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A Higher Education

(2m, 2f) apx 1hr 45mins - Written as a long One Act play, but with a Two Act split point provided
Patrick is suffering in his job and in his private life, and he badly needs comfort - female comfort. Summer is determined to complete her university degree, and if she can't get the money one way, she will try another. Their encounter is explosive for both of them.

A Phoenix Rising

(8m, 6f) Large Cast Possibilities
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)
 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 Content
 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) Strong Content
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.

Hear A Song That Echoes

(2m, 1f)
A play with recorded music inspired by the classic narrative poem 'The Lady Of Shalott' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about a woman who keeps the world at one remove until a former student - now a successful writer - declares his love for her. It is accompanied by a soundtrack consisting of ten pieces of piano and symphonic music that are woven into the narrative.

In

(3m, 3f) Strong Content
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

(17m, 7f, 1m/f) Large Cast
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.

Mansfield Park  (by Jane Austen, adapted by Pamela Whalan)

(6m, 7f)     (Coming Soon)
Fanny Price is the poor relation of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, and has, from the age of ten, lived with the Bertram family at Mansfield Park. The shy and retiring Fanny is an intelligent observer of the flirtations and foibles of her four cousins and the sophisticated brother and sister, Henry and Mary Crawford, who move into the neighbourhood and disrupt the peace of the Bertram family.

On Raglan Road

(2m, 1f)
Using Patrick Kavanagh's poem of the same name, this play sets out to describe the often tortuous relationship between himself and Brendan Behan and brings his doomed relationship with Hilda Moriarty into sharp focus.

Persuasion  (by Jane Austen, adapted by Pamela Whalan)

(5m, 8f)     (Coming Soon)
The bittersweet story of love that might have been. At the age of nineteen, Anne Elliot was persuaded to refuse an offer of marriage from a young naval officer. Their paths cross again eight years later, but now Anne is a faded spinster and her fatheris badly in debt, while Captain Wentworth has made his fortune in the war and is a much sort after matrimonial prize.

Portrait Of Dylan

(8m, 5f) Large Cast Possibilities
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)
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.

Sense And Sensibility  (by Jane Austen, adapted by Pamela Whalan)

(6m, 6f)
Lose your heart and come to your senses as you follow the fortunes of Elinor, the sensible sister and Marianne, the sister who is ruled by her feelings. The reserve of one sister and the lack of reserve of the other lead equally to their undoing as they struggle to come to terms with the poverty thrust upon them by their father’s untimely death.

The Audition

(2f) Strong Content
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 Brylcream Boys

(4m, 6f)
Set in 1958 the play follows the fortunes of two young men from opposite poles of the social spectrum who are amongst the last to be called up for national service. They come up against D.I. Evans at basic training who has strict methods of changing boys into men. The experience changes the boy’s lives and has far reaching effects on their families.

The Cherry Boys

(9m, 4f)
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)
Brought to 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) Large Cast
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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