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Beth Flintoff

BETH FLINTOFF

  
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Beth Flintoff is a playwright and theatre director. Her plays include The Glove Thief (2017, commissioned by Tonic Theatre Company as part of their Platform scheme in association with Nick Hern Books); Matilda the Empress (Reading Between the Lines, Reading, 2017); and Greenham: One Hundred Years of War and Peace (a large-scale site specific performance piece performed on Greenham Common in September 2017). She was the founding Artistic Director of new-writing fringe ensemble Debut Theatre Company, and was Outreach Director at The Watermill Theatre in Berkshire

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below is a list of Beth Flintoff's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Finding Victoria         Glove Thief, The         Hardboiled - The Fall of Sam Shadow         Matilda, The Empress         Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Finding Victoria

Synopsis:
Queen Victoria's early years in Kensington Palace

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Glove Thief, The

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The play is set in the year 1569, and Elizabeth I is Queen of England. With no heir to the throne, political unrest is growing. Elizabeth has spies everywhere, and there are rumours of threats against her life, which begin to centre on her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. When Mary arrives in England, escaping Scotland in fear for her life, Elizabeth sends her to Tutbury Castle, the home of Bess of Hardwicke, once the richest woman in England. Is Mary a guest, there for her own safety, or is she Elizabeths prisoner? In the play, the three most powerful women in England are seen through the eyes of an ordinary young girl, Rose. When Rose is accused of stealing, Bess steps in and takes her into her household, on condition that Rose spies on Mary for Queen Elizabeth. Rose must spend her days sewing with Mary and her attendants. Sewing is a subversive and escapist act: for Rose, it is an art form and a chance to break away from her background; for Bess, it is an expression of her love and loss, and liberation from her marriage; and for Mary, it might literally be her way out of captivity.

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1st Produced:
Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance at Ugly Duck, London     15 June 2017

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Tonic Theatre Company as part of their Platform scheme 

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books   

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Genre:
historical drama

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Male:  4            Female:  12            Other:  -

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Hardboiled - The Fall of Sam Shadow

Synopsis:
A man with ice where his heart should be, hurt more times than hed care to count, with a list of enemies longer than a giraffes neck; whisky soaked, wise-cracking Private Investigator Sam Shadow is the most hardboiled of them all and he doesnt care who knows it.Then the beautiful Scarlett Crawford sashays into his office and knocks him out of the park. She brings him what seems like the routine case of a missing sister. But there are no ordinary cases in this town, and this is no ordinary dame. Like a greyhound chasing a fake rabbit, Shadows investigation leads him into an underworld of double crosses, car chases, gangsters and Police Chiefs. This is a case with more twists than a Chinese burn, and who knows whats around the next corner?

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Adapted by Rhum and Clay Theatre Company and Beth Flintoff as a dynamic, fast paced homage to the classic film noir gangster films of the 1940s

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piece

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Matilda, The Empress

Synopsis:
Matilda and King Stephen battle over who should reign over England

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Historical drama

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Synopsis:
While the good Doctor Jekyll goes about his quiet business healing the sick in Victorian London, the evil Mr Hyde runs around at night doing frankly disgraceful things. What is the connection between them? What is upsetting all the servants? And why does Dr Jekyll seem so anxious to protect Mr Hyde? the acclaimed up-and-coming all-male company Rhum and Clay bring their comic sense of the absurd to this classic story, and together with the Watermill, lures you down a dark Victorian alley to delve into the underbelly of London and see what on earth you might discover.

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Adapted from novel by Robert Louis Stevenson by Rhum and Clay theatre Company and Beth Flintoff

1st Produced:
East Garston Village Hall, Newbury     14 May 2013

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Rhum and Clay Theatre Company

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