LYNN ROBERTSON HAY
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Lynn Robertson Hay
Borrowers, The |
| 1st Produced: | National Tour | 1994 | ||
| Company: | SNAP Theatre Co | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Children's | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | flexible casting and doubling | |||
Notes: from novel by Mary Norton. Writers' Guild Award, Best Children's Theatre, 1995. Revived by Birmingham Stage Company and Glasgow Citizens' (exists in 2 versions, for 4 or 8+). | ||||
Synopsis: Arrietty longs for freedom as she skulks in the shadows - hidden under the floorboards of the giant Human Beans. Her mother prefers safety and shudders at the thought of the world Upstairs. Forced to emigrate to a hedgerow on the other side of the world, two fields away, both discover there's something to be said for the other point of view. But is there anywhere the Borrowers can find a balance of sunshine and security? | ||||
Five Children and It |
| 1st Produced: | National Tour | 1996 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Children's | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 2-3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: From the book by E. Nesbit. Doubling and puppetry. | ||||
Synopsis: The five children bumble around the golden heyday of an Edwardian summer, wasting or messing up the wish-a-day granted by the 'It' of the title - a cantankerous, hairy sand fairy with eyes on stalks, left sleeping in a quarry since pre-historic times. | ||||
Martin Chuzzlewit |
| 1st Produced: | Royal, Northampton | 1992 | ||
| Company: | Royal Theatre, Northampton | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 2b 1g doubling | |||
Notes: After Dickens | ||||
Synopsis: Selfish, stubborn Martin finds life tricky after being disinherited by his similarly egotistical grandfather. Murder and romance mix with superb comedy (and much loved characters such as Mrs Gamp and Mr Pecksniff) in what Dickens described as "immeasurably the best of my stories" | ||||
Owl who was Afraid of the Dark, The |
| 1st Produced: | National Tour | 1996 | ||
| Company: | SNAP Theatre Co | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Children's | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Cast of 2-3, gender as required | |||
Notes: (versions for schools or theatres) Revived by Royal Theatre, Northampton and Blunderbus Children's Theatre. | ||||
Synopsis: Dark is Fun, Dark is Kind, Dark is Necessessess. . . Dark is Exciting. Scared and dubious to begin with, Sam learns what's great about the dark with mum and/or dad when together they 'do' the story of Plop the baby Barn Owl, right there in the bedroom. | ||||
Snow Queen, The |
| 1st Produced: | National Tour | 2000 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Children's | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | Doubling and some puppetry | |||
Notes: Contains songs | ||||
Synopsis: When the Snow Queen's warped and twisted mirror smashes the pieces go into all the Wide World, lodging in people's hearts and eyes - and every splinter has its own story. Which will it be today? Wandering storytellers give their physical, fun and quirky version of Andersen's classic. | ||||
Wuthering Heights |
| 1st Produced: | National Tour | 1993 | ||
| Company: | SNAP Theatre Co | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 2-3 | Female | 2-3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: Revived by Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Co. | ||||
Synopsis: Powerful, visual version of the famous story - dreamlike and impressionistic, yet very faithful to the original. Catherine Earnshaw - Catherine Linton - Catherine Heathcliff - the story rolls around forever in the deserted farmhouse. | ||||