n/a

Hull: Hull Truck Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2005

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Adaptation

3

2

The Narrators populate the story playing all significant roles in the story.

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
A dynamic retelling of the terrifyingly prescient George Orwell novel.

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2001

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Children's Theatre (Adaptation)

Youth Audience

1

1

-

Notes:
Both actors required to play other roles in the play as specified in the script

Synopsis:
Another rather silly and bizarre look at this well-loved tale.

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2004

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Comedy

2

3

All actors to play other roles in the play as specified in the script

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Des Cross is the kind of man that things just happen to. Prior to this year's nightmarish Boxing Day sale at Jasper . . . Yates, one of the last remaining independent department stores in the country and home of the Blue Cross Christmas, four members of the stockflow staff- Wendy, the Supervisor, Sue, her lonely best mate, Barry, the daft lad with a secret home-life and Jen, Wendy's daughter (and Christmas Temp) recount the events of the previous Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, Des Cross' last as Stockflow Supervisor at Jasper . . . Yates. Christmas shoppers, bargain hunters, the Christmas couple and the department store Santa are all there. . . not to mention jealous rivals and vampish cosmetics staff!

Hull: Hull Truck Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2000

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Children's Theatre (Adaptation)

Youth Audience

1

-

-

Notes:
Music for all songs in the show written by Tristan Parkes.

Synopsis:
A one-man Christmas Carol this is. The traditional story of Scrooge's redemption this sort of is. A sober reflection on regret and the nature of Christmas this sort of isn't. One man plays all characters, a balloon plays the Ghost of Christmas Past and a Christmas gift plays the Ghostly Christmas Present, as Scrooge gets his comeuppance in the style of the goon show!

York: Theatre Royal Studio, England, EUR >>>

2004

York Theatre Royal

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Comedy

3

1

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Tom, Bob and Julie are ex students with financial problems. They share a crappy flat above a kebab shop and are straining under the weight of all their debts. Tom and Julie's relationship is suffering; Bob can't write the novel he's been planning for eight years. . . until Tom hits upon an idea. Using computer software, he creates a composite image of a little girl's face, then looks up a rare disease to give her. He gives her a name (Derby McQueen), sticks her face on the side of a collecting tin and goes out collecting. He only intends to pay off their back rent, fix Julie's car and put them all ahead. . . but then Dave, an opportunistic journalist with a nose for a dodgy story, and a link to even dodgier connections, puts two and two together and approaches Tom with a choice: either he confesses that the whole thing is a lie to his best mate, his girlfriend and to the people he's taken money from. . . or work with him to make Derby McQueen the cause celebre of the modern age. . .

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2007

York Theatre Royal

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Rip-roaring Adventure for Kids

Youth Audience

1

1

Corky & Peeptoe to double as cast

Notes:
Music for all songs in the show written by Tristan Parkes.

Synopsis:
When the good and kind of heart make a wish as the clock strikes midnight, the elves hear and come to their aid. So it is with Giotto, the good-hearted but poor shoemaker. But when Giotto's evil wife Catalina discovers that elves are making shoes for her husband, she kidnaps one of them and forces him to use his wishdust to get her out of poverty and marry her off to a fairytale Prince. So while Corky the older, wiser elf sends Catalina to the frog prince and others, it is up to Peeptoe, the younger, less responsible elf, to grow up and rescue her friend. With the help of a cowardly mouse she sets off through the house, heading towards the attic and a showdown with Catalina and her pet wasp. . .

Hull: Hull Truck Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2000

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Adaptation

2

2

All actors but Victor to play other roles in the play as specified in the script

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
A chilling adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic horror-tragedy.

York: Theatre Royal Studio, England, EUR >>>

2006

York Theatre Royal

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Children's Theatre (Original)

Youth Audience

9

8

13

Notes:
Music for all songs in the show written by Tristan Parkes. The 'other' parts can be played by either a male or female performer.

Synopsis:
Written as part of the playhouse project 2006 (and remounted in 2007), Ginger Jones . . . the Sultan's eye is a rip-roaring children's adventure. It's Indiana Jones meets Alice in Wonderland. . .with added silliness. Ginger Jones is a girl with a vivid imagination. Her stories are as wild as the hair on her head. So when her school enters a storytelling competition, there is no doubt as to whom they should turn for inspiration. . .Except that Ginger Jones has lost her imagination! Her best friend Stan West explains to the class about the adventure they had together over the summer holidays, which includes a visit to Ginger's bickering Aunt and Uncle, Stan's subsequent kidnap by Kargrin the Pirate King, and the deal struck up by Ginger: if she can bring to Kargrin the enormous ruby known as the Sultan's Eye, which sits atop the turban of the Sultan of Khalabar before the next full moon, Stan's life will be spared. There then follows an incredible journey wherein Ginger meets Camel traders, talking camels, master thieves who don't steal anything, has an encounter with the most boring Sultan in the world. . .and has to make a terrible bargain in order to save her friend. . .

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2002

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Children's Theatre (Adaptation)

Youth Audience

1

1

-

Notes:
Music for all songs in the show written by Tristan Parkes.

Synopsis:
A silly look at Victor Hugo's wonderful story, and also a parable about bullying.

Hull: Hull Truck Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2002

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Adaptation

2

1

-

Notes:
All actors to multi role as specified in the script

Synopsis:
A modern interpretation of DH Lawrence's classic story.

York: Theatre Royal Studio, England, EUR >>>

2006

York Theatre Royal

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

A Court case for kids!

Youth Audience

1

1

Wolf & Little Red to double as cast

Notes:
Music for all songs in the show written by Tristan Parkes. The play has two endings, dependant upon the outcome of the case (as dictated by the audience who form the jury).

Synopsis:
The people of the fairytale court are in for a battle royale! The Big Bad Wolf, frightener of little pigs, eater of kids (the goat kind!), causer of trouble amongst mendacious shepherd boys, is on trial, and is defending himself against his nemesis. . . Little Red Riding Hood. The first half of the play is the case for the prosecution, which is a reasonably straight retelling of the classic fable, with added nonsense. Witnesses including one of the three little pigs (now in the witness protection programme) testify against the hairy villain, as Judge Fudge (a piece of fudge in a wig) looks on. Act Two is the wolf's version of events; an increasingly bizarre and unlikely series of lies involving the gingerbread man, the little kids in his stomach, a heavy rock loving granny and the boy who cried wolf. Will he get away with it, or will justice prevail. . .?

Hull: Hull Truck Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2002

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Adaptation

2

2

-

Notes:
written by John Godber and Nick Lane

Synopsis:
Hull Truck's own spin on Herman Melville's classic tale, told from the perspective of ghosts of Hull's own maritime past and drawing parallels between the decline of the City's fishing industry with the desperate hunt for the white whale. . .

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2007

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Comedy

2

1

Actors playing Melvin & Sarah to also play as cast

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Dave is a sensitive twenty-three year post graduate old with a ten-year long crush on his housemate Sarah. When she announces that she is going to do a PhD in New York, Dave realises he must tell her how he feels or lose her forever. Unable to just come out with it, he hits upon the scheme of paying for a 'surprise holiday' for Sarah, and declaring his love in a more romantic setting. In order to raise the money for this high-stakes gamble he takes a summer job in a scaffolding warehouse, where he meets Melvin, an unreconstructed lunatic of a man. The initial culture-clash is only the start of Dave's troubles, however, for once Melvin gets wind of his plans, he takes it upon himself to educate the young lad in the ways of the world. . .

Hull: Hull Truck Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2005

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Children's Theatre (Original)

Youth Audience

1

1

Music for all songs in the show written by Tristan Parkes.

Notes:
Actress playing Mary Goodface also playing other parts as specified in the script

Synopsis:
After Ebenezer Scrooge was shown the error of his ways he became a happy man. But not for much longer. For on the sixth anniversary of this momentous event, he is visited by the ghost of Christmas telly; and she's not happy. Channel Five have commissioned a new programme called Groovy Scrooge, showing the former curmudgeon in a far happier light. For the ghosts who were in the original story with him it's a problem, since once the new Scrooge story is shown they'll be out of a job. The Ghost of Christmas Telly insists that Scrooge travel with him into the Christmas Day TV schedule to meet his other self and convince the public that Scrooge is still mean. Scrooge is naturally unwilling, and so the Ghost of Christmas Telly arranges for him to receive visitors. And so, on the first day of Christmas, a flatulent partridge turns up on his doorstep. . . followed by two turtle doves on Boxing Day. By the time his house is filled with bird poo and accordion music (the French hens), Scrooge is convinced. Leaving the birds in the capable hands of his neighbour, pet-shop owner and infatuated Mary Goodface, Scrooge heads off into the Christmas Day schedule, meeting the queen, having a run-in with a James Bond villain, appearing on Christmas Top of the Pops . . .c. Will he learn the second most important lesson of his life before he turns back into the misery we all love to hate. . .?

Hull: Hull Truck Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2003

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Children's Theatre (Adaptation)

Youth Audience

1

1

Actors to play all other characters as noted in the script

Notes:
Music for all songs in the show written by Tristan Parkes.

Synopsis:
Another off-the-wall adaptation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen favourite, involving bearded lady robbers, a rock and roll raven and a dream librarian with a passion for football alongside Kay, Gerda and the titular Queen.

York: Theatre Royal Studio, England, EUR >>>

-

York Theatre Royal

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Children's Theatre (Adaptation)

Youth Audience

1

2

Both actors required to multi-role as suggested in the text

Notes:
Music for all songs in the show written by Tristan Parkes.

Synopsis:
Snow White as you've almost certainly never seen or heard it before! See Snow White enrage her evil stepmother Filania and her wicked pet frog Robert. . . weep as she leaves behind her ditzy father the king and her talking pet dog Teapot and is led into Everdark Forest by Dudley Huntsman, a children's entertainer who ought to change his name. . . gasp as she finds a ramshackle cottage in the woods containing one embittered dwarf, abandoned by his seven brothers who have all shaved their beards off and gone to Hollywood. . . and sing along to the songs and smile as two lonely souls find friendship comes in all shapes and sizes!

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2004

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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-

1

1

both actors

Notes:
Music for all songs in the show written by Tristan Parkes. The play has two endings, dependant upon the outcome of the parole hearing (as dictated by the audience who form the parole panel).

Synopsis:
Twenty years ago, the greatest storybook villain you've never heard of, Elderberry Yacht, along with his sidekick (and master of disguise) Anybody Johnson almost destroyed Christmas by sucking all the Christmas Eve dreams up into his dream Hoover. You see, if no-one can dream on Christmas Eve, then no-one can sleep. . .and if no-one is sleeping by sunrise on Christmas Day, then Christmas will cease to be! Luckily, a plucky little girl named Emily, with the help of a talking garden gnome called Grimble, a less famous reindeer named Alan, and King Moth the dream-bringer, was able to thwart Elderberry's fiendish plans, remove his nose and incarcerate him in the Grimm Brother's Prison for Storybook Villains. This play is his parole hearing; wherein he and Emily recount the night that changed their lives forever, before appealing to the audience to see whether or not he should be freed. . .

Hull: Hull Truck Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2005

Hull Truck Theatre Company

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Children's Theatre (Original)

Youth Audience

1

2

Actor playing Santa to play other parts as required

Notes:
Music for all songs in the show written by Tristan Parkes. Show could be expanded for cast of six.

Synopsis:
Sophie's parents are explorers. They haven't seen her in months, and haven't spent Christmas with her in years! So when they decide to go off exploring up the Mungogo River they leave Sophie with her boring Uncle Walter, who is terrified of everything. Just when she thinks her Christmas can't get any worse, she discovers Santa behind a load of Tupperware boxes in her Uncle's fridge. He's frozen solid. . . and has lost his memory. Sophie has to thaw him out and teach him how important his job is before he takes a new one. . . as a bin man!