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Award-winning playwright Billy Cowan explores the issue of classroom bullying and how teachers deal with it.Rachael Lawson, a new teacher at Newall South High School, believes Jamie Harrow is being bullied because he's gay. She wants to help but Mrs Rutter, the Deputy Head, thinks it will sort itself out. Is the Deputy Head speaking from experience or is there something more unsavoury about her uncaring attitude?A battle royale occurs between youthful idealism and the system that evolves to choke it.

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Lancastre

Grand Manchester

Merseyside

Lancashire

Greater Manchester

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Date de parution	27 avril 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781911501176
Langue	English

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Billy Cowan
Billy lives in Manchester, UK, and has an MPhil(B) in Playwriting from Birmingham University. He is an award-winning playwright having won two international playwriting competitions – the Writing Out Award for Best New Gay play organised by Finborough Theatre London for Smilin’ Through , and Warehouse Theatre’s International Playwriting competition for Transitions , which was later produced as Still Ill. Smilin’ Through was co-produced in 2005 by Contact, Birmingham Rep and Queer Up North and was nominated for Best New Play of the Year at the Manchester Evening News Theatre awards.
His other plays include: Daddy (2004), Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (2004), Stigmata (2006), Care Takers (2009/10), The Right Ballerina (2012) and Still Ill (2014). He has also written for M6 Theatre Company, one of the country’s leading Young People’s theatre companies: Web Pal, It Should Have Been Me, and Glee & Glum .
Billy also writes fiction. The first chapter of a new Young Adult novel, The Crow Lady , was a finalist at the 2015 Writing on the Wall Pulp Fiction competition, and his flash fiction has been published by Arsenal Pulp Press.
Billy teaches creative writing at Edge Hill University and regularly performs his flash fiction at Verbose in Manchester.
First published in the UK in 2016 by Aurora Metro Publications Ltd
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Care Takers copyright © 2016 Billy Cowan
With many thanks to: Ivett Saliba, Tracey Mulford, Ellen Cheshire and Neil Gregory.
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978-1-910798-81-2 (print)
978-1-911501-17-6 (ebook)
CARE TAKERS
BY
BILLY COWAN
Care Takers Tour Dates and Venues 2016
Live@Oldham Library
13th April
The Arts Centre, Ormskirk
14th April
M6 Theatre Co., Rochdale
19th April
The Lowry, Salford
22nd – 23rd April
The Lantern Theatre, Liverpool
29th April
N.U.T. Young Teachers

Conference, Nottingham
30th April
The Marlborough Theatre,

Brighton Fringe Festival
6th – 9th May
C Venues C+2,

Edinburgh Fringe Festival
3rd – 29th August
Truant was formed in 2003 by director Natalie Wilson and writer Billy Cowan. They met when Natalie directed a rehearsed reading of Billy’s Writing Out International award winning script Smilin’ Through, for a competition launched by The Finborough Theatre, London looking for new Gay or Lesbian plays.
Sharing the same dream of developing and producing new queer specific work, they joined forces and launched Truant Company in May 2003 with their first piece of work Daddy, a multimedia monologue for Birmingham Rep. This was followed by Heart Is A Lonely Hunter at Manchester’s 24:7 Festival, which was written and directed by Billy. In 2005 Smilin’ Through was co-produced by Birmingham Rep, Contact in Manchester and Queer Up North. The play was nominated for Best New Play of the year by The Manchester Evening News and was remounted by The Drill Hall in London in 2007.
Other works include Still Ill (2014) The Right Ballerina (2012) and Stigmata (2006). All plays have been supported by Arts Council England and have toured the UK. The original version of Care Takers was selected by the Library Theatre Manchester as one of the best studio plays of 2009 and was remounted for their prestigious Re:Play festival in 2010. The play also toured to the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival.
Still Ill, The Right Ballerina, Care Takers and Stigmata have all been part of Homotopia.

This new version of Care Takers was produced by Truant Company and first performed at Oldham Library on 13th April 2016 with the following cast:
MRS RUTTER
Penelope McDonald
MS LAWSON
Emma Romy-Jones
Director
Billy Cowan
Original Music
Jamie Summers
Production Manager (Pre-Edinburgh Festival)
Alexandre Carvalho
Production Manager (Edinburgh Festival)
Owen Rafferty
Biographies

Penelope McDonald
Penny’s acting career (or series of incidents, to quote a friend) has been diverse and fun. Hundreds of roles, both classical and modern, with theatre companies in the UK and abroad have been interspersed with appearances in pantos and musicals, bits and bobs in films and on TV, and a plethora of voice work. As a slight diversion Penny has had her head cremated as a magician’s assistant, stood in for a drag queen at a night club and – a particular favourite – emerged from a giant shell as Venus, singing a coloratura obligato in the rain. She is half of a comedy duo, Mac and the Medic, and has also been fortunate enough to play various new writing roles, including Virginia Woolf in A Good Day and Manchester in Under Manc Wood . Among those, Mrs Rutter is a very proud achievement.

Emma Romy-Jones
Emma trained at Manchester School of Theatre. Her theatre credits include: Edward II, Royal Exchange Theatre; Roseacre for Squarepeg Theatre; Thorrablot for Breathe Out Theatre; Mancunian Way , The Lowry’s Scratch New Writers; High Force Reading for Sumner Productions; Anne/Annie Oakley in Two Spirits Reading at Home Manchester; Playtime at the Cornerhouse, Manchester; Great Expectations for 1956 Theatre Company; Trust for Distant Voices; Bloodletting – Reading, King’s Arms Theatre; The Twining for Box Of Tricks Theatre Co.; The Young for Faro Productions; Sanctuary From The Trenches for National Trust.
Television includes: M13 – Pilot for Andrew Burke Productions; Lilies That Fester for Lilies Films; Dead End for Hurricane Films; Yoyo for Big Dipper Films; The Troubles of Margi Styles for Firstdraft; Lifeline for Whiteroom Pictures.
Alexandre Carvalho – Production Manager
Alex is a sound engineer / designer and lighting technician. He comes from Cascais, Portugal and is currently working freelance across a number of venues in Greater Manchester.
He has designed sound effects as well as operating sound and lights for the following productions: Breaking the Ice (Filskit Theatre Company); Hot Mikado and Jekyl and Hyde for Z-Arts (Manchester Musical Youth Production); Origins at the Y Theatre in Leicester; One Hand Clapping , Hidden and AfterGlow at the 24:7 Festival; Happy Birthday and Flat Spin in Cascais/Lisbon, Portugal.
Owen Rafferty – Production Manager
Owen is a sound designer and theatre technician who graduated from the School of Sound Recording in Manchester with a distinction in audio engineering in 2010.
Owen’s theatre credits include sound design for Dev’s Army, Loaded and The Interpreter/Home, which have played at Manchester’s 24:7 theatre festival. He designed sound and video for One Hand Clapping , which was selected for the Brits off Broadway festival in New York. He has designed sound for Hidden, Away from Home , and Icarus , all of which have had successful runs at the Edinburgh festival and gone on to tour nationally. Other design credits include Roseacre (Push Festival), Parallel (Harrogate Theatre) The Man Who woke Up Dead (national tour) and Under Manc Wood (GM Fringe festival), Under Manc Wood (Studio Salford, Kings Arms)
Jamie Summers – Music
Jamie lives and works in Manchester as an artist and is a regular collaborator with Truant Company having created animation for their multimedia monologue Daddy at Birmingham Repertory Theatre and music for The Right Ballerina and Care Takers . He also designed the set for Stigmata at Homotopia and The Drill Hall which included a shrine to Susan Sarandon. He designs all of Truant’s marketing materials as well as their website. Primarily he is a visual artist and his paintings, drawings and screenprints can be seen at www.jamiesummers.co.uk
CARE TAKERS
by
Billy Cowan
First produced by Truant Company in association with The Oldham Coliseum and performed at The Teachers Club, Dublin as part of The Absolut Dublin Gay Theatre Festival on the 4th May, 2009 with the following cast:
MRS RUTTER
Penelope McDonald
MS LAWSON
Annamarie Bayley
Director
Billy Cowan
Original Music
Jamie Summers
Lighting/production manager
Dan Powers
CHARACTERS
SUE RUTTER – The Deputy Head at Newall South High School, Manchester. 50s.
RACHAEL LAWSON – A new teacher at the school. 20s
The play takes place in Sue Rutter’s office at Newall South High School. Today.
/ Indicates the point at which the following line interrupts.
1
Mrs Rutter sits at her desk marking papers.
RUTTER
H.a.t.e. not h.8. Mobile phone jargon is not acceptable especially in a mock G.C.S.E. English exam. (The phone rings.) Hello. (Pause) Now’s fine, Mr Thompson. (Pause) Yes, everything is … arranged. (Pause) They’ll all be there. (Pause) Yes, I think it will come as a … to some of them, yes. (Pause) You can expect Miss Rutherford to shed a few tears. (Pause) When will the ad. be coming out? (Pause) That soon? (Pause) Of course. Try to stop me. (Pause) Yes, I completed the observations last … yes, they’ll be on your desk by Friday. (Pause) Everything went … everyone is up to scratch. (Pause) Even the new girl, yes. She’s more than … she’s very competent. (Pause) Okay. (Pause) Yes, see you at one. (She puts the phone down.) Silly old coot. (She goes back to marking papers. There is