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New for 2011 - 2012
A Frequently updated list of forthcoming events.

The aim of this page is to keep website visitors up to date with Judy's new projects.
New Link: The Diversity Website. This website has a large interesting section on BBC radio plays, with details of playwrights, reviews and articles. There is a page for Judy's radio drama on the site.
New Page: An Ashes and Sand film gallery has been added to the site.
New Page: A page about the Horses of Crossness has been added.
New Page: Plays (page 10) - Echoes and Shadows - Details of Judy's play about her home town produced in January 2008.
 New Page: Details of three new short plays produced for festival theatre in 2008.
New Page: A new short story - The Pearl Necklace.
2011 New Page: Dickens' Got Talent - A circus show for all the family. Pictures from the show at Dickens World.
2011 New Page: Cabaret on a Sinking Ship - A media gallery featuring pictures from the production.

What's New?

Check out the new Dickens' Got Talent page.

Short Film "Exposed" was screened in the Short Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival. See below for more details.

Theatre

DUSA

A 15 minute comedy play. Medusa hopes new contact lenses will be the answer to her stoney stares, while an art gallery is interested in the very life-like sculptures in her garden. Perhaps her life won't be a Greek tragedy after all.

Produced by Cahoots Theatre Company on 30th and 31st March 2012 at The Century Theatre, Ashby Road, Coalville, Leicestershire LE67 3LN as part of an evening of new drama.

THE CHRISTMAS GOAT

  

Synopsis: Strange goings on in a busy shopping mall before Christmas. Who has stolen the animatronic nodding reindeer?

Winter 2011/12: Judy's festive comedy "The Christmas Goat" is to be produced by Wild Orchid Theatre as part of "Yuletide Cheer and Festive Tales" - first at Cromford Mill, Derbyshire on 3rd December, and then at Sharpe's Pottery Museum on 10th December 2011

ASHES AND SAND

A new production of Ashes and Sand was staged by RADA for their Autumn 2011 season, between 24th November and 3rd December.

UNDONE.

Rehearsed reading of short comedy play 'Undone' at Shoreham-by-Sea Community Centre as part of Shoreham Wordfest 2011 Friday September 30th
Cast: Imogen Muller Porter as Celine, Jody Bull as David and Roger Deller as the psychiatrist

Fiction.

July 2011 - Judy's short story 'Would You, Could you?' will be published in a future issue of The Yellow Room magazine.
July 2011 - Judy's short story 'Crying Wolf' was published in the summer 2011 issue of downloadable 'zine Pages Of Stories.

BREATH OF FRESH AIR - BELTON PARK PROJECT.

    

As part of the Breath of Fresh Air programme Judy has been commissioned by Theatre Writing Partnership to create a downloadable interactive narrative for the National Trust property Belton Park in Grantham, which will launch in the spring.

"Who lives here? Find out in the spring."

Radio.

JELLY BABES.

A new Radio play, Jelly Babes, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday April 13th 2011, at 2.15pm.

Directed by Gemma Jenkins

CAST:
Shanice – Sally Orrock
Becky - Nadine Marshall
Evie – Jane Whittenshaw
Club Manager – David Seddon
Shanice’s Dad – Sam Dale
Alex – Ryan Watson
Tom’s Dad – Henry Devas

 Theatre

Gaby goes Global.
by Judy Upton
directed by Ian Black

Synopsis: A new comedy by Shoreham playwright Judy Upton. First Performed in Wimbledon in 2009. Gaby is an employment advisor looking after Job Seekers. She is transferred for temporary cover from the Worthing to the Brighton office, where she is surprised to find so many unemployed artists. Seeing a marketing opportunity, Gaby works with a group of artists to their mutual advantage. However she doesn't plan for the full devious nature and entrepreneurial extremes of some of the group and without her knowledge she becomes an overnight worldwide celebrity.

Not suitable for children.

At the New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, Brighton, 6–13 November 2010

Details of this play can be found on the Gaby goes Global page, and there is also a media gallery featuring pictures from the original production (pictures copyright Trish Gant - see www.trishgant.com)

Push the Button.

Synopsis: An unexpected loss of control changes everything. Can mortal enemies Libby and Jake give peace a chance?

Spilt Milk will be performing short comedy 'Push The Button' as part of their Summer at the Milk Club Show at Proud Cabaret in London.
Directed by Nicola Rockhill
Fight director Toby Spearpoint

There were 3 performances on the last Wednesday of July, August and September 2010 at Proud Cabaret,

For more details: www.spiltmilktheatre.com or www.proudcabaret.com

Film.

Exposed.

EXPOSED, Judy's ten minute screenplay that won production funding as one of the Film Council/Screen South's Digital Shorts was shot in the summer of 2009 in Porchester and Fareham. It was directed by Sue Dunderdale and produced by Diane Shorthouse.

‘Exposed’ is the story of Erin, a shy young woman who steals photographs in order to allow her to start conversations with other people. Erin has been bereaved and people don’t know what to say to her. Snatching photos from the digital developer in her local pharmacy gives her a number of fictional relatives, friends, boyfriends, babies and pets to talk to strangers about. But Adam, a young assistant in the pharmacy has noticed her stealing the photos…

Television.

Judy has been awarded a Research and Development Grant from PAWS (Public Awareness Of Science & Engineering) to develop her TV series idea 'Tooth And Claw' with Film & General.

 Theatre (cont).

Noctropia.

Book by Judy Upton
Score by Oliver Searle

As Part of Hampstead Theatre’s Daring Pairings 3

MAIN STAGE, HAMPSTEAD THEATRE, WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER 2009, 9.30pm

A surreal fantasia following the author of a wildly successful comic-book series, who lives out his dreams of empowerment through the fictional world of his own creating. All is well… until his creations break through to the real world.

Hampstead Theatre invites the Musical Theatre students of Central School of Speech and Drama to take to the main stage with extracts of this brand new musical in development, with book by Judy Upton and score by Oliver Searle.

Durham Mysteries 2010.

Ten new plays by ten writers in Durham's first cycle of the Mysteries since the Middle Ages. At locations in the city of Durham. 27th - 29th May 2010.

Details of this play are now on the Durham mysteries page.

Cabaret on a Sinking Ship.

Seven writers create a new Weimar style cabaret for modern Britain.

New Writing South in association with The Nightingale Theatre present Cabaret on a Sinking Ship (a work in progress).

Flick To Kick.

A premiere By Judy Upton and Matt Merritt

Produced by the Menagerie Theatre Company as part of Cambridge Hotbed Festival 2009 The Junction, Clifton Way, Cambridge Saturday June 27th - Saturday July 4th 2009

'Fathers, sons, and a serious game of subbuteo.' A forty-five minute monologue.
Performed by Gary Mackay.
Directed by Paul Bourne
Designer Helen Stewart

Swoop.

A short play about a girl and an owl. Swoop was part of "Paper Planes" at The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton on Saturday June 6th, 2009.

Produced by Suhayla El-Bushra & Samreen Masood
Directed by David Sheppeard
Cast: Kezra - Natasha Lamper; Greg - Emil Marwa

2008 was a busy summer for Judy with premieres of 3 new short plays in 3 Festivals. You can now read about them on the Festivals 2008 page.

Watch this space for upcoming productions and projects in development.

PENSIONED OFF.
Synopsis: Nola is a retired judge. One day her friend Brogan disappears, and he's not the only unexplained disappearance. Is there a sinister explanation?

ONCE AROUND THE SUN.
Synopsis: Once Around the Sun is set in a London station cafe, the scene of a bombing exactly a year earlier. Six people meet; all have some connection to the bombing, and all have things to hide. As the play unfolds, both personal and political secrets are revealed. Is it possible for the anniversary of the explosion to act as a catalyst for positive change, either for these individuals, or for society?
Won the Jack Langford for best full length play at the Portsmouth Third Playwrights' Conference in May 2006.

REPAIRING THE DAMAGE.
Synopsis: A fire has left a gaping hole in the roof of a house. The builders arrive to start the repairs, but find the occupants are even more damaged than the building.
This new stage play had a Rehearsed reading at Sound, Wardour St, London, on November 2nd 2005.

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