LOCKDOWN TALES.
Since the start of the Corona Virus pandemic in March 2020, Judy
has been writing a series of monologues, short plays and stories,
featuring people living under the lockdown.
Here are links to the films or short stories already filmed or published online.
Moths is a monologue about a cleaner working during the pandemic.
For a review of this monologue head to https://www.ayoungertheatre.com/review-light-on-showcase-lights-down-productions/
SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED
Produced as a short film by National e Theatr April 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwie5MxGjd4&feature=youtu.be
Actor: Alice Merivale, director: Jessica Mensah, producer: Barry McStay
Reviewed by Simon Jenner for Fringe Review here:
http://fringereview.co.uk/review/fringereview-uk/2020/signed-sealed-delivered/
As a short story, published in:
Untitled: Voices Literary Journal.
Available from: https://www.untitledwriting.co.uk/voices
THE WHITE HART
Produced as a short film by Lights Down Productions. June 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUJiAvf1piA
Scenesaver: http://www.scenesaver.co.uk/production/the-white-hart/
Actor: Jodyanne Fletcher Richardson, director: Leah Townley, producer Caley Powell
WINNER OF ONLINE ONCOMM COMMENDATION 10/7/20
For best work broadcast or screened during Covid 19 crisis.
http://offies.london/oncomm/
4 Star review from Elaine Chapman here:
https://theatreandartreviews.wordpress.com/2020/06/27/the-white-hart-judy-upton/
4 Star review from A Younger Theatre here:
https://www.ayoungertheatre.com/review-light-on-showcase-online/
Rehearsed reading on Radio Reverb’s
Sapphic Voices show, 9pm, Sunday June 21st 2020, Actor: Aileen Archer
www.radioreverb.com
Published as a short story in Stonecrop Review, issue 4
A CAT PROBLEM
Produced as a short film by Write Now Berlin, premiering at 7pm on Friday 31st
July 2020.
Actors: Dylan Baldwin, George Bloomfield, director Emma Jude Harris, Producer
Secil Honeywill
https://www.writenow.berlin/plays/a-cat-problem/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPv-viOPO2bKOesNXsrt2IQ
URBAN FOXES
Produced as a short film by Chalkroots Theatre. May 2020
Actor Jess Kinsey, director Saulius Kovalskas
https://youtu.be/cubuHO8UIC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cubuHO8UIC0
Review at https://loureviews.blog/2020/06/11/lockdown-review-out-of-control
Published as a short story in Amsterdam Quarterly Dec 20 Issue 29 ‘Choices’
http://www.amsterdamquarterly.org/
BUNTING
Published on the ‘Notes From Quarantine’ website:
https://www.notesfromquarantine.co.uk/notesfromquarantine/gldwmkxc3r69f8xp3hegbxwsjadyxp
Produced by Tessa Walker as part of ‘The Covid Monologues’ youtube series,
Premiere at 7pm September 5th 2020 actor: Jeanette Knight
@covid monologue
https://youtu.be/Ys2wPm5OoA0
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1h2168LaqvoZm9gWCx3Bog
SARDINES
Produced and streamed by Turn Point Theatre, 10th September 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BlkfaQwLIc&fbclid=IwAR3chwCNVSKCV4BUWIRpKh3xaQUkkV5eYYziUOIrlK92j4sqjMgNa2LICuA
Published on The Creative Pandemic website: https://www.thecreativepandemic.com/post/guest-writer-judy-upton
BUNNY HOP
Produced as a podcast and zoom reading for ‘How To Be Young Again’, at 1pm July
4th and is a curated part of the Burning Man Festival plus streamed to a
writers’ group via meet up.
Bunny Hop is 24 minutes into the video recording on You Tube -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nj5gytvCGA&t=1847s5
and roughly 25 minutes into the podcast on iTunes -
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lita-doolans-audio-books/id969792403
THE LION
To be produced by Disentangle Theatre
Published in The Thieving Magpie Literary magazine, autumn (fall) 2020 issue
https://thievingmagpie.org/category/fiction/
Long listed for the Staunch Book Awards short story competition.
ANTS AT A PICNIC
Produced as a podcast by The Green Light
Episode 14 The Pandemic Picnic
The Green Light -
greenlight@podbeam.com
Also on Spotify and Itunes
BEES
Premiere on 17th September 2020, as part of the New Moon Monologues
by Queens Of Cups Productions then on Youtube channel:
https://youtu.be/qC6PIcfj5lY
Performed by Ruchika Jain
Published in ‘Wrong Way Go Back’ - Pure Slush 19’ anthology’ Pure Slush
Independent Publishers www.pureslush.com
GOLDFISH
Premiered on You Tube in the Peacock Theatre’s Festival Of Civil Liberties,
produced in conjunction with Writenow Berlin
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEC9eZYSmM1QNvqTOv-x_5Q
FLIES
Produced and streamed by Turn Point Theatre, from 24th September 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xls9GWyAXAk
RABBIT HOLE
Published in Wonky Veg Zine
http://www.wonkyvegtheatre.com/
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