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DAMEON GARNETT
Nationality: British
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Liverpool playwright Dameon Garnett has had two plays receive their world premieres at the Finborough Theatre the Time Out Critics Choice Break Away (2005) which starred Tina Malone of Shameless, and Follow (2008). His first play, New Years Day, was performed at the Royal Court Young Writers Festival, starring Michael Angelis. He also received a playwriting bursary from the Soho Theatre. This year, he was invited to become a member of the Studio Group at the Royal Court Theatre, where he is working on a new play.
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17 Break Away Follow New Year's Day17
At seventeen years old, Scott is facing a future that is as uncertain as his past. the death of his adopted mother throws his life into chaos, and now he finds himself having to fit in with a new middle-class family, and the birth-mother he never knew. Class differences soon reach fever pitch, and guilt has the winning hand. Whoever thought change would be this difficult, and what is Scott hiding under the bed?
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reading as part of Vibrant 2013 A Festival of Finborough Playwrights 19 Oct 2013
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Northern Edge
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Oberon Books (2014) >>> 978-1783191581
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Top of PageBreak Away
. . .Do ya think you'll ever get any genuine love from them kind o' people, do you think they'll ever really accept you? Wake up Barbie! You'll never be one o' them. Leaving behind her home in Speke, teenager Barbie Jean heads off to the sun, sea and sand of Torquay, accompanied by her best friend Stella and fun-loving, larger than life auntie Pauline. each wants something different from their holiday break, though boys figure high on the agenda! However, matters are complicated by an unexpected and unwanted arrival. Suddenly not only Barbie Jean's future, but her whole identity is in question.
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Finborough Theatre, London >>> 01 Mar 2005
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Northern edge Theatre Company
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Methuen Drama, 2005 -
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Comic Drama Comedy
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Blake and Reece are sixteen - two boys from two cities, Liverpool and Portsmouth. Blake is lumbered with a baby he never wanted. His dad, Gary, is struggling to cope as a single parent while teaching his son how to face the responsibilities of being a father. Reece has run away from home, hasn't seen his Father in years and is slipping into a criminal underworld from which there appears to be no way back.
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Finborough Theatre, London, Eur >>> 29 Oct 2008
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Finborough theatre -
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Top of PageNew Year's Day
Synopsis:
The tensions of family life are played out in the shadow of a hidden truth.
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