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Lucy Gough

LUCY GOUGH  

 Nationality:    Welsh
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Lucy Gough has been writing plays since 1986. She was a finalist for both the John Whiting award and BBC Wales Writer of the Year award (1994) with her play Crossing The Bar. Her first BBC broadcast was in 1994 with Our Lady of Shadows (BBC Radio 3). Since then she has had a play of the week on the BBC World Service and has had five plays on BBC Radio 4; Gryfhead, The Red Room, The Mermaids Tail and Judith Beheading Holofernes and The Raft. Her Radio dramatisation of Wuthering Heights for BBC Radio 4 was broadcast as the classic serial in Woman's Hour in July 2003. Mapping the Soul was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005.

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 As To Be Naked         Bad Habits Die Hard         By A Thread         Catherine Wheel         Crossing The Bar         Gryf. . .Head         Haul         Head         Joanna' And 'the Prophetess Of Exeter'         Judith Beheading Holofernes         Mapping The Soul         Mermaids Tail, The         On The Edge - Deadlier Than The Male!: Gryfhead         Our Lady Of Shadows         Raft, The         Red Room, The         Rushes         Sheol         Stars         Watchers Of The Night Sky         Wolfskin         Wuthering Heights

As To Be Naked

Synopsis:
a stage play about the famous 'Ladies of Llangollen'.

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Organisations:
Clwyd Theatr Cymru

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Genre:
Stage

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bad Habits Die Hard

Synopsis:
a novice Nun has to sit Vigil with a the body of a dead Sister.

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1st Produced:
UCW aberystwyth Drama Dept    1985

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Genre:
Black Comedy (Stage) Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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By A Thread

Synopsis:
Four survivors struggle to flee the horrific reality of an apocalyptic war. as they retreat up the mountain, they discover conflict and change are inescapably woven into the thread of life: the young couple cannot stop arguing, the soldier refuses to part with his lost friend's head and the old lady would rather stay put and sew her quilt.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Cathays High School, Cardiff    1992

Organisations:
Theatr Iolo, Cardiff

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Music:
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Genre:
Young Peoples Theatre Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Catherine Wheel

Synopsis:
Play for young people linked to the GCSE History curriculum about crime and punishment, for 4th and 5th years.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Scallywag T.I.E. Company.    1991

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Genre:
Young Peoples Theatre Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Crossing The Bar

Synopsis:
a stage play about death in custody. a young remand prisoner hangs himself in his cell; in Limbo he finds a novice 'Nun' from the Middle ages who has starved herself to death. Together thy discover of the power of the imagination as they confront 'the Keeper' and 'the Boy' finds a way to life.

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Recorded And Broadcast As A Radio play in Croatian on Croat National Radio 2000

1st Produced:
Fallen angel Theatre Co. & Croatian National Radio    1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Seren Books 3 Plays volume, 2000   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Stage and Radio play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Gryf. . .Head

Synopsis:
a re-worked Stage version of Head. In a bleak landscape of run down housing a woman comes to terms with the a life defined by the lack and loss of love.

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Genre:
gothic comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Haul

Synopsis:
Co-written with Sara Moore-Williams for aberystwyth arts Centre.

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1st Produced:
-    1994

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Genre:
Bi-lingual Community Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

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Head

Synopsis:
Set in a bleak urban Tenement flat, Ella (Isabella) retrieves the severed head of her lover Enzo (Lorenzo) and puts him in the fridge. a humorous re-working of 'Isabella, or the Pot of Basil'-Keats

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1st Produced:
BBC Radio 4    1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Seren Books 3 Plays volume, 2000   -

Music:
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Genre:
Radio Play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Joanna' And 'the Prophetess Of Exeter'

Synopsis:
a play about the 'Prophetess of Exeter' - Joanna Southcott. Short-listed by R.S.C. New Writing Festival. Rehearsed Reading Made In Wales Stage Company Write On Festival, Theatr Clwyd, Mold. Workshop at The academic Women's Conference, Gregynog.

Notes:
True Story base. Recorded for Radio Ceredigion. Broadcast BBC World Service (Prophetess).

1st Produced:
alladyce Nicol Studio, Birmingham.    1989

Organisations:
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Genre:
Stage and Radio play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

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Judith Beheading Holofernes

Synopsis:
Drama about artemesia Gentileschi's painting Judith slays Holofernes with documentary material from Germaine Greer.

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1st Produced:
BBC Radio 4    2000

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Genre:
Radio Drama with some Documentary material

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mapping The Soul

Synopsis:
The play concerns adam (trailed by Eve) who thinks he has found the meaning of life in the 'Genome Book'. But there is no gene sequence for the Soul! Does the meaning of life reside in the discoveries of science and the mapping of the Genome or does it lie in the soul? If so, where is the soul? Where can you find it?

Notes:
Community Play

1st Produced:
Castaway Community Theatre Co. & aberystwyth arts Centre. Theatr-y-Werin    2001

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Stage play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

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Mermaids Tail, The

Synopsis:
Drama about a teenage girl who wants to be a Mermaid with documentary material from Marina Warner.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
BBC Radio 4    1999

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Monolugue from in One Woman One Voice Parthian Books, 2000   -

Music:
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Genre:
Radio Drama with some Documentary material

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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On The Edge - Deadlier Than The Male!: Gryfhead

Synopsis:
a haunting and savagely funny re-working of Keats' macabre tale, Isabella or a Pot of Basil, features Ella who lives on a bleak modern estate

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Our Lady Of Shadows

Synopsis:
a poetic drama that releases the 'The Lady of Shalott'.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
BBC Radio 3 and staged at University of East anglia and University of Wales aberystwyth.    1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Seren Books 3 Plays volume, 2000   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Radio and Staged Play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Raft, The

Synopsis:
In prison, a despondent teenage mother watches herself sink deeper into the sea of her despair; but the soul seems reluctant and keeps drifting back up, and then her son Robbie starts calling to her -

Notes:
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1st Produced:
BBC Radio 4    2002

Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Radio Play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Red Room, The

Synopsis:
Drama about Charlotte Bronte and the writing of Jane Eyre with documentary material from Glyn Hughes.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
BBC Radio 4    1999

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Monolugue from in One Woman One Voice Parthian Books, 2000   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Radio Drama with some Documentary material

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Rushes

Synopsis:
Commissioned by arad Goch Cymni Theatr. a play for 5th and 6th years about the Holocaust, set in a death camp where a film is being made.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
arad Goch Theatre Co.    1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Young Peoples Theatre Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sheol

Synopsis:
Set in the Pagan Hell where Lady Macbeth looks for Macbeth and Duncan hides his head in a suitcase.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Workshopped by Red Shift Theatre Co.    1997

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Stage play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Stars

Synopsis:
a play for 10 to 12 year olds about a search for the end of the universe, commissioned by Theatr Iolo and Cardiff Science Museum, 'Techniquest'.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatr Iolo, Cardiff    1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Young Peoples Theatre Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Watchers Of The Night Sky

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1995

Organisations:
Theatr Iolo

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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Wolfskin

Synopsis:
a comic play set in a bleak urban future where young men in packs hunt beggars.

Notes:
Short (20 mins) Fringe piece.

1st Produced:
Machine Room, London & Lupa Theatre, aberystwyth    1997

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Stage

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Wuthering Heights

Lucy Gough
The passionate but doomed relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff - and its destructive impact on those surrounding them - is one of the most famous and enduring love stories in the English language. In Lucy Gough's adaptation for the stage, the spirit of Emily Brontė's haunting novel is brought to exhilarating life. Growing up together on the Yorkshire moors, Catherine Earnshaw and the gypsy Heathcliff are inseparable after he is adopted into her family. But when Catherine agrees to marry the refined Edgar Linton, Heathcliff setshis mind to revenge.

Notes:
from novel by By Emily Bronte

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 317

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