· Nominated 20th Mayer-Whitworth Award (Royal National Theatre) for The Last Cuckoo
· Short Listed (Finalist) Verity Bargate Award, Soho Theatre London for Punch
· Short Listed BBC Evening Play Series (production award) for A Scrap of Blue
- Long Listed Alfred Bradley Award (BBC Radio Drama North) for Things I forgot were under the bed
· Short Listed Verity Bargate & Bruntwood Theatre Award for Toby-Dog-Savage
· Jury Nominated Whitbread London Fringe Theatre Award (best production) for In The Red Room
· Short Listed (Finalist) Verity Bargate Award, Soho Theatre London for Punch
· Short Listed BBC Evening Play Series (production award) for A Scrap of Blue
- Long Listed Alfred Bradley Award (BBC Radio Drama North) for Things I forgot were under the bed
· Short Listed Verity Bargate & Bruntwood Theatre Award for Toby-Dog-Savage
· Jury Nominated Whitbread London Fringe Theatre Award (best production) for In The Red Room
Lost Boy Racer
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Running Time: 1 hour 35 minutes Cast: Claude - ROBIN SIMPSON, Sean Racer - THOMAS ALDERSLEY, Linda - SARAH GROARKE, Nina - MICHAELA LONGDEN, Lost Boy - SEAN KING First performance: 25 June 2014 Director: Liz Postlethwaite Composer: Mark Bokowiec Lighting Design: Mike Lock (Opera North) Set Design: Tim Tolkien Run: Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield (production partner), The Lowry Quays, Salford, Harrogate Theatre, Theatre Royal Wakefield. |
Commissioned by YORKSHIRE FESTIVAL 2014 in celebration of the TOUR DE FRANCE Grand depart, supported by ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND.
Sean Racer used to be a popular energetic wildcat youth hooked on cycling. Now he’s a bored, overweight 40 something tax inspector on the brink of a crisis. Turning to Claude a sage-like ex-pro cycle mechanic, and encouraged by wily hairdresser Linda a serial tax evader keen to distract him from taking a closer look at her business, Sean hatches a plan to get his life back on two wheels. He will fulfil a youthful dream: to ride the Tour de France. That’s right, he’s going the distance, albeit on a bike on rollers in the shed. Will he make it to the finish?
Sean Racer used to be a popular energetic wildcat youth hooked on cycling. Now he’s a bored, overweight 40 something tax inspector on the brink of a crisis. Turning to Claude a sage-like ex-pro cycle mechanic, and encouraged by wily hairdresser Linda a serial tax evader keen to distract him from taking a closer look at her business, Sean hatches a plan to get his life back on two wheels. He will fulfil a youthful dream: to ride the Tour de France. That’s right, he’s going the distance, albeit on a bike on rollers in the shed. Will he make it to the finish?
The Last Cuckoo
Running Time: 1 hour 45 minutes (without interval)
Cast: Ethan Page (male: 55-70) Sophie (female: 16-18)
First performance: 21st October 2010
Actors: Ethan Page - PAUL COPLEY. Sophie - OLIVIA VINALL
Director: David Tucker
Designer: Charles Cusick-Smith
Lighting Design: Mike Lock (Opera North)
Composers: Mark Bokowiec & Alan Rudkin
Run: Lawrence Batley Theatre (production partner) & the Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park (10 performances)
Supported by ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND.
The year is 2050 and the world has changed beyond all recognition. In a decaying house on the edge of a desert Ethan Page a down to earth former second hand car dealer and pub quiz-master, attended by a girl who can't or won't speak, sifts through his memory archive in an attempt to make sense of his life and his forty year mission to memorize "...stuff that might be important, significant, of use to someone."
Part 'an audience with...' part pub quiz, with a song and a smattering of horse racing wisdom, THE LAST CUCKOO is a theatrical tour de force, beautifully lyrical, poignant and darkly comic.
See more on The Last Cuckoo PRODUCTION PAGE
Cast: Ethan Page (male: 55-70) Sophie (female: 16-18)
First performance: 21st October 2010
Actors: Ethan Page - PAUL COPLEY. Sophie - OLIVIA VINALL
Director: David Tucker
Designer: Charles Cusick-Smith
Lighting Design: Mike Lock (Opera North)
Composers: Mark Bokowiec & Alan Rudkin
Run: Lawrence Batley Theatre (production partner) & the Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park (10 performances)
Supported by ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND.
The year is 2050 and the world has changed beyond all recognition. In a decaying house on the edge of a desert Ethan Page a down to earth former second hand car dealer and pub quiz-master, attended by a girl who can't or won't speak, sifts through his memory archive in an attempt to make sense of his life and his forty year mission to memorize "...stuff that might be important, significant, of use to someone."
Part 'an audience with...' part pub quiz, with a song and a smattering of horse racing wisdom, THE LAST CUCKOO is a theatrical tour de force, beautifully lyrical, poignant and darkly comic.
See more on The Last Cuckoo PRODUCTION PAGE
Toby-Dog-Savage
Running Time: 1 hour 20 minutes (possible interval)
Cast: Stan (male: 55) Victoria (female: 45-50) Toby (male: 17) Loren (female: 17/18) Jakes (male: 68-70) Charlie Jakes (male: 45-50)
First performance: 26th June 2008
Tristan Bates Theatre, London
Actors: Stan - DAVID HOUNSLOW. Victoria - WENDY MORGAN. Toby - FREDDIE MACHIN. Loren - SARAH STONE. Jakes - ANDREW NEIL. Charlie Jakes - NIGEL COOKE.
Director: David Tucker
WRITERS' BLOCK - Operating Theatre Company
Set in an ex-mining town in South Yorkshire where the under-the-radar economy is run by the local heavies – the Jakes’ family. TOBY-DOG-SAVAGE is a coming-of-age story about a boy TOBY (17) growing up in the shadow of his ex-boxer father, amid the thwarted dreams of his mother and within a society where violence gets you respect. The story, laced with dark humour, dog fighting and moments of fantasy, tracks Toby’s development from aimless youth to cunning and vengeful young man.
Cast: Stan (male: 55) Victoria (female: 45-50) Toby (male: 17) Loren (female: 17/18) Jakes (male: 68-70) Charlie Jakes (male: 45-50)
First performance: 26th June 2008
Tristan Bates Theatre, London
Actors: Stan - DAVID HOUNSLOW. Victoria - WENDY MORGAN. Toby - FREDDIE MACHIN. Loren - SARAH STONE. Jakes - ANDREW NEIL. Charlie Jakes - NIGEL COOKE.
Director: David Tucker
WRITERS' BLOCK - Operating Theatre Company
Set in an ex-mining town in South Yorkshire where the under-the-radar economy is run by the local heavies – the Jakes’ family. TOBY-DOG-SAVAGE is a coming-of-age story about a boy TOBY (17) growing up in the shadow of his ex-boxer father, amid the thwarted dreams of his mother and within a society where violence gets you respect. The story, laced with dark humour, dog fighting and moments of fantasy, tracks Toby’s development from aimless youth to cunning and vengeful young man.
Punch
Running Time: 1 hour 20 minutes (without interval)
Cast: PROP (male: 55-58) JUDITH COLLINS (female: 25-28) BOW (male: 45-50) FRANK (male: 20-25)
PUNCH (Mr. Punch a puppet)
JUDY, AGENT, HANGMAN & DEVIL (puppets)
SOLDIER ONE (male: any) SOLDIER TWO (male: any)
PRIME MINISTER ANDERSON (in media character. Male: 50s)
Shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award - Soho Theatre, London.
SETTING
An unidentified war between unidentified forces somewhere in Europe in the near future.
A derelict industrial interior long since abandoned. Stage left an oil drum upon which PROP is standing, a large cloth bag over his head, otherwise naked. Thick wire cables tied to his wrists and knees, a noose of wire around his neck. The cables extending up into a cavernous darkness. A deliberate visual reference to the photograph of a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison reproduced on the front page of The Guardian 30 April 2004.
Script Extract:
PROP:
(painfully) Is this the end? If I relax, perhaps I’ll just...
Coward!
My life... In the great scheme of things... A miserable, wretched little thing! No one saw! No one was looking when it was... extinguished. Better that way. A mercy perhaps.
This Darkness is vicious. It’s not the darkness in which one dreams. It’s crude oil. Waiting for a spark.
Soft marsh-mellow sand frothed up by the sea. The feet going in. Sand flies pricking the heels.
I can hear the seaweed sucking. Gulls spearing molluscs, prising open the dead and dying… For fuck sake! Keep the mind...straight!
Salt! Salt! Is it blood or sweat? The taste... carried on the breeze... fried food and candyfloss, animal hide, stale urine... and marine diesel. I know this place. It’s sand and dog shit, it’s Punch. Punch with his thin-lipped smile. Its head - a crude chunk of wood, English oak, motley with layers of paint. Handed down, a family heirloom...more than three hundred years old...grinning in its box...waiting to be used.
Cast: PROP (male: 55-58) JUDITH COLLINS (female: 25-28) BOW (male: 45-50) FRANK (male: 20-25)
PUNCH (Mr. Punch a puppet)
JUDY, AGENT, HANGMAN & DEVIL (puppets)
SOLDIER ONE (male: any) SOLDIER TWO (male: any)
PRIME MINISTER ANDERSON (in media character. Male: 50s)
Shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award - Soho Theatre, London.
SETTING
An unidentified war between unidentified forces somewhere in Europe in the near future.
A derelict industrial interior long since abandoned. Stage left an oil drum upon which PROP is standing, a large cloth bag over his head, otherwise naked. Thick wire cables tied to his wrists and knees, a noose of wire around his neck. The cables extending up into a cavernous darkness. A deliberate visual reference to the photograph of a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison reproduced on the front page of The Guardian 30 April 2004.
Script Extract:
PROP:
(painfully) Is this the end? If I relax, perhaps I’ll just...
Coward!
My life... In the great scheme of things... A miserable, wretched little thing! No one saw! No one was looking when it was... extinguished. Better that way. A mercy perhaps.
This Darkness is vicious. It’s not the darkness in which one dreams. It’s crude oil. Waiting for a spark.
Soft marsh-mellow sand frothed up by the sea. The feet going in. Sand flies pricking the heels.
I can hear the seaweed sucking. Gulls spearing molluscs, prising open the dead and dying… For fuck sake! Keep the mind...straight!
Salt! Salt! Is it blood or sweat? The taste... carried on the breeze... fried food and candyfloss, animal hide, stale urine... and marine diesel. I know this place. It’s sand and dog shit, it’s Punch. Punch with his thin-lipped smile. Its head - a crude chunk of wood, English oak, motley with layers of paint. Handed down, a family heirloom...more than three hundred years old...grinning in its box...waiting to be used.
Shed (short Film)
Writer: Julie Bokowiec
Director: Gopal Dutta
Producer: Jo Verrent
Actor:
Leeds International Film Festival 2005
Bradford International Film Festival 2006
Screen Yorkshire: Caught Short
Supported by the UK Film Council
Joe Bradford lives in a shed lined with memories presided over by a chicken familiar he calls Tinker-Bell...
"...a quirky piece of urban surreal"
Director: Gopal Dutta
Producer: Jo Verrent
Actor:
Leeds International Film Festival 2005
Bradford International Film Festival 2006
Screen Yorkshire: Caught Short
Supported by the UK Film Council
Joe Bradford lives in a shed lined with memories presided over by a chicken familiar he calls Tinker-Bell...
"...a quirky piece of urban surreal"
Remain Standing
Remain Standing is a meditation on the actor spoken from the interior of a world created by Samuel Beckett. The piece is a response to stage directions found in ENDGAME.
Writer & Director: Julie Bokowiec
Actors: Linda Taylor & Liz Heywood
Commissioned by Samuel Beckett Festival and Conference '50 Years of Beckett'
First Performance: 20 June 2003
The Workshop Theatre, Leeds UK
Writer & Director: Julie Bokowiec
Actors: Linda Taylor & Liz Heywood
Commissioned by Samuel Beckett Festival and Conference '50 Years of Beckett'
First Performance: 20 June 2003
The Workshop Theatre, Leeds UK
Alice
An adapted from Lewis Carroll, written & directed by Juile Wilson-Bokowiec
with a courtroom opera by John Ginman
Music by Ron McAllister
Designed by Mark Hinton
The Lawrence Batley Theatre in association with Trestle Theatre Company
with a courtroom opera by John Ginman
Music by Ron McAllister
Designed by Mark Hinton
The Lawrence Batley Theatre in association with Trestle Theatre Company
In The Red Room
Running Time: 1 hour without interval
Julie Wilson-Bokowiec (written and performed) with Kristin Hadland. Canal Cafe Theatre , London Three week residency - 18 performances |
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Blood Revolting
Approximate Running Time: 2 hours (max)
Cast: Bee (female: 15-17) Boyd (male: 18-20)
Marty (male: 45-48) Mel (female: 45-48)
Prof. Clive Denby (male: 50-55)
Ncolas Burnett (male:45-48) Janet Burnett (female:45-48)
BEE is found staggering along the hard shoulder of the M25 half naked and covered in blood following the brutal murder of her parents Mel and Marty. Forensic evidence puts Boyd, a homeless boy living a feral existence on the streets of London, at the scene of the crime.
The play begins two years later. Boyd is serving a sentence for double murder, Prof. Clive Denby is researching a new book on teen murder and Bee is finally ready to talk. Now the story really begins…
BLOOD REVOLTING is a play about prejudice and easy assumptions. Ambition, anxiety and bad parenting. It is about the construction of narratives and delusional self-images, the fierce need to cash-in and be successful and what happens when two teenagers reject the values and beliefs of the adults around them…