Girlz/Know Your Rights

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Plot Synopsis: Tara and Stacey do everything together - clubbing, fighting and skiving off school. The only difference between them is their sex lives - and the rumours spreading about Stacey begin to worry Tara.

When Tara starts putting pressure on Stacey to sleep with Shaun, Stacey faces some tough questions - but when things go badly wrong, it is Tara who has to find an answer.

Original Production Details
Date: March 1998
Venue: The Room, Richmond Orange Tree
Director: George Ormond
Designer: Tim Meacock

Cast (1998):
Mr Kelsey	Kenneth Harvey
Tara	Heidi James
Stacey	Nicky Marks
Roxanne	Hilary Perkins
Shaun	Danny Spring

Comments:

Set featured a real brick wall and lots of bottles of perfume.
Read the reviews - follow this link.
The play was revived October-November 2007 in the main house of the Orange Tree.
The contrasting flyers from the two productions are now shown above.

Know Your Rights.

Plot 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 accidentally trips up Jane...

Original Production Details
Date: May 1998
Venue: The Red Room at Battersea Arts Centre
Director: Lisa Goldman

Cast:
Jane	Frances Cuka
Bonnie	Noma Dumezweni

Comments:

Part of the Red Room's political "Seeing Red" season.
The 4th premiere of one of Judy's plays to be directed by Lisa Goldman
Follow this link to see the parts of the "Seeing Red" season's reviews that deal with Judy's play.
One of the plays in Judy Upton Plays:1 from Methuen.
May 2008: Performance of 'Know Your Rights' at The Angel Pub, Preston, Lancs.
A new production of this play in The Preston One Act Theatre Festival (promoted by The Broughton Players) at the Playhouse Theatre, Market Street, Preston, 23rd - 27th June 2009.

Short cuts to Judy's other play pages.

Plays (Page 1) - Everlasting Rose/Ashes and Sand
Plays (page 2) - Temple/The Shorewatchers' House
Plays (Page 3) - Bruises/Stealing Souls
Plays (Page 4) - Sunspots/People on the River
Plays (Page 5) - To Blusher with Love/Pig in the Middle
Plays (Page 6) - The Girlz/Know Your Rights (this page)
Plays (Page 7) - Confidence/The Ballad of a Thin Man
Plays (Page 8) - Sliding with Suzanne/Hotmail from Helsinki
Plays (Page 9) - Team Spirit/Grandma was a Mermaid
Plays (page 10) - Echoes and Shadows

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