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MOLLY DAVIES
Nationality: British
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Literary Agent: TROIKA represented by Harriet Pennington Legh
Molly Davies' first full length play, a Miracle, was produced in March 2009 at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court as part of the Young Writers' Festival, directed by Lyndsey Turner and starring Russell Tovey and Sorcha Cusack. Other Theatre credits include the Future of Bump (Hampstead Theatre, Dairing Pairings), the Best Team Since the a-Team (Southwark Playhouse), My Days (Company of angels/Soho Theatre), Day One (National Youth Theatre/Soho Theatre) and No Fairy Stories (Soho Theatre) which won Molly the Westminster Prize. She is currently under commission to the Royal Court Theatre to write a play, currently titled the Good Play, for the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.
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Chicken Come to Where I am From God Bless the Child Miracle, A Orpheus and Eurydice - A Myth Underground Shooting TruthChicken
Synopsis:
Norfolk noir fairy tale exploration of human fear and the journey a chicken takes from factory farm to kitchen table. Chicken, a darkly comic new play by Molly Davies. Set in a dystopian future where people from the north and south are alienated from one another, London sits above the chaos as a sovereign state.
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1st Produced:
Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
07 Aug 2015
Organisations:
Eastern Angles in association with Unity Theatre, Liverpool
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short play 60 min
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Top of PageCome to Where I am From
Synopsis:
Sixty one playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them. At 14 theatres from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays will be performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. Come To Where I'm From is a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home is really where the heart is.
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Paines Plough
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Top of PageGod Bless the Child
Inspired by interviews with leading academics, activists, psychologists and educators, God Bless the Child examines the notion of childhood in contemporary Britain. When he was small and his parents told him if he was good he would get a sweet, the boy knew it was not true. Getting the sweet had nothing to do with being good. 'Badger Do Best' has landed, bringing with it a new world of rules and regulations. But the kids in the classroom are fighting back. Tired of being guinea pigs in yet another government scheme, can the class of 4N bring down the education regime set to pacify them? After years working in the classroom, Molly Davies imagines a mutiny of eight-year-olds in her play
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part of Rough Cuts - A regular mini season of short plays, experimental readings And works in progress by established As well As emerging writers, directors And Artists
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Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London (2015)>>> 978-1474221887
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Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: 4 Other: 8 children
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Top of PageMiracle, A
Synopsis:
"there ent much use for reality out here, but I could tell you a few truths. I could sing you a song of welly boots and blood, knitting needles and caster oil. there will be pigs that scream, a girl who cannot feed herself, a miracle baby - and a flatness that consumes us." Take one baby and a mother who's not sure if she's ready. add a soldier returned from war and a grandmother holding the fort. Mix in a landscape of flatness and a pinch of violence in the countryside and maybe, just maybe, you'll get a miracle. a play about wanting a better life.
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part of 2009 Young Writers Festival
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Top of PageOrpheus and Eurydice - A Myth Underground
Synopsis:
The story of Orpheus' descent into the Underworld to rescue his beloved Eurydice is one of the most potent in Classical mythology. Since its earliest incarnations in Greek and Roman folklore, the story has been re-told countless times, from the operas of Monteverdi and Offenbach to the writings of Albert Camus, the films of Francois Truffaut and the theatre of Tennessee Williams. Young playwright Molly Davies' modern adaption of the classic myth will be spectacularly staged in the cavernous underworld of the Old Vic Tunnels with a mass ensemble and music.
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1st Produced:
Old Vic Tunnels, London
23 Aug 2011
Organisations:
National Youth Theatre of Great Britain
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adaptation
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Top of PageShooting Truth
Synopsis:
Deep in the woods near an abandoned village, a group of students is about to shoot the story of the youngest ever witch - and Alice feels she's finally found a role. the same woods, four centuries earlier: a gang of teenagers gather, fearful and intrigued to have found a witch in their midst - and Freya thinks at last she has some power. Past and present collide in an unsettling tale of witchcraft, film-making and practical jokes gone wrong.
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part of the National theatre Connections 2011
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Wyggeston and Qe1 6th Form College
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Male: 8 Female: 8 Other: -
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