SYLVIA ASHBY
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Sylvia Ashby
Anne Of Green Gables |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | 3b 4g | |||||
| Notes: | from novel by L.M. Montgomery | |||||
| Synopsis: | Mathew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to adopt a boy to work on their farm, Green Gables, but the orphanage sends a girl by mistake - the young, befreckled, warm, witty and charitable Anne Shirley -and their lives are changed forever. This concise yet detailed adaptation is humorous and bittersweet; a refreshing, contemporary telling of a classic story. | |||||
Caged Nightingale |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | The young Florence Nightingale's struggle for independence from her family. | |||||
Don Coyote |
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| 1st Published: | I E Clark, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10 -20 either sex | |||||
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Happily Ever After |
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| 1st Published: | I E Clark, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Based on stories by The Brothers Grimm | |||||
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King Stag |
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| 1st Published: | Encore Performance Publishing, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 |
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| Notes: | Based on "Il Re Cervo" by Carlo Gozzi | |||||
| Synopsis: | King Seren is looking for a bride. He relies on a magic statue to help him. The Prime Minister has high hopes for his own daughter. | |||||
Master Skylark of Stratford |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A young teenage boy runs away from his puritanical father to see the stage players. | |||||
Mrs. Peck's Christmas Pudding |
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| 1st Published: | Encore Performance Publishing, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 2 boys, 3 girls | |||||
| Notes: | Adapted from the play by Eliza Lee Follen | |||||
| Synopsis: | Widow Peck is determined her family shall have a Christmas pudding but all her efforts are thwarted until a stranger turns up. | |||||
Once Upon A Broomstick |
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| 1st Published: | I E Clark, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The witch Malvolia is not best pleased when the handsome Tobias falls for her housemaid. | |||||
Once Upon a Santa Claus |
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| 1st Published: | I E Clark, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Minimum 17 | |||||
| Notes: | Based on the book "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" by L Frank Baum | |||||
| Synopsis: | How Santa became Santa. | |||||
Princess Who Became King, The |
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| 1st Published: | Bakers Plays, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 15 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
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Professor Zuccini's Traveling Tales |
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| 1st Published: | I E Clark, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Santa Claus Is Missing! |
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| 1st Published: | I E Clark, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Music by Scott Taylor. Based on the book "A Kidnapped Santa Claus" by L Frank Baum | |||||
| Synopsis: | The Demons are up to no good. | |||||
Secret Garden, The |
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| 1st Published: | Bakers Plays, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Adapted from the book "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett | |||||
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Shining Princess of the Slender Bamboo |
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| 1st Published: | I E Clark, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Based on a Japanese tale "Kaguya Hime" | |||||
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Tales of Molly Malloy |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
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Three Chimneys Children, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | Childrens play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Based on the book "The Railway Children" by E Nesbit | |||||
| Synopsis: | Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis avert a railway disaster. | |||||