New Musical – ‘Much Ado’
‘Much Ado‘ is a new musical based on one of Shakespeare’s popular plays combines a mixture of comedy, romance and near-tragedy with the feisty characters of Beatrice and Benedick at its core as they exchange abuse and swear they will never marry anyone. Coupled with a variety of other characters and situations that call for [...]

Productions Booked for February 2011
So far, this is the productions list for February 2011 … 09-11 Feb : ‘Witchfinder‘ at Redbridge Community School, Southampton, SO16 9RJ, UK 04-12 Feb : ‘Hansel And Gretal‘ by Buntingford Dramatic Society at Benson Hall, Buntingford, SG9 9HT, UK 10-13 Feb : ‘Free And Easy‘ by Father Mathew Players at New Inn Community Hall, [...]

We’ve been busy over the Summer …
I last put pen to paper here about new titles in our catalogue back in June. Since then we’ve had a ‘splurge’ of activity and all these have been added … the mid-length comedy play ‘Wild Allegations‘ by David K Barnes and David Leon ‘The Cool Yule Mule‘ another modern musical nativity to our Young [...]

Gulliver’s Travels
We had a very interesting and fruitful meeting yesterday morning with Chris Chambers and Andy Rapps who respectively are the wordsmith and songsmith for our newest musical title – ‘Gulliver’s Travels‘. After quoffing tea and biscuits (champagne would have been a bit too much at nine o’clock in the morning) we signed the contract and [...]

Three Jane Austen Plays
We’ve just acquired the rights to full-length play adaptations of three classic Jane Austen books : Mansfield Park’ ‘Persuasion’ ‘Sense And Sensibility‘ We hope you like them!

Australian ‘Pirates’ Irish Premiere
Congratulations to the Malahide Musical & Dramatic Society who have just received their licence to perform the Irish amateur première of Essgee’s version of ‘The Pirates Of Penzance‘ in February 2011.

Nosferatu
The third of Bernard J Taylor’s musicals to be added to our catalogue, ‘Nosferatu‘ is a sung-through rock opera inspired by the classic black and white silent movie of the same name – the first movie ever made of the Dracula story. The musical is dark, brooding, passionate, eerie and fascinating, yet contains some inspired [...]

Summer Activities
With a lot of customers concentrating on holidays rather than their thespian activities, we’ve turned our full attention to two things – planning our trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and acquiring more titles. We’re off to the Granite City for a week towards the end of August … our accommodation and train tickets are [...]

Congratulations to … A Few Prima Donnas
Congratulations to the Cornish amdram group A Few Prima Donnas who won ‘The Adjudicator’s Award’ at the Quarter Final of this year’s All England Theatre Festival (Western Division) with ‘A Little Box Of Oblivion‘ by Stephen Bean, but unfortunately didn’t win through to the next round. Director, Kathy West (who runs the theatrical gifts company [...]

Exhibition Notes #2
With the dust now settling over our boxed up exhibition stand and paraphernalia, in retrospect, the NODA North West weekend in Blackpool was both quite useful and quite pleasant. A large attendance meant that the footfall on the stand was good, but what was even more enjoyable was meeting up with customers and some cast [...]