Details for theatres/productions.
Judy's back catalogue of award winning plays are available for production worldwide, at very reasonable rates. This page gives the key information about each play, to help find the right play for you.
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Ashes and Sand.
Winner of The George Devine Award 1994
Available in Judy Upton: Plays 1 - from Methuen
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Synopsis: 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.
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Length: 90 minutes
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Cast: Six.
4 females: all teenage; 2 males, 1- late 20s; 1 - 40s.
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Check out the review page.
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The Ballad of a Thin Man.
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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.
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Length: 80 minutes
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Cast: Four.
2 females: both 30's; 2 males: 1 - 30s, 1 - 50s
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Read the reviews.
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Bruises.
Winner of the Verity Bargate Award 1994
Available as a Methuen paperback.
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Synopsis: 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.
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Length: 90 minutes
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Cast: Five.
3 females: 1 teenage, 2 - 40s; 2 male: 1 - 20s, 1 - 40's
- Read the review page.
- Confidence.
Available as a Methuen paperback.
- Synopsis: 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.
- Length: 120 minutes
- Cast: Five.
2 females: 1 - 19yrs, 1 - 20's; 3 males: 1 - 40's, 1 - 20's, 1 - teenage.
- Read the reviews.
- Everlasting Rose.
Part of the London New Play Festival. Selected for their anthology "The Best of the Fest".
- Synopsis: Terrified of ageing, a caravan
casanova changes wives every decade, until a woman of the 90's challenges his delusory routine.
- Length: 40 minutes
- Cast: Three.
1 female: 1 - 20s; 2 males: 1- 40's, 1 - 20's
- Check out the review page.
- The Girlz.
- Synopsis: Tara and Stacey do everything together - clubbing, fighting, and skivving off school. The only difference between them is their sex lives - and the rumours spreading about Stacey begin to worry Tara.
- Length: 50 minutes
- Cast: Five.
3 females: - all teenage; 2 males: 1 - 20s, 1 - 40s
- Check out the review page.
- Hotmail from
Helsinki
- Synopsis:
Running away from home, hiding in the hold of a cargo ship, we meet two
young people, Lucy and Cesir. They come from different countries, have run
away for different reasons, and have different goals in life - and yet
they become very close friends.
- Length:
60 minutes
- Cast:
Five.
- Know Your Rights.
Available in Judy Upton: Plays 1 -
from Methuen
- Synopsis: 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 accidently trips up Jane.
- Length: 20 minutes
- Cast: Two.
2 females: 1 - 60s, 1 - 20s
- Read the reviews of this play
- People on the River.
Available in Judy Upton: Plays 1 - from
Methuen
- Synopsis: 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?
- Length: 90 minutes
- Cast: Nine.
5 females: 1 - 20s, 2 - 20s/30s, 2 - 40s/50s; 4 males: 2 - 20s, 2 - 30s
- Check out the review page.
- Pig in the Middle.
Written for a schools tour (hence a lack of reviews).
- Synopsis: Set in the near future, "Pig in the Middle" explores the
moral, ethical, and medical minefield of animal to human transplants.
- Length: 70 minutes
- Cast: Four.
3 females: 1 - teenage, 1 - 30s, 1 - 40s; 1 male: teenage.
- The
Shorewatchers' House.
Available (with Bruises), as a Methuen paperback.
- Synopsis: 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.
- Length: 90 minutes
- Cast: Four.
2 females: 1 - 30s, 1 - 20s; 2 males: both 30's - Read the reviews.
- Sliding
with Suzanne.
Available as a
Methuen Paperback.
A Time Out Critics Choice.
- Synopsis:
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?
- Length: 90
minutes
- Cast: Six.
3 females: 1 - teenage,
1 - 30s, 1 - 50s; 3
males: 2 - teenage, 1 -
50s
- Check
out the review page.
Available in Judy
Upton: Plays 1. from Methuen
Synopsis: 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.
Length: 40 minutes
Cast: Two.
1 female - 30s; 1 male - 50s
Check out the review page.
- Sunspots.
A Time Out Critics Choice.
Available in Judy Upton:
Plays 1. from Methuen
- Synopsis: 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 on Cyprus. But Sam has collapsed, and the ambulance is strangely absent...
- Length: 90 minutes
- Cast: Four.
2 females: both 20s; 2 males: 1 - 20s, 1 - 40s
- Check out the review page.
- Team
Spirit.
- Synopsis:
Tania Travers is a strong, independent yachtswoman favourite to win a
prestigious race single-handed between Plymouth and Halifax Nova Scotia in
the yacht, Team Spirit. On shore, Tania's boyfriend and her sponsors are
manically choreographing the newspapers, tv, radio and internet into a
frenzy ensuring that her achievement is a talking point across the world. Out in the Atlantic though, the constant stream of emails, phone
calls, and faxes is becoming intrusive, and the 24 hour webcam has turned
Team Spirit into a floating Big Brother
- Length:
90 minutes
- Cast:
A variable large cast
(suitable for youth theatre)
- Temple.
- 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.
- Length: 70 minutes
- Cast: Four. (and 2 dancers depending on the production).
2 females: 1 - 20s, 1 - 30's; 2 males: both 30s - Check out the review page.
- To Blusher With Love.
Winner of the Open Stages competition.
- 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 fan. The interrogation of the fan,
Abbie, is intercut with scenes from her one-sided affair with her idol. More of a who-done-what than a
whodunnit?
- Length: 80 minutes
- Cast: Three.
2 females: 1 - teenage, 1 - 40s; 1 male: - 20s
- Check out the review page.
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