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PENELOPE SKINNER |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents (agent: Giles Smart) |
Penelope's new play, THE VILLAGE BIKE, will play at the Royal Court in the summer of 2011. The play also won the 2011 George Devine Award. Her original sitcom, UNDER-ACHIEVERS, is under option to Great Meadow Productions. She is also writing an episode of FRESH MEAT, the new Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong series for Objective Productions / Channel 4. In 2010, Penelope was invited to take part in the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers' Supergroup and she was also selected to be one of six writers on the 2009 Future Perfect scheme at Paines Plough. Penelope's first play, FUCKED, opened at the Old Red Lion in 2008, was a sell-out smash hit and Critics' Choice in TIME OUT. The play made a triumphant return to the 2009 Edinburgh Festival.
Plays by Penelope Skinner
ABGELEHNT | ||
| 1st Produced: | Graz Theatre Festival, Austria | 2007 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129861 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Come To Wher I'm From Season | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford Playhouse | 2010 | ||||
Company: | Paines Plough / Sheffield Theatres in association with Bush Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129858 | |||
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Genre: | 15 min | |||||
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Correction Method | ||
| 1st Produced: | Blue Hug Theatre Company / Young Vic Theatre | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129862 | |||
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Genre: | devised | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | devised/collaborative work | |||||
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Don't Look Back | ||
| 1st Produced: | Young Vic Theatre, Clare Studio, 66 The Cut, Waterloo, London SE1 8LZ >>> | 2010 | ||||
Company: | ATC (Actors Touring Company) | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129859 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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DryFIGHT | ||
| 1st Produced: | East End Pub, London | 2009 | ||||
Company: | DryWright | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101364 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Writers include John Donnelly, Ashanti Dhawan, Matt Hartley, Joel Horwood, Phil Porter, Penelope Skinner | |||||
Synopsis: | It's ingeniously simple. They perform twice over the weekend: each performance features four short scenes of fights, all of them beginning verbally and becoming physical. At the start of the show every audience member is given four simple coloured paper hats. Before each scene begins we are introduced via the booming PA system to each of the characters it will involve - they strut onto stage, pose and flex and grimace like Mickey Rourke, and we don a hat of a certain colour to "cast our vote" on that particular character coming out on top. Of course this is before we know anything about the nature of each fight, so it's interesting in theory to wonder what makes us side with one character over another purely on first glance. Do the women go for the women? Do we back the scrawnier man to try and predict the unpredictable? Which of the nuns looks the most muscular? As it is though, there are few easily apparent trends. All our attention really is focused on screaming out our support of whoever we have arbitrarily chosen to back. This is theatre for closet wrestling fans, quite excessively happy to suddenly be encouraged to watch drama and make noise. As an experience it's infectious - but I fear not to be too often repeated, as only certain contexts allow it to work. I also wonder how long before the concept becomes stale - once you have seen it I doubt you'd feel the need to experience it again - unless the company push it in a new direction. In summary, we have two nuns attending a school reunion and discovering that their schoolmate of the time, who inspired both of their religious conversions, now views them with contempt. A man tries to hastily get rid of a woman after a one-night-stand, but his girlfriend bursts in on them. A jilted boyfriend challenges his ex-girlfriend's new lover to a fight to win her, which he will video for her to prove his devotion. But the final scene has an unexpected spike. Two old friends, one gay one straight, emerge from a gay club late at night, the straight one distraught having broken up with his girlfriend, and in a moment of drunken confusion makes a sexual advance on his friend. The ensuing fracas is him being fought off by his friend, who is trying only to beat sense into him. There's no-one for us to cheer for, the emotions of the piece are too true to make for easy side-taking. And the ending is horrifically unexpected and downbeat. We stop shouting long enough to think about what we have been doing. It's a canny achievement. But for all that, the show overall is too enjoyable for us not to emerge with smiles all over our faces. Guilty though they may be. | |||||
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Eigengrau | ||
| 1st Produced: | 15 Mar 2010 | |||||
Company: | Strawberry Vale Production presented by Western Edge Plays | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571255962 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102315 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Two sets of housemates, all with very different beliefs, are thrown together by circumstances as their beliefs are put to the test. | |||||
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Evening With The Sisters Fortescue, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | miniROAR for Out Of Twig / Chelsea Theatre | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129864 | |||
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Genre: | devised | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | devised/collaborative work | |||||
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Fred's Diner | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chichester: Festival Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 6AP >>> | 15 Aug 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #140140 | |||
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Genre: | Play | |||||
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Synopsis: | Fred's American Diner on a busy English motorway. Chloe wants to emigrate, Melissa dreams of university, Heather wants to rebuild her life, Sunny wants Heather... and someone is going to kill Fred. Penelope Skinner's play serves up a beautifully plotted thriller that gives an unsettling portrayal of the darker reaches of intimate relationships. At once dazzlingly comic and profoundly disturbing, Theatre on the Fly is proud to introduce one of the UK's most exciting emerging playwrights to Chichester. This event takes place at Theatre on the Fly - a temporary new space for the next generation of theatre-makers and theatre-goers | |||||
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Fucked | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Tangram Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84156 | |||
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Genre: | comic monologue Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Last night's sex was a bit like a kebab? Doner, not shish. This morning I'm coated in the greasy film of regret. Life's not looking too good for F. She's 25, down and out, and she's just spent the night with the wrong man. Again. As she's cleaning up, she finds a love story she wrote aged 12. Before she knows it, she's hurtling back to the most significant mornings-after of her life. Chronicles one girl's sexual journey from adolescence to womanhood. | |||||
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Greenland | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Lyttelton, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 01 Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571277919 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122220 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 | ||
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Notes: | By Moira Buffini, Matt Charman, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne | |||||
| The questions we all have about the environment and the future are intricate. Knowing what and who to trust is an increasingly bewildering challenge. Only a few things are certain: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; change is constant and inevitable. Seeking to understand a subject of great complexity, the National Theatre has asked four of the most distinct and exciting playwrights in British theatre to collaborate on a new piece of documentary theatre. The team has spent six months interviewing key individuals from the worlds of science, politics, business and philosophy in an effort to understand our changing relationship with the planet. Greenland combines the factual and the theatrical as several separate but connected narratives collide to form a provocative response to the most urgent questions of our time. | |||||
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Letters From The Goblin Market | ||
| 1st Produced: | Out Of Twig / Arcola Theatre | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129865 | |||
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Genre: | devised | |||||
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Notes: | devised/collaborative work | |||||
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Literary Ball, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Upstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129856 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | International Rough Cut | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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One in Five | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre - Upstart / Young Vic bar | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74472 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | One in five people faces a shameful death. Five nameless characters explore a landscape of insecurities and neuroses in this play by Penelope Skinner. Within a framework of disturbing statistics, this play narrates five tales of love, pain and the conflicts of modern life. | |||||
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Runaround, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129863 | |||
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Genre: | devised | |||||
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Notes: | devised/collaborative work | |||||
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Scarlet's Circus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre, Michael Frayn Space, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3EU >>> | 2010 | ||||
Company: | Heat and Light Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129855 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Play for Hampstead Theatre's young company | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Sound Of Heavy Rain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Crucible Theatre, Sheffield | 40863 | ||||
Company: | Paines Plough | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133879 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Cabaret singer Foxie O'Hara disappeared the same night that her best friend Maggie Brown became engaged. Desperate to find her friend Maggie hires a private detective. The more he digs in to the case the darker things become - so he ends up wondering not where is Foxie - but who is Foxie | |||||
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Stationary | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre - Start Night | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129860 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Traces | ||
| 1st Produced: | The North Wall, Oxford, Oxfordshire | 10 Jul 2009 | ||||
Company: | National Youth Theatre with Future Perfect 2009, Paines Plough | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115276 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Written by Lucinda Cardey, Laura Lomas, Penelope Skinner, Adam Taylor, Danielle Sibley and Tom Wells | |||||
Synopsis: | It's the hottest day of the year. Leanne returns home to a small town in search of the past. Meet the frappuccino-swilling Goth, the young girl longing to meet her idol, the guitar-playing agoraphobic, and the man just looking for love, as they come together on a day that will change all their lives forever. | |||||
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Untitled Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sheffield | 2011 | ||||
Company: | Paines Plough / Sheffield Theatres in association with Bush Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129857 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Part of the Roundabout Season | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Village Bike, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Upstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 24 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571279487 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125761 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Penelope Skinner won the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright 2011 | |||||
| Becky's pregnant and frustrated. But her husband is more interested in the baby manual than her new underwear so she turns to the porn stash under the bed. As the summer heats up, a brief encounter sends her speeding downhill towards reckless abandon. A provocative and darkly comic look at fantasy and romance. | |||||
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