ||||
Synopsis: Magdalena tells us how it was that she came to have her portrait painted for the king. | ||||
You Are Here |
| 1st Produced: | Bull's Head (Inkberrow) | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Mouthpiece Theatre/Packhorse Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 1g | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A play about the loss of a sense of belonging for two friends (economic migrants), Peter and Joh | ||||