PROGRESS
Synopsis:
When Kate, the head of the history department, hires a new teacher, everyone loves him - so why does Toby make her so uncomfortable? Set in a struggling school, they battle each other as their classes hurtle towards their examinations. A series of rapid-fire encounters trace the progress of their relationship over the course of an academic year. A darkly funny play about the state of education and class privilege.
Number of Characters: 2
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2
Length (in Pages): 26
Location: A secondary school
Key Words: education, two-hander, comedy-drama, festival play
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
\'I really enjoyed this piece, because the evolving relationship between the two teachers feels so authentic and relatable....Fox demonstrates a real talent for putting everyday people, in everyday contexts, under pressure, and revealing what might happen.\' View from the Outside
\'Excellent play. Quick-moving and insightful.\' NPX
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WOMAN CAUGHT UNAWARE
Synopsis:
An art history professor must take action when an unflattering naked photograph of her appears online. Fighting off various \'allies\' she plans a surprise. A tour de force role for a woman over 50.
Number of Characters: 1
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 1
Length (in Pages): 22
Location: A university
Key Words: older women, art, art history, monologue, feminism, body shaming, woman, ageing, one woman show
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
Award nominations/wins: Heretic Voices winner 2018
Reviews:
For Arcola Theatre Production:
The play is well paced, very witty and absolutely riveting. You will want to watch it more than once. British Theatre Guide.
This could so easily have been a tale of victimhood. Instead Fox\'s writing gives us the dark laughter of Medusa: you shouldn\\\'t look, but if you do, she can\\\'t be held responsible for the consequences. Exeunt Magazine
In an empowering celebration of the respect that she has gained in place of what youth she may have lost, her bully and her body are drowned in a sea of aged rose petals, an event that changes the meaning of the word \\\'victim\\\' forever... A Younger Theatre
For Edmonton Festival production:
Woman Caught Unaware explores all this in a multi-angled way, surprising and provocative at every turn. Sometimes live theatre just knocks you out the way it can jolt you out of one way of thinking and open up other possibilities. This is one of those times.12th Night
For Devon TheatreFest production:
Annie Fox\'s writing is full of gorgeous language, while Deborah Hadley\'s performance draws the audience in, inviting us to both laugh and cry with her. Seraphina Allard-Bridge, fringetheatrefestblog
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