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2007

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Synopsis: The 1984 miners' strike may have been a battle for jobs and coal, but it was principally fought by women - one iron lady versus thousands of wives and mothers who mounted protests, established soup kitchens and joined picket lines in defence of their community. Jane Thornton was there, and vividly recalls leaping over a garden fence to avoid being trampled by a police charge. She first wrote about the experience in Amid the Standing Corn, but her new play applies a historical perspective to examine how the lives of these domestic heroines have developed since the coal industry collapsed. They have grown older for one thing. Women in their 40s and 50s at the height of the struggle are entering their 60s and 70s now, and their experiences are already begin-fling to seem like remote history. The area may no longer have any pits, but it does have shiny retail outlets. Thornton's play presents elderly sisters Joan and Gwen awkwardly cradling complicated drinks in an American coffee franchise. Thornton has a good ear for pensioners' conversation: "Blueberries - they're American an' all. Whatever happened to currants?" Yet gradually the grumbling sisters slough off the years as their memories return to the era before regeneration and retail parks.
- Alfred Hickling, Guardian

Soho Poly, London

1985

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Josef Weinberger, London

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Notes: written with John Godber. From Bram Stoker

Synopsis: A new adaptation of the most chilling story of all time. True to Stoker's original novel, Dracula is a fast-moving multi-layered masterpiece of fear. As a sudden and mysterious storm whips the coast of England, a young woman sleepwalks along the edge of a cliff. In the teeth of the gale, a ship crashes through the harbour entrance, abandoned except for an immense dog and fifty boxes of grave dust. The Transylvanian Count Dracula has arrived in England. Immortal only as long as he is able to drink the blood of the living, he pursues his victims with brutally devastating effect. From the remote wilderness of Yorkshire to a vast ruined castle near to London whose windows omit no light, the race to end Dracula's lustful power is underway, if only there is still time . ..

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Old Red Lion Theatre, London >>>

1988

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Hull Truck

2006

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Joseph Weinberger

2007

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Synopsis: Forty-year old Becky is overweight, under-paid, and at a crossroads in her life, with a husband who takes her for granted. This reflects itself in her reluctance to re-invent what was her mother's hairdressing business, despite threats from the trendy salon across the street. She is convinced that she and her long-time assistant Heidi will see the new salon off. But things take a sudden turn for the worse when Heidi admits she has been offered a job at the rival salon. Will this change Becky's life, or will her self-pity leave her reaching for the chocolates? Funny, touching and effortlessly liberating, it will have you asking yourself - are you really happy being you?

Hull

1985

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Chappell, London

1987

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Synopsis: Every town has its local trendy cocktail bar where everyone wants to be seen, from the local check-out girls to the chinless wonders, from the yuppies to the local lads tittering at the thought of a `long comfortable screw'. We are given a wickedly funny glimpse of this world by the four long-suffering waitresses who work there. Rushed off their feet, underpaid and overworked, they try to smile and help the difficult customers whilst coping with their own personal problems. A fascinating and often hilarious view of the reality which lurks behind the plastic palms and the pina coladas

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1993

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Synopsis: In a not-so-chic London bar called Shakers, we meet Carol, Adele, Nicky and Mel, four friends who have taken to waitressing in desperation but who also have wit and resilience enough to never let any of the colorful characters they come across escape their satire unscathed. In theatrically heightened moments, the women play the roles of men and women alike, covering not only their nights at Shakers but also the lives of four other working women in London. Always at the source of their satire are the men who take them for granted or, worse, abuse them. Against this backdrop of postmodern London life are kaleidoscopic scenes of hilarity and depravity. In intertwining plot threads we follow the waitresses as they confront a possible new owner for the bar and at the same time we follow four shopgirls getting ready for a night on the town. Tart-tongued and irreverent, the lives of all of these women are put in painful perspective by the doubling of their roles which draws attention to the economic and social prejudices affecting all women, not just the fighters we meet at Shakers. Four struggling waitresses try to have a go of it against their customers, bosses and dates alike, using humor, role playing and all out rage to ward off the hopelessness that was Thatcher's London.

Hull: Hull Truck Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2007

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Notes: written by John Godber and Jane Thornton

Synopsis: tells the story of Anja, a young Moldovan girl who is sold to traffickers by a cousin, raped a hundred times and forced to work in a London brothel until she can repay the £20,000 her captors say she owes them.

Greenwich, London

2001

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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Notes: written by John Godber, music by John Pattison; lyrics by Jane Thorton

Synopsis: Touring Production

York: Theatre Royal, England, EUR >>>

2007

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Adaptation

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Notes: from novel by Emily Brontë

Synopsis: deft economical adaptation of classic novel retaining the period piece feel.