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Tasha Fairbanks

TASHA FAIRBANKS

  (1948 - )
Nationality:    British
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Playwright Tash Fairbanks was born in 1948. a writer, theatrical performer and playwright, she trained at e15 acting School, and was a founder member of the lesbian feminist Siren Theatre Company in 1979. Her playwriting includes commissions for Theatre of thelema, Womens Theatre Group, Graeae, Theatre Centre, Charter Theatre Company and Siren Theatre Company with such works as Mama's Gone a Hunting (1980), Curfew (1982), From the Divine (1983), Now Wash Your Hands Please (1984), Pulp (1985), Hotel Destiny (1987) and Swamp (1989) which have toured extensively in UK, Holland, Germany and usA. Film includes Nocturne (Channel 4). Her published work includes Siren Plays (Taylor and Francis) and Fearful Symmetry (Onlywomen Press). Her work as an actor includes productions for Sidewalk Theatre, Gay Sweatshop, Theatre of thelema and Siren Theatre Company, as well as receiving a nomination from Plays and Players for Best New actress of the Year.

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         Curfew         Factory Follies         Fixed Deal         Fog         Foreign Correspondance, A         From the Divine         Hotel Destiny         Lucy And the Steel Queen         Mama's Gone A-Hunting         Not A Moment Too Soon         Now Wash Your Hands, Please         Private View, A         Pulp         Skin         Swamp         Ties         Two Cities         Up For Demolition         Wedlocked

Curfew

Curfew
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1st Produced:
-    1981

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1st Published:
Contained in "PULP and Other Plays" published by Routledge, 1996   978-3718657452

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Factory Follies

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1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    1989

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Musical

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Fixed Deal

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FIXED DEAL is a play about drugs - both legal and illegal. It tells the story of those who are seduced by the glamour of drugs and of those who perpetuate the suffering caused by them ... those who become victims and those who grow rich from exploitation.

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written by Paulette Randall and Taha Fairbanks

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Women's Theatre Group

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Fog

Fog
Fog is about two families: one white and dysfunctional, the other black and aspiring. Fog and Lou were put into care as young children by their soldier father, Cannon, following the untimely death of their mother. Ten years later, Cannon returns, expecting to reassemble his family around him. But he feels a stranger in this 'new' england of broken promises. and nothing could prepare him for the damage that abandonment and an inadequate care system has wreaked on his kids. He desperately tries to repair what has been broken, but is it all too little too late? Fog is a stunningly powerful and gritty play which confronts important social themes with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality. the play looks at the care system and the effects on the children placed there. It explores the difficulties we face in trying to reconnect with people who have been absent throughout childhood, and the inadequacy of communication: words are used as loose sticking plasters to try and patch up and hide the exposed wounds of fractured relationships.

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written by Tash Fairbanks And Toby Wharton

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Organisations:
aGF Productions

1st Published:
Methuen Drama, London   978-1408172391

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Play/Drama 90 min

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Foreign Correspondance, A

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-    1989

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From the Divine

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Uses the hysteria of the Falkland wars to explore ideas about war, and female stereotypes through the use of a 1940's concert party.

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1st Produced:
-    1982

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Hotel Destiny

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Fun at the expense of macho images and the western.

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1st Produced:
-    1987

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Lucy And the Steel Queen

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1st Produced:
-    1978

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Mama's Gone A-Hunting

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1st Produced:
-    1980

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Not A Moment Too Soon

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Quicksilver Theatre

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Now Wash Your Hands, Please

Now Wash Your Hands, Please
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1st Produced:
-    1984

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1st Published:
Contained in: "PULP and Other Plays" published by Routledge, 1996   978-3718657452

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Private View, A

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Graeae Theatre Co

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Pulp

Pulp
Double Identities combine glamour with sleaze in this parody of the femme fatale images of 1950's Hollywood.

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Siren Theatre Ca

1st Published:
Contained in: "PULP and Other Plays" published by Routledge, 1996   978-3718657452

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Genre:
Lesbian Thriller

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Skin

Synopsis:
everyone in Fog's life leaves: his mum; his sister; and now his best mate is heading for university. But his Dad is back and trying to make up for his past decisions.

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written by Tash Fairbanks And Toby Wharton. part of Central Lines- new plays in development, exposing And exploring contemporary life. Performed by A company of Actors in our studio space, Central Lines delivers two weeks of new writing At its freshest, funniest, most moving And thought-provoking.

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Swamp

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1st Produced:
-    1989

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Ties

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1st Produced:
-    1984

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Two Cities

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1st Produced:
-    1989

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Up For Demolition

Synopsis:
Set in a derelict house which a local women's group are trying to turn into a knitting co-op

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1st Produced:
-    1987

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Genre:
Feminist agit-prop

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Wedlocked

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-    1978

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