AMY BATY | WRITER
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ON STAGE
CRITERION NEW WRITING programme
Writer
Developing THE WEATHER MAN and DONNA. Two new full-length plays.
THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
Writer
3 women drive across 60s America. To reconnect, refind themselves, and dispose of the dead body in the trunk.
A cabaret commission from Divinas.
Also adapted for radio.
Dramaturge
I had the pleasure of creating this deeply affecting and personal piece about Alzheimers with the director and choreographer, Benoit Swan Pouffer.
The Guardian mentioned the dramaturgic detail.
GRAB - excerpt
Writer
Maire runs pub quizzes and has abortions. Lola uses infidelity websites and has a baby. Piers is joylessly fucking them both..
How do we reconcile 'Good things come to those who wait' and 'Seize the day'?
Pleasance Theatre, London.
RENEWABLE MOVES
Dramaturge.
I worked with Corey Baker on this important piece about renewable energies performed at COP26.
NOW YOU SEE ME
Writer.
A punk, feminist cabaret about a world in which women disappear...
Divinas and Micka Luna.
OUT OF JOINT - STOCKROOM
I was one of the final 12 short listed writers for a place in Out of Joint's Stockroom. Stockroom is a writer's room for 5 writers, working collaborativley, to make new work for the company over an 18 month period.
THE LAST MANICURE
Writer. Selected by Bitter Pill Theatre.
Podcast performed by Miriam Margolyes
A dark comedy about hope, need and the brutality of growing old.
Assistant Director and Contributing Writer
Two sisters are forced to flee their home. A modern day fairytale combining film, animation and dance. Directed by Kibwe Tavares in association with Rambert and performed at The Royal Opera House.
HONE AND STROP
Writer. Selected for Anima Theatre's PLACE TO BE.
Wax, razors, blood and piss. A look at gender performance in a Turkish Barber. Performed at The Vaults Festival and The Rosemary Branch Theatre.
HAND
Writer and Director
A look at the part women have to play in female stereotyping. Performed at The Cockpit Theatre by Dorothy Cotter and Rachel Salisbury.
THICKER THAN WATER
Writer.
What does motherhood look like in the future? And who stands to gain from its reinvention?
Longlisted twice for the Papatango New Writing Prize and by Pint Sized Plays. Public Reading in 2018.
SANS ELLE(S)
Writer and Director. 60 minute piece in French.
Two best friends are brutally separated by their mothers. But its a comedy.
Performed at Theatre de la Jonquiere, Theatre du Temps, Theatre de Berthelot and L'art Studio in Paris. Received Arts Council funding.
WILD LIVES
Writer, Director and Producer
If we think it's our pets that are dependent on us. We're kidding ourselves.
Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
SOCIAL ANIMALS
Writer, Director and Producer
A shit storm of social paranoia.
Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. Featured in Fest Magazine's perfect day.
FURIEUSES
Contributing Writer
Based on a the real life experiences of an escort and performed at The Darius Milhaud Theatre in Paris in 2012.