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New for 2009 - 2010
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.

What's New?

 Theatre

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 will be 3 performances on the last Wednesday of July, August and September, at 8pm at Proud Cabaret, No 1. Mark Lane, London EC3R 7AH

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

Gaby goes Global.

Synopsis: Multi-award winning playwright Judy Upton takes a wry and mischievous look at the benefits system, and the world of fine art. Gaby is a downtrodden employment advisor at the Benefit Delivery Centre (aka the Job Centre). She tries to get rich by promoting the struggling artists who sign on. But it is Gaby who grabs all the attention - with the sort of exposure she hadn't bargained for...

A new production of Gaby Goes Global will be produced at the New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, Brighton BN1 2PT from the 6th to the 13th of November 2010, directed by Ian Black.

Ashes and Sand.

RADA will be performing full length drama Ashes And Sand during November and December, dates to be confirmed.

Radio.

'The Man Inside The Suitcase' was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on May 20th 2009, at 2.15pm

Two friends attend auctions of unclaimed airline luggage hoping to find designer clothes to sell on the internet, involving themselves in the precarious business of other people's private lives.

Details are on the Radio and TV Drama page.

Film.

Exposed.

EXPOSED, Judy's ten minute screenplay that won production funding as one of the Film Council/Screen South's Digital Shorts has been short this summer 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…

'Exposed' had an industry screening at BAFTA on Wednesday 10th February 2010.

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.

Tickets: £10

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.

The aim of the event is to create something totally distinctive for Durham which will be a major theatrical and creative landmark for 2010. These productions will be a compelling visitor draw for local, national and international audiences, whilst celebrating creativity and community within County Durham.

Produced by The Gala Theatre.
Artistic director Simon Stallworthy

The plays and writers are: Heaven’s Got Talent -Gavin Williams
God’s Day Off - Ian McMillan
Creation and Fall - Em Whitfield Brooks (community opera)
Cain and Abel - Fred and Ellen Pethean
Noah and the Fludd - David Almond
Abraham and Isaac - Toby Hulse
The Nativity - Tin Arts (dance)
Lazarus - Judy Upton
The Crucifixion - Tim Harrison
The Harrowing of Hell - Chris Hannan

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?

Take Six.

In association with Adur Arts Forum:

An hour-long feast of drama and comedy! Rehearsed readings of short plays by Liz Coward, Thomas Everchild, Philippa Hammond, Trevor Harvey, Louise Monaghan and Judy Upton.
12 (noon) - 1.00 Saturday17th October 2009. ADMISSION FREE (retiring collection) Shoreham Methodist Church, Brunswick Road, Shoreham by Sea

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).

Our Ship’s whatever you want it to be – global capitalism, planet Earth, or a government of your choice – though we do know this, it’s going down, fast. But the band plays on... We'd love to see you at some no-budget workshop performances specifically intended to attract an industry audience, to raise funds for further development and to put in place a full professional tour.

Cabaret on a Sinking Ship will be performed for a week in Brighton, during the week of the Labour Party Conference, and will be open to the public.

Directed by: Vincent O'Connell
Musical Director: Edana Minghella
Written by: Kefi Chadwick, Suhayla El-Bushra, Vincent O'Connell, Melissa Perkins, Mike Sells, Chris Taylor and Judy Upton

Performance dates: Industry Night: Tuesday 29 October 2009
Other performances: Sat 26 September - Fri 2 October 7pm, Sat 3 Oct 7pm and 10pm. Sun 4 Oct 4pm and 7pm

Nightingale Theatre 29 Surrey Street, Brighton, BN1 3PA (Opposite Brighton Station)

Making Waves.

A premiere of a musical produced by L’Ouverture at Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London

Creative Director Ken Breinburg
Musical director Mike King
Choreographer Kelechi Nwanokwu
Songs by members of the cast and William and Marie South

Synopsis: Kellie is on a journey to find her true identity. TJ thinks he has met the girl of his dreams. But when it rains something sinister stalks the streets of South London.

Cast of 13 – 18 year olds

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

Know Your Rights.

A new production of Know Your Rights in The Preston One Act Theatre Festival (promoted by The Broughton Players) at the Playhouse Theatre, Market Street, Preston, 23rd - 27th June 2009.

Bruises

Stichting Theatergroep Raamwerk in the Netherlands produced 'Bruises' in a Dutch language production in February 2010.

Cast: Laura Dekker, Peter Fousert, Piet van Gogh, Ellen van der Graaf, Evelien Snippe
Director: Hanneke van der Molen

Push The Button

This short play was in the Steyning Festival Theatre Trail 2, Sunday June 7th 2009.

Presented by The Company
Director - Matt Devitt
Cast: Libby - Cal Jaggers; Jake - Kieran Garland

The play premiered at the Hotbed festival in Cambridge in 2008, and more details are on the Festivals 2008 page.

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.

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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