| A Phoenix
Rising (8m, 6f) |
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What happens in a society that
has lost its way and is in a state of civil unrest?
What if certain people with influence decided
to help create and promote the idea of a new messiah?
Modern technology with all its creativity can
produce images which could convince the most ardent
sceptic, so why shouldn't a troubled church organisation
harness it for its own ends? |
| Behind
Closed Doors (5m, 3f) (Strong
language & scenes of violence) |
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Set in 1969, when physical and
mental abuse was a fact of life to many women,
this play is about domestic violence inside marriage
- a subject still regrettably topical over thirty-five
years later. The engagement of two university
students brings their families together, but breaks
one of them apart. |
| Fate (4m,
5f) (Strong language &
content) |
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When the warped minds of two families
being joined in marriage intertwine, the results
are a devastating mix of incest, lies, bribery,
fraud and adultery. Left to themselves the four
flawed relationships in the two families must
ultimately lead to their self-destruction. Only
fate can take a hand in the proceedings to change
the outcome for two of the characters. |
| Glimpse
Due Solace (7m, 5f) (Very
strong language & content) |
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The play explores the way love and
guilt manifest themselves inside human relationships:
the flowering and de-flowering; the living and dying,
shouting and crying. Are love and guilt insistent?
Always. Are they persistent? Occasionally. Are they
consistent? Never. |
| In (3m,
3f) (Very strong language
& adult content) |
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A psychotic and homosexual private
investigator who despises prostitutes gets hired
by a husband who is curious to know if (and why)
his wife is being unfaithful to him. Why does she
visit the doctor's so regularly? |
| Love,
Marilyn (11m, 5m) |
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One of the 20th century's classic
icons, Marilyn Monroe continues to fascinate. This
play attempts to explain why her character developed
the way it did, and provides an insight into her
last few tragic hours. Requires a young, competent
actress to play the title role as she is alone on
stage for 15 mins at the end of the play. |
| Portrait
Of Dylan (4m, 3f) (Strong
language & content) |
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The short, enigmatic life of Dylan
Thomas was one filled with emotion, artistic endeavour
and alcohol. A man of passion and poetry, a womaniser,
a Welshman. Charting the years from childhood
to his death aged 39 in New York, 'Portrait Of
Dylan' is a powerful, moving account of Dylan's
life, loves and lyrics. |
| Resonant
Frequency (2m, 1f, 2m/f) |
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A young mother who gains a son then
loses him; an immigrant Italian ice cream shop owner
with a large heart but a murky past; a slightly
psychotic boffin and a pair of slightly out-of-this-world
people who interview the three others form the cast
for this fascinating play. Boffin is a person walking
a tightrope between genius and insanity, reality
and fantasy. His invention and subsequent over-reaction
to a simple incident involving Mother and Toni has
the potential to snuff out all human life. |
| The Audition
(2f) (Strong language &
content) |
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How far will an actress go to get
a part? How far does the Director need to push?
A psychological drama exploring the relationship
between Director and actress at an audition where
the normal rules and etiquette have been dispensed
with. A most unusual play. |
| The Cherry
Boys (9m,4f) |
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A boy rating takes his first job on a cruise
ship in the 1950's and is forced to come to terms
with homosexual members of the crew when he is
barely coming to terms with his own newly awakened
interest in girls. A poignant story based on events
that happened in real life; about relationships
between, and in between, the crew and their passengers.
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| The Magdalen
Whitewash (4m,16f) |
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Winner - YOUTH
DRAMA AWARD: Kent Drama Festival
(Youth Drama Challenge Cup) 2009 |
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Brought to recent attention by the
film 'The Magdalene Sisters', this play vividly
portrays the despair and inhumanity inflicted on
the 'Maggies' - those unfortunate girls who had
the misfortune to be institutionalised in the Magdalen
Laundries. Their crimes? Being pregnant mainly.
Their punishment? To be separated from their familes
and work long hours in the laundry. Requires a mostly
young cast. |
| The
Revolutionaries (18m,6f) |
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An important moment of history is
highlighted in ‘The Revolutionaries’.
The theme of the play is the fight for power around
the time of Lenin's death and takes place in the
aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Lenin
knew he was dying and was concerned about who might
be his successor. He favoured Trotsky, but as history
tells, Stalin was very much in the way. |
