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ANDREW BEATTIE |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Plays by Andrew Beattie |
Blenkinsop's Ghost | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840946369 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117795 | |||
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Genre: | One Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1m 2f + children 8b, 1g | |||||
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Synopsis: | Blenkinsop's Ghost is a ghost story set in a boys' country boarding school in the 1950s. On his first day at the school, young Ames encounters another boy, Blenkinsop, who has a remarkable story to tell - of a boy who was pushed from a window in the school, and died. The other boys in the house don't believe Ames' story; but as their feared housemaster becomes implicated in murder, Ames realizes that Blenkinsop's strange tale was intended as a warning to them all. Incorporating Gothic elements and utilizing a mixture of adults and children in the cast, Blenkinsop's Ghost is an ideal one-act play for schools or youth theatre groups. Running time: 45 minutes | |||||
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Brief Lives | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2003) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840944013 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117796 | |||
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Genre: | One Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | *Festival Award Winner* Brief Lives is a one-act black comedy set in a bleak seaside town, about two boys, Paul and Alex, who find the body of a dead woman in a house. They decide - with hilarious consequences - to try to ensure that the woman`s death is dignified, although their efforts are nearly discovered by a young tramp called Dodge. The play won the Scottish Community Drama Association`s competition for new writing for youth theatre in 2002 and has been performed by a number of youth theatre groups. Most recently it received a performance at the East 15 Acting School in Essex directed by the actress Alison Steadman. | |||||
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Dramatic Licence | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eltham College, London | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Eltham College Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1999) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840942606 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2516 | |||
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Genre: | Youth 1 Act Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 30 , either mixed or all male | |||||
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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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Ordinary Jack | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840946376 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117797 | |||
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Genre: | One Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | Ordinary Jack is a spoof fairy tale written for performance by 30+ pupils aged 11-14. The hero, a prince named Jack, faces banishment from his castle after he tells his father, King Lionel, that he would like to marry a village girl named Victoria Sponge rather than the Spanish princess that his father has in mind for him. Woodland spirits, exploding cauldrons, mad witches and a man who spends his days sitting on a swing in a forest pondering the meaning of life add to the mixture of surreal fun in a play with a large, flexible cast that has already been staged by a number of schools and youth theatre groups. Running time: 75 minutes Ordinary Jack was first published in a slightly different version in 1996 and received these reviews: The play features racy dialogue, much movement, simple changes of scene&and has its own built-in comedy. (Junior Bookshelf) &of exceptional educational value in developing a sense of theatre in its participants&this is a play that will read well and run well. (Amateur Stage) This is a fast, witty, well-paced play&.which has something lasting and worthwhile to say about love and relationships. The drama concentrates on providing a fast-moving plot and plenty of strong characterization, which should appeal to budding actors&for anyone looking for a drama which will involve large groups of young teenagers and give them plenty of scope, this may be just what they're looking for. (School Librarian). | |||||
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Prince & The Pauper, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #62946 | |||
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Genre: | 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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Story Of Peter Grimes, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eltham College, London | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Eltham College Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Publishing Company, Northampton, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2517 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 5b | |||||
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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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