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Running (3m, 1f) BLACK
COMEDY |
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Harry Falcon runs his entertainment
agency like he runs his his life - on
a downward spiral. His grip on both
is weakening as each grip of the bottle
of scotch strengthens its hold on him.
Befriended by one of his female acts,
he tries to rekindle his emotional side,
but it is too late; she is spoken for,
and his body and mind are way past redemption. |
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Closed Doors (5m, 3f) DRAMA
(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. |
| Resonant
Frequency (2m, 1f, 2m/f) DRAMA
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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. |
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Cherry Boys (9m,4f) DRAMA
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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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Simple Process Of Alchemy (2m) |
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Telling of the experiments and misadventures
of two charlatan scientists, Fernando and Reynaldo
in Renaissance Italy, the play provides an invigorating
evening of surreal and silly entertainment. Bursting
with clowning, caricature and competition, the actors
play twenty-five parts between them they try to
discover the ingredients of a love potion, the secret
of alchemy and the true nature of the earth. |
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| Dancing
With Auntie (3m, 4f), 80mins |
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When teenager Barry invites his new
girlfriend to the family Christmas party, she has
a catalytic effect on the rest of the household,
bringing to the fore a secret that has been hidden
for many years. Barry's father has some explaining
to do to his niece and his son in an attempt to
atone for his actions. A beatifully crafted, wickedly
humorous play. |
| Love
Is A Four Letter Word (5m, 5f) Two Acts (Strong
language & content) |
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Dave lusts after Jackie. Jackie yearns
for romance. Jackie's mother yearns for perfection.
Dave's mates lend a helping hand (or they interfere
- depending on your viewpoint). The play stares
the serious and sensitive subjects of marriage,
relationships and responsibility firmly in the face,
and doesn't blink or take a step backwards. |
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Away (5m, 8f) (Strong
language & content) |
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Kath discovers that she's pregnant,
and Alan (her husband) can't believe that he is
the father. Being the landlord and landlady of a
Northern pub provides a host of fascinating characters
for Alan to wonder about. He might be the father,
but there again ... |
| Pretzels
For Dinner (3m, 4f) (Strong
language & content) |
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Annie and Bill have been married for
40 years during which time he has been the 'lord
and master'. Even after death, he maintains a presence
and keeps her on her toes. Only she can see and
hear him, until finally she decides that she doesn't
need him anymore. |
| Silent
Running (3m, 1f) |
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Harry Falcon runs his entertainment
agency like he runs his his life - on a downward
spiral. His grip on both is weakening as each grip
of the bottle of scotch strengthens its hold on
him. Befriended by one of his female acts, he tries
to rekindle his emotional side, but it is too late;
she is spoken for, and his body and mind are way
past redemption. |
| Ugga!
(the boy with a paper
bag on his head) (7m, 3f, 1m/f)
80 mins. Suitable
(with doubling) for TIE |
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Inspired youngster or fashion victim? Who is this
mysterious 'Ugga'? Why is he wearing a paper bag
on his head? Is he mad or is he making a bold statement?
These are the questions that new English teacher,
Mr Jones has to answer when he starts at his first
school. Join him in his quest to find the truth;
join him in his quest to find out what lies beneath
the paper bag. |
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| Stand
And Deliver (4m, 10f) (Strong
language & content) |
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Winner
- AUDIENCE AWARD : Wakefield
Drama Festival, 2009, (JABA
Players)
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In a small Maternity Ward, Sister
Mitchell and Nurse Walker have to contend with four
pregnant women and their other half's (or mother
in one case) each with different reasons for being
pregnant and different views on births, deaths and
marriages. It may sound like an unlikely setting
for a comedy play, but Janet Shaw has a talent for
turning the most incongruous situation and poking
fun at it, or the people in it. Great fun! |
| Stopped
Interrupting (4m, 4f) |
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A play within a play (sort of). When
a performance looks likely to be cancelled due to
a missing actor, the author of the play agrees to
stand in for him. A few minutes into Act One, the
cast are perturbed by a lady member of the audience
standing up and claiming that she wrote the play
not the supposed 'author' on stage. It transpires
that they were in love many years ago, but broke
up and haven't seen each other since. Did the script
get snaffled? Why did they break up? How will the
cast cope with this unusual and testing situation? |
| The
Village Hall (9m, 8f) four 30 min linked one-act
plays (or play 2, 3 or 4 in combination) |
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That hallowed institution - the Village
Hall, scene of unparalleled local country dramas
is the setting for these four comedy plays. Each
play stands up in its own right, but the quartet
could be played together in many combinations. Each
play features one or two main characters and their
particular use of the Hall, a Jumble Sale, the Amateur
Dramatics group, the scout's Gang Show and the Wedding
Reception.. |
| Tie
Break (4m, 4f, 1m/f) |
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When 94 year old Vincent arrives at
Clive and Ann's house with 21 year old Melanie,
and it's announced they are engaged, everybody suspects
of her of being a gold-digger. After she leaves,
they discuss theories as to how she could 'bump
the old codger off' without getting caught. Later,
a policeman arrives to quiz them on the sudden demise
of Vincent.. Is he all that he seems though? What
does he say when the real Vincent arrives? |
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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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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| Free
And Easy (5m, 4f) |
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Enjoy a real nostalgia treat with this gently
humorous, hugely entertaining, piece of escapism.
Set to a backdrop of over fifteen hits of the 50s
and 60's, we follow the trials and tribulations
of Eric Dobbins, the dryly nonchalant publican,
and his matriarchal wife, Iris (a stereotypical
landlady), as they, their staff and their regulars
fight to save the pub from the unscrupulous hands
of the brewery manager who sees it as a potential
lap-dancing venue. Requires a cast of competent
singers and a three-piece band. |
| Lumley
Mill (18m, 20f) |
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Set in the fields and farms of
England circa 1890. John Bartlett's play is a
lovingly created look back at those simpler times
of shepherds and squires; innocence and indulgence;
Morris men, maidens and milk-maids. Using traditional
English folk tunes, this play is an unusual, but
fascinating glimpse at the social mores and constraints
of Victorian agricultural society. The cast list
is quite large, so there is ample scope for doubling
if necessary, or for involving a large number
of actors where this is possible. |
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Giggleswick Players Do 'Full Frontal' (8m,
11f) 100 mins |
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An affectionate behind-the-scenes
look at life both on and off stage at an Amateur
Dramatics group. With ambitions that are amorous
as well as artistic, romances flourish and fail,
in the midst of the Directors attempts to stage
a musical comedy. Requires several competent singers
and dancers - even though the parts they are playing
can't sing or dance (or act for that matter). |
| Sunshine
Mountain (15m, 11f, 3m/f) |
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Set in the mid-1930's, a group of excitable children
are taken to the seaside for a day. An endearing
look back at more relaxed past times, when Sunday
School charabanc outings were very popular and deckchair
attendants ruled the beach! Suitable for either
adult or school productions. |
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Dylan (5m, 3f) (Strong
language & content) |
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The dance musical version of 'Portrait
Of Dylan' (see above) which combines the text
of that play with superb, professionally recorded
music on CD. Dance sequences can be imaginatively
used during these musical interludes to complement
the spoken action. |
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| Revelation
Of The Velvet City (5m,3f) 110 mins |
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A rather sinister portrayal of the
murky divide between good and evil, passive and
active, order and chaos. The Righteous and The Meek
struggle to each gain the upper hand in a battle
for survival as the end of the world approaches.
The five acts break neatly into the equivalent of
a two act play. |
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| Where
You Going, Bobby Fortner (7m, 4f) |
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Bobby, living in a small American
town, discovers that illegal dumping of toxic chemicals
is taking place in the local river, but nobody in
the town seems to be interested - not even the Sheriff.
In passing, he mentions it to his doctor who agrees
to help Bobby find the culprits as the town's water
supply is at risk. This play for young adults raises
topics of the environment, collusion, teenage relationships
and trust. |
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