JENNIFER FELL HAYES
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Jennifer Fell Hayes
Endurance |
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| Genre: | High school audiences. 2 acts | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 7 actors with doubling | |||
Notes: Winner of the 6th Annual Theatre Resources Unlimited Play Reading Series in New York, 2004 | ||||
Synopsis: Teenage Fithian has to undergo a painful, lengthy medical procedure twice a week to keep his older brother, Ray, alive. To survive this, he spends time going in his mind to the South Pole with Sir Ernest Shackleton, his hero. He feels trapped and resentful, and hostilities develop between the very different brothers: one, slight, artistic, and possibly gay; the other tall, athletic and heterosexual. Finally the treatment stops working, and Ray becomes sick. The brothers recognize their love for each other as Ray dies. Fithian is able to see Ray's courage and acceptance of death, and understand his brother is now part of him. | ||||
Knight's Castle #8 |
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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: | Middle school audiences | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | very expandable cast | |||
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Synopsis: based on the children's book by Edward Eager. Roger and Ann spend the summer in Baltimore with their cousins, Jack and Eliza. Their aunt gives them a toy castle and a doll's house. The castle comes to life, the children grow small and have adventures with Ivanhoe, Rebecca, the wicked Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, Rowena, Robin Hood and his Merry Men. The next time the magic happens the knights and ladies have become up-to-date with hilarious effects. | ||||
Seven Ages Of Anne |
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| Genre: | Junior high/high school/college audiences; 2 acts | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 12-15 |
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Synopsis: follows the tough challenges and joys of a woman's life in the first half of the 20th century, from adolescence to old age, in a nontraditional style. Anne is played by seven actresses, and the second act has four simultaneous scenes between three pairs of Annes and Anne at 87 talking to her inner self on video | ||||
Time & Tide |
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| Genre: | High school audiences; 2 acts | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||
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Synopsis: juxtaposes two colorful worlds: a Yorkshire fishing village of a hundred years ago, and the struggle of life against the sea; and a traveling British music hall show. Tom and Polly's bittersweet romance is punctuated by lively music hall songs, the high jinks of the theatre troupe, and the roar of the sea, represented by a "chorus." The sea permeates the play and reflects its themes of survival and the cyclical nature of life. | ||||
Way's End |
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| 1st Published: | http://www.newplaysforchildren.com/ | - | ||
| 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: | Middle school/junior high audiences; 2 acts | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | cast of 30-60 | |||
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Synopsis: a large-cast play about 13-year-old Lexi, in trouble at home and school, when she is catapulted into an imaginary journey that becomes the perfect metaphor for the journey to adolescence. Scenes in "The Lost and Found," the zany "Opposite Land," the disturbing "Land of Herself," or the playful "Land of Childhood Past" include springboards for an individual director's own creativity, and great opportunities to include everyone who tries out! | ||||