KAY ADSHEAD (1954 - )
| Nationality: | English |
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Plays by Kay Adshead
After The Party |
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Animal |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
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| 1st Published: | 2003 | |||
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Synopsis: At the heart of a London Park there is a beautiful house. Inside, the raging Pongo has volunteered for an anger management drug trial. But isn't anger vital to our humanity? Set in a mythical England against ongoing war and civil insurrection, 'Animal' is a dark and funny tale of humanity's struggle for progress. In this millennium, will we choose to be Animals or Angels? | ||||
Bacillus |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
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| 1st Published: | ms | 1993 | ||
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Bites |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | Mama Quillo | |||
| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Moving from the biggest democracy on the planet to the newest, Bites takes us back to Afghanistan via Texas. In the last diner at the end of a world ravaged by war, a menu of love, death and revenge is served by the hired help'. Seven courses make for a poetic feast of universal tales looking back to the forgotten war and forward to a nightmarish future. | ||||
Bogus Peoples Poem, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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Bogus Woman, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | Presented by The Red Room and Mama Quillo | |||
| 1st Published: | 2000 | |||
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Notes: Bush, London 2001 | ||||
Synopsis: 48 different characters appear in this explosive show about a young African woman seeking asylum in England. Following the mass murder of her family, a distressed and beaten African woman is interrogated at London's Heathrow Airport. Unable to explain how she arrived there, she is locked up in the UK's national refugee detention center, Campsfield House near Oxford. There she becomes involved in the protests that led to the trial of the Campsfield Nine, a group of refugees who were accused and acquitted of rioting at the center. "For the short piece that I wrote for the Red Room, I read hundreds of stories of refugees seeking asylum in this country; the Refugee Council provided me with some of the source material. All of these were sad, but some were sickening, so horrifying as to be almost unbearable. Inspired by these terrible stories, I created my story of The Bogus Woman." Kay Adshead, 2000. | ||||
Bones |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
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| 1st Published: | 2006 | |||
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Synopsis: White people in their big shiny cars drive many kilometres with their sickness which I heal; sickness of the mind, body and of the soul. I charge a bit more for the soul' At night, a young black boy is 'questioned' by a white South African policeman. . . 36 years later, when the truth is dug up, a tortured Jennifer watches over her dying husband. But does her maid Beauty have the power to 'save' him, and is the price of remembering a dreadful secret one that Jennifer is prepared to pay? Bones is a ruthless excavation of South Africa in 2005, and in an age of threats, retribution and bloody revenge, it is an anthem for hope. | ||||
Juicy Bits |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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Lady Chill, Lady Wad, Lady Lurve, Lady God |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
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| 1st Published: | International Connections: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber | 2002 | ||
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Metal and Feathers |
| 1st Produced: | Cockpit Theatre, London | - | ||
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Playground, The |
| 1st Produced: | Hotham School | 1998 | ||
| Company: | Mama Quillo | |||
| 1st Published: | 2008 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Young Audiences | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large ensemble cast | |||
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Synopsis: explores the innocent and imaginative world of a school playground | ||||
Ravings: Dreamings |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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Slug Sabbatical, The |
| 1st Produced: | Red Room, London | - | ||
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| 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: | Performance Poem | Piece | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Snow Egg |
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| Company: | Tiebreak Theatre | |||
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Still Born |
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| Company: | Soho Theatre Company | |||
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| 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 | |||
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Thatchers Women |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays By Women Vol.7" Methuen, London | 1988 | ||
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Synopsis: Middle aged northern wife forced into prostitution by husband's unemployment. | ||||