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STUART ARDERN (1956 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Stuart Ardern |
Aladdin | ||
| 1st Produced: | CATS | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33238 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Musical Christmas Pantomime Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 20 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mayhem in China as the wicked Abanaza wields the magic lamp with its great and powerful genie, and captures the Emperor's daughter. Aladdin comes to the rescue, with the aid of Widow Twankey and the camp Genie of the Ring. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cinderella | ||
| 1st Produced: | CATS | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33328 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Musical Christmas Pantomime Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 16 | |||||
Notes: | written by Bob Heather and Stuart Arden | |||||
Synopsis: | The Prince must marry (otherwise his stipend will be cut off) and holds a ball to choose a bride. Cinderella is banned by her ugly sisters and cruel stepmother, but her fairy godmother ensures a happy ending | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dead Ringer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southampton | 1997 | ||||
Company: | CATS | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1040 | |||
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Genre: | mystery One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Single simple set | |||||
Synopsis: | Margo attends a seance to contact her dead husband - who seems to have taken their fortune to the grave with him. The police, however, have other ideas | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Death in Character | ||
| 1st Produced: | CATS | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33635 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 8 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The management committee meets on the stage for the last time to arrange closure of their theatre. By the end of the evening the police are called in to investigate a murder with a rather unusual victim. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dick Whittington and His Cat | ||
| 1st Produced: | CATS | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33838 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Musical Christmas Pantomime Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 17 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Enlisting the help of a cat, a camel and an uncannily familiar bard, Dick Whittington battles rats and pirates, survives a shipwreck and an encounter with an unusual smuggler to win the hand of the Lord Mayor's daughter. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gentlemen of the Press, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Purley Players | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33848 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | During the Napoleonic wars, two junior officers are sent out to find men to fill the complement of their ship. One of them has other motives. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Long Road, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33899 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 15 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | For Alan, the memories of hospitalisation after World War II are more real than his current stay in hospital, to the distress of his family, but his flashbacks eventually explain the loss of his closest friendship. The play uses the unravelling of the mystery of a broken friendship to explore the nature of memory and its impact on behaviour. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Meet the Inventor | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34169 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Sketch Sketch | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 2 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An interview with the inventor of a time machine explores just some of the paradoxes inherent in time travel. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Minny Pinny Makes a Difference | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chisipite Junior School, Zimbabwe | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34181 | |||
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Genre: | Children's 1 Act Musical Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 7 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The farmer can't get to market, the driver can't drive him because his truck tyre is flat and there's nobody to take it to the garage. Minny Pinny is only a little girl, how can she help the farmer? How can she make a difference? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Miss Glossop Comes to Tea | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southampton | 2001 | ||||
Company: | CATS | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1041 | |||
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Genre: | humorous whodunit One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Single drawing-room set. | |||||
Synopsis: | Hapless amateur sleuth, Miss Glossop visits and old friend and solves a murder to the satisfaction of everyone - especially the guilty | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Miss Glossop's Weekend Break | ||
| 1st Produced: | CATS | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34245 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A murder is committed at a small hotel, and Miss Glossop is on hand to demonstrate how easy it is to jump to the wrong conclusions. A second outing for the incompetent detective who first appeared in Miss Glossop Comes to Tea. (Note that this is not a sequel - the two plays function independently.) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Panto Of The Opera | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128982 | |||
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Genre: | Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Phantom Thief, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34466 | |||
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Genre: | Children's 1 Act Mystery Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 9 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A boy has gone missing. His disappearance coincides with a series of robberies. Can his friends find him and unravel the connection - or is their visit to the haunted house just harmless fun? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Puss in Boots | ||
| 1st Produced: | CATS | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34494 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Christmas Pantomime Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 13 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Tom, the hero, is bequeathed a cat in his father's will. An unusual cat. A cat with the gift of the gab. A gift for getting Tom into trouble - and out of it again in his quest to marry a princess. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rhyming Red Riding Hood | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34931 | |||
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Genre: | Children's 10 Min Rhyming play Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 5 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Red Riding Hood is getting in her mothers way, and is sent off to visit her grandma. Unfortunately, a wolf gets to grandma's house first - unfortunately for the wolf, as he more than meets his match. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Robin Hood and the Singing Nun | ||
| 1st Produced: | CATS | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34973 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Musical Christmas Pantomime Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 23 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Richard the Lionheart has gone missing and Prince John is about to usurp the throne. The Sheriff of Nottingham is terrorizing Sherwood Forest and Maid Marian has become a nun! Enter Robin Hood to save the day with a bow, a song and a custard pie. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sinbad | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35185 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Musical Christmas Pantomime Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 18 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sinbad wants to marry Shaheen, daughter of the Caliph of Warezit, but there are a few obstacles. For a start, there's the villanous Al Capone and his evil genie, then there's the quest the Caliph has set. Sinbad has to bring back a rok (a dangerous giant bird), braving shipwrecks, a whale, sharks and pirates on the way. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Snow White and the Mini Miners | ||
| 1st Produced: | Impact DTG | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35270 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Christmas Pantomime Musical One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 12 | |||||
Notes: | with music by Jonny Ardern | |||||
Synopsis: | Tells the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with the minimum of characters. On the run from her wicked stepmother, Snow White takes refuge with a group of miners who are a bit short on - well, everything, they have even mislaid a mineshaft. Then there are the problems with the apple seller and the handsome prince. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarves | ||
| 1st Produced: | CATS | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35355 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Musical Christmas Pantomime Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 15 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | On the run from her wicked stepmother, Snow White takes refuge with a group of miners who are a bit short on - well, everything. A couple of salesmen ("this cloth . . . can only be seen by people of above average intelligence") give away her whereabouts, and her stepmother comes to call. Fortunately a hero is on hand to save the day. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Witch Hunt | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lazy Bee Scripts, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35130 | |||
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Genre: | Children's 1 Act Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Minimum Cast Size 12 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When an old woman moves into a cottage, she is initially greeted with hostility, however her knowledge of basic medicine gains her the respect of the local community. Trouble starts when there is famine and sickness, and the old woman is accused of witchcraft. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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