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OLIVIA SMEDLEY (1972 - ) |
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Nationality: Italian/British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Plays by Olivia Smedley |
All Change | ||
| 1st Produced: | Danebank Theatre | 2002 | ||||
Company: | TIC 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 | #32483 | |||
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: | comedy drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Originally commissioned by TIC Theatre Co. and performed by residents of a home for the mentally ill, as part of World Mental Health Day. A reworked version has been written for professional actors. | |||||
Synopsis: | Becky and Stuart take Brian on a day out from a residential home. Unfortunately Mark tags along. Thrown together on a railway platform, they are forced to confront their illnesses. | |||||
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Doctor's Mark | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - - - | ||||
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 | #32484 | |||
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: | collection of comedy drama monologues | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A series of three 10 min monologues. DOCTOR'S MARK was entered for 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival by Ziggy Productions. The film will be shown in the FILM UK FIFF Videotheque during the 2003 festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | Three heavyweight roles which although comedic contain intense drama. | |||||
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Fizz | ||
| 1st Produced: | Crewe Lyceum - Victorian Centre | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Fnglish Touring 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 | #32485 | |||
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: | comedy drama short 7 mins monologue Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This piece was written for the English Touring Theatre playwriting course and was produced under the collective title Voices in Action. Fizz is currently under consideration for a short film. | |||||
Synopsis: | An unusual piece in which a toothbrush speaks as a young girl. | |||||
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Miss | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - - - | ||||
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 | #32486 | |||
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: | collection of comedy drama monologues | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1-5 characters | |||||
Notes: | A series of five 15 min monologues which can be performed by more than one actor. Currently on offer to well known performer. | |||||
Synopsis: | An unusual slant on school life. | |||||
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Queen Anne II | ||
| 1st Produced: | Buxton Festival Fringe | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Cheeky Hound Productions | |||||
| 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 | #32487 | |||
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: | Comedy/drama monologue Part 1 actress Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Exciting new work' Buxton Festival Fringe Review | |||||
Synopsis: | Cynical nation seeks new Queen. Applicants must have royal blood. On the job training will be provided but some experience with a major European monarchy would be an advantage. The preferred candidate is Princess Anne. We see the new Queen during a working day trying to stamp her own style of reign | |||||
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Snip Snip | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bolton Little Theatre | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Launchpad | |||||
| 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 | #32488 | |||
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: | comedy drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | subsequently produced by Ziggy Productions and had five night run at Buxton Opera House. Studio Season, see review below. Also at Lyceum Theatre Crewe, Unity Theatre Liverpool and Tenant's Hall Theatre, Tatton Park, Cheshire. | |||||
Synopsis: | What happens if you team up Buxton Opera House with the innovative RFC theatre company and give them £20,000 of Arts Council Lottery money to organise a whole series of small-scale events? Well if the premiere of Snip-Snip is anything to go by the answer is something very special. Snip-Snip is set in a hair salon and the drama gradually unfolds against a continuous babble of seemingly inconsequential chatter. The audience eavesdrop from behind the stylist's wall mirror as Michelle, the dim but engaging young hairdresser, puts her posh clients through the mill. The humour is more quiet smile than belly-laugh, but suddenly you find yourself fighting back the tears&' , Buxton Advertiser | |||||
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Title Coconuts (renamed Fun Run see notes) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dukes 92, Manchester UK | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Launchpad | |||||
| 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 | #32489 | |||
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: | comedy drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | After minor revisions was renamed Fun Run and entered in Edinburgh Festival 2002 by Ziggy Productions. Scotsman three star review (see below). Also Crewe Lyceum on double bill with Snip-Snip | |||||
Synopsis: | How good to catch a show that could use some padding instead of being cut back. Clocking in at a slender 35 minutes, Fun Run is a lovely little slice of domesticity, brimming with Mancunian salt-of-the-earth type patter. Author Olivia Smedley has written something that might have come from Mike Leigh's bottom drawer. Sisters Fiona and Jessica are doing a fun run together. This is not a simple matter, what with one being build for speed and the other for, shall we say, comfort. They have never lost contact as such, but there has been a form of estrangement ever since the younger Jessica married her siblings ex-boyfriend ten years previously. Hobbled together at the ankle, what starts as a chance for a nice catch-oop soon turns into a good, solid rummage through the familial skeleton closet. Director Russell Tennant paces everything well and Yvonne Pinnington and Coronation Street's Corinne Coward are ideal foils for each other, deserving some kind of laurel - sweatband or Gatorade? - for maintaining their timing | |||||
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