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Axiom Arts Centre - Cheltenham

1995

Exiled Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Play/Drama

1

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Notes: Two monologues are written by Chris Lambert the other was written by Robert Addie and is unavailable. This play was a one man show performed by Robert Addie.

Synopsis: Looks at the lives of three men bound up by their faith in God, in government and in religion. When their faith is threatened or destroyed, what can they do but retaliate in kind?

Langley Grammar School

2002

Langley Grammar School

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Pantomime

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Theale Green Community School

2005

Theale Green Community School

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Comedy

8

6

chorus

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Synopsis: It's Scooby Doo on stage without infringing copyright!

Langley Grammar School

2004

Langley Grammar School

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Pantomime

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Synopsis: The traditional tale with a twist ending!

Phoenix Theatre, Cirencester

1997

Silent Owl Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Children's Play

Youth Audience

7

11

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Synopsis: Take a journey with Charlotte to find out what happened to the children of Hamlin after the Pied Piper led them away.

Theale Green Community School

2006

Theale Green Community School

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Comedy Drama (With Carols)

Comedy

26

16

carol singers

Notes: This play has a different ending from the original. Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol as a plea for the wealthy to reform and begin to share their resources to help others. It is a paean to Victorian morality and charity but is also, in my opinion, a celebration of apathy. The message of A Christmas Carol appears to be "There is always a time to change." - This is not the case, as Scrooge discovers, our own mortality can work against us. And why wait anyway? If we see that something is wrong in our behaviour then we should resolve to change it now, and not because some great tragedy happens or we are given a nudge of conscience, but simply because it is the right thing to do. In an age where people are becoming more isolated from each other, a call to help our fellow man is vital. How often do we respond? Do you sit at home letting tragedy after tragedy wash over you and then switch over to watch something else, stick on a DVD or play some horrendously violent computer game you were given for Christmas? When you are told to change your behaviour do you listen, nod politely and then pop your headphones back on? It can be argued that everyone is selfish, that Christmas is a celebration of selfishness, and that we are all Ebenezer Scrooge waiting for the worst to happen before we decide to change. Merry Christmas?

Synopsis: Act 1In which we are introduced to Scrooge, his wicked and selfish ways, the people that he mistreats and the way in which he mistreats them. We then meet the Ghost of Marley and examine Scrooge's life with the help of the ghosts of Christmas Past and Present. Act 2 The Ghost of Christmas Future reveals a disturbing future, will Scrooge change his ways? What will come to pass?. . .

Brewery Arts Theatre, Cirencester

1996

Exiled Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Play/Drama

10

3

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Notes: This was the first major tour for Exiled Theatre.

Synopsis: In a world of storms and barbaric war stands Edmund, the bastard son of Gloucester, the catalyst that killed a king and destroyed a kingdom. What drove him his conclusion? What earthly or unearthly force made him what he was? Set in a time before the events of Shakespeare's King Lear, Edmund - Son of Gloucester examines the life of this character, charting his first 27 years, from sorry beginnings in Celtic England to barbaric heroism on the shores of France.

Brewery Arts Theatre, Cirencester

1996

Exiled Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Play/Drama

4

1

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Notes: Re-casting the popular character of Columba as a villain (this is made even more apparent by having the same actor play Fergus (the barbarian)) was always going to be controversial. His manipulation of the natives is truly horrific and is made more so, not because he is evil but because he believes that what he is doing is utterly right. Reading the play again it is easy to see far more prescient parallels today with the rise of religious extremism, in particular the Christian Fundamentalist Right in America. The play is designed to provoke debate, entertain and cause a deep emotional response in the audience.

Synopsis: This very personal play packed an emotional and political punch on its tour in 1996. Retelling the colonisation and conversion of Africa to Christianity through metaphor, the play was able to question the methods and purpose of evangelism through a dark and gritty tale. The play is set on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. The Isle of Mull is next to Iona where the real Saint Columba began his ministry. The play sets up a beautiful indigenous religion based on belief in the fair folk (or fairies) a popular strand of Celtic mythology. This idyll is shattered firstly by a barbarian murderer who kills Conall's wife and then by Saint Columba who destroys the customs, religions, friendships and lives of this people as they come to believe his message.

Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham

2003

Workswell Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Comedy Drama

Comedy

4

1

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Notes: Written by Christopher Lambert and Jonathan Shelley.

Synopsis: Conrad is a messenger in the plays of Shakespeare. In fact owing to a spate of bad nes and quick hangings, he is the only messenger left - and he wants to quit. Aided, advised and confused by his mentor Autolycus, Conrad must deliver ALL the messages& Messages for jealous moors, meddling priests and untames shrews, for tragic lovers and humpy kings - sya no more than truth, maintain the truth, for truth is truth to the end of reck'ning. But now his simple truth is all abused, as sly insinuating Iago makes opinion sick and truth suspected. Conrad must make the truth appear where hid, hide the false where it seems true, and hope that they don't - "Kill the Messenger". . .

Axiom Arts Centre, Cheltenham

1998

Exiled Theatre

www.playsandmusicals.co.uk

2007

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Comedy

2

1

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Synopsis: A play of stifled longings, bursting passions, sudden violence and frozen dogs

Cheltenham Library Theatre

1997

Exiled Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Thriller

3

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Synopsis: A hit man, an archaeologist, a dangerous cult and the disappearance of the Roman Ninth Legion on the Fosseway are all connected by an ancient and terrifying mystery - one that shakes the very fabric of time and sanity.

Langley Grammar School

2001

Langley Grammar School

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Musical

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Guildhall Theatre, Gloucester

1998

Voice Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Play/Drama

3

3

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Synopsis: A modern retelling of "The Pardoner's Tale."

Cirencester Abbey Grounds - Brewery Arts Theatre

1994

Exiled Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Historical Promenade/Comedy

Comedy

3

2

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Notes: This is site specific but is a useful blueprint for similar productions around historical sites. See also Shades in Time-Gloucester and Winchester.

Synopsis: The show combines comedy, music and drama, taking an audience around the site of the Abbey to meet various characters from the town's exciting and intriguing past.

Gloucester Docks - Guildhall Theatre, Gloucester

1995

Exiled Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Street Theatre - Comedy

Comedy

5

5

flexible

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Synopsis: A hugely silly look at the history of the docks - that may or may not be true. . .

Winchester Cathedral

1995

Exiled Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Historical Promenade - Comedy

Comedy

5

5

flexible

Notes: This is site specific but is a useful blueprint for similar productions around historical sites. See also Shades in Time-Cirencester and Gloucster.

Synopsis: An historical promenade of comic proportions through Winchester Cathedral Close.

Gloucester Cathedral - Guildhall Theatre, Gloucester

1995

Exiled Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Historical Promenade/Comedy

Comedy

4

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Notes: This is site specific but is a useful blueprint for similar productions around historical sites. See also Shades in Time-Cirencester and Winchester

Synopsis: An historical promenade through Gloucester's Cathedral close, reliving events from the days of Bishop Hooper.

Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham

1997

Tilt Theatre

www.playsandmusicals.co.uk

2006

If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
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Play/Drama

4

1

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Notes: Setting: A coastal village in the late 19th Century. The play is best performed in a black box space with a minimum of props to allow for fast changes and to create a stark and impoverished atmosphere. The structure of the play is made up of short scenes written in a slightly heightened language to help illustrate the desperation of the situation, the period and to allow the moments of exposition to sit well in the dialogue. In the original production, the set was very minimal : consisting of a variously-used tea chest, a tall wooden stepladder, various ropes hanging from the back wall and a huge net hanging from the ceiling. It created the look and feel of a barn or fisherman's storehouse and though this was not the only location in the play it formed an integral part of the backdrop. Other locations were denoted by lighting and by movement of parts of the set. The play was initially envisaged as an allegory of the arguments against Care in the Community (i.e. the abandonment of seriously ill patients and the lack of round-the-clock care) however the period setting allows for various other readings.

Synopsis: Driven to desperate measures, local businessman Christopher Hancock and the Reverend Phillips persuade the starving villagers to wreck a ship in order to loot its cargo to eat or sell. Unfortunately the ship they wreck is a floating asylum (a 'ship of fools') and because the villagers have superstitious natures (they believe it is very bad luck to kill a fool) they are forced into a position of care for the three remaining survivors.

South Street Arts Centre, Reading

2007

Exiled Theatre

www.playsandmusicals.co.uk

2007

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Comedy

2

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Notes: This is coarse acting, or what the author likes to call 'hamper' acting & everything you need to play a myriad of characters you have in one costume hamper! The play relies on a 'large' acting style to allow the audience to easily differentiate between the many different characters that they play. Changes can take place behind one screen though the more screens you have the better as you can spread out the costumes more effectively and allow for a variety of different entrances and exits. The key trick to the play is that the two actors playing the parts needs to be seen as rivals and much of the playing is a form of competition, (ie who can be bigger than the other character and so on. This builds towards the climax at the end).

Synopsis: Telling of the experiments and misadventures of two charlatan scientists, Fernando and Reynaldo in Renaissance Italy, the play provides an invigorating evening of surreal and silly entertainment. Bursting with clowning, caricature and competition, the actors play twenty-five parts between them they try to discover the ingredients of a love potion, the secret of alchemy and the true nature of the earth.

King Alfred's Art Centre, Winchester

1994

Exiled Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Murder Mystery

Mystery

2

1

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Notes: This has been performed on 4 different occasions. 3 of these have been performed by Exiled Theatre Jan 94, March 94 and April 95. Then by Two Chairs theatre April 98.

Synopsis: A man is constantly haunted by his murdered wife's livid spirit. He does not remember why he killed her. He forgets that a lodger is due to move in - the cries of his wife's ghost obliterate all else.

unperformed

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Murder Mystery

Mystery

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Bob Kayley Studio, Reading University

1999

PGCE Drama Course Students

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Comedy Drama

Play/Drama

2

3

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Synopsis: -

Phoenix Theatre, Cirencester

1998

Exiled Theatre

www.playsandmusicals.co.uk

2007

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Comedy

9

3

Chorus of Children

Notes: Style: This play uses tableau, chorus and direct address. These are used to support the notion of this being a cautionary tale and also to draw the audience in so that Mr Jones' attack at the end is all the more effective. Author's note: This play was written as a collaboration between a professional theatre company and a youth theatre. Two professional actors played the main roles whilst five children (aged between 11 and 13) played the students. The work can be produced in this way but it can also work well with a much larger cast, with lots of children creating the Chorus of the Children and each character being played by a different actor. This would make for easy rehearsals, as nearly every scene is effectively a duologue. This play would work as a team up between an adult amateur dramatics company and a local youth theatre or as a full school production.Each member of the audience needs to be provided with a paper bag (with eye-holes) at the start of the show for the climax of the play (see picture below). In the original production the programme details were printed on them.

Synopsis: This is a play about the obsession with looks, cosmetic surgery, diets and obesity. It challenges the audience to recognise the way in which the media influences our feelings about our own body image and can cause insecurity, bullying and eating disorders