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Content Type:

Playtext

Genres and forms:

Comedy, British drama, English drama

Period (first performed):

2001-2010

Plays:

Ladies Day

Playwrights:

Whittington, Amanda

Themes:

Friendship, Love, Women

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Ladies’ Day

Ladies’ Day (summary)

Written by Amanda Whittington

~playauthor~Written by ~Amanda Whittington
DOI: 10.5040/9781784602086.00000003
Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

Ladies’ Day is a comedy drama from Amanda Whittington about four unlikely lasses from Hull who decide to take a day trip to the races. Focusing on the friendship between the four distinctly different women, the play has proved hugely popular with amateur groups across the UK.

Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda. But their fortunes are set to change when Linda finds tickets to Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot the year it relocated to York. Out go the hairnets, overalls and wellies as they do themselves up to the nines and head off to the races. Glamour puss Shelley is interested in meeting a handsome, and preferably rich, man. Linda, on the other hand, is skint after letting her duplicitous mother back into her life. Pearl spills the beans on her illicit love life to devoted single mother, Jan, who is concerned for her academically ambitious daughter. As the girls guzzle champagne they come across a variety of characters from an arrogant TV pundit to a sensitive jockey. They place the odd bet too and if their luck holds, they could just hit the jackpot.

Ladies’ Day premiered at Hull Truck Theatre in 2005 and has been revived many times since including at the Royal Court in Liverpool and the Oldham Coliseum in Manchester.

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Ladies’ Day
  • Title:
    Ladies' Day
  • Author(s) / Editor(s):
    Amanda Whittington
  • ISBN:

    9781784602086 (online)

    9781854599506

  • Date of Publication:
    2006
  • Nick Hern Books
  • Place of Publication:
    London
  • Publisher:
    Nick Hern Books
  • Edition:
    First Edition
  • Content Set:
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Copyright © 2006 Amanda Whittington

Enquire about performing rights for professional performances at: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd

Enquire about performing rights for amateur performances throughout the World excluding Australia, New Zealand and South Africa at: Nick Hern Books Ltd

Enquire about performing rights for amateur performances in Australia at: ORiGiN Theatrical

Enquire about performing rights for amateur performances in New Zealand at: Play Bureau

Enquire about performing rights for amateur performances in South Africa at: DALRO (pty) Ltd

All rights whatsoever in this play are strictly reserved and application for performance etc. should be made before rehearsals to the performance rights holder. No performance may be given unless a licence has been obtained. No rights in incidental music or songs contained in the Work are hereby granted and performance rights for any performance/presentation whatsoever must be obtained from the respective copyright owners.