JENNY WAFER
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Plays by Jenny Wafer
Dignity |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||
| Company: | http://www.musemachine.co.uk | |||
| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Youth inner city drama, 30 min | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 80+ (m/f variable with multiple doubling opportunities.) | |||
Notes: written by Peter Yates & Jenny Wafer. Particularly suitable for GCSE Drama | ||||
Synopsis: Three Inner City Dramas. Three members of the same family dealt with harshly by society in the Inner City. Dignity: Frank Bodelman snr., a pensioner, is harassed in his own home by local children and then exploited by an unscrupulous security contractor. Wages Day: Bodelman's son, Frank jnr., leads a strike at the local factory with devastating personal consequences. Real Gone Kid: Frank's son Gavin runs away from home and becomes involved with drug dealers. Inspired by the music of Ricky Ross. | ||||
Feint Traces of an Alien Being. . . |
| 1st Produced: | Playroom, Cambridge | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 1998 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Co-writer Peter Yates | ||||
Synopsis: Brady is a writer, Chrissie is a sculptor: they are having an affair. When they team up with the strange, mystical Nate, who seems to appear from nowhere, their careers take off but then their lives start to fall apart | ||||
In a Fantasy League of their Own |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 2000 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Co-writer Peter Yates | ||||
Synopsis: A TV Tycoon leads a gang, including a Footballer, a Journalist and a Professional Gambler, who kidnap the Premiership's first female referee, all for their own particular reasons. | ||||
Inventing Danny |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe | 2000 | ||
| Company: | First Among Sequels | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 2000 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 8 M/F (or 2 M/F doubling) | |||
Notes: Co-writer Peter Yates | ||||
Synopsis: A group of former students re-unite after ten years and decide to launch an imaginary Rock Icon through an all too gullible tabloid media | ||||
Katie And Hugo Are Magic! |
| 1st Produced: | Greyfriars Kirkhouse, Edinburgh | 2005 | ||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Jenny Wafer and Peter Yates | ||||
Synopsis: Katie and Hugo think they've been happily married for ten years. . .until they wake up one morning to find they've been reviewed. As the pursuit of public approbation becomes an obsession, so their lives descend into an increasingly surreal and ultimately destructive spiral. . ..A very dark, very funny comedy | ||||
Ladies, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Pump House, Watford | 1996 | ||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | (or 2F doubling) | |||
Notes: written by Rebecca Russell and Jenny Wafer | ||||
Synopsis: Six women, three conversations, one loo! Three vignettes set in a ladies loo in a church hall; involving a WI luncheon, a mother and toddler group and youth club New Year's Eve disco. A challenge for 2 actors playing three characters each across an age range of teens to sixties or 6 individual actors from the three age ranges. Each scene linked by the appearance of a cleaner. | ||||
Losers Guide to the Modern World, The |
| 1st Produced: | Cockpit Theatre, London | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 1999 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 8 M/F (or 2 M/F doubling) | |||
Notes: Co-writer Peter Yates | ||||
Synopsis: Four self-contained plays dealing with the trials of 21st century living | ||||
Out Of Time |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Fringe | 1997 | ||
| Company: | First Among Sequels | |||
| 1st Published: | FAS | 1997 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | thriller | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 8 M/F (or 2 M/F doubling) | |||
Notes: Co-writer Peter Yates | ||||
Synopsis: An acquaintance from the distant past turns up at Sylvy's house claiming he has killed her husband. | ||||
Real Gone Kid |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||
| Company: | http://www.musemachine.co.uk | |||
| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Youth inner city drama, 30 min | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 80+ (m/f variable with multiple doubling opportunities.) | |||
Notes: written by Peter Yates & Jenny Wafer. Particularly suitable for GCSE Drama | ||||
Synopsis: Three Inner City Dramas. Three members of the same family dealt with harshly by society in the Inner City. Dignity: Frank Bodelman snr., a pensioner, is harassed in his own home by local children and then exploited by an unscrupulous security contractor. Wages Day: Bodelman's son, Frank jnr., leads a strike at the local factory with devastating personal consequences. Real Gone Kid: Frank's son Gavin runs away from home and becomes involved with drug dealers. Inspired by the music of Ricky Ross. | ||||
Regina Monologues, The |
| 1st Produced: | Maltings Arts Centre St Albans | 2005 | ||
| 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 | - | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Rebecca Russell and Jenny Wafer | ||||
Synopsis: Five hundred years ago, six women married a bloke called Henry and passed into historical legend. This comedy drama reveals the poignancy and relevance of their lives, re-told as the tale of six modern women who have also married one man. A moving and hilarious comedy-drama which brings history bang up to date by reflecting the lives of the six wives of Henry VIII in a tale of six very real, very modern women. | ||||
Tears Of A Clone |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | First Among Sequels | |||
| 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: | - | Revue | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Peter Yates and Jenny Wafer. First performed by Adam Shindler and Tom Martin | ||||
Synopsis: Series of satirical revue sketches | ||||
Wages Day |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||
| Company: | http://www.musemachine.co.uk | |||
| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Youth inner city drama, 30 min | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 80+ (m/f variable with multiple doubling opportunities.) | |||
Notes: written by Peter Yates & Jenny Wafer. Particularly suitable for GCSE Drama | ||||
Synopsis: Three Inner City Dramas. Three members of the same family dealt with harshly by society in the Inner City. Dignity: Frank Bodelman snr., a pensioner, is harassed in his own home by local children and then exploited by an unscrupulous security contractor. Wages Day: Bodelman's son, Frank jnr., leads a strike at the local factory with devastating personal consequences. Real Gone Kid: Frank's son Gavin runs away from home and becomes involved with drug dealers. Inspired by the music of Ricky Ross. | ||||