About me
Currently: Writer in Residence - Sister Productions
My Plays
My Mother's Funeral: The Show
Synopsis:
Abigail can't afford for her mum to be dead. No, really. It's four grand just for the funeral. Extra for flowers. Even more if you want sausage rolls.
And if you’ve got no money: a council plot and an unmarked grave.
The solution? Turn her grief into content. Write a play from her ‘unique working-class lens’. Package her dead mum into a nice neat story. Sell tickets.
Following a sell-out Fringe First winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Kelly Jones's razor-sharp new play rips into life’s final inequality and asks what happens when your loss becomes someone else's entertainment.
Number of Characters: 10
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3
Length (in Pages): 70
Location: Dagenham
Key Words: Class, Queer, Comedy, Grief, Theatre
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? No
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
Award nominations/wins: Scotsman Fringe First - Outstanding New Writing Lustrum Award - Summerhall
Reviews:
★★★★
“THESE ARE TWO WEIGHTY THEMES—GRIEF AND CLASS WAR—BUT THEY ARE HANDLED BY JONES WITH A LIGHTNESS OF TOUCH AND A NEEDLING SENSE OF HUMOUR.”
The Guardian
★★★★★
“A TRUE HIGHLIGHT.”
A Young(ish) Perspective
★★★★
“A WARM, TENDER AND AT TIMES DEEPLY MOVING PLAY”
The Stage
★★★★
“A CLEVER, FUNNY, INCISIVE LOOK AT MONEY, CLASS AND THEATRE- AS WELL AS DEATH.”
The Scotsman
