ANDREW BEATTIE   


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Plays by Andrew Beattie

ANDREW BEATTIE
Dramatic Licence
1st Produced:
Eltham College, London
2001
Company:
Eltham College Productions
1st Published:
New Theatre Publications
2001
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Genre:
Youth 1 Act
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
30+, either mixed or all male
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Dramatic Licence is a fifty-minute long, one-act play intended for performance by pupils of lower senior or secondary school age. It features a host of appealingly weird characters, including an actor who has had his "Dramatic Licence" withdrawn, a strange obsessive who is determined to discover the secret to making meringue despite constant tormenting from his batty landlady, and a Maths fiend whose evil plan to flood the world with algebra problems is only just foiled by the teenage hero of the piece. It is an entertaining play for a group of young actors to perform or read, and flexible casting means that it can be staged by a mixed or all-male cast of up to thirty actors.
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ANDREW BEATTIE
Prince & The Pauper, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
2007
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
9
Female
5
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
based on the novel by Mark Twain
Synopsis:
Set in Tudor England and based on the novel by Mark Twain. Two boys, Edward Tutor, son of King Henry VIII and Tom Canty a poor boy from the London slums, decide to swap places for the day to see how the "other half" lives. Through their adventures both boys come to understand that the grass is not necessarily "greener on the other side". The action, which rises to a rousing finale set during the coronation of King Edward VI in Westminster Abbey, includes various historical characters such as Henry VIII, Lady Jane Grey, the young Elizabeth I and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer.
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ANDREW BEATTIE
Story Of Peter Grimes, The
1st Produced:
Eltham College, London
1998
Company:
Eltham College Productions
1st Published:
Playwrights Publishing Company, Northampton
1998
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Genre:
drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
11
Female
2
Parts Other:
5b
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
George Crabbe's nineteenth century poem "The Borough" is the inspiration for this one-act, 45-minute long play set during a harsh winter in a remote East Anglian fishing community. The play centres on a fisherman, Peter Grimes, a violent but lonely figure shunned by the community who suspect him of murdering - or at least killing through neglect - two of his apprentice boys. But Grimes' guilt is never proved, and when he hires a third apprentice from a London workhouse, the mob round on him, baying for his blood. However, two members of the community, an elderly widow and the Borough parson, take his side against the Borough, and Grimes' rejection of their compassion leads to tragedy in one of the winter storms that batter the coast.
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