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Vanessa Oakes

VANESSA OAKES

  
Nationality:    British
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Vanessa Oakes trained as a theatre designer before working extensively in scenography, community arts and arts administration. She has been working full time as a playwright since May 2007. Her recent plays include; A New Way of Living (andsome), Runaway Boy (Teatro Youth Theatre), A Diary Without Dates (Open Door @ Birmingham REP), Do What You Do (NM&AG Centenary Community Tour), the Oracle of the Taprooms (George Eliot Collection Writer in Residence), the Game Anew (Pentabus at Latitude), the Watched Sea (CAPITAL), the Permitted Number (Paines Plough), I Am Active (Red Teapot), the Kindness of Strangers (Warwick Words), Lost in Paradise CV6 (Belgrade Theatre), A Body Moving Through (the estate), Live Like Us (Belgrade Theatre). Current projects include; A Ploughed Heart - project blog: www.desperatelyseekinggeorge.wordpress.com

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         77 Sunset Strip         Agamemnon: the Curse of Thyestes         All Is Well         Anaglypta Daydreaming         Arnolfini Portrait, The         Body Moving Through, A         Chimney Sweep's Apprentice, The         Come to Where I am From         Diary Without Dates, A (Outside The Glass Doors)         Do What You Do         Dog in a Suitcase         Game Anew, The         I Am Active         Kindness of Strangers, The         Last Things, The         Live Like Us         Lost in Paradise CV6         New Way of Living, A         Oracle of the Tap Rooms, The         Other Me, The         Permitted Number, The         Red Gallery Trilogy, The (Before the Deluge, A Letter Home, The Sitting)         Runaway Boy         Selfies         Touching Jane         Watched Sea, The         Woman Called Magdalena, A         You Are Here
77 Sunset Strip

Synopsis:
A group of older people gather for a weekly Bingo session in a converted cinema. Each of the Bingo players shares their thoughts and memories, as the movies begin to haunt the building.

Notes:
Commissioned by Face to Face, Warwickshire County Council, West Midlands Arts New Audiences. Written for A group of older women.

1st Produced:
Bracebridge Court Care Home (Warwickshire)     1999

Organisations:
STORM Theatre Company/Ansley Commoners

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
gentle comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  7            Other:  2 wrestling stooges

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Agamemnon: the Curse of Thyestes

Synopsis:
An adaptation from the Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatre Studio, Coventry University Performing Arts Department     1998

Organisations:
Coventry University Performing Arts Department

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  Chorus

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All Is Well

Synopsis:
Thirty years ago on April 26 an accident happened at Chernobyl. All Is Well' is a response to the human cost of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and asks, Is it possible for any of us to trust one another again?'

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Bold Text Collective

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Anaglypta Daydreaming

Synopsis:
A woman searches through the classified ads for love and marriage.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
STORM Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
black comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Arnolfini Portrait, The

Synopsis:
Angela checks on her new recruit Jason and discovers that he's worried about a young woman who has been sat staring at 'The Arnolfini Portrait' all day. . .

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Bold Text Collective

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Body Moving Through, A

Synopsis:
A Body Moving Through is a fascinating and engaging exploration of the relationship that develops between Charmer (a gypsy woman) and Andy (a young teenage lad). Charmer is mourning a dead child, and Andy is terrified that he might have killed his step-father. Despite their initial suspicions the two begin to trust each other and to recognise what they can offer to a fellow human being.

Notes:
Funded by ACE And Coventry City Council. Supported by the Centre for Media, Arts And Performance At Coventry University School of Art & Design

1st Produced:
Ellen Terry Studio Theatre, Coventry University, Coventry     2008

Organisations:
the Estate

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  2 musicians (live improvised music by Dzierzanowski & Stevens)

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Chimney Sweep's Apprentice, The

Synopsis:
Geoff and Jeremy are brothers-in-law. they wait downstairs as their wives sort out their dead father's belongings.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Nuneaton Arts Centre     1997

Organisations:
STORM Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  Strolling violinist, preferably female

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Come 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.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Paines Plough

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Diary Without Dates, A (Outside The Glass Doors)

Synopsis:
At the outbreak of World War 1 Enid Bagnold immediately joined the Red Cross and went to work as a VAD nurse at the Royal Herbert Hospital in Woolwich. On the publication of A Diary Without Dates in 1918 Enid was sacked for breach of military discipline. This adaptation of her extraordinary WW1 diary explores how the book might have been viewed by one of the hospital Sisters it describes and if it would have been possible for her to ever forgive Enid.

Notes:
Adaptation of the first third of Enid Bagnold's 1st WW Diary. Funded by ACE. Part of The REP's Open Door programme BOLDtext are working playwrights who aim to create more opportunities and new platforms for our work in the Midlands and beyond.

1st Produced:
The Door At Birmingham Rep     07 Apr 2014

Organisations:
BOLD text

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Do What You Do

Synopsis:
Set in 'the Close' on the evening of May 17th 1941, it begins as Melly sees his beloved Museum go up in flames. This poignant monologue celebrates Edward Ferdinand Melly's extraordinary lifetime of public service and personal sacrifice.

Notes:
Commissioned to celebrate the Museum & Art Gallery's Centenary. Toured to community Venues in December 2013 & April 2014. On May 17, 1941, Nuneaton suffered its heaviest bombing raid when more than 100 residents were killed and hundreds of houses destroyed including 'the Close'. Two museum objects were used in the original production: a ceremonial spade used by Edward's wife Janet to cut the first sods of the new Clara Pit in 1891 and a miner's lamp (pre 1940 in design with an iron top and brass base).

1st Produced:
Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery     10 Dec 2013

Organisations:
Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
monologue

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dog in a Suitcase

Synopsis:
the story of four people whose coping mechanisms become increasingly eccentric and out of control.

Notes:
Dog in A Suitcase should be played At the pace of A farce

1st Produced:

Organisations:
STORM Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  Walk-on stage manager

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Game Anew, The

Synopsis:
Originally written for five actors who swap over the text/roles at each revolution of the ritual cycle in this perpetual play. As each cycle plays the pace gets faster, the vodka text section shortens and the presence of blood, vomit and love increases.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Latitude Festival 2011     15 Jul 2011

Organisations:
Pentabus Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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I Am Active

Synopsis:
Red Teapot Day 2009 Commission. there is a long tradition of individuals using words on t shirts to bring about change. I AM ACTIVE is in part a response to that tradition. In this play to wear the t (ext) shirt is a creative act, to respond or choose not to respond to the t (ext) shirt is a creative act. I AM ACTIVE has been written for 100 individual active artists who will wear/perform their individual t (ext) shirts. How, where and for how long the t (ext) shirt is worn will inevitably determine its intended meaning (if any) e.g. expression on active artist's face. the active artists will be asked to record any action taken including their own.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Herbert, Coventry     22 Oct 2009

Organisations:
Red Teapot Day 2009

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  100

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Kindness of Strangers, The

Synopsis:
When David's wife dies unexpectedly he is left clinging to the little routines that help him to make sense of his loss. A chance encounter with a stranger leads to a new friendship. But, how far can David trust his new friend and what will he do to avoid facing his own loneliness?

Notes:
Warwick Words 2009 Festival Commission

1st Produced:
The Friends Meeting House, Warwick     01 Oct 2009

Organisations:
Warwick Words 2009

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Last Things, The

Synopsis:
the Last Things: This play is about a war artist who having both seen and done things that she shouldn't have, now finds herself under house arrest.

Notes:
In 2006, ACE(WM) funded five days of script development And A performed reading At the Custard Factory Gallery in Birmingham.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Talking Birds

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Live Like Us

Synopsis:
Set in Spon End, Coventry in 2007, Live Like Us examines the limited range of possibilities for escape open to three young people.

Notes:
Commissioned by the Community And Education department for the Acting Up group.

1st Produced:
Aeuw, Coventry     2007

Organisations:
Belgrade Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
black comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lost in Paradise CV6

Synopsis:
the play takes place in an urban wilderness in modern day Coventry (Paradise CV6). It is influenced by three interconnected stories; the Temptation of Christ, Adam & Eve and Milton's Paradise Regained. Jasmine has been missing from home for 40 days and nights. Her mother Mary is beside herself with worry. While Jasmine is lost in the wilderness she faces hard life choices and confronts the many temptations that often face the youth of today. Will she fall as Adam & Eve once did, or will she choose to be strong and resist? This modern retelling of a medieval mystery play explores the challenges that young people face when they refuse to conform and examines their strong sense of wanting to belong and 'fit in'.

Notes:
Commissioned by the Community & Education Company for the Acting Out group.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Belgrade Theatre's Community & Education Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama/comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  11            Other:  -

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New Way of Living, A

Synopsis:
This funny and thought provoking new play affectionately explores the British people's tendency to resist modern architecture and asks what do we mean by a new way of living. The play is inspired by the story of The Small House Competition which was organised by Ideal Homes Magazine and the RIBA (Royal Institute for British Architects) in 1958. This extraordinary competition culminated in four experimental houses being built in Allesley Village, Coventry, opened by Basil Spence and viewed by 17,000 people in the first few weeks.

Notes:
Funded by ACE & Heritage Lottery Fund. Supported by The University of Warwick. Part of Heritage Open Days. Thanks to School of Art & Design, Coventry University & Allesley Village Hall

1st Produced:
7 Bexfield Close, Allesley Village, Coventry     11 Sep 2014

Organisations:
andsome

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Site specific

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Oracle of the Tap Rooms, The

Synopsis:
Playwright Vanessa Oakes is writer-in-residence (Jan 2012) at the George Eliot Collection at Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery. In 2010 she was working with teenagers who were photographing the George Eliot statue. A homeless man who was bedding down for the night in a doorway called over, "Don't you go taking the p*** out of my George Eliot or she'll come back and haunt you!" the warning inspired her to write the Oracle of the Tap Rooms. the public are invited to meet the well-educated layabout Joseph Henry Liggins who tells his story. After being asked to leave Cambridge, Liggins (1801-1872) struggled for years to make a living before being wrongly identified as the author of Scenes of ClErical Life and Adam Bede.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Nuneaton Museum And Art Gallery     21/2012

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
15 min piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Other Me, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of SELFIES: Four dramatic monologues, read by ourselves, exposing our working practices and influences, as well as exploring how our individual backgrounds have shaped the writers we are today. The results, like all good selfies, promise to be entertaining, diverse, occasionally comedic, and sometimes downright bizarre.

1st Produced:
[reading] Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick     01 Oct 2015

Organisations:
Bold Text

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
dramatic monologues

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Permitted Number, The

Synopsis:
the Permitted Number: I grew up on a 1950?s council estate just over four miles North of Coventry. This play is about 'our' house and the events (my mother's Alzheimer's) surrounding returning the key to the Council after 56 years of memories.

Notes:
Part of Paines Plough's COME TO WHERE I'm FROM Season. 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.

1st Produced:
B2 The Belgrade     14 Jul 2010

Organisations:
Paines Plough/the Belgrade

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Red Gallery Trilogy, The (Before the Deluge, A Letter Home, The Sitting)

Synopsis:
Before the Deluge' painted by Roelandt Savery. An old man and his grand-daughter take shelter in the gallery on a wet Sunday afternoon. A Letter Home - the Battle of Vitoria' painted by James Prinsep Barnes Beadle. James sits in a cafe whilst on holiday touring the battle fields. the Sitting' painted by E. S. Harper. Edward Melly sits impatiently for a portrait.

Notes:
Three Audio interpretations of paintings in the permanent collection. Commissioned to celebrate the gift by Edward Melly of 90 years of Art And history to the town of Nuneaton.

1st Produced:
Nuneaton Art Gallery And Museum     2007

Organisations:
Nuneaton Art Gallery and Museum

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
audio Drama Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Runaway Boy

Synopsis:
This unique piece of storytelling takes Pin on a journey over land and sea, swallowed by a shark and turned into a donkey - but will he ever learn the true meaning of love?

Notes:
Funding from Children in Need and the National Lottery. Runaway Boy involved 30 young people, many from disadvantaged backgrounds, in a modern retelling of Carlo Collodi's 'Pinocchio'.

1st Produced:
Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa     11 Jun 2014

Organisations:
Teatro Youth Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  19            Female:  25            Other:  -

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Selfies

Synopsis:
Great monologues, real insight. The collective is a liberating idea! Four dramatic monologues, read by ourselves, exposing our working practices and influences, as well as exploring how our individual backgrounds have shaped the writers we are today. The results, like all good selfies, promise to be entertaining, diverse, occasionally comedic, and sometimes downright bizarre

Notes:
Stephen Jackson, Vanessa Oakes, Tim Stimpson and Julia Wright ?will be presenting self-portraits tonight. . .

1st Produced:
Coventry: The Shop Front Theatre     03 Mar 2016

Organisations:
Bold text Playwrights

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
monologue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Touching Jane

Synopsis:
This play explores what happens when accepted roles and responsibilities are abandoned - when a child (Jane) is raised in a single parent family where any genuine concern and affection are absent.

Notes:
Funded by ACE (WM) And supported by the Centre for Media, Arts And Performance At Coventry University School of Art & Design.

1st Produced:
Ellen Terry Studio Theatre     2009

Organisations:
the Estate

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Watched Sea, The

Synopsis:
Capital is a brand new festival which brings together writers, actors and theatre-makers to celebrate and promote the work currently being developed in Birmingham and beyond. Held at the Old Joint Stock theatre, the festival will include a series of rehearsed readings, a showcase of short plays and an opportunity for the public to contribute their reactions to Cameron's vision of the "Big Society"

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham     26 Nov 2010

Organisations:
Capital : Festival of New Writing 22-27 November 2010

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Woman Called Magdalena, A

Synopsis:
Magdalena tells us how it was that she came to have her portrait painted for the king.

Notes:
A woman by the name of Magdalena Ventura grew A beard And moustache At the Age of 37. She was painted in 1631 for King Philip III of Spain.

1st Produced:
Face-To-Face' Launch, Atherstone, Warwickshire     1997

Organisations:
STORM Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short monologue One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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You Are Here

Synopsis:
A play about the loss of a sense of belonging for two friends (economic migrants), Peter and Joh

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Bull's Head (Inkberrow)     2003

Organisations:
Mouthpiece Theatre/Packhorse Productions

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  1g

Further Reference:
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