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Cathy Crabb

CATHY CRABB

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Julia Tyrell Management  represented by Julia Tyrrell

Cathy has written extensively for the stage including the plays BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, MOVING PICTURES and SOMETHING RIGHT. Her plays have been performed and toured throughout the North West. She has won and been nominated for many awards. Her critically acclaimed play THE BUBBLER toured the North West in 2014 and will tour nationally in 2015. She is currently adapting THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILantHROPISTS for television and co-writing a new musical- DREAMERS with Lindsay Williams for Oldham Coliseum, scheduled for production in 2015. Her poetry appears in Best of Manchester Poets 2013 and her first collection will be published by Flapjack Press Manchester in 2014. In 2015 her play PROPHETS OF A & E will go into production with Shred Productions and she will work on a dark comedy about the care of those with disabilities for Proud and Loud Arts

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below is a list of Cathy Crabb's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Beautiful House         Beyond the 4th Wall         Bubbler         Dreamers         Fifteen Minutes With You         Moving Pictures         Prophets Of A & E         Roots Of Love, The         Something Right

Beautiful House

Synopsis:
Crabb uses a clever device to bring together middle-aged, middle-class couple Ronnie and Bridgette and young, working class couple Otis and Paul: the older couple's daughter, emily, has a terminal disease and they have given up their large house in Delph to allow her to live out her last days with her husband in the house where she grew up. Ronnie and Bridgette, meanwhile, have moved into a tiny flat in a tower block in a rather rough area of Manchester above Otis and Paul and their little girl Charlotte. the men seem to form some sort of a friendly bond, but the women clash and compete with one another through forced smiles.
- David Chadderton, British theatre Guide

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Beyond the 4th Wall

Synopsis:
It's paradise in the surreal Cul-De-Sac. every want and need is catered for without prejudice or unnecessary medical intervention. So why would Taylor, Katie and Peter ever want to leave? Because they know there is a world beyond the fourth wall and though it is dangerous and flawed they need to see experience it themselves.

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comedy

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Bubbler

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based on the Lord Bowen poem and on Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost.

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short play

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Dreamers

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It's the 90's and every weekend a group of young girls shake off the weekly grind with a messy night on the town. They don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too. It's Friday- they're in love. They never know where the evening will take them or who they'll wake up with the next morning, but one thing they do know is they'll end up in the smallest night club in the world with the biggest tunes -Dreamers. These girls don't care about the future, they have all they need right now, and it feels like it will go on forever. But of course life changes and twenty years on, those nights hold mixed memories to a scattered group of women who long to be the dreamers they once were and shake off the terrible hangover of the past. Dreamers is a musical with original songs plus 90's indie classics that tells the story of small town nights with big hearts. .

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Written by Cathy Crabb and Lindsay Williams, music by Carol Donaldson

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Fifteen Minutes With You

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Fifteen Minutes with You is the story of a one night stand between Jane and Matthew. at first Matthew is desperate for Jane but many twists and turns result in them clinging to each other. at least until the morning.

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Coliseum Theatre, Oldham, Greater Manchester     25 Oct 2006

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Moving Pictures

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Moving Pictures is the story of two sisters - Tina and anne who are trying awkwardly to build a family bond later in life

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Coliseum Theatre, Oldham, Greater Manchester     25 Oct 2006

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Prophets Of A & E

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Shred Productions

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Roots Of Love, The

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Something Right

Synopsis:
wrestles with consumer capitalism, the earth's dwindling resources and what it means to have enough, both in personal relationships and society as a whole.

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part of the enough Project, a double-bill of new plays from leading Northern voices, seeks answers to the question what is enough?

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