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Want the chance to attend an exclusive Script Factory Reading?
Kay Mellor's Playing The Field
Mon, 7 Jul 2008
We’re delighted to have been asked by Kay Mellor to stage a Performed Reading of her feature screenplay for A Passionate Woman. A personal story, inspired by the life of Kay's late mother, A Passionate Woman was originally a stage play that opened at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 1992, and transferred to the West End in 1996, where it ran for a year to rave reviews followed by five national tours. Since 1996, the play has been performed on stage somewhere in the world every week. Kay, who has had enormous success as one of our best-loved TV screenwriters with credits including Band of Gold, Playing the Field, Fat Friends and many others, has always wanted to transfer the story to the big screen. Now we are about to help her do just that by testing the screenplay with the help of a top cast assembled by Casting Director Chloe Emmerson in front of an invited audience of funders, producers, broadcasters and industry bigwigs.
We have a pair of tickets for one reader to attend this exclusive private event which takes place next Tuesday 15th July at 3.30pm at The Studio, BFI Southbank (formerly NFT), Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT.
To join us simply answer the following question:
Kay Mellor has previously made one feature film, an ahead-of-its-time romantic comedy starring Ray Winstone and Kerry Fox – what was it called?
Kay MellorAnswers by email direct to general@scriptfactory.co.uk by 5pm on Friday 11 July – please don’t respond to this competition if you are not able to join us at 3.30pm on Tuesday 15 July.
More about A Passionate Woman:
It’s the late 1980s and Betty Stevenson and her husband Donald are getting ready for their son Mark’s wedding. When a young florist arrives to drop off the buttonholes, Betty is shocked when she realises the girl is the daughter of Craze, a man she once knew. A man she loved and lost; a man she never forgot. The reminder of him transports Betty back to the 1950s to a time when her son was a baby and her marriage to Donald was in its infancy. As Betty relives her first meeting with Craze, and the fervent affair that followed, she struggles to reconcile the vibrant, passionate woman she was then, with the person she feels she has become now. Craze made her feel alive - capable of anything and his death shattered her very soul. As Mark’s wedding day marches on, Craze becomes more than a memory to Betty and her past takes on a strange reality. Unsure whether Craze is a product of madness, mirage or memory, Betty wonders if her passion for him is all she has ever really lived for. What do love and passion really mean, and is a life without them, a life worth living at all?