Sarah Milton - Lucy Light and Tumble Tuck

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Series: Modern Plays

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LUCY LIGHT

Lucy Light began its journey on the week long HighTide Writers Academy 2015, in association with Chichester Festival Theatre. Sarah Milton wrote the last scene first whilst attending the academy. This scene was showcased at the HighTide Festival in Aldeburgh that same year. Following this, Sarah began writing the rest of the play.

In May 2016, Lucy Light was one of the top six submitted plays to the Steyning Festival, West Sussex, and it received a professional reading. Its cast were Sarah Milton and Laura Schofield.

Its first full professional production was at the Theatre N16, in September 2017 and ran for three weeks. Theatre N16s 2017 production was directed by Scott Ellis and performed by Bebe Sanders and Georgia May Hughes.

This play text is produced alongside Milroyds new and exciting production of the show at the Vault Festival 2019, in association with The Production Exchange and in aid of The Eve Appeal.

Created in 2018 by Sarah Milton and Emmy Rose, Milroyd puts female narratives and creatives at the forefront.

The Production Exchange is a charity whose objective is to support, mentor and offer opportunity to early career practitioners in the creative industries.

In recent years they have produced and managed a number of projects including The School for Scandal (Red Handed Theatre Company at the Park Theatre); Sikes and Nancy (Trafalgar Studios and national tour); Emily The Making of a Militant Suffragette (national tour); The Lighthouse (Jerwood Space); Bombers Moon (Engine House in association with the Park Theatre at Trafalgar Studios); Phoenix Rising (Tristan Bates Theatre); Nadya (Park Theatre); Lady Anna: All At Sea (Park Theatre and national tour); Emma (national tour).

Pantomimes include Jack and the Beanstalk (Key Theatre, Peterborough); Aladdin and Cinderella (The Riverfront, Newport); Beauty and the Beast (Sutton Coldfield Town Hall).

In addition the organisation has mentored a number of emerging companies and producers including Out of Spite Theatre, Merely Theatre, Time Zone Theatre, Two Bit Classics, Guttersnipe Theatre and Dragonboy Productions.

The company also operates an agency for actors and other creative artists and is always interested in any approach for its services. Further details of the work undertaken can be found on the website www.theproductionexchange.com

Lucy Light is being presented in aid of The Eve Appeal. The Eve Appeal is the only UK national charity raising awareness and funding research into the five gynaecological cancers ovarian, womb, cervical, vaginal and vulval.

The Eve Appeal was set up to save womens lives by funding ground-breaking research focused on developing effective methods of risk prediction, earlier detection and developing screening for these women-only cancers.

https://eveappeal.org.uk

Sarah Milton | Writer

Sarah is a writer and performer based in Brighton. She trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts on the BA (Hons) Acting course, on a full scholarship, graduating in 2012.

Sarah is alumni of Lyric Hammersmith (2013), Soho Theatre (2014/15), Hightide (2015) and RADA Advances in Script Writing 2015. Sarah was one of ten young writers selected to work with The Royal Court on their Open Court Festival 2016. Her audio play The Flower Show ran for three weeks at The Royal Court during July 2016, and her play The Night Tella was presented in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, as part of the festival. She performed The Night Tella.

Sarahs one woman play Tumble Tuck, in which she stars, was placed highly on the Soho Theatres Verity Bargate 2015 Award list. It was presented by the Old Vic New Voices at Wilderness Festival in August 2016, and then the Soho Theatre in the Soho Rising season during October 2016. Back Here! Theatre produced Tumble Tuck for The Underbelly in Edinburgh 2017 where it received rave reviews. It transferred to the Kings Head Theatre in April 2018 as the headline show of their Who Runs The World? festival and gained top reviews as well as an Off West End Award 2018 nomination for Best Performance Piece.

Sarahs play Fledglings received a reading at the Criterion Theatre in Londons West End in November 2018. She was nominated for a 2019 Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Award in the Stage to Screen category for Tumble Tuck. As this goes to print, Sarah is one of twelve writers (out of 2,800 applicants) on the 2019 Channel 4 Screenwriting programme led by Philip Shelley.

Lauren Dickson | Director

Lauren trained on the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Young Directors Programme. She graduated with an MA Theatre Directing, from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 2018.

Lauren is a director from Liverpool with particular interest in plays with a sociopolitical edge, physical theatre and working with new writing.

Lauren studied drama at university, going on to be a part of the Everyman and Playhouse emerging directors scheme where she worked closely with renowned directors and directed Alice Birchs