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JUDY UPTON (1967 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
Judy has since written many plays for The Red Room, was commissioned by the Royal Court, Out of Joint and Hampstead Theatre. Winner of the 1994 Verity Bargate and George Divine awards and received three Guiness/National Theatre Ingenuity awards.
Plays by Judy Upton
Ashes And Sand | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Frontline Intelligence 3, Methuen Drama, London (Jul 1995) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413694300 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35204 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Hayley's gang of teenage riot girls are on a lust-or-bust rampage in their tired seaside town. Enter a young, hands-on policeman, Daniel, who owns a room full of women's shoes. Daniel and Hayley share a desire for danger, sexual release and the need to fulfil their dreams. How will they solve the confusion between lust and love, violence and tenderness in this cynical world? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ballad Of A Thin Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Margate: Theatre Royal | 15 Feb 2000 | ||||
Company: | Channel Theatre Company Spring Tour | |||||
| 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 | #35205 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | based on the Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer | |||||
Synopsis: | The action centres around the lives of three young people who live, work and play at a ramshackle farmhouse converted into a sound studio. From this isolated base Ian, Carrie, and Jade indulge their dreams of fame and fortune: Until their lives are disrupted by the arrival of McClaine, a rock musician who claims to have worked with all the great names of the sixties. Although the reason for McClaine's visit appears entirely innocent, it is not long before his presence begins to affect the entire household. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bruises | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413704306 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35206 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | winner of the Verity Bargate Award 1992 | |||||
| Beyond the windows of a South Coast boarding house lies a world of violence and pain, a world where a father is passing an inheritance of drunken cruelty onto his son. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cabaret on a Sinking Ship | ||
| 1st Produced: | workshop production, Nightingale Theatre, Brighton | 26 Sep 2009 | ||||
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 | #134785 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Cabaret on a Sinking Ship uses a rousing blend of politics, satire, song, sex and laughter to capture the spirit of the naughty noughties, much in the same way cabaret artists of the 1930s responded to their broken society. Part cabaret, part musical theatre, part straight theatre, Cabaret on a Sinking Ship entertainingly explores the darkness behind the cabaret glitter. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Confidence | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Sep 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413772909 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35207 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Join The schemers and dreamers on the seafront, as another summer season begins. Amongst the paint peeling kiosks on the prom, Ella arrives like an erotic whirlwind, hell-bent on securing the elusive jackpot | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Everlasting Rose | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Aurora Metro Press in Best of the Fest' anthology, 06 Jun 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35208 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | first play | |||||
| Terrified of ageing, a caravan Casanova changes wives every decade, until a woman of the 90's challenges his delusory routine | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gabby Goes Global | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chichester: Minerva Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 6AP >>> | 09 Jun 2005 | ||||
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 | #134786 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A comedy about a Brighton Department for Work and Pensions (formally known as the DSS) Claimant Advisor who decides to manage a group of modern artists who sign on at her office. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Girlz, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Mar 1998 | |||||
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 | #35209 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Tara and Stacey do everything together - clubbing, fighting and skiving off school. The only difference between them is their sex lives - and the rumours spreading about Stacey begin to worry Tara. When Tara starts putting pressure on Stacey to sleep with Shaun, Stacey faces some tough questions - but when things go badly wrong, it is Tara who has to find an answer | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hotmail From Helsinki | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vienna English Theatre | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | limited print for Austrian Schools, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35210 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A play for young people. Two young stowaways in the hold of a cargo ship bound for Helsinki. She is visiting her email penpal Benja (who may not be all she seems), he is a world traveller with a host of exciting tales about his adventures& that seem almost too good to be true. Initially they are suspicious of each other, but as a friendship grows, we learn they a girl desperate to escape bullies at home, and a boy needing to escape from the persecution in his own country. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Know Your Rights | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Red Room at Battersea Arts Centre | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413770202 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35211 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Jane lives below Bonnie and her 3-year-old son Jake. It's the kind of place where neighbours smile and say hallo of a morning. Then one day, on the stairs, Jake accidentally trips up Jane. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Noctropia | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Central School of Speech and Drama collaborate with Hampstead 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 | #100133 | |||
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Genre: | musical theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Oliver Searle | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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People On The River | ||
| 1st Produced: | 27 May 1997 | |||||
Company: | Red Room | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413770202 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35212 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Louise and Nicky meet for the first time on The Marina Walker TV Talk Show, where Nicky gets to perform his new single, "Hit and Run". It could have been under happier circumstances. . . . . Nicky had previously killed Louise's husband in a road accident. What more could a publicist ask for ? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pig In The Middle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Y Touring, Schools tour and the House of Commons | 1998 | ||||
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 | #35213 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in the near future, "Pig in the Middle" explores the moral, ethical, and medical minefield of animal to human transplants | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shorewatchers' Horse, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413704306 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35214 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| The Shorewatchers' House is a violent and passionate love story set by the sea. A nuclear power station looms on the horizon. Three lovers obsessed by fear of destruction play out their fantasies of breaking free. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sliding With Suzanne | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 Aug 2001 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413769701 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35215 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Thirty Five and on the slide, Suzanne does a runner back home to Brighton in search of a new start. But home is a place where big breaks are scarce. And kids grow up - fast. So how do you find what you want in a place like this? And who do you find it with? In financial and emotional despair, Suzanne returns to live with her mother. Instead of finding peace of mind however, her already complicated life becomes even more chaotic. A rocky relationship with her foster son Luka, a one-night stand and having to handle her mother''s boyfriend doesn''t help. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stealing Souls | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413770202 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35216 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Twilight in Rio. Vince has raging toothache. The dentist arrives, a beautiful woman with huge white teeth. . . Stealing Souls is a story of lost love and sanguine revenge | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sunspots | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 May 1996 | |||||
Company: | Red Room | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413770202 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35217 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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| Pola lives in a disused amusement arcade and gets her kicks tagging railways and stealing soap bars from one-night stands. Aimee, who always did the right thing, plans to settle down with Sam in Cyprus. But Sam has collapsed and the ambulance is strangely absent. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record 1966 Page 661 &1198 | |||||
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Team Spirit | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | The Young Company (Plymouth) | |||||
| 1st Published: | in International Connections: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35218 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | part of InterNational Connections at the National Theatre | |||||
Synopsis: | A lone yachtswoman must win a race between Plymouth and Halifax, Nova Scotia to continue to afford to pursue her dreams, but every moment of her journey is relayed by video and internet to the media and the public. Can she weather the publicity storm as well as the worst the weather can throw at her? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Temple | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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 | #35219 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 dancers | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Temple thinks there are a lot of things wrong with his family - except his beloved sister. But she's mysteriously disappeared leaving him to step into her shoes. And to take care of her teenage daughter, Kelly. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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To Blusher With Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | Connaught Theatre, Worthing | 05 Apr 1997 | ||||
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 | #35220 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Man in the Moon Theatre, london 10 Sep 1997 | |||||
Synopsis: | A pop singer disappears in mysterious circumstances. The police have only one clue - a blood stained T-shirt belonging to a 15 year old girl fan. The interrogation of the fan, Abbie, is intercut with flashback scenes from her one-sided affair with her idol. More of a who-done-what than a whodunit ? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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