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JANE THORNTON (1961 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
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Plays by Jane Thornton |
All The Fun Of The Fight | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal and Opera House, Wakefield, West Yorkshire | 12 Oct 2007 | ||||
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 | #75709 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | male doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The 1984 miners' strike may have been a battle for jobs and coal, but it was principally fought by women - one iron lady versus thousands of wives and mothers who mounted protests, established soup kitchens and joined picket lines in defence of their community. Jane Thornton was there, and vividly recalls leaping over a garden fence to avoid being trampled by a police charge. She first wrote about the experience in Amid the Standing Corn, but her new play applies a historical perspective to examine how the lives of these domestic heroines have developed since the coal industry collapsed. They have grown older for one thing. Women in their 40s and 50s at the height of the struggle are entering their 60s and 70s now, and their experiences are already begin-fling to seem like remote history. The area may no longer have any pits, but it does have shiny retail outlets. Thornton's play presents elderly sisters Joan and Gwen awkwardly cradling complicated drinks in an American coffee franchise. Thornton has a good ear for pensioners' conversation: "Blueberries - they're American an' all. Whatever happened to currants?" Yet gradually the grumbling sisters slough off the years as their memories return to the era before regeneration and retail parks. | |||||
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Amid The Standing Corn | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1985 | ||||
Company: | Joint Stock | |||||
| 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 | #34671 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Back To The Walls | ||
| 1st 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 | #45379 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bouncers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | Aug 1984 | ||||
Company: | Yorkshire Actor's Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Chappell, London, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121373 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by John Godber and Jane Thornton | |||||
Synopsis: | Bursting with imagination and wit and presented by just four actors, Bouncers is an outrageous and hilarious parody of the disco scene. The four brutish bouncers of the title portray over twenty different characters as we are invited for a night out on the town. We see them as giggly girls and lads on the make preparing for the big night out as we follow their progress to the disco floor. There, we also meet an entire cross-section of disco-goers, including Hooray Henrys, pogoing punks and drunken slobs! The evening's events arc set against the tatty glitzy glamour, flashing lights and pulsating beat of the night-club scene. | |||||
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Bully | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Sep 2000 | |||||
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 | #121374 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | author: Yvonne Coppard | |||||
Synopsis: | The compelling story bravely delves into the darker side of school life... | |||||
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Dracula | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Nov 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Josef Weinberger, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34672 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with John Godber. From Bram Stoker | |||||
Synopsis: | A new adaptation of the most chilling story of all time. True to Stoker's original novel, Dracula is a fast-moving multi-layered masterpiece of fear. As a sudden and mysterious storm whips the coast of England, a young woman sleepwalks along the edge of a cliff. In the teeth of the gale, a ship crashes through the harbour entrance, abandoned except for an immense dog and fifty boxes of grave dust. The Transylvanian Count Dracula has arrived in England. Immortal only as long as he is able to drink the blood of the living, he pursues his victims with brutally devastating effect. From the remote wilderness of Yorkshire to a vast ruined castle near to London whose windows omit no light, the race to end Dracula's lustful power is underway, if only there is still time . .. | |||||
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Everyday Heroes | ||
| 1st 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 | #45380 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Handle With Care | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
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 | #34673 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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I Want That Hair | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hull Truck | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Joseph Weinberger, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45378 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Forty-year old Becky is overweight, under-paid, and at a crossroads in her life, with a husband who takes her for granted. This reflects itself in her reluctance to re-invent what was her mother's hairdressing business, despite threats from the trendy salon across the street. She is convinced that she and her long-time assistant Heidi will see the new salon off. But things take a sudden turn for the worse when Heidi admits she has been offered a job at the rival salon. Will this change Becky's life, or will her self-pity leave her reaching for the chocolates? Funny, touching and effortlessly liberating, it will have you asking yourself - are you really happy being you? | |||||
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Say It With Flowers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Jul 2009 | |||||
Company: | Hull Truck Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0856763076 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121370 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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| Fresh off the back of their latest amateur dramatics production, the Parish Players learn that circumstances beyond their control are forcing them to abandon the Parish Hall. Without anywhere to stage their plays, they decide to pull on their gardening gloves and enter the regional Village in Bloom competition in order to express their artistic flair. But not everyone is keen on the idea, and the seeds are quickly sown for a hilarious yet touching exploration of a villages competitive streak, when opposing forces collide and relationships suddenly sit on opposite sides of the fence in a world where not everything is coming up roses. | |||||
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Shakers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Chappell, London, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34674 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with John Godber | |||||
Synopsis: | Every town has its local trendy cocktail bar where everyone wants to be seen, from the local check-out girls to the chinless wonders, from the yuppies to the local lads tittering at the thought of a `long comfortable screw'. We are given a wickedly funny glimpse of this world by the four long-suffering waitresses who work there. Rushed off their feet, underpaid and overworked, they try to smile and help the difficult customers whilst coping with their own personal problems. A fascinating and often hilarious view of the reality which lurks behind the plastic palms and the pina coladas | |||||
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Shakers Re-stirred | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Warner Chappell Plays, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34675 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with John Godber | |||||
Synopsis: | In a not-so-chic London bar called Shakers, we meet Carol, Adele, Nicky and Mel, four friends who have taken to waitressing in desperation but who also have wit and resilience enough to never let any of the colorful characters they come across escape their satire unscathed. In theatrically heightened moments, the women play the roles of men and women alike, covering not only their nights at Shakers but also the lives of four other working women in London. Always at the source of their satire are the men who take them for granted or, worse, abuse them. Against this backdrop of postmodern London life are kaleidoscopic scenes of hilarity and depravity. In intertwining plot threads we follow the waitresses as they confront a possible new owner for the bar and at the same time we follow four shopgirls getting ready for a night on the town. Tart-tongued and irreverent, the lives of all of these women are put in painful perspective by the doubling of their roles which draws attention to the economic and social prejudices affecting all women, not just the fighters we meet at Shakers. Four struggling waitresses try to have a go of it against their customers, bosses and dates alike, using humor, role playing and all out rage to ward off the hopelessness that was Thatcher's London. | |||||
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Sold | ||
| 1st Produced: | 25 Oct 2007 | |||||
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 | #76526 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by John Godber and Jane Thornton | |||||
Synopsis: | tells the story of Anja, a young Moldovan girl who is sold to traffickers by a cousin, raped a hundred times and forced to work in a London brothel until she can repay the £20,000 her captors say she owes them. | |||||
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Thick as a Brick | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich, London | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Hull Truck 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 | #34676 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by John Godber, music by John Pattison; lyrics by Jane Thorton | |||||
Synopsis: | Touring Production | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wuthering Heights | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Oct 2003 | |||||
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 | #69802 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | from novel by Emily Brontė | |||||
Synopsis: | deft economical adaptation of classic novel retaining the period piece feel. | |||||
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