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Arthur Aldridge

ARTHUR ALDRIDGE

  
Nationality:    English
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Arthur Aldrich has written stage plays in a variety of styles for many years. Four of the One-act plays are published by Samuel French and are frequently performed in Festivals.

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below is a list of Arthur Aldridge's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Babes In The Jungle         Cul-de-Sac         Day After The Battle, The         Four Of Me, The         Ghosts Of Bedlam, The         Housewarming, The         Jasper and the Dumb Detective         Out In The Morning Dew         Road To Northborough         Road To The Isles         Shindig         Shoebox Mystery, The         Sitting In With Nellie         Waiting For A Hero         Zipperella

Babes In The Jungle

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Vera and Reg have yet another argument. They both storm out and both fall over. Reg breaks his hip and is taken to hospital. Vera is helped home by teenager Simon&

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Comedy full length

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Cul-de-Sac

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One act comedy

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Day After The Battle, The

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The day after a battle in the English Civil War. Two soldiers one from each side lie wounded waiting for death or rescue. A pregnant woman searches for her lover. Two scavengers see what they can steal from dead bodies

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Genre:
One act drama

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Four Of Me, The

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Margaret has a minor accident. Suffering from concussion she spends the night in hospital. Manor Hospital where she was born. She remembers four different parts of her life. The hospital is due to be closed down. Margaret joins a demonstration against this

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One act comedy

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Ghosts Of Bedlam, The

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Royston Chatsworth is commissioned to film a sanitized documentary contrasting old-style mental health care with the improvement 1990s care-in-the-community has brought. Showing him around the derelict ward of a former mental hospital is nurse-turned-caretaker, Janet. Determined to show the reality of care-in-the-community, Janet introduces Milly, an old baglady and former inmate who returns to the empty hospital as it's the only shelter she has. But as Royston experiences a flashback into his own life, he makes a life-changing decision. This dynamic one-act Drama for a mixed cast makes an ideal festival choice

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Housewarming, The

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Beattie too old to look after herself is forced to sell the family home and move into sheltered accommodation. Brian and Michelle buy the house and move in. They are visited one day by Beattie and her sister Polly. But are Beattie and Polly alive still or ghosts?

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Samuel French Ltd (April 1994)   978-0573120497

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Jasper and the Dumb Detective

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full length TYA

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Out In The Morning Dew

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Stanley a retired electrician has agreed to marry an old flame. He is full of terror at the thought and looses the power of speech. His two children who would like him to remarry call on the services of an unorthodox doctor

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Genre:
Comedy

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Road To Northborough

Synopsis:
With poet husband confined in asylum wife struggles to bring up children in 1841, when husband leaves asylum in search of his first love she is sure he will return.

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Bridport    1985

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Samuel French, London, 1986   -

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Road To The Isles

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Dorothy is in a home. She is visited by one of her twin sons,

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Shindig

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explores the darker sides of the office party

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Samuel French, London, 1992   -

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Shoebox Mystery, The

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The Christmas party at the textile factory is about to begin when the office junior finds an enormous amount of money in a shoebox

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Genre:
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Sitting In With Nellie

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The Accounts Department of Baxters Textiles is a place where time has stood still for years. It is efficient because its occupants, Nellie and Doreen, are efficient. They have worked together for years but are not particlarly friendly. Any new clerks are taught by sitting in with Nellie. But with the arrival of Sarah and the threat of a totally different system of working, Nellies and Doreens well ordered world is about to change.

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Waiting For A Hero

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Julian Crawley MC. is a prominent Member of Parliament, with hopes of becoming leader of his party. On a family trip to Bournemouth with his wife and daughter, he sees a signpost pointing to an army camp, where he served many years before. He follows it. The camp is deserted but he is surprised to find that some of his former army colleagues are still living locally. They seem delighted to meet him again but beneath their welcome is a determination to bring Julian face to face with past events, for which they hold him responsible. Julians ambitions, his reputation and his familys respect are all shattered by the revelations.

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Zipperella

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