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Hannah Jane Walker

HANNAH JANE WALKER  

 Nationality:    British
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Hannah Jane Walker is a poet from Cambridge and Essex. She studied literature at the University of East Anglia and poetry at Newcastle University. She has performed all over the UK and abroad, most recently Australia and Germany. She has started to make theatre, namely off a stage. The second show, a collaboration with Chris Thorpe called 'The Oh Fuck Moment' was awarded a Fringe First 2011. She also works as an arts project manager, having worked in the education team at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and currently working for live literature development organisation Apples and Snakes, runs writing workshops in schools and community groups and programmes poetry events.
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below is a list of Hannah Jane Walker's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Oh Fuck Moment, The     This Is Just To Say     Torycore

Oh Fuck Moment, The

Synopsis:
In this unique, Fringe First winning theatrical experience, poet Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe explore the universally-known feeling that dawns when a huge mistake has been made. Set around an office table - the scene of so many oh fuck moments, audiences are invited to share their own mortifying slip-ups as Chris and Hannah examine the poetic guts of mistakes in a bundle of words and strip lighting. An oh fuck moment is the truest, funniest, most terrifying of feelings. Sometimes, mistakes are so great that there is no way back. But they also help us learn and appreciate what it means to feel human.

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written by Hannah Jane Walker And Chris Thorpe

1st Produced:
Edinburgh fringe festival    Aug 2011

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This Is Just To Say

Synopsis:
Hannah Jane Walker is a serial apologist. Saying sorry is conversational ellipsis. Saying sorry is social glue. We use it to make people like us. But what if you want to apologise and mean it This is just to say is about Britishness, politics, religion and family This is just to say is a conversation about hope, love and winning This is just to say is live art, performance poetry and extremely good company An intimate audience piece for 12-15 people set around a table.

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devised by Hannah Jane Walker And Chris Thorpe

1st Produced:
Forest Fringe    2010

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Torycore

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part of Forest Fringe curated by Chris Thorpe

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