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Salisbury: Playhouse, England, EUR >>>

1993

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Josef Weinberger Plays

1996

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Traditional pantomime

Pantomime

6

4

Chorus of children or young adults (3M, 3F).

Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar

Synopsis: The classic story of Aladdin and his quest for the Magic Lamp. A terrific adventure of magic, comedy, danger and romance.

Edinburgh: Fringe Festival >>>

2004

Theatre Maketa

Samuel French, London (acting edition) >>>

2007

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Thriller

2

2

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Notes: written by Roger Leach and Colin Wakefield

Synopsis: Multi-layered thriller, full of unexpected twists. A 'Russian doll' of a play, which moves from a seemingly innocuous domestic play-reading, through a murder mystery in the classic style, to a final terrifying and violent climax

Salisbury: Playhouse, England, EUR >>>

1995

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Josef Weinberger Plays

1996

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Traditional pantomime

Pantomime

5

5

Chorus of children or young adults (3M, 3F).

Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar

Synopsis: Classic rags-to-riches story as Cinderella meets her Prince Charming. Romance, comedy, and masses of audience participation.

Theatre 503, London (Latchmere Theatre) >>>

1988

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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

One Man Show

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1

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Notes: Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. Adapted by Colin Wakefield and Terence Beesley from a literal translation by Lindsey Hughes

Synopsis: Adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's hilarious but tragic short story of a man's rapid descent into a fantasy world of talking dogs, delusions of grandeur and the Spanish Inquisition. Set in nineteenth century St. Petersburg, Poprishkin, a 'positively reptilian' quill-sharpening clerk, is obsessively and hopelessly infatuated with the Director's daughter.

Salisbury: Playhouse, England, EUR >>>

1996

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Josef Weinberger Plays

1997

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Traditional pantomime

Pantomime

5

5

Chorus of children or young adults (6M, 6F

Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar

Synopsis: London's streets are paved with gold (oh no they're not!). Featuring the greatest panto villain of them all, King Rat, this wonderful story is packed with danger, comedy, adventure and romance.

Studio Theatre, South Hill Park, Bracknell

1993

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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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Farce

4

5

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Notes: Co-written with Roger Leach

Synopsis: A comedy of mistaken identity set in a hotel and featuring two sets of identical twins (one female, one male), the male pair of which were separated at birth. Confusion, tightly orchestrated mayhem and a touching final reconciliation.

Malvern Girls' College

1995

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, but rights controlled by Josef Weinberger Plays

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Youth musical (for juniors) 45 min

Youth Audience

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Numbers flexble - up to 100, but no fewer than 30. Boys, girls or mixed. Ideal age range: 9-13

Notes: Co-written with Kate Edgar. Original songs and music by Kate Edgar. One act. Running time: 45 minutes.

Synopsis: The village is being terrorised by a fire-eating Dragon. Patches, a cheeky and wilful child, is the only villager brave enough to make the journey across the mountains to visit the wise Goddess who can reveal how the Dragon may be defeated. On her way she meets groups of Turtles, Butterflies, Monkeys and, as she approaches the wise Goddess, sinister Goblin Guards.

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Rights handled by ATT - Agentur in Munich. E-mail: info@att-agentur.de Website: www.att-agentur.de

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Comedy

3

2

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Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Bradatsch. Translated into English by Colin Wakefield and Raymund Stahl from the German play VON KATZEN TRÄUMEN

Synopsis: For Helen, a gallery owner, and her husband Max, a psychologist, the morning of an acquaintance's funeral puts questions concerning their life together under the microscope. They discover the need to re-evaluate their marriage. Their daughter Paula and her husband Oliver are staying with their parents prior to setting off on their honeymoon. Their young marriage is already showing clear signs of tension as both are very different characters. Philip, a client of Max's, drops by to discuss his relationship difficulties and suddenly finds he has to rethink his life completely. The successful German playwright Peter Bradatsch in his new play creates characters who seek to master their problems seriously, though with humour, through self-deception and lies. A bitter comedy about relationship breakdown, loyalty and love.

Salisbury: Playhouse, England, EUR >>>

1997

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Josef Weinberger Plays

1998

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Traditional pantomime

Pantomime

5

5

Chorus of children or young adults (4M, 4F)

Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar

Synopsis: When Dame Trott and her son Idle Jack are forced to sell their beloved cow Clarabelle to pay the rent, they hardly anticipate a chain of events which will lead to Jack climbing the beanstalk and defeating the monstrous Giant Blunderbore. "Fee, fi, fo, fum - I smell the blood of an Englishman".

Theatre Royal, Winchester, UK >>>

2002

The Hiss and Boo Company

Josef Weinberger Plays

2004

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Family musical

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4

3

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Notes: Original music by Kate Edgar. Conceived as an actor/musician show, it has also been scored for keyboards and can be performed as a more conventional musical if preferred. Also translated into German.

Synopsis: A musical retelling of the popular story of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. "All the better to eat you with, my dear!" The seedy Wolf has seen better days, but with the help of his sleazy side-kick Weasel he smartens up his act and proves more than a match for gullible Granny.

Salisbury: Playhouse, England, EUR >>>

1992

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Josef Weinberger Plays

1996

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Traditional pantomime

Pantomime

5

3

Chorus of children or young adults.

Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar

Synopsis: An edifying tale of the effect of unexpected riches on the fortunes of poor but good-hearted widow, Mother Goose. Comedy, danger, romance - and a moral!

Salisbury: Playhouse, England, EUR >>>

2001

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, but rights controlled by Josef Weinberger Plays

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with magic

Pantomime

4

6

Chorus of children or young adults (3M, 3F).

Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar. This is the second Wakefield/Edgar version of MOTHER GOOSE and is slightly larger in scale than the first and has a number of different characters. But the fortunes of Mother Goose herself remain true to the original story

Synopsis: The old story of Mother Goose's journey from rags to riches (and back again), with many a lesson learnt along the way. The Demon Magician plots to capture Priscilla, the goose that lays the golden eggs - but virtue wins the day.

Progress Theatre, Reading

2006

PMG 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

Solo

Play/Drama

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Notes: Edited by Colin Wakefield from the original letters and first performed by Pauline Gray. Playing time: 55 minutes. Material reproduced by kind permission of Earl Spencer and the British Library Manuscripts Department

Synopsis: Edited letters (1779-1783) of Georgiana, first Countess Spencer of Althorp, to her lifelong friend, Mrs. Howe ("My dear Howey"). Charting the events leading up to and following the death of her beloved husband, the 1st Earl, this is a poignant story of loss and recovery.

Kellertheater, Innsbruck

2003

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Josef Weinberger Plays

2008

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Comedy

5

3

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Notes: Co-written with Roger Leach

Synopsis: This comedy features a group of lawyers away for an important weekend conference. Hugo Barnes desperately wants to be a High Court Judge and has organised the conference - under the title 'Clean up the Bar' - to impress the new Lord Chancellor. Hugo's friend and married colleague, Nick Willmott, has invited a young solicitors' secretary along for the weekend. This decision threatens Nick's marriage, Hugo's plans for a trouble-free conference and both their reputations. Misunderstandings, narrow escapes and attempted sexual infidelity combine with an unusual undercurrent of family reconciliation and personal discovery.

Theatre Royal, Winchester, UK >>>

2004

The Hiss and Boo Company

Josef Weinberger Plays

2005

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Family musical

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4

2

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Notes: Original music by Kate Edgar. Conceived as an actor/musician show, it has also been scored for keyboards and can be performed as a more conventional musical if preferred

Synopsis: When Tom, the Miller's son, only inherits the family cat in his father's will his prospects look bleak. But Puss has other ideas and, newly equipped with a pair of boots, he sets out to make his master's fortune. Disguised as the Marquis of Carabas, Tom catches the eye of the beautiful Princess Rosalinda and is instrumental in winning back her father's kingdom from the man-eating Ogre.

Salisbury: Playhouse, England, EUR >>>

2000

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Josef Weinberger Plays

2001

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Traditional pantomime

Pantomime

5

4

Chorus of children or young adults (3M, 3F)

Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar

Synopsis: The intertwining of two well-known legends in one provides a fast-moving adventure story, with masses of action, comedy and romance

Godolphin Prep. School, Salisbury

2001

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, but rights controlled by Josef Weinberger Plays

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Youth musical (for juniors) 65 min

Youth Audience

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Numbers flexible - up to 100, but no fewer than 40. Boys, girls or mixed. Ideal age range: 8-12

Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar

Synopsis: The story of two domesticated rabbits who seek to return home to find their family. Their journey takes them through a dangerous wood from which they are lucky to escape with their lives. Reaching their home they suffer a rude shock to discover that it has been 'developed' by a large and aggressive colony of rats. Rescued by a posse of the friends they met earlier, they wonder whether the quiet life might not be better after all.

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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

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3

1b

Notes: Co-written with David Gillespie

Synopsis: Micky is directing a play called Murder by Poison, a Victorian thriller written by his great-grandfather, Edmund Moffatt. The theatre has been owned by four generations of the Moffatt family, but has been closed for sixty years following a tragic accident during rehearsals for the same play. Only Micky's elderly and eccentric father, William, knows the truth of what happened all those years ago. He tries to warn Micky that the play is doomed and urges him to abandon his plans, but Micky ignores the warning - with deadly and terrifying consequences.

Salisbury: Playhouse, England, EUR >>>

1994

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Josef Weinberger Plays

1996

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Traditional pantomime

Pantomime

5

5

Chorus of children or young adults (3M, 3F)

Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar

Synopsis: One of the oldest and most popular romances ever told. Princess Briar Rose is cursed at her Christening by the wicked Carabosse: on her sixteenth birthday she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die. The Time Fairy can only mitigate this curse, and when the Princess does indeed prick her finger, she is doomed to fall asleep of one hundred years. To be awakened, of course, by a Prince with a kiss.

Theatre Royal, Winchester, UK >>>

2003

The Hiss and Boo Company

unpublished - rights withJosef Weinberger Plays

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Family musical

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4

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Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar. This is the second Wakefield/Edgar version of THE SLEEPING BEAUTY and, apart from being substantially different in plot and characters from the first, was conceived as an actor/musician show - ie. with the actors playing all the instrumental music on- and off-stage. The show has also been scored for keyboards, so can be performed as a conventional musical if preferred.

Synopsis: The familiar story of Sleeping Beauty, but including the rarely-told second half, in which the Prince brings his new bride home to meet Mother. The latter is revealed as a child-eating ogress, which hardly bodes well for the happiness of her new daughter-in-law (and even newer grandson).

Merlin Theatre, Frome

2006

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unpublished - rights withJosef Weinberger Plays

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Traditional pantomime

Pantomime

4-6

6-8

Chorus of Children or Young Adults

Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar

Synopsis: This is Colin Wakefield and Kate Edgar's third re-telling of the Sleeping Beauty story, and takes its structure from their Winchester version, but with many of the more traditional Salisbury elements included (please see separate Doollee entries for both these shows)

Merlin Theatre, Frome

2007

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Josef Weinberger Plays

2008

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Family Musical

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6

12

4 Children. Chorus of Adults and Children

Notes: Original Songs and Music by Kate Edgar

Synopsis: A musical adaptation of the story by Hans Christian Andersen. This is not a pantomime, but a family musical with a fast-moving plot and strong characters.

The Place Theatre, London

1991

The London Theatre Company

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

5

3

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Notes: Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni. Freely adapted by Colin Wakefield from a literal translation by Pauline Bower

Synopsis: Adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's classic comedy of mistaken identity

Malvern Girls' College

1998

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, but rights controlled by Josef Weinberger Plays

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Youth musical (for seniors)

Youth Audience

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Numbers flexible - anything between 50 and 300. Boys, girls or mixed. Age range: 11 - 18 (or above).

Notes: Original songs and music by Kate Edgar. Full-length musical in two acts

Synopsis: An environmental musical set in a wood (Witchwood) threatened with destruction by proposals for a major road development. The central group is the family whose home and livelihood are most at risk, and the main image is the ancient Great Oak of Witchwood, which must be felled to make way for the road. The action moves through the four seasons - a complete annual cycle of the Wood - from Summer, when the plans are first announced, to the following Spring, when the Wood is cut down. WITCHWOOD tells the story of the growing resistance to the plans and of the resultant clashes between (and within) the family, protestors, politicians and developers. It is packed with humour as well as action and, though 'issue based', is designed to entertain and to provide strong acting and musical opportunities for individuals and groups.