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ERIC BOAGEY |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Eric has been a teacher of English and Drama most of his life and, arising from his work, has produced several books on aspects of English, including a poetry anthology and the popular Starting Shakespeare and Starting Drama. He has also edited studies of Shakespeare plays. In addition to writing, he has produced plays in Pakistan, Cyprus and Switzerland - most memorably, Androcles and the Lion in an alpine church!
Plays by Eric Boagey
Death, be not Proud (A Life of John Donne) | ||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906997-29-8 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105701 | |||
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Genre: | Play - Full Length, Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras, voices | |||||
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| We first see John Donne as the fashionable man-about-town of his day - courting mistresses and writing love poetry (privately circulated), but also joining naval expeditions in the war against Spain and eventually being appointed Secretary to Lord Egerton, Elizabeth's chief law lord . Ambition achieved! Where might it lead? Not where he imagined. He falls deeply in love with Anne More, the young niece of Lord Egerton, marries her in secret and months later suffers the inevitable consequences - the wrath of her father, a spell in the Fleet Prison, dismissal from his post as Secretary and a future with little money and no prospects. The years of semi-poverty and guilt for his 'profane youth' bring him to a state of spiritual crisis until he reaches the second great turning point in his life. On the advice of King James and even against his own deepest conviction, he takes holy orders and finds his true vocation but never loses his humour or his human understanding. | |||||
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Mowgli - The Jungle Book | ||
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| 1st Published: | Jasper Publishing Ltd 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906997-22-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105702 | |||
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Genre: | Play - Full Length, Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 5 | |||||
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Synopsis: | Based on the stories by Rudyard Kipling. The boy Mowgli is raised by Mother Wolf in the jungle but is rejected by the young wolves, who follow the tiger, Shere Khan. Living in the village, Mowgli is again rejected as a wolf-boy. Where does he belong? He defeats his enemy, Shere Khan, and returns to the Council Rock but has to decide: to stay in the jungle with his animal friends or face life in the human world. A drama with a wide range of characters, animal and human, serious and comic. There are songs too. Doubling is possible and some roles can be male or female. | |||||
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Young Diamond | ||
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| 1st Published: | Jasper Publishing Ltd 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906997-09-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105703 | |||
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Genre: | Play - Full Length, Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | Young Diamond is based on the Victorian novel At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald. Young Diamond, son of a London cab-driver, is taken on daring flights over London with North Wind - a mysterious but no-nonsense lady who, like most winds, can be both gentle and fierce, but is at heart wise and understanding. She guides Diamond to the Far North, where he meets a challenge and through it finds a new confidence in himself. His parents, Arthur and Lil, don't know what to make of this strange North Wind business&but eventually they too understand. On the way we meet pompous Mr Coleman, worried-to-death Aunt Alice, streetwise Nanny and happy-go-lucky Dorkin, with his travelling seaside stall. It's comedy, drama and fantasy, but with a serious thread running through it. | |||||
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