Shoplifted

by Louise Seaton

This is the winning script in The Edith Ruddick Award, a special scheme to develop new writers. The award was named after a celebrated Scottish radio actress who was committed to supporting literature and drama.

Shoplifted is a very moving story of a woman who struggles to come to terms with her father's dying. In her grief she shoplifts. It is a subtle black comedy which celebrates the ability of people to survive the agonies of life through a jaunty eye and a sense of irony.

With accompanying funding from the Peggy Ramsey Foundation, the writer Louise Seaton received a commission of �2,000 to develop the script from a synopsis. Louise had her first play produced on LBC in 1990.

The cast includes Elizabeth Power, Patience Tomlinson, Stephen Ley and Mike Shannon.

Direction by Richard Shannon. Post-production and sound design by Tim Crook.

 

Louise Seaton's writing career began at 20 when she was an award winner in the 1990 Woolwich Young Radio Playwrights' Competition for her first play, The Benvolio Bird. She went on to complete a Master�s degree, specialising in Radio Drama, and has since branched out into short story writing, several of which have been published. In 1998 Louise received the Paddon Award in association with Exeter University for her radio play, Five Pence Pocket Money and went on later that year to win the Edith Ruddick Award, leading to a commission for Shoplifted. Louise lives in Stafford and is due to be married in September. She works as Marketing & PR Manager for IT training company, Computeach International.

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