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KATE SAFFIN
(1953 - )Nationality: British
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Kate Saffin was born in 1953 in Northamptonshire and had one career in the NHS before embarking on a second one as a writer and solo performer. As a boat dweller and lover of canals many of her plays are based on or around the waterways.
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below is a list of Kate Saffin's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Boat's Yer Whole World, A Finding Libby Isobel's War Now is the Winter Other Mary Rose, TheBoat's Yer Whole World, A
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Adapted from Sheila Stewart's novel, Ramlin Rose, this excellent one-woman show tells the tale of Rose, a boatwoman on the Oxford canal - once an important freight route from the Midlands to the South. Set between the end of the First World War and the end of the Second, when the canals briefly thrived before their final swansong in the 1950s, A Boat's Yer Whole World is a love story between Rose and her husband, Siah (Josiah), and also between her and the river that is both home and livelihood. Love sustains the couple and helps them to survive years of intense hardship and suffering on the open water - aptly, one of their boats is named the Perseverance.
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Top of PageFinding Libby
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When dowdy Pauline is talked into a canal boat holiday all she wants is a quiet time with no surprises. Performing her own script, Kate Saffin has created a warm and witty play about a waterways journey that takes an unexpected turn: Pauline's past of stifling respectability, illicit love and the 60s that didn't swing comes back to haunt her but she discovers that it is never too late for a fresh start. - See more at: http://www.assemblyfestival.com/event.php?id=561#sthash.f92QQhoe.dpuf
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Baillie Room - Assembly Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
01 Aug 2013
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Alarum Theatre
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Top of PageIsobel's War
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WWII saw plenty of people learning things they never thought they would do - but none more so than those who joined and learned a whole new way of life on the working boats. Isobel decides there are better ways to spend the war than worrying about her RAF husband. She joins the 'trainees' and finds a world she didn't know existed - as well as lots of coal, calamities and cocoa! Isobel and the others are entirely fictional but draw on the experiences recorded by, among others, Susan Woolfit in Idle Women and Eily Gayford 'the Amateur Boatwomen' as well as the memories of a former trainee, Iris, and my neighbour Rose Skinner, a working boatwoman throughout the war.
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Oxfringe
01 Apr 2009
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Top of PageNow is the Winter
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A reworking of Shakespeare's Richard III to present the story from the perspective of an imaged servant, Bess. The result brings different shades of meaning to the original text and challenges Shakespeare's view of Richard - through the medium of his own text. Is not a potted version of Shakespeare's play but a very different look at an enigmatic, perhaps maligned, but definitely significant historical figure.
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Oxfringe
01 Apr 2010
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Top of PageOther Mary Rose, The
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A lighthearted solo play based on the allegedly true story of two women who ran a brothel, legally. One of them, Maureen, returns to the spot where, thanks to a law long forgotten but still on the statute book that allowed a brothel on a boat as long as there were no more than two customers on board at any one time. The result was (apparently) a queue on the towpath. However, the local constabulary were less keen and set about finding ways to deal with their unwelcome entrepeneurs.
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Iwa National Festival, St Ives
01 Aug 2007
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