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New Theatre Publications (2008)

978-1840946987

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Full Length

Comedy/Drama

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Reduced cast (with doubling) 4m, 2f, 1 boy. Just days after marrying simple Jane Shorney, popular young charcoal-burner John Walford clubbed her to death in despair. In love with another woman, intense frustration and a passionate nature saw him condemned to hang by a judge who wept openly at his tragedy. His body was left swinging from a gibbet in a cage for a year afterwards. This true 1789 Somerset story of a crime of passion lives on in folk memory today: it appalled Wordsworth and Coleridge, Walford's Gibbet is still on the map, and audiences for the play's first production were deeply affected by this re-enactment - which is also strong on music (one singer, one guitarist) and humour.

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New Theatre Publications (2008)

978-1840946871

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Full Length

Play/Drama

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adaptation of Thomas Hardy's enduring story "On the Western Circuit". Reduced cast (with doubling) 2m, 2f. Edith Harnham's young protege, beautiful, uneducated Anna is training to be a domestic servant. One evening, she succumbs to a handsome lawyer briefly in town touring the Western Circuit. Charles is totally captivated although she's quite unsuitable for a professional man's wife. Anna, who is only just learning to write, persuades Edith to write her love letters to Charles but Edith with mistaken judgement improves them, and soon Charles' soul is captivated too. With Anna in the family way, these letters can only lead to tragic disaster for the true lovers, Edith and Charles, in one of the most moving of romantic tales ever written.

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New Theatre Publications (2009)

978-1840947151

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One Act

Play/Drama

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Adapted for the stage from a short story by Thomas Hardy Reduced cast (with doubling) 2m 1f. "Passion and the Revolutionary" is a dramatic adaptation of "A Committee-Man of the Terror", a short story by Thomas Hardy set in Weymouth during the brief peace with France in the very early 1800s. Hardy uses a specific period in history to throw up obstacles to an intense and intimate love affair that seem to be insuperable. Will the passionate lovers overcome these obstacles and find happiness together? Hardy himself is one of the characters, manipulating the other two in his search for the perfect story.

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New Theatre Publications (2009)

978-1840947045

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Full Length

Play/Drama

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an adaptation by Thomas Hardy. Reduced cast (with doubling) 3m, 4f. The heart-rending tale of pure, innocent Tess, driven to the extremes of murder by Angel and Alec, the two very different men in her life, still has the ability to enthral audiences of all ages. Hardy's swingeing condemnation of the hypocritical mores of his age (1890s), which declared that a mere slip of a girl, seduced, indeed overcome while asleep by an experienced man of the world, is a fallen woman beyond the pale of society, is as powerful today as it was a hundred years ago. This is the first republication of Hardy's own second dramatisation of his famous novel for many decades. It has been edited for performance by Michael Barry, the play's only director (twice) since Hardy himself. Cast 7m 6f, doubling enables 3m 4f.

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New Theatre Publications (2009)

978-1840947564

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A great love story complicated by the fact that women cannot keep their hands off the irresistible base born young hero and that the twists and turns of the fast-moving plot seem hell-bent on dooming him to twist and turn on Tyburn's infamous gallows! Now one of the great comic novels in the English language, but at the time outrage was so great that Dr Johnson declared I scarcely know a more corrupt work. Only a year later, Fanny Hill joined it on the best-seller lists of the times! This tried and tested adaptation is above all faithful to the raunchy original! The press loved it: packed with passion and innuendo. and  more double entendres than an explosion in a Carry On film factory, amongst many similar responses.